Embracing this year’s theme of “Living the Theory,” Tina will share her recent descent into ego dissolution and aspects of TPD which have served as a lighthouse for her transformation. You will accompany Tina on her journey into an altered state, the dismantling of psychic structures and conflictual dynamisms such as shame and hierarchization of values. Societal responses to these experiences will be observed and discussed with related suggestions for positive change.

Tina Harlow, MSW, LCSW is a therapist, speaker, consultant, and founder of Guiding Bright in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Tina has spent the last 10 years as a Child and Family Therapist specializing in giftedness. Her life’s work with children has traversed a variety of settings including outpatient, day treatment, residential, intensive family treatment, child welfare and even a performing arts camp. Tina presents at conferences nationally and internationally on the social and emotional aspects of gifted children. She is also creator and producer of the World Hope Project, an international children’s video troupe with a mission of spreading hope.