NAPT's 30th Annual Conference Returns to Washington DC in 2010

NAPT invites your participation in Washington DC next year for its 30th Annual Conference, entitled Looking Forward, Looking Back, Coming Home: Celebrating Thirty Years of Promoting Growth and Wellness through Language, Symbol, and Story. The conference is scheduled to be held April 7-11, 2010, and once again the venue will be the Crowne Plaza Washington-National Airport hotel in Washington DC. Please plan to join us:

Featured Poet:
Gayle Danley, Slam Poet & Educator

Gayle Danley, writer, educator and 1996 International Slam Poet Champion, lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and travels the world sharing the multifarious powers of poetry. Her explosive style combines movement and emotion, sweeping her audiences up in her words as she explores contemporary issues through poetry. 60 Minutes spotlighted how her classroom work and riveting performances touch her audiences. She says of her work, "I want people to connect. I want them to relive an experience."

Find more information on Gayle at http://www.gayledanley.com/

Keynote Speaker:
Kim Rosen, Poet, Spoken Word Artist, and Teacher

The 2010 conference keynote speaker will be poet, spoken word artist and teacher Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words.

Learn more about Kim at http://www.kimrosen.net/

Hotel Information

Reserve your rooms now at the special NAPT rate for the 30th Annual Conference. Below is conference hotel information for the 2010 conference:

Crowne Plaza National Airport Hotel
Arlington, Virginia
Telephone (703) 416-1600
Toll-Free: (800) 2CROWNE
Fax: (703) 416-1651

NOTE (Re: Room Booking Issues): If you are having trouble booking your room online (ex. error message that says no rooms available) please contact the hotel directly at 703-416-1600 during regular business hours (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST). Additionally, if you would like double bed booking because you are room sharing, you must contact the hotel by phone to make your reservation. These types of rooms are limited and will run out quickly. There are only 23 double rooms available on Friday & Saturday night in total. Please make your reservation ASAP if you wish to share your room. Additionally, the hotel has informed us that if a double bed room is unavailable at the time you make your reservation, you will have the option of being put on a waiting list.

We suggest flying into the Reagan National Airport as it is only ten minutes away from the hotel with free shuttle service, while both BWI and Dulles are over 45 minutes away.

Has your membership information changed? If so, please send all changes of address, phone, e-mail, etc., to our Administrator Lauren E. Keller at NAPTKeller@aol.com. You may also mail a request for changes to: 777 E. Atlantic Ave. #243, Delray Beach, FL 33483, or via fax at 561-738-9854.

A Message to our Members...

We are committed to providing you the service you deserve as members of the National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT). We appreciate you and want to encourage you to communicate with us! Please note that our administrative offices are open during regular business hours and are closed on weekends, and during the holidays. We will ensure to provide members updated information on our message line at 866-844-NAPT and on our web site when we will not be available to return your phone calls and/or e-mails within 24-48 hours. If at any time you require assistance for any reason, please contact our Administrator, Lauren Keller directly by phone at 561-667-9479 or via e-mail at NAPTKeller@aol.com.

Thank you for being a member of NAPT. We look forward to serving you this membership year.

For the past 27 years, NAPT members have forged a community of healers and lovers of words and language. We are psychotherapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists. We are poets, journal keepers, storytellers, and songwriters. We are teachers, librarians, adult educators, and university professors. We are doctors, nurses, occupational/ recreational therapists; ministers, pastoral counselors, and spiritual directors. We are artists, dancers, dramatists, musicians, and writers.

We work in many settings where people deal with personal and communal pain and the search for growth. As poetry therapists, we use all forms of literature and the language arts, and we are united by our love of words, and our passion for enhancing the lives of others and ourselves.

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