FEPTO TASK FORCE FOR PEACE BUILDING AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION CONFERENCE

AOSTA 28 – 29 JUNE 2025

CREATING SPACES FOR PEACE ANDCARE IN GROUPS IN TIMES OF WARS AND VIOLENCE

The participation is free of charge. For registration please fulfill the registration form on
www.univda.it
Information mail: eventi@univda.it, phone Maurizio Gasseau +393482719909

University of Valle d’Aosta, New University Campus, Via Monte Vodice, Aosta

Saturday 28 June – Hybrid Plenary


9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome from the authorities: Mayor of Aosta, Department of SHS, Order of Psychologists, IPAP, FEPTO, AMP, AIPSIM
10:00 Maurizio Gasseau – The work of the Task Force for Peace Building and Conflict Transformation over the last 20 years.
10:45 Sophia Seminoudis (Greece) – Society and collective trauma: supporting refugee workers through psychodrama and sociodrama alongside human rights education.
11:00 Judith Teszary (Hungary/Sweden) – War is the only reality: support groups with Ukrainians in times of war.
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 Mona Rakhawy – From sibling rivalry to wars: the role of group work and group psychotherapy
12:20 Martin Dodman (Italy) – Language, technology, war, peace
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 17:00 Parallel Workshops


1. Tamara Cavic – What am I fighting for? Transgenerational impact on group conflicts
2. Jorg Burmeister Petrullá – The wounds of violence: healing symbols and trans-cultural wisdom
3. Marina Brinchi, Nilufer Demirhan – War stories: what legacy was left to me
4. Reijo Kauppila – Evidence-based trauma stabilisation (EBTS) for families: creating safe space for attachment between parents and children with traumatic experiences

17:00 – 18:30 Large group in plenary

Sunday 29 June – Hybrid Plenary


9:00 – 10:00 Maurizio Gasseau – Social Dreaming Matrix
10:10 Jorge Burmeister Petrullá – On the front line of trauma – 6 years of group work with Doctors Without Borders
10:50 Ursula Hauser – The work in Gaza and Palestine of Psychodrama without Borders
11:15 Agnes Dudler – Group therapy in the ongoing occupation: psychodrama experiences in Gaza from 2012 to 2018
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 Zahed Abdolahi (Iran) – Promoting training in group psychotherapy in Iran: challenges, adaptations and future directions
12:30 Reijo Kauppila – Support for families in traumatic experiences: evidence-based trauma stabilisation programme (EBTS)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 Parallel Workshops


1. Eva Fahlstrom (Sweden), Gabriella Nicotra – Conflict in restorative justice
2. Agnes Dudler (Germany) – Group therapy in the ongoing occupation: psychodrama experiences in Gaza from 2012 to 2018
3. Judith Teszary – Sociodrama
4. Maurizio Gasseau – The transformative wisdom of dreams: healing worlds, cultures and victims of collective trauma in times of wars and violence

16:30 – 17:15 Closing