ICP 2020+ Workshops
Biosynthetic psychotherapy and the Life- fields diagram as a possible diagnostic tool in psychotherapy
Seats Limited
Lecturer:
Alena Večeřová
Alena Večeřová is the private psychiatrist, psychotherapist, supervisor and psychotherapy trainer in Czech Institute of Biosynthesis and also in Institute of integrative psychodynamic psychotherapy In Prague. She works in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy over 20 years .Biosynthetic psychotherapy is an integrative psychotherapeutic method that connects the humanistic, psychodynamic and body therapy concepts. The so-called embryonic model of biosynthesis and its basic principles will be introduced to participants during the workshop: the principle of essence, the principle of contact.The essence is conceived as the inner core of the personality, which tends to be vital and self-actualizing. It shines through the bodily systems, which arise from the embryonic layers of the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm and contain both bodily and emotional and cognitive aspects of being. Biosyntehtic psychotherapy considers mental and functional bodily disorders as a consequence of fragmentation and disruption of energy pulsation between the layers. The main diagnostic and conceptual tool is the Life-fields diagram, the use of which we could experience during the workshop.
Know your hosts – about the Czechs and Czechness
Seats Limited
Lecturers:
Martina Klicperová-Baker
Daniel Heller
Two Czechs, organizers of the Prague ICP, will introduce you to various aspects of Czechness - significant traits of national identity, national character(s), culture, language and communication, historical achievements and traumas, ethnic variability through the history, the tendency to peaceful conflict resolution but also to opportunism and skepticism. Did you know that the capital Prague was right in the geographical center when the psychological science was being born? Flanked by Germany, Leipzig, in the North West (Wundt, the first psychological laboratory in 1879 - psychology as an empirical science) and by Austrian Vienna in the South East (Freud, psychoanalysis - psychology as comprehension, a narrative healing art), you cold not miss Prague when you travelled from one to the other. Then, the Czechs could read, hear lectures and network as the region then was united by German language, lingua franca not just of scholars but of all Central European citizens before WWI. In short, the contents of the workshop will be academic and interdisciplinary, it will familiarize you with the Czech cultural background so you may get more from your next visit of Prague and to the Czech Republic. The participants will have an opportunity to interact with the speakers and thus also influence the contents of the workshop. We would like this seminar to start a new tradition at the ICP where the hosting nation would introduce the participants to the psychological peculiarities of their culturesS.
Online team development: sharing of useful methods and best-practice interventions
Seats Limited
Lecturers:
Eva Höschlová
Radvan Bahbouh
Recently, many work teams have faced the challenge of switching from face-to-face to online/hybrid collaboration. Since the first lockdown in 2020, we have supported teams in this change and created programs focused on 1) strengthening the team shared mental models; 2) distributing the workload among team members; 3) maintaining the trust and developing teamwork, not just taskwork; 4) estimate the degree of team members' stress as mental health prevention. During the workshop, we would like to share our experience with several evidence-based interventions: inspirational informal meetings, team forums, mindfulness-based team development, team coaching using sociomapping, and more.
Heart-Based Mindfulness Workshop
Seats Limited
Lecturer:
Amir Imani
Through Amir's personal and professional interest in body-mind medicine, Amir has trained with Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn, founder of MBSR program and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
This workshop is designed to provide you with a space, and tools you may need to rest, and take a break from the constant “doing mode” that we engaged in through our busy lives. We will practice mindfulness techniques with a focus on cultivating heart qualities such as kindness, gratitude, and compassion. The research shows that training in mindfulness practice may equip you with:
- an increased ability to relax
- greater energy and enthusiasm for life
- heightened self-confidence
- an increased ability to cope more effectively with both short and long-term stressful situations
Integrating 'Stories’ and ‘Scores’ to Facilitate Counselling for Career Construction to Individuals and Groups of People
Seats Limited
Lecturer:
Jacobus Maree
The workshop aims to show participants how contemporary career counselling can be administered to individuals and in groups to help them confront some of the main challenges posed by Work 4.0 on the workplace and on people’s personal life stories. Participants will discover practically how the traditional career counselling approach compares to the narrative approach. They will be introduced to and complete a novel, storied career counselling questionnaire (the Career Interest Profile (CIP)) online. The CIP was developed from the (self-)developmental, storied (psychodynamic), differential, and ‘trauma theory’ perspectives to elicit people’s multiple micro-life stories, uncover their central life themes, promote clarification of their career-life identity, and enhance their self-exploration. Moreover, they will learn how to elict advice from within regarding how to convert issues and concerns into themes of hope that can advance their individual life projects and (re-kindle) their sense of hope and meaning.
Intersubjectivity in the field of affirmative psychological practice with lgbt people
Seats Limited
Lecturer:
Iva Žegura
The workshop will bring in focus intersubjectivity within affirmative psychological practice with LGBT people. Especially, it will address the exchanging of experiences in establishing visibility and presence of LGBT themes in CEE psychological associations.
The relational therapeutic proces between therapist and a clients who find themselves either on the same side or on the different polarities of the sexual orientation and gender identity continuum will be explored. If we consider social theory combined with intersectionality findings and a level of cultural competence of psychologist working with the LGBT clients, we can better understand how authoritarian structures and its socio-cultural aspect correlates, particularly how the system of power can have an impact on identity formation, coming out process or fragmentation of self, as well as on the mental health issues of LGBT people.
Starting a coming out process and risking to fail living up to these standards in some significant way means that a person at least risks viewing himself/herself as „bad”, not acceptable in the social field- which. This can cause subjective experience of shame that varies in it’ s forms and intensities due to the process of internalized homophobia. Here is the most visible importance of the contemporary movement for LGBT human rights and shared experience of LGBT people gathering to identify with one another. That provides new supportive and instructive social field.
The aim of this workshop is to establish safe surroundings to explore attendant’s experiences with development of sexual orientation and gender identity, coming out process and potential shame introjects. The interplay of sexual orientation and gender identity on professional identity and their potential impact on therapeutic relation as well on establishing visibility of LGBT allies and LGBT mental health professionals will be put in the focus of awareness in order to establish more affirmative LGBT practice.