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This is the program and a list of guest speakers and description of topics. We will publish a detailed conference schedule with speaking times on February 16

The times indicated in the programme are in Central European Time GMT + 01:00

March 16 – program

Time (Central European Time: GMT + 01:00)	Speaker	Title
10:00 – 10:10	Karolina Ślifirska (Poland), John Gillespie (UK), Lena Grigorieva (Belarus)	Welcoming from organizers
10:10 – 10:40	Lena Grigorieva (Belarus)	Home with no roots: damaged dignity
10:40 – 11:35	Larysa Didkovska Anatolii Didkovskyi, authors of the manual on migration (Ukraine)	Psychology of migration as a separate unit in psychology science
11:35 – 12:20	Billy Desmond (Ireland)	Migrant as Exile: Moving across thresholds in search of ‘home’ in Gestalt group therapy
12:30 – 13:15	Dominika Plisiecka and Małgorzata Cynker (Poland)	Experiencing loss
13:15 – 14:00	Graham Colbourne (UK)	Migration: I – Them – We and Integrity
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 – 15:45	Lena Grigorieva (Belarus/Poland) and John Gillespie (UK)	Process group
15:45 – 16:30	Monika Gendek and Katarzyna Rejniak (Poland)	Tender voids – psychotherapy in a crisis of belonging
16:30 – 17:15	Dan Bloom (USA)	Blood on our Soil: Antaeus, the earth, and homeland
17:25 – 18:10	Silvia Tosi (Italy)	Stories in motion: Gestalt psychotherapy with migrant families
18:10 – 18:55	–	–
18:55 – 19:00	Lena Grigorieva (Belarus), Karolina Ślifirska (Poland), John Gillespie (UK)	Closing

March 23

Time/ CET	Speaker	Title
10:00 – 10:15	Karolina Ślifirska (Poland), Lena Grigorieva (Belarus)	Welcoming from organizers
10:15 – 11:00	Jean-Marie Robine (France)	Crisis and Creative Adjustment
11:00 – 11:45	Anika Wyciślik-Wilson	Cultural diversity in the therapist’s office
11:45 – 12:30	Tara Konrad (Ukraine)	Are there any resourses in trauma of generations, supportive to a migrant?
12:40 – 13:25	Marten Bos (Netherlands)	Home – where the heart is?
13:25 – 14:10	Dieter Bongers (Switzerland)	Being homeless
14:10 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 – 15:45	John Gillespie (UK), Lena Grigorieva (Belarus)	Process group
15:45 – 16:30	Rafael Cortina (USA)	Embarking on Wholeness: A Healing Therapeutic Relationship
16:30 – 17:15	Inna Didkovska
17:25 – 18:10	Veronika Zhemchuzhnikova (Kazakhstan)	The crisis of national and ethnic identity in the modern world. Being ethnic Russian borned and living in Kazakhstan
18:10 – 18:55	Lynne Jacobs (USA)	Finding dignity in the face of indignity
18:55 – 19:00	Lena Grigorieva (Belarus), Karolina Ślifirska (Poland), John Gillespie (UK)	Closing