International Events:
7th and 9th of September 2010 | From 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Free email registration info@strategicpsychologyinstitute.co.uk
THE FREE OF CHARGE STRATEGIC THERAPY WORKSHOPS WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND AND CONQUER YOUR EMOTIONS. WE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE TOOLS TO TURN EMOTIONS INTO YOUR RESOURCE AND NOT YOUR LIMIT
The Strategic Psychology and Psychotherapy Institute together with the British Strategic Therapy Centre is delighted to present 2 free workshops which will be covering the four basic emotions: fear, anger, pain and pleasure and the key role which they play in determining and solving psychological difficulties. It is our emotions that guide and define our interactions with others and ourselves. Emotions play an important role in the life of all individuals as they define our personal styles of perceiving the world around us and the ways in which we react to it.
Brief Strategic Therapy is an original and innovative approach to solving human problems. It is based on highly specific theoretical foundations and operative practices which originated from the worldwide renowned Californian School of Palo Alto. The theoretical framework is in constant evolution due to results achieved through empirical practice which have successfully produced changes in the ways in which an individual builds his own personal and interpersonal reality. Brief Strategic Therapy works with the four basic emotions - fear, anger, pain and pleasure - which can be considered as four broad containers in which one can find traces of all feelings and sensations related to emotional difficulties. If these emotional difficulties are undervalued they will develop into invalidating psychological problems and become an obstacle to everyday life.
The workshops will be focusing on how all four basic emotions can be used to understand how individuals construct their relationship with their own reality. Specific psychological conflicts related to these emotions will be analysed, identifying common ways through which people attempt to solve such difficulties. This will ultimately allow the participants to recognize the importance that each of the four basic emotions hold, and discover how to subsequently transform them into a useful resource.
Programme:
7th September 2010 | 5:30pm to 7:30pm
- Fear: Looking the ghost in the eyes makes it vanish
The many faces of fear: Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, Hypochondria, etc.
Fear as a resource - Anger: An overflowing river can break its banks
Anger towards others and towards oneself; aggressiveness; depression.
When anger is transformed into a drive
9th September 2010 | 5:30pm to 7:30pm
- Pain: Transforming wounds into scars
Mourning, trauma, abandonment
Pain that gives strength - Pleasure: Yield to it to dominate it
Losing control over pleasure: Food, Sex, Shopping
"Man cannot live without pleasure" (Saint Augustine)
A free registration is required to attend the workshops, available places will be subject to requests and registrations received!
To register for the free workshops please email to: info@strategicpsychologyinstitute.co.uk
We look forward to meeting you!
Venue:
Covent Garden Dragon Hall Trust
17 Stukeley Street
London
WC2B 5LT
1st World Conference of
Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy
From the Art to the Technology of Change
Interactional strategic psychopathology:
operative classification for effective treatments
&
Unsuccessful Management and Dysfunctional Organizations
11-12-13-14th November 2010
Palamontepaschi, Chianciano Terme, SI, Italy
It is our pleasure to invite you to participate to the 1st World Conference "From the Art to Technology of Change"
This global meeting is the result of the great success obtained by the 3 previous Editions (organized from 2003 to 2007) for the then "Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy European Network". More than 3.000 participants (general practictioners, psychologists, entrepreneurs and managers) coming from not only Europe but from 36 different countries turned this meeting into one of the most important event in modern Psychotherapy, Problem Solving & Communication Communities.
50 years after the first Brief Strategic and Systemic formulations, a major evolution appears to be capable to go beyond the traditional epistemological position based on the absolute refusal of diagnostic classification, with the aim of moving away from deterministic paradigms. Even though, through the years the great masters have made use of concrete heuristic principles. Each one, in his/her different approach, has identified basic principles amongst similar problems adapting them to the different context.
During the last 20 years, the systematic empirical-experimental studies and clinical experiences have guided us to device a pragmatic map of therapeutic strategies for the different form of disorders which leads us to their effective solutions.
Such a strategic classification differs clearly from traditional psychiatric nosography, because it is not a mere static description but offers an operative knowledge of the phenomenon on the study. This advanced diagnostic instrument allows us to have at our disposal concrete and precise criteria which guide us to the resolutions of the presenting problems. Resolution of the problem is not the result of sheer creativity or a mere strike of genius, but also the ability to identify and make use of specific “reducers of complexity” present in similar problematics. This discovery signs the passage from an artistic to a technological knowledge of psychopathologies.
Moreover, by identifying how the problems maintain themselves, that is the failed redundant attempted solutions, we can come to hold therapeutic tools devised “ad hoc” for different psychological disorders. Rigorous yet flexible, adaptable to each singular case, the strategic operational diagnosis is a “map, not the territory”, but which permits us to come to explore and discover the actual grounds. These important discoveries lead us to name the Conference “From the Art of Change to Technology of Change”.
4 intensive days to show the specific forms of pathological persistences and their effective solutions
In the first 3 days we will discuss: Theory, logic and research in the strategic diagnosis; phobic disorders; anxiety, panic attack; obsessive compulsive disorders; real or presumed psychosis; eating disorders, anorexia; bulimia; vomiting; sexual disorders; depressive disorders and post traumatic stress disorder; family, couples and children problems.
The 4th day will be dedicated to the Unsuccessful Management and Dysfunctional Organizations
As in the previous editions, the Conference will comprise of symposia, workshops and presentations. The Conference will have the privilege to host the most important exponents and innovative contributors in the field of Psychotherapy, Communication and Problem Solving.
Mony Elkaim, Teresa Garcia, Stefan Geyerhofer, Guglielmo Gulotta, Camillo Loriedo, Wendel Ray, Gunther Schmidt, Jean J. Wittezaele, Rodolfo De Bernard, Bradford Keeney, Helm Stierlin, Matthew D. Selekman and more other ones... will be with me.
Looking forward to you meeting at Chianciano Terme
Sincerely
Giorgio Nardone
Coordinator Brief Strategic & Systemic Therapy World Network
Seminario di Formazione Avanzata
Cambiare il passato
Strategie per superare in tempi brevi
il Disturbo Post-Traumatico da Stress
Tre voci a confronto
Prof. Camillo Loriedo
Prof. Jeffrey Zeig
Prof. Giorgio Nardone
Milano 13 e 14 Marzo 2010
Sala Convegni “Casa Ildefonso Schuster”
Via S. Antonio, 5 – 20122 Milano
Spain:
Informaciones:
Centro de Terapia Estratégica - España
www.centrodeterapiabreveestrategica.org
Spain:
“Una de las jaulas mentales del hombre moderno está representada por el esfuerzo de encontrar soluciones nuevas y creativas a problemas hasta entonces no resueltos. Este objetivo es perseguido tratando de examinar racionalmente todas las posibilidades. Pero, por desgracia, como indican la mayoría de los estudios sobre la creatividad y la capacidad de encontrar nuevas soluciones para problemas complicados, el esfuerzo de inventar bloquea la inventiva.”
G. Nardone, “El arte de la estratagema”, 2004
Informaciones:
Centro de Terapia Estratégica - España
www.centrodeterapiabreveestrategica.org
