INVITATION

The Norwegian Institute for Expressive Arts and Communication NIKUT in association with the Norwegian Moreno Institute is honored to announce that the FEPTO 2012 annual Meeting will take place outside Oslo, Norway in June 2012.

Before the FEPTO Annual Meeting you are welcome to join us in a conference from June 8th to June 10th. The working title of the conference is “Empowerment and Resilience”. The Annual Meeting starts on June 10th and lasts until June 14th. For this year’s Annual Meeting we have chosen the title “The Creative Saving Lie – the Balance between Denial and Truth”, inspired by Henrik Ibsen and his play “The Wild Duck”.

Accommodation and activities will take place at Romerike Folkehøgskole outside Oslo, Norway – a quiet, beautiful location situated close to Gardermoen Airport.

The two institutes and the local organization committee are happy to invite you and will do all we can to make your stay in Norway an enjoyable experience.

With best regards,
On behalf of the two institutes and the Local Organization Committee (LOC)
Eduardo Verdú and Arne Husjord


Welcome to the FEPTO Conference in Oslo!

We would like to dedicate this conference to all those who work with people who have suffered from traumatic events and loss of loved ones.

This is the first FEPTO conference in Norway. When the conference takes place it is almost a year since 22.7.2011. Who were affected by the terrorist attack? All “bodies” were invaded: the family body, the social body and the political body. When the incomprehensible and irreversible strikes and leaves you powerless it is important to be able to reach out and find a hand to hold.

The theme of the conference is Empowerment and  Resilience. We hope that the conference will provide the participants with knowledge on how to work with people who have been victims of abuse and violations. We will cover: How to work psychodramatically with leaders of organizations who have suffered traumatic events, health workers who work with survivors of trauma, how to work with survivors of trauma themselves, schools and communities.

When people have been struck down, they need help to stand up and feel a sense of belonging again. We hope that this conference will inspire all health workers and give an understanding of how psychodrama can make a difference and give hope! Best regards from the conference committee The Norwegian Moreno Institute and NIKUT.

Melinda Meyer

CONFERENCE SITE

The conference will take place at Jessheim, located 45 km outside Oslo, the capital of Norway. This beautiful region is easy to reach, by car, train or bus. Oslos main Airport Gardermoen is situated nearby.

A hundred years ago, Norway was one of the poorest nations in all of Europe. Today, it is probably the richest. This huge transition has resulted in rapid changes in lifestyle and a high level of education in the population. The last years, there has also been a massive immigration of workers from all of EU, and Oslo today can best be described as “a city in construction”,
In a similar way, psychodrama in Norway has undergone big changes in the last five to ten years and it continues! From a situation of one training institute, Norway today has four well-functional and modern training institutes that teach psychodrama on basic and advanced levels. The association is governmental approved, and has attained several important rights for its members.

The conference will be held at Romerike People’s College, a place that recruits candidates to Norway’s best schools for stage performance. The school is located by the Nordby Lake, where you can take a swim (if you are a real Viking) or enjoy the beautiful forest path around the lake for walks or jogging


LOC MEMBERS

Eduardo Verdu: LOC chair, T.E.P. and family therapist, is one of the main teachers and responsible for the curriculums at The Norwegian Moreno Institute. Eduardo teaches extensively throughout Europe and is sitting on the board of FEPTO, PIfE and Nordic Board of examiners.
Mailto: everduonline.no


Melinda Ashley Meyer: holds a PhD. and M.A. in Expressive Arts. She is a Psychodrama Director and Bioenergetic therapist and the leader of The Norwegian Institute of Expressive Art Therapy and Communication NIKUT.



Arne Husjord: TEP is one of the main teachers at the Norwegian Moreno Institute. He is a trained teacher and actor. For the last four years he has been working with hooligans in "Pøbelprosjektet", a program motivating dropouts to get a job or go back to school.


Torill Johnsen: Director of Psychodrama C.P. and one of the main teachers at NIKUT.





Klaus Owesen-Lein: our economist and responsible for the budget and the accounting for this FEPTO Conference and Meeting. Klaus is educated in psychodrama. He holds track of the economy in both the Norwegian Psychodrama Association and in The Norwegian Association of Psychotherapy (NFP). He was responsible for the budget and accounting at NFP’s Scandinavian Conference for Psychotherapy in Oslo in 2011.

