Education Committee

• Co-chairs: Maurizio Gasseau and Hande Karakılıç Üçer.

• Consultant: Mona Rakhawy
• Members: Maite Pi, Maria van Noort, Marcia Honig, Adriana Piterbarg, Nilufer Demirhann , Kostantinos Liolios, Adrian Hofstede and Oxana Titova

MISSION: A hub for enhancing worldwide training and education in group psychotherapy and group processes.

VISION: Providing a diversity of high standard programs and offering consultations in the field of training and education in group psychotherapy and group processes within an international frame that tackles the areas that need to enhance the field of group work.

OBJECTIVES

To accomplish IAGP mission, the EC objectives include the following:

• Sponsoring projects and workshops in countries or areas where educational facilities and training in group psychotherapy and group processes are underprovided or lacking.
• Developing IAGP training and educational programs in collaboration with IAGP Sections, Task Forces and Committees.
• Designing, coordinating and planning educational curricula, projects, with respect to clinical practice, consultancy, education, scientific studies and socio-cultural contexts.
• Cross-fertilizing the different educational activities, events, and conferences that IAGP organizes.
• Developing workshops and projects in co-operation with local representing member in different regions of the world.
• Appointing the staff team for each project run by or sponsored by IAGP.
• Adapting in-person and online work to target specific groups of beneficiaries, coherently with their educational needs, and within the competences and scopes of the IAGP.
• Follow-up and quality assurance of the different EC projects.
• Establishing IAGP community of distinguished international trainers.

The IAGP Training and educational activities include the following:

1. Intervision/Peer supervision
2. Training and educational projects/programs
3. The IAGP Social Dreaming Matrix
4. IAGP webinars
5. Certified IAGP trainers

IAGP members and non-members who practice and/or study group psychotherapy or group processes are welcomed to participate.

Being member of one of the intervision groups will offer an opportunity of training that takes place directly from the process of mutual supervision. IAGP community is characterized by the prosperous intercultural connection, which adds to the benefits of participating in the intervision groups. Intervision group members will get the following opportunities:

• Professional inspiration and emotional support.
• Adding to the knowledge about group psychotherapy and group processes.
• Learning from each other’s personal styles.
• Discovering new techniques and their applications.
• Sharing ways to handle personal and group crises.
• Getting the benefits of the togetherness experience.
• Balancing personal and professional existence.
• Finding space for containment of one’s feelings.
• Accepting individual, as well as intercultural differences.
• Processing the group dynamic of the supervision process.

• Interested members can work on initiating intervision groups.
• Some meetings can be run through Zoom or any other online platforms. However, “face to face” intervision/peer supervision group meetings can always be a possibility.
• If you are interested to join one of the ongoing intervision groups, you can directly contact the coordinator
• Individuals who create a new Intervision Group must be IAGP members with good experience in group psychotherapy, group supervision and group process.
• Members interested in creating a group in their region are invited to contact Maurizio Gasseau ([email protected]), Mona Rakhawy ([email protected]) and Maria van Noort [email protected]

For a successful intervision group experience, kindly consider the following:

• Sessions are to be hold in a fixed time, with a clear schedule.
• Sessions can be monthly, bimonthly, every three months or otherwise, depending on the coordinator and the group members.
• Members need to regularly attend the groups.
• Active participation is expected from all members along the group sessions.
• In each session, a member is supposed to present a clinical case, a situation or a challenge encountered at his group work. The presentation can be done through narration, actions, or otherwise. Other members can then share their own experiences, thoughts, insights, or practical recommendations. Members need to know that they may work on a personal experience, which may invite growth on personal and professional levels.

For inquiries or more information, please contact

Maurizio Gasseau [email protected]

Mona Rakhawy [email protected]

Maria van Noort [email protected]

IAGP TRANSCULTURAL INTERVISION / PEER SUPERVISION ONLINE PROJECT
Coordinators
– Maurizio Gasseau (Italy)           [email protected]

Mona Rakhawy (Egypt)           [email protected]

 Maria van Noort (The Netherlands)  [email protected]                            

Coordinators of Different IAGP Transcultural Intervision /Peer Supervision Online Groups

 Rebecca Walter (USA) – Peer supervision group for Psychodrama for Children [email protected]

Kate Hudgins (USA) – Peer supervision To dream again after trauma? Psychodrama and trauma [email protected]

Maria van Noort (Netherland) – Intervision group TIE Transcultural lntervision 2 [email protected]

Pnina de Hartog, Sofia Simeonidou – Transcultural intervision group on Collective trauma [email protected] [email protected]

Adriana Piterbarg (Argentina) – Intervision group Transcultural psychotherapy (spanish speaking) [email protected]

The EC provides training and educational projects from different therapeutic approaches. Our teaching faculty are culturally sensitive, high standards professional, with excellent expertise in the field of the educational project/program. Upon request, IAGP is willing to offer projects to different regions in the world.

The following are the IAGP available programs:

• Introduction to group psychotherapy and group process
• Group dynamics and group processes
• Group leadership skills
• Introduction to group analysis
• Introduction to psychodrama
• Introduction to family therapy
• Introduction to organizational consultancy
• Social and collective trauma

The programs can be:

1. Hybrid programs: on-site and online
2. Onsite (in person)
3. Online

Interested individual and affiliate members, as well as non-IAGP members are invited to apply for specific educational projects. Priority is given to individual and organizational requests from countries where group psychotherapy and group processes are underdeveloped.

• To apply for IAGP training and educational program/project, fill in this form
• Educational projects will be subject to evaluation from the part of the participants, the trainers and the Education Committee.

The following is a briefing about both ongoing and past projects in the last 20 years.

Ongoing Projects

1. India: The second Shiva Shakti on Gender Violence is the IAGP new psychodrama training project. The project has been recently created in collaboration with the IAGP Consultative Assembly for Organizational Affiliates (CAOA) and three IAGP affiliate organizations (the Indian Psychodrama Association, the Mediterranean Association of Psychodrama, and Rakhawy Institute for Training and Research).
2. Tunisia: The second IAGP training project in Tunisia is being planned in collaboration with Sakina Institute, a Tunisian IAGP affiliate organization.

• Iran: The first project was offered from February to July 2024. It was totally conducted online. It included an introductory course to Group analysis, Psychodrama, Social Dreaming Matrix and Family therapy.

The second training program in Iran has begun in October 2024.

• Ramallah: Currently a psychodrama training is being organized but has had to be put on hold in consideration with the recent the war and the accompanying challenging situation in the region.

1. IAGP previous projects
   1. Ramallah: The previous IAGP projects in Ramallah included and in person project (2017 – 2021) and an online one (2020 – 2022). Both programs included training in psychodrama and group analysis.
   2. Egypt: In 2012, IAGP offered an introductory training in group psychotherapy and group processes.
   3. Tunisia (2019 – 2021): IAGP offered an introductory training in group psychotherapy and group processes, integrating group analysis and psychodrama.
   4. India: (2020): The first India project was offered in 2019 – 2020. It included an introduction to group psychotherapy, group analysis and psychodrama.

Jung understood that dreams “prepare, announce or warn of certain situations, often long before they become reality.” In. 1982, the Social Dreaming Matrix (SDM) was created by Gordon Lawrence, a Jungian analyst, in 1982 at the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations in London.

When the pandemic broke out at the beginning of 2020 with all colleagues forced to lock down, in March 2020, Maurizio Gasseau decided to invite three hundred colleagues enrolled in the IAGP and other affiliate organizations to the first online IAGP Social Dreaming Matrix. The aim was to facilitate a sharing of dreams and provide mutual support at the beginning of the pandemic, aware that dreams can accompany the soul of dreamers and develop a natural process of individual and collective care. More than 311 colleagues from 46 different countries joined the IAGP Social Dreaming Matrix and shared more than 2954 dreams in the first 219 sessions.

