Childhood, Trauma and Emotion: Ways Towards Healing 14-17 October 2004

Summary: The symposium will focus on the following
issues: emotion, their physical, cognitive and
social character - crisis intervention and long
term effect of trauma - the childs systems
(family, society, politics) - childrens rights – the
body of the child.

For information om lectures, workshops and speakers, contact
[email protected] or [email protected].

Registration:
Gerda Sutterlüty, Tourism Office A - 6867 Schwarzenberg, Hof
454. Tel: + 43 5512 3570; Email: [email protected]
Deadline: 15 september 2004

PROGRAMME:

- Thursday, 14th of October 2004: Childhood, Trauma,
Emotions, Ways Towards Healing II

Topics: Opening - On the circular interactions between emotion,
cognition and behaviour in social processes

19.30 – 20.00: Opening of the symposium
Georg Lennkh gives an overview of his experience as the head of
the Austrian Development Agency and will be welcoming as well
Olara Otunnu, UN Special Secretary of Children and Armed
Conflict.

20.00 – 22.00: Fractal structure of mental and social processes:
the hypothesis of affect logic.
Affective-Cognitive Interactions According to the Concept of
Fractal Affect-Logic. The theory of fractal affect-logic claims that
there are obligatory circular interactions between emotion and
cognition (or feeling and thinking, affectivity and logic) in all
mental phenomena, on the basis of clear definitions of both. It
postulates that all cognitive ob-jects are systematically "colored"
by specific affective connotations which, eventually, have multiple
dynamic consequences. Basic affective states mobilise and
organise cognitive activities including thinking in affect-specific
ways. Luc Ciompi (Bern/CH)

- Friday, 15th of October 2004: Childhood, Trauma,
Emotion, Ways towards Healing II

Issues: emotional learning of the child crisis intervention - from
crisis intervention to long term support - community based work,
a support for children after traumatic experience.

9.00 – 9.40: Emotional Learning in Early Childhood and the
influence of trauma and deprivation on emotional, cognitive and
social structures of the child. A basis for crisis intervention
Franz Resch (Heidelberg/D)

9.50 – 10.30: From Crisis Intervention to Long Term Care
experiences from more than 20 years of work with children
who have suffered from trauma. Gertrude Bogyi (Wien/A)

10.45 – 11.30: Crisis Intervention For Children In Different
Cultural Contexts. Hubertus Adam (Hamburg/D), Fakhri Khalik
(Darmstadt/Irak).

11.45 – 12.30: Supporting Children After Man Made Desaster –
ressources and limitations of the community. Jack Saul (New
York/USA).

Lunch break

2.30 – 5.30pm: workshops

Workshop in the great plenary, Intervision of examples of
therapy for children, presented by Gertrude Bogyi (Austrian child)
and Sheila Melzak (refugee child), intervision by Hubertus Adam,
Luc Ciompi, Christoph Hackspiel, Jack Saul.

Evening break

8.00 – 10.00pm: Reflection on the day focussing on ways that
help overcoming long term consequences of trauma in societies.
Hubertus Adam, Gertrude Bogyi, Luc Ciompi, Fakhri Khalik,
Sheila Melzak, Olara Otunnu, Peter Hain, Franz Resch, Jack Saul

- Saturday, 16th of October 2004: Childhood, Trauma and
Emotion, Ways Towards Healing II

Issues: the child in its systems - childrens rights - relationship –
family – society

9.00 – 9.40: MenschenKinderRechte
Children: from "Human Becoming"“ to "Human Beings", a learning
process in society. Eugeen Verhellen (Wien/A).

9.50 – 10.30: International Dimension of Childrens Rights.
Olara Otunnu (New York/UNO).

10.45 – 11.30: Social Structures and Human Relations of
Young People - an intercultural comparison. Karl Otto Hondrich
(Frankfurt/D).

11.30 – 12.00: Children in Complex Family Systems. Reinhard
Sieder (Wien/A).

Lunch break

2.30 – 5.30pm: workshops

6.00 – 6.30pm: plenary, exchange on the day.

Evening break

8.00 – 9.30pm: A letter to the stars and songs for the earth
adolescents and participants of the symposium are chanting with
Ida Kelarova (Roma musician from Slowakia).

- Sunday, 17th of October 2004: childhood, trauma and
emotion, ways towards healing II

Issues: physical experiences, the childs body - body therapy with
children - traces of remembrance: childhood experience in the
body.

9.00 – 9.45: the body: bearer of the remembrance and source of
healing. Miriam V. Spiegel (CH)

10.00 - 10.45: Body movement and dance – healing rituals
in different cultures. Ursel Burek (D).

11.00 – 11.30: final session. Ida Kelarova .

NB: All German lectures are simultaneaously translated into
English.Owner: Welt der Kinder

Web: 
http://www.weltderkinder.at

Countries

Please note that these reports are hosted by CRIN as a resource for Child Rights campaigners, researchers and other interested parties. Unless otherwise stated, they are not the work of CRIN and their inclusion in our database does not necessarily signify endorsement or agreement with their content by CRIN.