There’s nothing like starting off a conference by giving an eight-hour lecture, and expending all one’s energy up front. It was only on the morning of the lecture that I discovered the AAPB literature had featured mine as an introductory workshop rather than an intermediate/advanced one. I had intended this as an intensive presentation of our model to those who were already doing neurofeedback and weren’t about to sit still for our introductory course. The AAPB promotional material must have carried the day, as the room was full of neurofeedback novices.
What to do? I quickly changed over to my Introductory course, but the appetite had been whetted by all the viewgraphs that I had handed out on protocols. People wanted that covered as well. So it was quite a ride for attendees as we waded through lots of material.
The overall tenor of the conference revealed a continuing migration from the starchiness of old. The crowd was also smaller, and more friendly. Conference planners arranged for the meetings to take place in smaller rooms, so the audience did not get lost as it once did in the cavernous halls of the Cincinnati Conference Center. And the podiums were not so frightfully elevated that one felt intimidated by the speakers. Continue reading “Report on AAPB”