Agenda – webinars
“Soteria meets Open Dialogue” our next ISPS Webinar – donderdag 29 juni 2023 – 18.30-20.30 uur
om nog even terug te kijken:
ISPS Webinar – “Amniotic Therapy” – vrijdag 24 maart 2023
“Soteria meets Open Dialogue” – ISPS Webinar
Op donderdag 29 juni 2023 van 18.30 tot 20.30 uur
We are honoured that Nadia Mahjoub, Huguette Beyens, Dag Van Wetter and Stefaan Huyghebaert, all members of ISPS Netwerk Nederland-Vlaanderen, will join us for this webinar on Soteria and Open Dialogue approaches, to which the audience and panel will respond.
The topic:
A psychotic crisis can be a drastic and alienating experience, both for the person himself and for the people around. The Soteria approach and the Open Dialogue approach are both considered as valuable ways to organise good clinical practice for people with psychosis and their environment. During the last international ISPS conference in Perugia in 2022 these approaches received a lot of attention. The best place to cope with a psychotic crisis is at home where all the people involved can work together in Open Dialogue with each other. However, when the person with psychosis or the family members or the professionals involved conclude that a more intensive ‘being with’ is necessary a Soteria home can be a good solution. Both approaches have a lot in common. No wonder that a group of professionals, people with lived experience and family members found each other in Belgium to explore how this both approaches can be implemented in their country.
Nadia Mahjoub
“Why Soteria and Open Dialogue?”
Nadia Mahjoub is 50 years old and has experienced several psychoses. She has been working as a volunteer for the patients’ movement in Belgium for more than 20 years, running peer support groups on psychosis and advocating for a more humane care without coercion. She is a member of ISPS and the Soteria Group in Belgium. She would like to share with you what Soteria and Open Dialogue mean to her.
Huguette Beyens
“Merge and keep together: the cornerstone of a Soteria-home”
Huguette Beyens is an art psychotherapist and founder of House Poustinia and companion of the Soteria workgroup Flanders.
Elke Haerick (replaced by Dag Van Wetter)
“The Soteria Houses Flanders working group”
Elke Haerick is staff officer at Psyche vzw and companion in supporting recovery-oriented practices and peer expertise education. Elke is president of the Soteria Houses Flanders working group.
Dag Van Wetter
“Open Dialogue in the cultural context of Flanders”
Dag Van Wetter is an ‘Open Dialogue companion’ and staff officer at vzw Psyche, co-creating Open Dialogue practice in Flanders, Belgium. After promoting Open Dialogue development in the region of North-West-Flanders since 2016, Dag is now also facilitating Open Dialogue meetings, supporting teams and co-coordinating projects on the development of Open Dialogue practice in the rest of Flanders. In cooperation with mental health organisations, people with lived experience, people with family experience, social welfare partners and training of health professionals/peer workers, Dag and his colleagues are also actively connecting Open Dialogue practice to strengthening and spreading other community-based, right-based and recovery-based practices.
Stefaan Huyghebaert
“El Camino Bekegem”
Stefaan Huyghebaert is co-founder and core member of El Camino Bekegem vzw. El Camino Bekegem, where people come together around sensitivity for psychosis. El Camino Bekegem is a meeting place on its way to a temporary stay, together with their loved ones and care providers.
The webinar will also involve discussion with the panel and registrants.
Julie Kipp, President of ISPS and social worker, will open the webinar.
Ludi Van Bouwel, ISPS Executive Committee member and psychiatrist – psychotherapist, will Chair the event.
Participation fee
A donation of $10 to $50 is requested. Your donation supports the efforts of ISPS (International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis) to advance the education, training and knowledge of mental health professionals in the treatment and prevention of psychosis. Another major aim of ISPS that your donation supports is our work towards the best possible partnership between professionals, people with lived experience of psychosis and their family members. If you are unable to give a donation please contact us to enquire about a limited number of free places for this webinar.
Unable to attend the event live? No problem. We will send you a link view the recording of the webinar for up to 14 days after the event.
Register HERE
We look forward to welcoming you to this webinar.
“Amniotic Therapy” – an ISPS Webinar
We are honoured that Professor Maurizio Peciccia has agreed to give the opening talk, to which the audience and a distinguished panel will respond. The event will feature a presentation from Maurizio Peciccia, who will discuss the theoretical basis of amniotic therapy, as well as Jens Roved and Miriam Berges who will both share their practical experiences with amniotic therapy.
The topic:
Amniotic Therapy is a novel form of group therapy that utilizes gestures similar to those used by parents when holding babies. By employing this type of therapeutic communication, individuals can experience affiliative touch, which has the potential to regulate the stress axis, balance neurotransmission, and promote a sense of belonging and attachment within the group. Affiliative touch is also linked to embodiment and can help individuals in distinguishing between their internal and external environments.
