FEPTO Conference

Program

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

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 Halima (DWB – Doctors Without Borders) (Palestine) –

Psychodrama in Collective trauma

 

19:00 – 20:30  Dinner

 

20:30               MOMU Theatre (Moreno Museum Theatre): “A Hat for Moreno”

 

Saturday, June 6th, 2025

 

09:00 – 10:45 Workshops in parallel

 

  • 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

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

Theatre

  • Eero Julkunen (Finland) – The Art of Living as a Pessimist: is there Hope in the

World without Hope?

  • Judith Teszary (Hungary/Sweden) – How to keep the mental Health during

Wartime?

  • Gabriella Nicotra (Italy) – Groups with parents as a clinical/educational

intervention aimed at adolescents

  • Vladimir Milosevic (Serbia/Slovenia) – Psychodrama Group as a Creative

Context in a Process of Change in Work with a Group of Prisoners

  • Gabor Pinter (Hungary) – Monodrama Psychotherapy with the Involvement of an

       Assistant, Based on the new Theory of Method – Specific Healing Factors

  • Deniz Altinay (Turkey) – Identifying the Group’s Collective Representation in

Sociodrama as a Sociatric Intervention

 

10:45 – 11:15  Coffee Break

 

11:15 – 13:00  Workshops in parallel

 

  • Marcia Karp (UK) – “OUCH, MY FAMILY” – Ancestor Syndrome & Genosociogram

in Action

  • Agnes Dudler (Germany) – Cohesion and peace – so simple and yet so difficult
  • Rejo Kauppila (Finland) – Using playing to foster attachment – Evidence Based

Trauma Stabilisation (EBTS) for families

  • Leandra Perrotta (Italy/Norway) – Embodied Creativity for a Fragmented World:

Psychodrama and Dance Therapy in Sociatric Action

  • Endel Hango (Estonia) – Nudging Collective Intelligence: Individual Roles in

Sociatric  Action

  • Vanda Druetta (Italy) – Analytic Sociodrama and Trauma: Images and Affects as

Factors of Self-Care from a Jungian Perspective

  • Pavel Kornienko (Russia) – Development of humanity in psychodramatic work

with interpersonal relationship

  • Hande Karakılıç Üçer (Turkey) – The Archetype of Care: What Makes a Healer in

Times of Global Challenge?

 

13:00 – 14:45  Lunch Break

 

14:45 – 16:30  Workshops in parallel

  • Iryna Baiguzina (Ukraine), Natalia Senkiv (Ukraine) – Authentic Dream Dance
  • Marcello Paltrinieri, Marina Brinchi (Italy) – Teaching Psychodrama: Sociatric

Action as a Bridge Between Communities

  • Melinda Ashley Meyer (Norway) – Trauma, Connection and the Group Body: A   

    Sociodrama of Moving from Me to We

  • Luigi Dotti (Italy) – Take care of real groups with sociodrama and the development

of relational spontaneity

  • Michael Wieser (Austria) – The Art of Living in Peace
  • Sophia Simeonedou (Greece), Tamara Cavic (Serbia) – Sociatry of Peace:

Psychodrama Pathways to Social Participation

  • Nilufer Darmian (Turkey), Margarida Belchior (Portugal) – Peace Building: Human

Rights & Co-creation

  • Michele Bromet – Camou (France), Claudia Nunes (France) – The Functions of the

Double in Psychodrama Direction: Linking Individual Roles and Collective Action

 

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, member of the Jewish Community of Torino) (Italy)

 

18:15 – 20:00 Workshops in parallel

  • Stephan Flegelskamp (Germany), Milena Mutafchieva (Bulgaria) – The Healing Play

for the society. What we can learn from children

  • Ursula Hauser (Switzerland/Costarica), Enas Jouda (Gaza), Maja Hesse (Switzerland)

– How to Integrate Gaza into the World? Using Sociodrama and Psychodrama

Techniques

  • Luciano Moura (Portugal) – The Social Within Us: Internal Psychodrama as a

Sociatric Act

  • Débora Moghilevsky de Penna (Argentina) – Fractal Memory: Exploring Patterns of

Historical Repetition in Sociopsychodrama

  • Luca Pinciaroli (Italy), Angela Sordano (Italy) – I am because we are “La “Restanza”:

Places to repair, build and create

  • Hanife Ugur Kural (Turkey), Itır Erkan (Turkey), Gökhan Özcan (Turkey) – Circles of

Peace: Discovering Rumi Through Jungian Psychodrama From Archetype to

Embodied Dialogue

  • Raul Vaimberg (Spain) – Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. Transformations

in the psyche and in the therapeutic scene in the digital age

  • Irene Henche (Spain) – The Queen Bee and the Anima Mundi: waking the

bewitched Anima

 

20:15 – 24:00 Social Dinner and Music

 

Sunday, June 7th 2026

 

09:00 –  10:00 Maurizio Gasseau (Italy) and Jorge Burmeister Petullà (Spain/Switzerland) – Social

Dreaming Matrix

 

10:15 – 12:00 Workshops in parallel

  • Adriana Piterbarg (Argentina) – Infinity Mirror Groups. A new aproach to public

Socio – Psychodramas

  • Mirjana Stojanovska (North Macedonia) – Who Do We Become in a Wounded

World? Psychodrama, Trauma, and Collective Care

  • Roger Schaller (Switzerland) – Psychodrama with people marginalized by society
  • Simona Vlad (Romania) – From Personal Pain to the Common Good: a Sociatric

Journey

  • Inna Braneva (Bulgaria) – Finding Humanity
  • Fabian Blobel (Germany), Galabina Tarashoeva (Bulgaria) – The group on stage:

From ambiguity to tolerance

  • Beppe Bertagna (Italy) – Biblical Psychodrama: Stronger than death, Love. Men and

women faced with the choice to love

  • Sarah Paulin (France), Florence Debord (France), Fabrice Rosina (France) – I am in

pain for my world, let’s look after it together!

 

12:00 – 13:30  Lunch free time

 

13:30 – 15:15  Workshops in parallel

  • Marco Greco (Italy) – …But how much effort do we put into caring for society? A

sociatrical act within a Psychodrama workshop

  • Wilma Scategni (Italy)  – 30 years FEPTO’s story….. Dreams, images.… fragments

and memories taking care of humanity and its environment

  • Nikos Takis (Greece) – Being Human as an Act of Resistance: Creative Roles and

Connectedness in Times of Collective Despair and Regression

  • Paolo Lanciani (Italy), Davide Motta (Italy) – From Loser to Looser: Interbeing and

Spontaneity in Action

  • Mona Rakhawy (Egypt) – Revisiting the World in the Here-and-Now: Culture,

Spontaneity and Responsibility in Yehia Rakhawy’s Approach to Groups

  • Yorgos Chaniotis (Greece) – World and Courage
  • Tatiana Komar (Ukraine), Olya Serga (Ukraine) – Modern Toloka — building a Shared

Home

  • Cristina Hockl (Romania) – Community healing – Turning to Ancestors for guidance

using the Transgenerational Map

 

15.15 – 16.00 Closure FEPTO Conference in Plenary Marco Greco (Italy) Maurizio Gasseau (Italy)

 

16.00 – 17.30 Opening of the Annual Meeting, Warm up

 

17.30 –  18.00 Coffe Break