Canada East Chapter  January 01 2013  Innovative Meetings: Words
to Remember  By Katie Kervin, Assistant Editor PCMA Convene
The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis’ (ASCH) Annual
Scientific Meeting and Workshops, which last year took place at
the Westin in Charlotte, N.C., on March 16-20, is attended by
approximately 400 medical and mental-health practitioners.
Thirty-five to 40 of them generally fall under the “beginning”
or “intermediate” levels of education — meaning they've never
attended any of ASCH's meetings or workshops, or may have
attended a workshop or two, but never the Annual Meeting.
Members of ASCH's 2012 meeting planning committee, including
Director of Education and Meetings Emma Leighton, were hoping to
find ways to foster networking and communication between these
newer attendees and their more experienced counterparts. To that
end, Leighton, who had recently read a journal article about
gamification, suggested to the program chair that ASCH introduce
games as part of its programming,