Upcoming International Events and News

Contents:

• British Psychodrama Association Conference 2009
• The 17th IAGP Congress, Rome 2009
• "Invitation To Encounter: Meet Me In St Louis" ASGPP 2009
• Second International Sociodrama Conference Finland, Sweden 2009
• FEPTO website

British Psychodrama Association Conference 2009

The conference will be held in the great city of Glasgow at Strathclyde University from 26th- 28th June 2009. The conference committee are now calling for workshops around the theme of: "Dreams, Myths and Reality:Psychotherapy and Social Change".

Details are on the BPA website.

The 17th IAGP Congress

The 17th Congress of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP) in association with the Confederation of Italian Organizations for Analytic Research on Groups (COIRAG), will convene in Rome, Italy August 24-29, 2009. The theme of the Congress, Groups in a Time of Conflict, is both a recognition of the stressful and chaotic times in which we live, and an appreciation of the confluence of the power of culture and society upon the individual, and hence the groups in which we are members.Proposals for Workshops, Symposiums, Courses, Ongoing Experiential Groups, Paper Panels, Posters and Video Sessions. Submissions are due October 15, 2008 via the online submission form.

"Invitation To Encounter: Meet Me In St Louis"

The ASGPP conference next March 26-30, 2009, will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 100 Carondelet Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63105 USA Phone: (314) 863-6300 Fax: (314) 863-3525 ; (Please note this isn't yet on the asgpp website.)

Second International Sociodrama Conference Finland, Sweden, March 2009

An intervision group with participants from Sweden and Finland now have the pleasure to invite you to the Second International Sociodrama Conference on a boat from Stockholm to Helsinki. At this conference we will promote the professional network in order to clarify how sociodrama can be used as an excellent method for various group contexts, like in education, business, organisations and health care. The sea is a no mans land, unpredictable, even dangerous but also very beautiful. As a metaphor we have to travel over deep and unknown waters to heal ourselves and our society. The main challenge is to have both hope and courage to encounter the shadows of society like ethnic, gender and class conflicts, poverty as well as climate and ecological changes.

Contacts : ph +46 706 581875/+46 708 582248 or email sociodramaconference@gmail.com.

The new FEPTO website ( Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations) is now active.