FEPTO Conference

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20th FEPTO CONFERENCE    

Torino, 5th – 7th June  2026

“Sociatry, Individual Roles and Collectivity in Action.

Taking Care of Humanity and its Environment”.

 

 

PROGRAM      Friday, June 5th, 2026

 

10:00 – 12:00          Pre – FEPTO CONFERENCE    Flash Mob

Yves Postic (France), Nadia Lotti (Italy)

 

Meeting point: Via XX Settembre, 83 – Theological Faculty

​A journey in stages through the beating heart of esoteric Torino, where the earth’s energy meets the history of human connection.

​Seven deeply meaningful spiritual stops, seven energy flows, one great circle of connection.

​This itinerary is designed to delve deep into the historical and cultural soul of the city through scenic improvisations and spontaneous interactions, celebrating the secret face of Torino and its visitors.

 

13:30 – 15:00 Registration
15:00 – 15:30 Authority Welcome
15:30 – 17:15

Opening and Large Group Warm up

Maurizio Gasseau (Italy), Marco Greco (Italy), Adriana Piterbarg (Argentina)

17:15 – 17:45 Coffee Break
17:45 – 19:00

1st Lecture:

Khader Rasras (TRC Director General – The Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for victims of Torture. Chairman of the Scientific and Health Advisory Board by the general assembly in the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims – IRCT) (Palestine) – Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Hard Times

Mohammed Abumughessib  (DWB – Doctors Without Borders) (Palestine, connecting from London ) – Psychodrama in Collective Trauma

19:00 – 20:30 Free time for dinner
20:30 – 22:15

Theatre Performance: “Un cappello per Moreno” (“A Hat for Moreno”) 

MoMu Teatro (Moreno Museum Theatre)

 

 

PROGRAM      Saturday, June 6th, 2026

09:00 – 10:45

Workshops in parallel (maximum number of participants):

·         Shereen Abdeen (Palestine), Hunaida Iseed (Palestine), Murad Butmeh (Palestine) – Between the News and the Human; Using Sociodrama and Psychodrama Techniques to Explore Emotional Responses to Distant Suffering  (30)   

·         Yves Postic (France), Judy Swallow (USA) – Stories of our ancestors with Playback Theatre  (30)  

·         Eero Julkunen (Finland) – The Art of Living as a Pessimist: is there Hope in the World without Hope?  (25)      

·         Judith Teszary (Hungary/Sweden) – How to keep the mental Health during Wartime?  (60)   

·         Gabriella Nicotra (Italy) – Groups with parents as a clinical/educational intervention aimed at adolescents  (25)   

·         Vladimir Milosevic (Serbia/Slovenia) – Psychodrama Group as a Creative Context in a Process of Change in Work with a Group of Prisoners  (40)  

·         Gabor Pinter (Hungary) – Monodrama Psychotherapy with the Involvement of an Assistant, Based on the new Theory of Method – Specific Healing Factors  (20)

·         Deniz Altinay (Turkey), Esra Bilik (Turkey) – Identifying the Group’s Collective Representation in Sociodrama as a Sociatric Intervention  (60) 

 

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00

Workshops in parallel (maximum number of participants):

·         Marcia Karp (UK) – “OUCH, MY FAMILY” – Ancestor Syndrome & Genosociogram in Action  (50) 

·         Agnes Dudler (Germany) – Cohesion and peace – so simple and yet so difficult  (35) 

·         Reijo Kauppila (Finland) – Using playing to foster attachment – Evidence Based Trauma Stabilisation (EBTS) for families  (25)  

·         Leandra Perrotta (Italy/Norway) – Embodied Creativity for a Fragmented World: Psychodrama and Dance Therapy in Sociatric Action  (60)

·         Endel Hango (Estonia) – Nudging Collective Intelligence: Individual Roles in Sociatric Action  (25)

·         Vanda Druetta (Italy) – Analytic Sociodrama and Trauma: Images and Affects as Factors of Self-Care from a Jungian Perspective  (30)   

·         Pavel Kornienko (Russia) – Development of humanity in psychodramatic work with interpersonal relationship  (35)

·         Hande Karakılıç Üçer (Turkey), Candan Kaplan (Turkey) – The Archetype of Care: What Makes a Healer in Times of Global Challenge?  (30)   

13:00 – 14:45 Free time for Lunch
14:45 – 16:30

Workshops in parallel (maximum number of participants):

·         Iryna Baiguzina (Ukraine), Natalia Senkiv (Ukraine) – Authentic Dream Dance  (35)   

·         Marcello Paltrinieri (Italy), Marina Brinchi (Italy) – Teaching Psychodrama: Sociatric Action as a Bridge Between Communities  (25) 

·          Caterina di Chio (Italy) – PARTS OF ME INSIDE YOU

Touch and emotional connection as a tool for mutual recognition  (45)   

·         Luigi Dotti (Italy) – Take care of real groups with sociodrama and the development of relational spontaneity  (60)   

·         Michael Wieser (Austria) – The Art of Living in Peace (20) 

·         Sophia Symeonidou (Greece), Tamara Čavić-Đurić (Serbia) – Sociatry of Peace: Psychodrama Pathways to Social Participation  (20)  

·         Nilüfer Demirhan (Turkey), Margarida Belchior (Portugal) – Peace Building: Human Rights & Co-creation  (20)  

·         Michele Bromet – Camou (France), Claudia Nunes (France) – The Functions of the Double in Psychodrama Direction: Linking Individual Roles and Collective Action  (45) 

·         Péter Aszalós (Hungary) – Healing with the group – re-learning past experiences with here and now interactions  (20)  

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:15

2nd Lecture: “When the Bell Tolls…: The situation between Israel and Palestine as an icon of all humanity’s appeals to anyone who chooses to feel human. Two testimonies”.