Carina Holandsli: LOC secretary, Director of Psychodrama C.P. and now training for T.E.P. She is a teacher and supervisor at the Norwegian Moreno Institute. In addition, she runs her own treatment centre for addictions and co dependence.
Mailto: feptooslo2012gmail.com

 

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PROGRAM

Friday, June the 8th, 2012
17.00 – 18.00 Registration
18.00 – 18.15 Welcome by FEPTO president and
                     LOC: Eduardo Verdú and Melinda Askley Meyer
18.15 – 20.00 Dinner
20.00 – 21.00 Open bar

Saturday, June the 9th, 2012
08.30 – 09.30 Registration
09.30 – 10.30 Sociometry, led by Arne Husjord and Eduardo Verdú
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee
10.45 – 13.15 Workshop 1
13.15 – 14.45 Lunch
14.45 – 15.30 Lecture: Kirsti Silvola
                     Working with victims of terror
15.30 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 18.30 Workshop 2
19.00 – Dinner and party

Sunday, June the 10th, 2012
09.30 – 10.00 Aesthetic response
10.00 – 10.30 Lecture: Melinda Ashley Meyer
                     Empowerment and Resilience: Psychodrama perspective
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 13.30 Workshop 3
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 15.30 Closure

There should be two streams: one for intervision group which would be an on-going group and one for supervision when participants can choose whether or not to do all three

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LECTURES

1. Working with victims of terror

Some people cope in an amazing way, some find their lives totally scattered. And some networks find ways to support it`s members and some don`t. How can the helper understand the complexity of trauma and what are the quidelines for help in the aftermath?

Kirsti Silvola
is psychiatrist, psychothera¬pist and psychodramateacher TEP who has worked almost 10 years as a teacher at Helsinki Psychodrama Institute. She has also worked as individual and group psychotherapist and superviser. She has one year long education on dissociation and treatment of severe traumas and is finishing program in Sensorymotor Psychotherapy. After moving back to Norway in 2012 she has started to work at the Regional Resource Center for Traumatic Stress, Violence and Prevention of Suicide, located at Oslo University Hospital (RVTS Øst)


2. Empowerment and Resilience: Psychodrama perspective

The theory of scenario thinking in resilience work will be presented. The EXIT research project will be presented. The preliminary results will be presented and discussed. The study is quantitative and qualitative. As of today there are 210 unaccompanied minor boys in the project between the age of 15 and 18.
EXIT (Expressive Arts in Transition) developed for stabilizing people who live under extreme stress and/or have survived human or nature induced trauma. EXIT focuses on enhancing spontaneity, movement, imagination, engagement, connection, here and now, safety and responsibility.

Melinda Ashley Meyer
PhD is a researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and the Director and Co- founder of the Norwegian Institute for Expressive Art and Communication (NIKUT). Ms. Meyer is a Director of Psychodrama and is a trained bioenergetics-therapist. Since 1983 she has focused on the combination of community, group and individual psychotherapy. She worked as an expressive art therapist at the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees with torture survivors and war refugees from 1990 – 2004. Since 2008 she has been project leader for a controlled study with unaccompanied minor refugee boys between the age of 15 and 18 at NKVTS applying EXIT as an early intervention model.
She has been giving lectures and workshops within the field of EXA, Psychodrama, trauma, conflict transformation and cross-cultural group work in Europe, Israel, East Europe, North, Central and South America. She has made two documentary films, written articles and participated in writing several books.


WORKSHOP 1: Saturday morning, 10.45-13.15

1. A national trauma turns personal – can a personal trauma turn national?

On July 22nd 2011 Norway as a nation underwent a trauma that hit us all. Innocent people were terrorized. Norwegians went through a personal experience of violation. The young, their families, politicians and society as a whole met the tragedy with dignity. We mobilized good forces against the evil.
In this workshop we will investigate how July 22nd can serve to bring trauma on the agenda.
Persons who have been traumatized in the private sphere have often felt responsibility, guilt and shame. Society has not taken action nor responsibility. One is left with the impression that everyone has wanted to conceal the violations, the terror. The persons subject to this kind of violations have been underexposed, while the victims at Utøya risk becoming overexposed.
Can the way we have handled the Utøya tragedy make a difference to other traumatized persons? In the seventies there was a slogan that went like this: the private is public because it is common. Can the nation be mobilized to take a more active part for the better of all traumatized citizens?
We want to work sosiodramatically and will give room for psychodramatic exploration.

