Following their “appetizer” session in Sapporo — On the Frontlines of Trauma: Dreams, Symbols and Transcultural Wisdom — they return with a deeper and more expansive workshop.

Their upcoming program, Healing in Wartime: Dreams, Symbols and Transcultural Wisdom, offers an opportunity to explore how symbolic processes and collective dreaming can support healing in the midst of war. Abstract: This 2 hour workshop begins with a tribute to Dr Earl Hopper for his immense contribution to the understanding of the social unconscious, and mentions other important contributions as well as wisdom traditions that have helped shape the inquiry into the deeply human need to symbolize and dream together in the journey of healing. After the initial theoretical frame is established, Jorge and Gaea will co-facilitate the Large Group as an open space for reflection, sharing and healing in war time. It will be delivered in English and translated into Ukrainian.

Target Audience: IAGP professionals from the Transcultural, Analytic Group, Expressive Arts and Psychodrama Sections as well as Education, SCT, Research Committees – IAGP members who may not have seen them before, and perhaps who are also Ukrainian speakers or provide support in Ukraine.

 

When: December 13, 2025

Time: 8 am PT, 11 am ET, 5 pm CET, 6 pm Kyiv

Presenters: 

Dr Jorge Burmeister: Medicine/Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, Granada. Trainer Psychodrama, CBT, Analytic Psychology Jung, Analytic Family therapy, Hypno Therapy. Founding member (FEPTO). Ex President IAGP. Lecturer Universities. Founder Academy for Integrative Psychotherapy. Founder Centre “Jakob  and Zerka  Moreno”, Granada. Dean “International Summer Academy”, Granada. Facilitator MsF (Doctors without Borders). First recipient of the International Yaacov Naor Award for Peace and Intercultural Dialogue (IAGP).

Dr Gaea Logan: British-American relational psychoanalyst, group therapist

clinical supervisor, and writer. She serves as the Executive Director and lead faculty of the International Institute for Trauma Studies (IITS) in Ukraine. She is currently a member of the Group Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and in training to become a training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. Dr Logan is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association; an alumna of the Harvard Refugee Trauma/ Global Mental Health Program and a recipient of several awards in recognition of clinical excellence, visionary leadership, social responsibility and the IAGP Yaacov Naor Ward for Peace and Dialogue.