Claudio Torrero (philosopher, activist, Buddhist monk) (Italy)

Giorgio Canarutto (activist di “Mai indifferenti – Voci ebraiche per la pace” (Never indifferent – Jewish Voices for Peace), member of the Jewish Community of Torino) (Italy)

18:15 – 20:00

Workshops in parallel (maximum number of participants):

·         Stephan Flegelskamp (Germany), Milena Mutafchieva (Bulgaria) – The Healing Play for the society. What we can learn from children  (50)   

·         Ursula Hauser (Switzerland/Costarica), Enas Jouda (Gaza/Palestine, connecting from Mauritania), Maja Hesse (Switzerland) – How to Integrate Gaza into the World? Using Sociodrama and Psychodrama Techniques  (45)  

·         Luciano Moura (Portugal) – The Social Within Us: Internal Psychodrama as a Sociatric Act  (30) 

·         Débora Moghilevsky de Penna (Argentina) – Fractal Memory: Exploring Patterns of Historical Repetition in Sociopsychodrama  (30)  

·         Luca Pinciaroli (Italy), Angela Sordano (Italy) – I am because we are “La “Restanza”: Places to repair, build and create  (25) 

·         Raul Vaimberg (Spain) – Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. Transformations in the psyche and in the therapeutic scene in the digital age  (50)   

·         Irene Henche (Spain) – The Queen Bee and the Anima Mundi: waking the bewitched Anima  (30)  

·         Hanife Ugur Kural, Itır Erkan, Gokhan Ozcan (they will direct in hybrid form from Turkey, assisted by a colleague in attendance) – Circles of Peace: Discovering Rumi Through Jungian Psychodrama From Archetype to Embodied Dialogue  (30)  

 

20:15 – 24:00

Social Dinner and Music

 

 

PROGRAM      Sunday, June 7th, 2026

09:00 – 10:00

Social Dreaming Matrix

Maurizio Gasseau (Italy), Jorge Burmeister Petullà (Spain/Switzerland)

10:15 – 12:00

Workshops in parallel (maximum number of participants):

·         Adriana Piterbarg (Argentina) – Infinity Mirror Groups. A new aproach to public Socio – Psychodramas  (50)  

·         Mirjana Stojanovska (North Macedonia) – Who Do We Become in a Wounded World? Psychodrama, Trauma, and Collective Care  (25) 

·         Roger Schaller (Switzerland) – Psychodrama with people marginalized by society  (50)  

·         Maurizio Gasseau (Italy) – The transformative wisdom of dreams: healing worlds, cultures and individuals in a time of conflicts and wars  (50) 

·         Inna Braneva (Bulgaria) – Finding Humanity  (25) 

·         Fabian Blobel (Germany), Galabina Tarashoeva (Bulgaria) – The group on stage: From ambiguity to tolerance  (40) 

·         Beppe Bertagna (Italy) – Biblical Psychodrama: Stronger than death, Love. Men and women faced with the choice to love  (25)  

·         Sarah Paulin (France), Florence Debord (France), Fabrice Rosina (France) – I am in pain for my world, let’s look after it together!  (25) 

12:00 – 13:30 Free time for Lunch
13:30 – 15:15

Workshops in parallel (maximum number of participants):

·         Marco Greco (Italy) – …But how much effort do we put into caring for society? A sociatrical act within a Psychodrama workshop  (55)  

·         Wilma Scategni (Italy) – 30 years FEPTO’s story… Dreams, images… fragments and memories taking care of humanity and its environment  (40)  

·         Nikos Takis (Greece) – Being Human as an Act of Resistance: Creative Roles and Connectedness in Times of Collective Despair and Regression  (30)

·         Davide Motta (Italy), Paolo Lanciani (Italy) – From Loser to Looser: Interbeing and Spontaneity in Action  (55) 

·         Yorgos Chaniotis (Greece) – World and Courage  (20)

·         Tetiana Komar (Ukraine), Olha Serha (Ukraine) – Modern Toloka – building a Shared Home  (20) 

·         Cristina Hockl (Germany) – Community healing – Turning to Ancestors for guidance using the Transgenerational Map  (25) 

·         Magdalene Jeyarathnam (India) – Devas (Gods) and Asuras (Demons): Roles in the Human Collective  (25)  

·         Mona Rakhawy (she will direct in hybrid form from Egypt, assisted by a colleague in attendance) – Revisiting the World in the Here-and-Now: Culture, Spontaneity and Responsibility  (20) 

 

15:30 – 16:00

Closure FEPTO Conference in Plenary

Marco Greco (Italy), Maurizio Gasseau (Italy)

16:00 – 17:30 Opening of the Annual Meeting and encounter between Conference and Annual Meeting participants
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee Break