Mai Antonsen
Psychodrama director, founder and leader of Trondheim Psychodrama Institute. Teaches psychodrama, gives therapy, coaches teams.

Aud Steinsbekk
Psychodrama director, master of science, majoring in pedagogy. Has worked for more than 30 years with those who have suffered incest. Founder of two centres against incest, works as a psychodrama therapist at Enhet for Traumebehandling, Betania Malvik.


2. A new gestalt of meaning and hope: Achieving empowerment through the search of healing dreams in Jungian Psychodrama

Participants: 20–40. In the workshop, after a brief explanation of the theory behind Jungian Psychodrama, a more consistent experiential part will follow. The conductor will present new warming up techniques, integrating Moreno’s sociometry and Jungian active imagination exercises. He will demonstrate the dream incubation technique, and participants will look for healing dreams that will give a new gestalt of meaning and hope in order to achieve empowerment and cope with psychodramatic work in a society in continuing transformation.
Jungian psychodrama is a theory of psychodramatic technique, articulated in a complex model of conduction and observation. It derives from Jung’s analytical theory on dreams, from his concepts of the personal and collective unconsciousness, of archetypal images and individuation as well as S.H. Foulkes’ concepts of the net and the personal and basic matrix.
Two or three dreams, full of transformative wisdom will be played according to the Jungian model in which different protagonists play on the scene. Opening and closing rituals will be played in the group.

Maurizio Gasseau
is Associate Professor of Dynamic Psychology at Aosta Valley University Faculty of Psychology, where he is a professor of Dream Psychodynamics and Theory and Techniques of Group Dynamics. Analytical psychologist with Jungian training, former Vice President of FEPTO, Gasseau is Chair of Psychodrama Section of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP). His works include Jungian Psychodrama with G. Gasca (1991), Group Psychotherapy in Psychiatric Diagnosis and Cure with S. Michelini (2003), and The Dream. From Analytical Psychology to Jungian Psychodrama, edited with R. Bernardini (2009).


3. Building up Society after the War

Disintegration of one country started in the end of 1990.That followed by two difficult war with the neighboring peoples. The tongues of close people which speak the same language were poisoned by hate. Many victims, many broken families, many refugees, destroyed lives. In 1999 Serbia has attacked by NATO. The war again, but now, from the outer enemy, from the invisible power. Birds of steel hurled death from the beautiful blue sky. All of this was worm-up.
What happened with those who survived?
Those who survived are victims. How to help to the victims if the helpers are the victims too? Is it possible to make a plastic surgery to the bird whose wings are broken?
The idea of a mere struggle for existence is not personally embarrassing to me. But, it’ s insufficient. Surviving is not only staying alive. It’s a long “working through” process in order to make a new integration inside us. Building up Society after the war is a long healing process.
In this workshop we shall try to explore how it’s look to be in a role of ambivalent mason of the new Society. Our expectation is that the sharing will give us a good mirror of the processes that flow within us.

Jasna Veljkovic
is specialst in Clinical psychology,PhD in psychotherapy, Psychodrama trainer and the Group Analytic therapist. She is employed as professor of Medical psychology on the High Medical School in Cuprija (Serbia), and on the University of Montenegro, Faculty of Philosophy department of psychology, professor of psychodiagnostis.