The speakers
Professor Maurizio Peciccia, from Italy is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Professor in the Department of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Perugia. He is also the President of ISPS Italy (Italian group of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis), Director of the Gaetano Benedetti Institute (School of Psychoanalytic Existential Psychotherapy) and Honorary president of the Italian Art Therapists Association (APIART). He is the author of over 150 publications concerning psychoanalytic oriented psychotherapy and art therapy of psychosis.
Jens Roved, from Denmark, is a voice hearer who suffered from early childhood trauma. He is also a photographer, guitarist, occupational therapist, teacher, father of two and survivor. Although his life has been entwined in psychosis, he was never a ‘patient’ in psychiatric care. Rather he manages to do without medicine. In his own words: “ISPS is like a family to me that I can always reach out to in need of support”. Jens experienced some sessions of amniotic therapy during the ISPS Perugia conference in September 2022.
Miriam Berges, from Germany, is the mother of a 13 year old son. She has worked as a high school teacher for fine arts and latin for almost 20 years. She is an artist, making paintings, mixed media works and video installations. After an overwhelming traumatic experience when she was 35, she decided to explore and find out more of her authentic identity. One result was that she studied art therapy at IKT München (institut for art and therapy Munich). This is where she met Maurizio Peciccia as her art therapy teacher. In 2022 she was in Perugia twice and experienced 10 sessions of amniotic therapy. It opened up a new dimension of ‘being in the world’, and she found it very helpful for her mental, emotional and physical health and psychic stability.
Discussants:
Dag Söderström, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst from Switzerland.
Brian Koehler, psychologist and psychoanalyst from USA.
The discussion will also involve the registrants.
Julie Kipp, President of ISPS will open the webinar and Chair the event (from USA)
Participation fee
A donation of $5 to $40 is requested. Your donation supports the efforts of ISPS (International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis) to advance the education, training and knowledge of mental health professionals in the treatment and prevention of psychosis. Another major aim of ISPS that your donation supports is our work towards the best possible partnership between professionals, people with lived experience of psychosis and their family members. If you are unable to give a donation please contact us to enquire about a limited number of free places for this webinar.
Unable to attend the event live? No problem. We will send you a link view the recording of the webinar for up to 14 days after the event.
Register HERE
Pesach Lichtenberg over Soteriahuizen
Ontwikkeling van Soteria-huizen in Israël een inspirerende leerervaring met dr. Pesach Lichtenberg
op dinsdag 15 november 2022 van 13.00 tot 15.00 uur
Dr. Pesach Lichtenberg vertelt ons, in het Engels, waarom de Soteria-huizen in Israël in de praktijk een waarlijk alternatief bieden aan mensen die door een psychotische fase gaan.
In plaats van opgenomen te worden in een ziekenhuis, komt men thuis in een (Soteria) huis waar een kleine therapeutische gemeenschap op een veilige manier mensen door een psychotische crisis heen helpt.
Men werkt hier vanuit de “Being With” gedachte.
Het luisterend aanwezig zijn bij.
Hierdoor ontstaat er een veilige, helende ruimte, doordat zowel de bewoners als de begeleiders door een gezamenlijke inzet aan de condities werken om veilig door een crisis te navigeren en zorg te dragen voor wat hiervoor nodig is.
(Soteria betekent oorspronkelijk: genezing, redding, verlossing)
In plaats van afzondering is er daar nabijheid.
Een nabijheid die veiligheid biedt, vragen stelt, aanwezigheid garandeert.
Een tegemoet-treden dat laat zien dat de crisis niet als een ziekte gezien wordt, maar als een normale reactie op een zeer ongezonde situatie die dringend om bevraging roept.
Waar aangepaste medicatie enkel gegeven wordt indien het niet anders kan.
Begeleiders en bewoners werken samen en zetten zich gezamenlijk in voor het runnen van het huis.
Meer dan twaalf jaar ervaring en grondig onderzoek in Israël in ondertussen twaalf door de regering aldaar gesteunde Soteria-huizen, heeft aangetoond dat een verblijf kostenbesparend is en bovenal destigmatiserend werkt.
Dr. Pesach Lichtenberg zal putten uit een jarenlange ervaring als psychiater en vertellen en tonen hoe het er in een Soteria-huis aan toe gaat.
Maar hij laat ons ook kennis maken met de wijze waarop een dergelijk huis maatschappelijk geïntegreerd wordt en hoe de politiek in Israël ook haar schouders aan het geheel leende.
Ervaringen waar wij hier in Vlaanderen enkel maar ons voordeel mee kunnen doen, zoekende als we zijn om ook in ons landsdeel Soteria-huizen van de grond te krijgen.
In een openbare Zoom-sessie zal Dr. Pesach Lichtenberg een inleiding verzorgen van een klein uur. Aansluitend zullen Dr. Elizabeth Anthonis, Nadia Mahjoub en Stefaan Huyghebaert enkele reflecties (over wat ze hebben gehoord, gedacht en gevoeld tijdens het luisteren) met elkaar uitwisselen waarna het publiek in het laatste uur de kans krijgt om eigen vragen voor te leggen.
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