Dedicated to the memory of Federico García Lorca and all victims of terror between human beings
Dreaming in green - Original painting by Jorge Burmeister
Programme time schedule
Monday
Opening ceremony Plenary lecture 9.00 - 11.00
Workshop time I 11.30 - 14.30
Lunch break 14.30 - 16.15
Workshop time II 16.15 - 18.15
Pleno I/Large Group18.45 - 20.15
Tuesday - Friday
Plenary I - The Social Dreaming Matrix 8.00 - 9.00
Plenary lecture 9.00 - 10.30
Workshop time I 11.00 - 14.00
Lunch break 14.00 - 16.00
Workshop time II 16.00 - 18.00
Plenary II/large group 18.30 - 20.00
Wednesday
Special lecture 20.15 - 21.30
Friday
Gala Dinner 21.00 - 24.00
Certificate of attendance will be provided.
Theme
and Vision (special program)
The World of Today seems
to be more fragmented than ever. Politics of a strong nationalistic tenue
in the US, in Brazil, in Italy, in Turkey and in many other countries
corrode the culture of solidarity, compassion and cooperation. They respond
to the rise of existential anxieties connected with the visible end of
a society which ignores its limits (everything is possible). It affects
not only the individual but also the social space of those involved. It
is able to disconnect entire groups from the feeling of belonging to the
same community as well as to its holding aspects of trans-personal/universal
meanings (values/spiritual or religious beliefs). Its inherent rupture
of social networks and the collapse of moral standards may lead to an
increase of individual and collective violence, an activation of historical
traumata (shadow) and its expression (e.g. racism).
Its impact can be expanded by dehumanizing interactions, the increase
of relational trauma (rupture of family bonds), by the maintainance of
silence and by the denial of its existence which characterize the social
and political reality of many affected societies. In the frame work of
this academy we like to transform silence into words, shadow into moments
of light which means awareness and the resistence to remember into a journey
towards resilience and reconciliation if possible.
Programme Overview
Small Group Workshops
Constant small groups: Participants can choose
regarding their own interest group analytic, group dynamic,
psychodramatic and jungian approach.
Workshop Time I
Focus on the method and the conference topic
conducted by leading experts from the international
field
Psychodrama
Small Group:
Eva Fahlstroehm/Sweden, Marcia Karp/GB, Nikos Takis/Greece,
Wilma Scategni/Italy
Group Analytic
Small Group: Elisabeth
Rohr/Germany, Uri Levin/Israel
Expressive Arts in group work: Marcia Honig/Israel, Magdalene Jeyarathnam/India
Group Dynamic Group Work (Lewin) and CBTRT mindfulness approach: Marieluise Mitterer-Gehrke/Germany, Gaea Logan/US
Workshop Time II Transcultural Group Work: Mona Raghawy/Egypt, Cristina Martinez Taboada/Spain Collectice Trauma and Group Work: Caterina Mela/Greece, Ivan Urlic/Croatia Working with dreams and symbols in groups (Jungian approach): Maurizio Gasseau/Italy Action and Reflection - Psychodrama and Group Analysis - a mixed approach: Maite Pi/Spain, Concha Oneca/Spain TUESDAY- FRIDAY: The Social Dreaming Matrix Daily work with the Social Dreaming Matrix (SDM)
conducted by Gila Offer from Israel who was trained by and co-conducted
with Gordon Lawrence, the founder of the Social Dreaming Matrix in the
past. The SDM uses dreams and the corresponding associations as symbols
of the group process investigating the subyacent collective and social
dimension of the group. MONDAY - FRIDAY: The Large Group Each day Earl Hopper PhD. DFAGPA and a former President
of IAGP will convene a group analytic large group. A psychoanalyst, group
analyst and sociologist, Dr Hopper is one of our international experts
in large group practice. He is now editing a Handbook on large group work
with contributions from colleagues who work in various traditions. Participants
will benefit from their experience of socially unconscious processes.
A large group of this kind also offers a unique space for deepening and
elaborating insights gained from daily small and median groups to reveal its social
and collective meaning for the world of today. Plenary lectures - morning MO - FR Daily lectures on anthropological, sociological and therapeutic aspects
of intercultural groups. Monday Trans-cultural
Competence - the transformative power of groups. Living together with torn ligaments: a group analytic view and a group analytic vision about tolerance and social justice in societies threatened by populism. Earl Hopper/GB
Tuesday Trans-cultural
Competence - the transformative power of groups. The impact of past collective trauma on groups of today and how to respond to it. Nikos Takis/Greece
Wednesday Trans-cultural
Competence - the transformative power of groups. The Shadow of Liberty: Compassion Practice as a Shared Responsibility. Gaea Logan/US
Thursday Trans-cultural
Competence - the transformative power of groups. Groups in the court yard of Collective Trauma. Armed conflicts and forced displacements in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America and the answer given by MsF (Doctors without Borders). Maria Cristobal/Spain and Holland
Friday Trans-cultural Competence - the transformative power of groups. Who shall survive: from the thread of fatal global conflicts and their destructive potential
to the legacy of Freud, Moreno and the idea of a "Creation of compassion". Jorge Burmeister-Petulla/Spain and Switzerland
Special Lecture Wednesday evening Trans-cultural
Competence - the transformative power of groups. FLEXI: a vision how to cooperate and integrate migrants around the mediterranean sea/Thanasis Hadzilacos/Cyprus Plenty of opportunities to share not only professional issues with colleagues from
countries from all over the world: encounter between cultures and the unique legacy of Granada, encounter to develop fun, trust and hope. The Basic idea The Summer Academy establishes for the seventeenth time a professional link
between theory and practice of the important approaches of group psychotherapy
and group work at an international level. Four models of group psychotherapy will meet again
in Granada: group analysis, psychodrama, jungian centered approach in groups and group dynamic. We will offer
grants for students from Palestina, Israel, Marrocco and other countries. Dialogue is the key term for peace processes at a global level. Thus
the summer academy is destinated to create a living learning field for
the quality, but also for the breaking points of multicultural dialogue.
It will focus especially this year different models and strategies for mediating and resolving conflicts between and in groups. Granada as historic model demonstrates the chances of a peaceful coexistence
between different cultures, but also its menaces and its fragility. The
academy as the essence of a shared culture of the group is putting the
”tyranny of differences” of language, approach or culture into
question.
Focus on special topics including supervision conducted by leading experts from the international field
Evening activities and social
events
Flamenco (training lessons on the spot during lunch break possible)
Visit of the illuminated Alhambra by night
Guided sight seeing tours
Farewell Dinner
The academy is recognized under the auspices of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes
(IAGP), the UNESCO (andalusain branch) and the Insitute for Peace (UGR). Besides the academy has been supported since its beginnings from a network of several national group organisations.
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