4. Empowerment of women suffering from physical gender-based violence in family relations

In this workshop, we would like to kindly present and share with you our experience based on a joint European project chaired by University of Padua: http://empower-daphne.psy.unipd.it/ The project is being implemented in six countries (re: Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Rumania, Albania, and Austria) and in all of them we used the same intervention philosophy. We established psychodrama intervention groups besides thousand individual counseling hours and some individual treatments. The psychodrama group sessions were 50 hours in total. The reason why we used psychodrama was primarily based on women’s psychological conditions. Mostly of them were traumatized so we considered as very important the creation of a safe space on which they together could feel free to build trust and share experiences. Our sociodramatic intervention was focused on their common experiences and the work through “Family Atom” exercise guided us to individual needs of connectedness, psychological and psychosomatic roles. We had to consider always the participants’ resources as well as the structural level. We would like to kindly draw your attention on the fact that the sociodramatic approach is quite demanding when it’s applied on the background of trauma and sometimes as borderline phenomena.
In the sense of empowerment we find it very helpful to come to a better self-esteem. For our project it is important to be focused also to the “mother-daughter” relationships because we would like to analyze the effects of another transforming process: from our research it results that mostly of the abused mothers have not been able to protect their children from physical violence and in some cases they have been abusers by themselves – a process that appears in several generations. In our research we will definitely be focused on gender-based violence and male abuse in family relations, but the above mentioned process will be an additional research aspect.
The practical work is embedded in a research design which evaluates pre and post with quantitative and the process - with qualitative methods. In June we will finish part of the groups and we can discuss preliminary results, based on this experience.
In the workshop in addition we would like to kindly hear your experiences on this as well as to conduct experiential learning.

Galabina Tarashoeva
is MD, psychiatrist, certified psychodrama therapist, www.tarashoeva.com, founding member of FEPTO, member of it’s Research Committee, national coordinator and supervisor of Bulgarian partner in EMPoWER project. She is director of Psychodrama Center Orpheus and director of City Mental Health Center prof. Nikola Shipkovenski - Sofia, Bulgaria

Liliana Ribeiro
Psychologist; Trainee and effective member of Psychodrama Specialization in the Portuguese Psychodrama Society; Auxiliary Ego in the PD groups National coordinator and supervisor of Portuguese partner in EMPoWER project in Portugal.

Michael Wieser
is Asst-Prof. at Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt in Austria www.aau.at/~mwieser
He teaches psychodrama at the department of psychology and in the psychodrama training program of Austrian Association of Group therapy and Group dynamics

Ines Testoni
Professor of Social Psychology and Director of Master “Death Studies” at University of Padova, Director of EMPoWER-Daphne European project.  ines.testoniunipd.it


5. Psychodrama in work with traumatized people

The goal of the workshop is to reflect over our heritage as psychodramatists when working with traumatized people. Moreno understood intuitively much of what the modern approach to traumas present as up-to-date knowledge and skills. Some of his concepts like catharsis, might need to be reflected upon in the light of modern knowledge. What do we have and what do we need to learn?
The workshop consists of minilectures and an experiential part which is based on cases, not in work with traumas of the participants. Focus is on understanding the main concepts of traumapsychology and viewing psychodrama method in the light of that knowledge. What is the set of skills that we need while working in a group setting and on the psychodrama stage?

Kirsti Silvola
is psychiatrist, psychothera¬pist and psychodramateacher TEP who has worked almost 10 years as a teacher at Helsinki Psychodrama Institute. She has also worked as individual and group psychotherapist and superviser. She has one year long education on dissociation and treatment of severe traumas and is finishing program in Sensorymotor Psychotherapy. After moving back to Norway in 2012 she has started to work at the Regional Resource Center for Traumatic Stress, Violence and Prevention of Suicide, located at Oslo University Hospital (RVTS Øst).


