AHAF-AAHA 2015
Online Conference 
Fall Session:  October 10, 2015

The 2015 AHAF & AAHA Conference is held completely online.  This October date is the last of three conference sessions this year. 

You can join us from the comfort of your home. Come and see the wonderful presentations and spend some time socializing with us. Forget the hassles of reservations, travel, and luggage for this conference.  We are as convenient as your computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone.  Join us live on any of these devices.

Two years from now, in 2017, AHAF will host the Conference with a grand event at a real convention hotel in honor of our 50th Anniversary. For the present, in 2015, we are trying something new with the complete convention online.  We hope that you will find the use of available technology easy, cost-effective, and convenient.  It is an adventure for us, too! But, we have great things prepared for you!

Schedule

• 8:45 AM (Pacific Daylight-Savings Time) Open link for live networking time  Join us!
  
• 9:15 - 9:25 AM PDT  Introductions
• 9:25 - 9:30 AM PDT  Conference Announcements
  
• 9:30 - 11:00 AM PDT  Featured Speaker:  Adam Brand 
  
• 11:00-11:15  Break
  
• 11:15 - 11:45 AM PDT  Bonus Speaker:  Mathew Thomas (*available only for those that registered for the full day.)
• 11:45 - 1:15 PM PDT  Break for Lunch
  
• 1:15 - 1:45 PM PDT Awards and Announcements
  
• 1:45 - 2:00 PM PDT Break
• 2:00 - 3:30 PM PDT  Featured Speaker:  Sarah Holmes Tucker
  

Rates and Discounts

You have purchasing options! 

Additionally, if you are an AHAF or AAHA member, you will recieve a discount "promo" code in an email to enter on the registration page for even Bigger savings! 

One speaker $50.00 (with AHAF/AAHA member discount is $40.00)
Full Day $90.00 (with AHAF/AAHA member discount is $72.00)

Payment can be made by credit card, PayPal, or by check.  All registration is done online (click the link below).  Payment can be made instantly online.  OR, you can register online and then mail in your check to 2015 AHAF/AAHA Conference.

Adam Brand
9:30 - 11:00 AM

Adam will present:  "Aspects of the Stroke."

Adam Brand will outline some graphological theories related to stroke quality and the ductus—the raw material of handwriting. 

Adam was born on the Isle of Man, went to schools in England and the USA (Ohio), before reading history at Cambridge, taking an MBA at the University of Illinois and working for 3M in the UK and Europe. 

He was taught graphology by Jacqui Tew and awarded the BIG diploma in 1990.   He has been Chairman of the Association of Qualified Graphologists in the UK and at present is the Chairman of the British Institute of Graphologists.  His main interest is the use of graphology for recruitment. 

For additional information about Adam, please visit his website at
http://www.adambrand.co.uk/

The Bonus Speaker presentation is available only to those that have registered for the full day of conference presentaitons.

Mathew Thomas
11:15 - 11:45 AM Pacific
Topic:  Graphology for the New Generation

Mathew will present to us about an age-related issue.  Specifically, what makes Graphology so appealing this day in age. We have all encountered difficulties in attracting a new and younger audience, new students and new members. Mathew can share insight and experience into what about graphology appeals to the next generation, and what we can do to generate a new interest into our local groups, speaking engagements, and more.

For more information about Mathew, check out his website at http://www.mattemetrics.com/

Awards for Exellence

1:15 - 1:45 PM

We will be sending out voting surveys soon!  We hope you will take the time to nominate people for upcoming awards!  Send your nominations, comments or inquiries to this committee through valweil@comcast.net. 

• the Flandarin-Michon Award is a Lifetime Achievement award. The nominees should be a person(s) which has provided contributing education (lectures, books or other publications), media contact, and participation in the field of Graphology constistently and positively over the course of a decade or more.
• the Platinum Pen Award is given in recognition of a new group or leader of a new group, for taking the initiative to create what was not there before, to advance Handwriting Analysis.  Nominees are generally new chapter or study groups, or even tangent groups that promote cursive, personality assessment using handwriting analysis, etc.
• the Silver Script Award is provided to one individual that has made a positive impact on the field of handwriting analysis through the publication of a book, article or blog, or media interview.
• The High Form Level Award is provided in recognition of the individual who has worked toward conducting and reporting upon new research to be used with handwriting analysis. 
• The Heart of the Chapter is the awarded to the one person who your group feels deserves recognition for all they do.  As volunteers or officers, these are the people we wish to honor for they truely give much of themselves to keep the chapter going.  There will be one award presented to each of our current nine chapters:  Arizona's Tucson Chapter,  California has three:  North Bay Chapter, Northern California, and Southern California; Colorado's Rocky Mountain Chapter; Northern New Jersey; Pennsylvania's Handwriting Forum; South Carolina; and the Online Internet Chapter.'

Again, please send nominations to this committee through valweil@comcast.net

Once we have your nominations, we will send out the anonymous surveys for you to cast your votes!  Coming soon!

Sarah Tucker
2:00 - 3:30 PM

Sarah's topic:  "A Neurological Investigation into the Validity of Handwriting Analysis."

Proponents of graphology maintain that personality traits are manifested in fine motor expression (i.e., handwriting) and this study seeks to explore the relationship between personality, cognitive functioning and handwriting. Currently, the research on handwriting as a tool for personality assessment offers mixed results, some studies support the notion that it is a valid and reliable measure of character while others claim that it lacks scientific merit and that the accuracy of the graphological evaluations is no better than chance. Despite differing opinions in the scientific community, individuals retain handwriting examiners for their services for self-knowledge, relationship and vocational guidance, attorneys hire them as jury and trial consultants, and human resource departments hire them to assist in the selection of personnel.

In this talk we will summarize the results to date of this study in which we compared scores from neuropsychological and personality tests with evaluations received from handwriting examiners from around the world. Findings from this study may provide insight into the validity of handwriting analysis while at the same time help clarify much of the existing literature. Insights into how various personality traits are manifested in fine motor expression can provide valuable information to individuals who seek to understand how handwriting reflects personality and cognitive functioning.

Sarah E. Holmes, M.A., and her mother Ruth Holmes, C.D.E., are professional handwriting & document examiners whose forensic and personnel consulting firm, Pentec, Inc., advises individual, legal and corporate clients in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Now located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Duxbury, Massachusetts, Pentec, Inc. works frequently for human resource departments, financial institutions, police departments, manufacturers, individuals and attorneys in various parts of the country. Sarah graduated from Boston University in May of 2002 with a Master of Arts in Psychology and now works from the Boston office of Pentec, Inc.

For more information about Sarah, please visit the Pentec website at: