09:00-10:00Registration

10:00-11:45 Opening Speeches Opening officials

Charles CassarThe politics of psychotherapy

11:45-12:00 Break

12:00-13:30 Key note speakers

Nada Pop Jordanova Where psychotherapy meets neuroscienceDubravka Kocijan HercigonjaThe importance and challenges in psychotherapeutic work with children and adolescentsZnacaj i teskoce u psihoterapiskom radu sa decom i adolescentima

Mira KlarinWhat the gestalt therapist should know about the principals of developmental growth seen through the life span paradigm Što geštalt terapeut treba znati o zakonitostima cjeloživotnog razvoja

Sandro SpiteriThe impact of Networked Quality Assuranceon psychotherapy training

13:30-15:00 Lunch

Anthony CamilleriThe Perception of Intimacy amongst Gestalt Psychotherapists - A Qualitative Research.

Caroline VassalloSee Me Through My Art

Gillian PillowHow attachment wounds in infancy affect contact functions disturbances in adolescence. A Gestalt perspective

Elena BorgShow me another way How anger is involved in the process of childhood trauma later elaboration in adolescence?

Violetta van VlietGestalt psychotherapist – professional identity formation through contact with one’s inside and outside world

18:30-18:45 Break

16:30-17:00 Coffe Break

17:00-18:30 Oral Presentations

Paul FormosaHealing: Two Paths One Journey. Meeting the Spiritual in Gestalt and Salesian Approaches to Presence

18:45-20:15 Oral presentations

Rose GaleaGestalt Reminiscence Group Therapy for persons suffering from Dementia - Reflections upon a forgotten group

Mikela GonziThe experience of caregivers' participation in gestalt remiscence group therapy sessions: reflections on connection, growth and development

Audrey AgiusThe therapeutic benefits of care-work interactions: how do Social Support Workers perceive the impact of their role on children’s development and resilience

Catthy PericCultivating and Nurturing Resilience: Understanding and Articulating the Gestalt Perspective and Approach

15:00-16:30 Oral Presentations Falzone Rose The Power of Presence: Experiences from therapy with a client suffering from a neurological condition

David ParnisThe matryoshka dolls symbol as a metaphor in psychotherapy

Maria Axiak RosalbaThe Experience of Aggression in Adolescence

Romina BaldwinScar Tissue: Addiction as Trauma's Manifestation - A Gestalt Approach

Catya CaruanaReflections of victims of crime

Therese BugeaSpirituality as experienced by Maltese Gestalt psychotherapists: An exploratory study

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:30Workshop Bertam MuellerHow to become and live as a multiple personality Workshopwith multiple authenticities

18:30-18:45 Break

18:45-20:15 Workshop

Margareta Mesic/Alan Medic On becoming a good psychotherapist; how good do we have to be?

16:30-17:00 Coffe Break

17:00-18:30Workshop Mirjana Jovanovska Stojanovska I am a Psychotherapist - want to be a Psychotherapist

21:00

SOCIAL ACTIVITIESOPENING COCKTAILMKC Club RestaurantKej Dimitar Vlahov 15, 1000 Skopjet

15:00-16:30Workshop

Dragana Ilic/Marija Stefanovic Narcissism and shame of the therapist in couples therapyNarcizam i stid terapeuta u radu sa parom

16:30-17:00 Coffe Break

17:00-18:30Workshop

Olivera Cirkovic Gestalt psychotherapist should take place as significant support to regular medical procedures

18:30-18:45Break

18:45-20:15Workshop Pavlina Mihajlovska/Marija Stojkoska Vasilevska Becoming a group psychotherapist - The benefits of being a part of a psychotherapy group

18:30-20:00 Poster presentations

Todorovic Bojana Subjective experience of the Relational field

Ilic DraganaRecognition of shame in partner relationship

Opacic SnezanaShame in training for gestalt therapists - trainer's experience

Bratina SanjaExperience of becoming a Gestalt Psychotherapist and developing psychotherapeutic competencies

Petrovic JelenaTranspersonal relationship in Gestalt psychotherapy as a place of contactwith one’s own soul

Saljic Milenkovic BrankicaThe influence of humor on the psychotherapeutic relationship from the perspective of the psychotherapist. Sanela Selmanović PodrugSufism and Therapy Experiences Cirkovic OliveraAnother face of the therapy: A person between medical procedures and psychotherapy Bozovic LiljanaWhat do we mean when we talk about spirituality - discourse of gestalt therapy Jovanovic DusankaExperience of conflict in love relationships

Krivacic MarijaUnderstanding dynamic of infidelity in partner relationship

Stojanovic MiraGestalt therapist as cyber therapist Micovic NinaOn becoming an Adult

Tasevska Atina Supervision role in the process of becoming Gestalt psychotherapist Micovic TijanaWhen virtual invades reality: desensitized clients and the role of therapist

Vesic DunjaExistential loneliness in online world - connection without contact

Stefanovic FilipInfluence of mother’s psycho-physical condition on son wiith bipolar disorder

DAY 2Friday 13

OPEN FLOOR

15:00-16:30Workshop

Dubravka KocijanThe importance and challenges in psychotherapeutic work with children and adolescentsZnačaj i teškoće u psihoterapijskom radu s djecom i adolescentima

16:30-17:00 Break

17:00-18:30Workshop

Mira Klarin What the gestalt therapist should know about the principals of developmental growth seen through the life span paradigm Što geštalt terapeut treba znati o zakonitostima cjeloživotnog razvoja

18:30-18:45 Break

18:45-20:15Workshop

Radmila ZIvanovicSelf-care practices in becoming resilient psychotherapist