6. Empowerment and Resilience: Helping the helpers

Workshop objectives: The workshop and lecture will give the participants an opportunity to learn the method from a Psychodramatic perspective. The workshop is designed for health workers who supervise therapist who work with survivors of trauma and loss.
Workshop contents: This workshop is based on a method using expressive art and psychodrama: focuses on enhancing movement, imagination, engagement, connection, here and now, safety and responsibility. How to prevent emotional fatigue, secondary traumatisation and vicarious traumatisation will be explored.
In the workshop the method will be demonstrated from a psychodramatic perspective.
The theory of scenario thinking in resilience work will be presented. A group experience and demonstrations will be carried out.
This workshop will be of relevance and interest to those who supervise heath workers working with trauma and loss and/or working in dangerous situations. Level of training: Intermediary to advance.
Short biographical sketch of the workshop presenter: Melinda Ashley Meyer is a researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and the Director and Co- founder of the Norwegian Institute for Expressive Art and Com-munication NIKUT.
Dr. Meyer is a Director of Psychodrama and is a trained bioenergetics-therapist. Since 1983 she has focused on the combination of community, group and individual psychotherapy. She has worked as an Expressive art therapist in the US and Norway since 1981. From 1990 – 2004 she worked at the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees with torture survivors and war refugees. Since 2008 she has been project leader for a controlled study with unaccompanied minor refugee boys between the age of 15 and 18 at NKVTS applying EXIT as an early intervention model.
She has been giving lectures and workshops within the field of EXA, Psychodrama, trauma, conflict transfomation and cross-cultural group work in Europe, Israel, East Europe, North, Central and South America. She has made two documentary films, written articles and participated in writing several books.

Melinda Ashley Meyer
PhD, senior researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Director of The Norwegian Centre for Expressive Arts and Communication.


WORKSHOP 2: Saturday afternoon, 16.00-19.30

1. The Reverberation of Saga Characters in Ourselves

Written down in the twelfth and thirteenth century the Icelandic Sagas tell stories of love, hatred, friendship and revenge. By exploring selected scenes from the sagas, the participants in the workshop will be given the opportunity to explore how the characters and events in the sagas eventually reverberate in our contemporary souls and society as a whole. Using psychodramatic techniques it will be looked on whether things could and can be done differently.

Trausti Ólafsson
PhD – Psychodrama Practitioner. Trained in psychodrama with Eva Röine in Norway, Marcia Karp and The Northern School of Psychodrama in England, Trausti has been in private practice as pscyhodramatist since 2003. He runs weekly groups and montly weekend sessions at Hlutverkasetur – The Centre for Roles – in Reykjavík.
Trausti has taught drama and theatre studies at The University of Iceland, Reykjavík since 2004. His main academic interests are the in-terrelations between theatre, drama and ritual; and his book on ten Ibsen plays, Ibsen‘s Theatre of Ritualistic Visions, was published by Peter Lang Ltd in 2008.


2. The power within: an integration of Jungian Psychodrama and Dancetherapy to restore innate resilience and self-healing after trauma

Human response to psychological trauma is about loss of connection between the person and the memory or feelings about a particular event. Jungian Psychodrama investigates the inner world of emotions, thoughts and feelings, leads to an encounter with the multiple facets of our personalities and dwells on the tendency towards integration and individuation. Dancetherapy allows the individual to develop a deep, self-sensing awareness and addresses symptoms of trauma at their source - the body, providing an opportunity to create a visual vocabulary and to transform memories from implicit to explicit.
Leandra Perrotta has developed an integrative model of Jungian Psychodrama and Dancetherapy to restore innate resilience and self-healing after trauma. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has been described by Shalev as a “disorder of recovery” in which the initial response to trauma continues and evolves into a disabling condition. Trauma impacts the self by impairing the integrative capacities of the mind and the sensory, emotional, bodily and perceptual implicit memory. With impaired integration, the mind becomes restricted in its capacity to respond flexibly.
Psychological integration and the amelioration of PTSD symptoms can be accomplished when patients use their own bodies as instruments. Psychodrama and Dancetherapy help to balance affect and verbalization, right and left brain functioning, calm hyperarousal and increase adaptive functioning in daily life. Interventions facilitate psychological and physical homeostasis, emphasize self-regulatory skills which maintain arousal within a window of tolerance and reduce self-destructive tendencies. Van der Kolk has stated that: “The core of organisms are unaffected by rationalizations. The way people learn is by moving. The brain is a moving organ”.

Leandra Perrotta
is an Italo-Australian Clinical Psychologist, Psychodrama Trainer, Dancetherapy Trainer and EMDR therapist. She is Council Member of FEPTO and Co-coordinator of the FEPTO Task Force for Peace and Conflict Resolution. She is Contract Professor at the University of Aosta.


