Friday, 29.09.2023:

• 15:00 – 16:30 Registration
• 17:00 – 17:30 Welcoming and Warm-Up: Milena Mutafchieva and Stefan Flegelskamp
• 17:30 – 19:00 Keynote Speaker 1: Alfons Aichinger: “The Power of Play”

Saturday, 30.09.2023:

• 09:00 – 10:30 Keynote Speaker 2: Bogdan Draganski:  “Imaging Neuroscience to Study Learning and Brain Plasticity“
• 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00 – 13:00 Workshops I
  • Fabian Blobel: “Sturm und Drang” – The Adolescent Brain in the Group Matrix”
  • Kalina Tosheva & Daniela Tahirova: “Learning New Roles and Strategies for Children in Situation of Covert Emotional Incest”
  • Enas Jouda & Bushra Abu Lila: “How Children Play in Gaza” 
  • Kristina Gotseva-Balgaranova: “Psychodrama and Executive Functioning in Children – The Effect of a Structured One-week Program” 
  • Kristina Urbanc: “One Day at School”
• 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
• 14:30 – 16:30 Workshops II
  • Roger Schaller: “Playing with the Moral Brain” 
  • Lyuba Pencheva & Vasilena Vasileva: “Special Play Needs” 
  • Daniela Tahirova & Eva Miceva: “Role Playing – An Opportunity or Cognitive Development” 
  • Dagmar Mingers & Heidi Schaul: “What Stories Tell Us”
  • Emőke Takács & Judit Tóth-Dénes: “Houses of Encounters – Psycho-sociodrama with Children, with their Parents, and their Helpers of Family Foster Care Homes”
• 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
• 17:00 – 19:00 Workshops III
  • Craig Stevens: “Working with Resistant Adolescents”
  • Radostina Minina: “Interdisciplinary Education Project for Teaching Philosophy and Civic Education at School Using Psychodrama and Role Plays”
  • Reijo Kauppila: “Serious Brain – Playing with Adults”
  • Ahmad Sheikhani: “Child-Centered Therapy for Children Who Have Experienced War Conditions: A Case-Based Workshop” – CANCELLED
  • Annamaria Szentes: “Equine Assisted Psychodrama Group for Children with Cancer” –  CANCELLED
• 20:00 Social Event with Music And Drinks 

Sunday, 01.10.2023:

• 09:00 – 11:00 Workshops IV
  • Bogdan Draganski: “The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy – The Brain Imaging Point of View” 
  • Moira Verhofstadt & Bart Haes: “Decisions: How to Put The Good Lives Model Into Action with Psychodrama Techniques” 
  • Csilla Nemeth & Beáta H. Pozsár: “Neurodiversity in Psychodrama with Children and Youth”
  • Krasimira Ilieva: “The ‘Two Storeys’ Brain of Children – How Psychodrama with Children Can be Used to Access the ‘Two Storeys’ of the Brain of Children” 
• 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
• 11:30 – 13:00 Plenary Session – Closure

The full, detailed conference program can be found under “Workshops”