In the SDM, the conductor’s task is to read the group collective unconscious, as well as the social unconscious. He builds a sort of fil rouge that unites dreams and connections to social, political, and other events present in the organization and in the culture in which the matrix is ​​activated, and the group has expressed. Free associations make sense of the contents of the dream.

1. Share their dreams freely.
2. Associate freely with dreams and thus explore their possible meanings.
3. Avoid narrating free associations to associations. By doing so, as Jung argued, we move away from the dream and its meaning, allowing us to the limit to explore the chains of free associations and associated complexes.
4. Not to think, reflect, or interpret. Only the matrix facilitator is authorized to connect the red thread of dreams by highlighting the transformations of the contents in the matrix process of the SDM. He amplifies the contents of dreams by using dreams as the milestones of the work.

The International IAGP Social Dreaming Matrix found that dreams and free associations to dreams facilitated dialogue between colleagues, even those from nations at war, and group cohesion.

Professionals and students are invited to join to IAGP Social Dreaming Matrix every Tuesday, at 9.00 am Central European Time, until 10.00 am, using the following zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86346666469?pwd=Z0NoQkl6dzlST2tTNmtHamsxdUt5dz09

Meeting ID: 863 4666 6469
Passcode: 682288

For more information, kindly join https://www.iagp.com/events/webinar-committee/. Email address for any questions about IAGP online webinars or workshops [email protected]

IAGP welcomes competent professionals in group psychotherapy and group processes, who are willing to join the international trainers’ community and contribute to the IAGP’s mission on a volunteer level

Currently, IAGP has 13 certified international trainers from 12 countries.

List of the certified IAGP trainers and their countries:

CERTIFIED IAGP INTERNATIONAL TRAINERS:
Fabian Blobel – Switzerland
Jorge Burmeister – Spain/Switzerland
Magdalene Jeyarathnam – India
Thor Kristian – Norway
Maria Antonieta Pezo,
Adriana Piterbarg – Argentina
Yafi Shpirer – Israel
Cristina Martinez Taboada – Spain
Mona Rakhawy – Egypt
Maurizio Gasseau – Italy
Galabina Tharashoeva – Bulgaria
Manuela Maciel – Portugal

Eva Fahlstrom Borg – Sweden

IAGP TRAINERS IN PREVIOUS PROJECTS
Egypt
Catherine Mela – Greece
Ivan Urlic – Croatia
Maurizio Gasseau – Italy
Gregorium Armananzas – Spain
Jorge Burmeister – Spain/Switzerland

Ramallah
Elisabeth Roth
Ursula Hauser – Switzerland/Costa Rica
Anne Lindhardt – Denmark
Eva Fahlstrom Borg – Sweden
Natacha Navarro -Spain
Agnes Dudler – Germany
Thor Cristian Island – Norway
Manuela Maciel – Portugal
Maurizio Gasseau – Italy

India
Cristina Martinez Taboada – Spain
Eva Fahlstrom Borg – Sweden
Jorge Burmeister – Spain/Switzerland
Uri Levin – Israel

Tunisia
Mona Rakhawy
Gerda Winter – Denmark
Nevsat Uctum – Turkey
Gregorio Armananzas – Spain
Nikos Takis – Greece
Anne Lindhardt – Denmark

Iran
Judith Teszary – Hungary/Sweden
Cristina Martinez Taboada – Spain
Maurizio Gasseau – Italy
Kostantinos Liolios – Greece
Jacob Gershoni – USA
Maria van Noort – The Netherlands
Carlos Raimundo – Argentina/Australia
Marina Brinchi – Italy

1. Being an IAGP member.
2. High level of competence in practicing group psychotherapy and group processes.
3. High level of competence in training in group psychotherapy and group processes.
4. Speaking more than one language.
5. Multi-cultural experience of practicing group psychotherapy and group processes.
6. Multi-cultural experience of training on group psychotherapy and group processes.

To apply for IAGP trainer certification, kindly follow this link
https://www.iagp.com/iagp-trainers-application-form/