3. Back to Basics

Psychodrama, given the extensive creativity that proposes, has been used in many ways. A recent discussion has taken place at one of the Psychodrama discussion lists, about what is Psychodrama and what name should be given to the several alternatives that have emerged parting from the original technique presented by Moreno and his early followers. This workshop aims to present the original aspects of a Psychodrama session and its classical parts, stressing the importance of SHARING as the basic form of group psychotherapy. Time will be dedicated to the technical processing of the session.

Roberto de Inocencio
is a FEPTO founding member.


4. From conflicts to resources: an ActionLab

Conflicts at the work place are common: it is normal that conflicts occur in a group or a team’s life. We all know that the sooner we address a conflict the easier it is to solve it. However, handling conflicts is not always easy, even when they are addressed very early. But it becomes all the more difficult, since oftentimes they are taken care of rather late (when tensions get high) or even very late (when the place is about to burn).
Then :
• How to detect « beginning conflicts » ? How to address them ?
• What to do with higher levels of tensions ? What strategies to use and how ?
• How do psychodrama tools help in this process?
• Which Action Methods and Techniques seem to be ef¬ficient in restoring the team’s resources ?
Such are the central questions that this seminar will address through an ActionLab :
• Warm-up (defining type of conflicts to be worked on)
• Setting a semi-fictive conflict and playing it – working towards its transformation
• Pooling (sharing)
• Putting into perspectives
• Synthesis and leverage for the futue.

Norbert Apter, Harvard (M.Ed.).
Psychodramatist and Trainer. Pioneer of humanistic Action Methods and Psychodrama in the French part of Switzerland, he is an accredited psychotherapist and trainer, as well as the author of diverse articles.
He has a private practice (running individual and group sessions) in Geneva and is the director of the Institut ODeF, specialized in relational competencies. As an international trainer, he has been supervising, training and intervening for many years in eastern and western Europe (including the french overseas departments and territories) and in R.D. Congo.
Norbert Apter has been working for institutions (schools, hospitals, social services), for companies (banks, law firms, transport) and for international organizations (United Nations, International Labour Organization, International Committe of the Red Cross).


5. The war after: psychodrama and the trans-generational transmission of trauma

Wars and conflicts affect us much longer than their actual time. The emotional results are present in our inner lives and affect our behavior. At times the result is becoming unwilling victims of ourselves and creating inner enemies. We live with the wounds of wars and conflicts.
This workshop will deal with the emotional trauma which is passed on from one generation to the next, usually in an unconscious manner. We will use Psychodrama in order to deal with traces of wars in our present life.
Peace is not the lack of conflicts. In the time of “the war after” our work as professionals should be devoted to learn how to live with the conflicts. The first step of such a process is to learn to accept the other. Instead of projecting to others the unaccepted shadows, it is more important and effective to encounter the relationship between the inner roles of victim and aggressor.
The directors of this workshop are living examples of the fruits of this dialogue between enemies. They have been involved in creating a psychodramatic space for encounters between Jews and Germans from the Post-Second World War generation.

Hilde Goett
DIPL. SOZ. PAD. Was born in Romania, a granddaughter of SS members whose wives were deported to Siberia. She is a certified Trainer and Supervisor of Psychodrama (DGSv) for the Psychodrama Institute for Europe (PIfE) and serves as its Chairwoman. She is a Child and Adolescent Therapist, focusing on trauma, domestic violence and suicide. Hilde lives in Berlin and can be contacted at hildegoettt-online.de

Yaacov Naor
MA CAGS TEP. Founder and Director of ISIS Israel: a Psychodrama and Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy Center in Tel Aviv. He is a certified therapist and trainer in these fields. He has been teaching in these areas in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and Israel for the last 30 years. Since 1986 he has been leading special psychodramatic dialogue groups for Germans and Jews and between Palestin¬ians and Israelis. Yaacov lives in Israel and can be contacted at yaacovngmail.com


