Caroline Paltin, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist,#PSY14274
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Past and Upcoming Peer-Reviewed Presentations and Research 

Dr. Paltin is currently authoring a chapter on the subject of Sexual Fluidity in clinical psychotherapy due to be published in a Human Sexuality anthology  by Anthem in early 2020.

Current Research Project:  Examining the Artistic co-creative qualities of Gestalt Therapy and the similarities in experience of the creative process of artists and Gestalt therapists who are artists. 


Embracing Our Fear Courage and Love in Pursuit of a Just Community
12th Annual Conference of The Society for Humanistic Psychology
APA Division 32
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
March 21-24, 2019

Presentation: "Art of Radical Courage and Change in Troubling Times: Creative Personal Movements through Expressive Arts and Improvisational Contact Engagement in Gestalt Process."

https://shpconference.com
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November, 2017, Orange CA
August 29 2015 Costa Mesa CA
March 12 2016  La Jolla CA

Dr. Paltin had the grew pleasure of co-presenting with her great friend and colleague Renowned Master Gestalt Therapist and Author Dr. Erving Polster, on the subject of Gestalt Therapy and Life Focus Communities in Orange CA as part of the Mindful Life Focus Community Experience, and in San Diego and Costa Mesa at  National University as part of the Psychology Department Distinguished Speaker Series which Caroline developed and moderates. 
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"Art of Radical Respect and Change: Amplifying Fascination and Acceptance of the Unacceptable Through Art Music and Contact Engagements" A Workshop Presented by Dr. Caroline Paltin
at the
AAGT Biennial Conference,
​August 15, 2018, Toronto Canada
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Pathways to Connectedness & Life Focus Communities with Dr. Erving Polster 
​March 12, 2016
La Jolla CA 

Dr. Paltin explored with Dr. Polster the early developments of Gestalt therapy and process of gestalt through live demonstration and a Life Focus Community experience 
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Ongoing Funded Research:
​Application of Blues and Classical Live Music Performance in Gestalt Oriented Story Listener and Story-Teller Attunement and Transformative Neuro-regulation in Individuals with a History of Traumatic Life Experience  Utilzing Life Focus Modalities Dialogues

National Univerisity Faculty Spring Symposium 
March 15,2016

La Jolla CA


Dr. Paltin's ongoing research funded by the College of Letters and Sciences examining live musicians and individuals with trauma history interacting in contact experience.  This phenomenological study seeks to examine the lived life of the individual participants to better examine encounters of human experience in Gestalt facilitated activity.
​Funded in second term for 2015-2016
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​Where We Belong:  Invigorating Deeper Connections To Each Other and Ourselves through Erving Polster’s Life Focus Community

A thematic and conceptual discussion of  Polster’s key assumptions and the Life Focus Model will begin the presentation.  This will include overview of current grant funded research being conducted by Dr. Paltin on the uses of Life Focus with Traumatized and non-traumatized individuals.  Attendees will then engage in experiential exploration of self-other inter-relatedness via Erving Polster’s Life Focus Community Movement, an approach detailed in his recently released work Beyond Therapy: Invigorating Life Focus Community Movements (Polster, 2015). 

March 18th 2016
San Francisco California 

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Belonging, "Otherness" and Mutual Co-Creation: An Art-Infused Experience of Erving Polster’s Life Focus Community and How You Can Develop One
September 21 2016
AAGT EAGT International Conference 
​Taormina Italy 

The Life Focus Community developed by Erving Polster 
creates common ground to explore our lives, amplifying self-other contact, and Intersubjective meanings. With art-infused conversation, music, poetry and more, these on-going gatherings explore co-creation of meaning in deep listening and experiential activities. Moving beyond confines of therapy, Life Focus Groups spark awareness of contact, freshly amplifying the experience of otherness, commonality, and richness of the lived life. Attendees will experientially explore the concept envisioned by Polster, with Caroline Paltin, who has worked closely with Polster in development of an ongoing Community. The primary activity will be a live demonstration of Life Focus with music on the theme of Belonging and Otherness and an experiential led by Marilyn Lammert exploring utilization of Life Focus in our lives.  

Samples Of my facilitated Madonnari Chalk Painting Projects at various schools and organizations 

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