6. Normative sexuality as a violence factor

Any social organization sets standards of behavior. Religion, law and, more recently, medical science may be read as the main regulatory mechanisms, both of the hegemonic as well as of what moves away from it. The categories that have been built around human behavior lead inevitably to reading reality in a limited manner: on the one hand, we read only what is possible and, on the other, we build this reality from what we read. Human behaviors result from this dual process (especially affective-sexual behaviors) that we find categorized under “sexual and gender identity disorders” in the DSM-IV, or under “treatment of personality and behavior disorder”, on ICD10.
We must be very attentive to those categories being aware of the effects of health ethics in health itself because, in Adorno’s words, if an ethical norm ignores the existing social conditions which are also the conditions under which any ethics might be appropriate, that ethos runs the risk of becoming violent.
In this workshop, we present ways of thinking about what makes a bad feeling (sometimes pain) because of our wishes, emotions or behavior when they do not accomplish the normative sexual life.
We will work through sociodrama, sociometry, and with the antagonist, if wished.

Gabriela Moita
PhD, psychologist, psychodramatist and sexual therapist. She teaches Sociodrama in training program for Social Workers at the Instituto Superior de Serviço Social do Porto Co-President of FEPTO, President of the Portuguese Society of Psychodrama  Vice-President of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Sexology

Michael Wieser
is Asst-Prof. at Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt in Austria www.aau.at/~mwieser
He teaches psychodrama in the department of psychology and in the psychodrama training program of the Austrian Association of Group therapy and Group Dynamics


WORKSHOP 3: Sunday morning, 11.00-13.30

1. The Benevolent Nature

A patient once told me that there was nobody in her life with whom she felt safe and warm. She did not felt loved by anybody in her childhood. But she remembered a lovely place under a tree at a little creek where she spent hours lonely when she ran away from home. In psychodrama sessions we went often to this place. She realized there how caring she could be to herself in the role of the meadow, how protecting she was to herself in the role of the tree and how nourishing she was in the role of the fresh water. She learned that nature helped her to cope with her dreadful life experiences.
In this workshop we will focus on the strong support of nature and how we can find it in ourselves, in metaphors, in myths, fairytales and our patients to overcome dif¬ficult live events. Role reversal in psychodrama helps to become aware of nurturing roles of antagonists that helped to survive and to reactivate those roles to develop.

Jutta Fürst
is psychologist and psychotherapist for Psychodrama and Guided Affective Imagery. She worked with mentally handicapped adults and was later for many years school psychologist and leader of a governmental based consultant centre. In her private practice she is psychotherapist and supervisor and lecturer at several universities, scientific director of a training programme for psychodrama psycho-therapy at the University of Innsbruck and past president of FEPTO. She is co-editor of a psychodrama book and author of many articles especially about theory and didactic of psychodrama training.


2. When Death has paid the group a visit

In this workshop we will work with empowerment of young people in a school or a community when death has paid its visit. The workshop holder will present rituals giving space for morning and closure after what has taken place in the group and return to the future focus; staying alive. Preventing other from going after the dead person is also an issue in the workshop.

Arne Husjord
Arne Husjord is an experienced teacher and psychodramatist working in schools and at the Moreno Institute. As a psychodramatist he has worked as a group therapist and founder of the Pøbelprosjektet. He is inspired by Henrik Ibsen, Alf Prøysen and circus.


3. Why are Psychodrama and Restorative Justice such a good match?

Restorative Justice has the origin in the Pacific Islands. It derives from the cultural way the Maoris and Samoans traditionally live. This are societies that focus on human relationships and how to mend human bonds when harm is done – rather than how to punish the harmdoer.It operates with the concept inclusion , ie take reponsibility for you actions, repare the harm done and you will be reintegrated in society again. The basic questions are: What happened? Who was affected? How? What do the affected need in order to feel OK?
In this workshop we will try to understand what is Restorative Justice and why has it has spred worldwide the last 15 years? How come it transforms schools, institutions, workplaces and societies. And why is it such a healing way to cope with disaster victims?
What are the similarities between Psychodrama and Restorative Justice? Why are they such a good match? What does Morenian philosophy and concept of being a ”co-creator” of society have in common with the Maori and Samoan cultural thinking and the philosophy of Restorative Justice? Let us explore!
This is an interactive workshop with a lot of good humour!

Eva Fahlström Borg
Foundation of Uppsala Psychodrama Institute, Sweden.
Senior psychotherapist, teacher and supervisor of psychotherapy. International
Trainer and supervisor of Psychodrama and Restorative Justice.
Founding member of FEPTO, Co-chair of FEPTO Task Force for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Receiver of FEPTO award 2010 ”Life Time Achievment” Boardmember of IAGP.


4. Using the wisdom of shamanic medicine wheel in Psychodrama therapy

During this workshop participants will be exposed and experience to the philosophy and wisdom behind the Shamanic medicine wheel of native American indigenous community and the way it can be integrated into methods of psychodrama.

Shay Mashiach
Psychodrama therapist integrated with spiritual philosophies. Graduated shamanic medicine wheel in Red Path School, graduated spiritual healing school (Israel). Graduated Analytical Psychodrama School, Kivunim Insitute (Israel). MA in state science (Tel Aviv University),
MA in Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology from Northeastern University (Boson)

Nili Lahav
Psychodrama therapist specializes with women, children in high risk and Terror victims.
Graduated shamanic medicine wheel in Red Path School. Graduated Analytical Psychodrama School, Kivunim Insitute (Israel). Graduate Psychotherapy focused on trauma studies, Tel-Aviv medicine faculty. B.ED in Special education, David Yelin Education Collage, Jerusalem.


5. Puppetry in therapy

This workshop will focus on the value and purpose of puppet making, puppet play, and interaction with puppet characters in a psychodramatic setting with children. As an inanimate, transitional object, the puppet acts as an extension or representation of the self, parts of self, or aspects of others or of the environment. Doubling, mirroring and role-reversal are all made possible for children through the use of puppets.
We will look at how psychopuppetry draws from and combines principles and techniques from the expressive arts therapies, play therapy, drama therapy, psychodrama and the puppetry arts.
In the workshop the participants will get hands-on experiment with the art of puppet making as well as opportunities to try different ways of using puppets as a psychodramatic tool in their work with children and their families.

Ellen Brochmann
Workshopholder


REGISTRATION PROCEDURE

Step 1. Fill out and return the registration form found on the website www.fepto.eu to the organizing committee:
Main secretary: Carina Holandsli
e-mail: feptooslo2012gmail.com
Address: Box 2419 Solli, 0201 OSLO
Tel: +47 984 77 950

Step 2. Pay registration fee NOK 2.700,* to:
Account nr: 1203.32.09930
IBAN: NO42 1203 3209 930.
BIC: DNBANOKKXXX
Please mention: Reg. fee FEPTO OSLO

IMPORTANT ABOUT PAYMENT:
In addition to the IBAN and BIC some of you will also need:
Name: DnB Bank ASA
Address: 0021 Oslo
Acount name: Fepto, Klaus Owesen-Lein

Step 3. An automathic reply should be sent to you after registering. Please check that your e-mail address is correctly introduced in the registration form. If the registration is not confirmed please contact the secretary directly on e-mail:  feptooslo2012gmail.com to get the confirmation.

*The registration fee includes sleeping accommodation at Romerike People’s College, all meals from Friday evening until Sunday noon and program.

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When your payment is registered, you will get a mail from us confirming your reservation. Please contact us if you do not hear anything!
In case of cancellation before 20th of March 50% of the fee will be refunded. After that there is no refund.
Since there is a limited amount of single bed rooms, please register early if you would like to have one!


REGISTRATION ONLINE

Registration is open now! To access the registration form > register


FEPTO SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CONFERENCE

Scholarships are available for trainees to be able to participate at the next FEPTO Conference in Oslo. Please inform your trainees and encourage them to apply. There is maximum one scholarship per FEPTO organizational member.

This invitation is addressed to the FEPTO organizational members (institutes and associations) from Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Russia and Serbia. The scholarship for the conference covers 2/3 of the participation fee for all above countries with the exception of Greece and Hungary, the scholarship covers 1/3 of the participation fee.

Deadline to apply: 29th of February 2012

Mailto Norbert Apter, chair of the Development Committee: norbert.apterodef.ch


CONTACT

For all questions about the arrangement or accommodation, please contact the Local Organizing Committee (LOC):
Main secretary: Carina Holandsli
e-mail: feptooslo2012gmail.com
Address: Box 2419 Solli, 0201 OSLO
Tel: +47 984 77 950