European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy
International Academy of Mental Health and Integrative Psychotherapy
11th European Congress
6 - 8 October
Tbilisi 2023
Human Rights, Connections and Diversities
In the Field of Psychotherapy
The Abstract submission is open till 15th june 2023, please download the General Guidelines for Presenters
General Guidelines for PresentersRegistration for Congress is open
Go to RegistrationWhen registering for the congress, you have to choose the registration category that corresponds to your characteristics (for example EAP member, student, etc.). In case of taking advantage of preferential conditions, the participant is obliged to send the document confirming compliance with the category to the following email address: eaipcongress@mentalacademy.ge. Submission of inaccurate or incomplete data may be the basis for refusal of registration or cancellation of existing registration.
Events Calendar
28
May
Integration Days 2023 "Integrated Psychotherapy for an Integrated Society"
Saturday, May 28, at 18:00
31
May
"Personality typology and personal integration".
Wednesday, May 31, at 18:00
"Personal freedom and self integration".
Conference hall of the National Library (Tbilisi, Gudiashvili 7).
18
February
Presentation event of the 11th European Congress of Integrated Psychotherapy "Window of Opportunities in Georgian Psychotherapy".
Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 16:00
Exhibition hall of the National Library (Tbilisi, Gudiashvili 7)

welcome
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are honored and pleased to invite you to the 11th European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy congress, organized with the Georgian International Academy for Mental Health and Integrative Psychotherapy. It will be a hybrid congress in which those who choose to attend live can also look forward to experiencing the beauty of Georgia and meet in person. The main themes of social responsibility, connection and diversity play an essential role in our current world. As humans, we face incredible challenges in dealing with significant ecological change, the threat of war and pandemics. We live in a world where people are fleeing violence or financial inequality—a world of fear, loneliness and social exploitation. We, as psychotherapists, have an essential task in this. How can we deal with a social, political, environmental, cultural and economic context that influences our psychotherapeutic work? How can we recognize the impact of this different dimension on the client-therapist relationship, and how can we develop ideas about how to manage this and integrate them into our therapeutic practice? With these questions and many more, we anticipate a three-day congress in which we will seek for answers, introduce new approaches, facilitate panels that discuss similar topics from
different angles, offer experiential workshops to put theory directly into practice, etc. Our congress will open dialogue between different approaches, in which integration plays an important key role. This will be a congress with a focus on relational approaches, which see connection in diversity as one of their core values. The fact that we live in a changing world, although it brings uncertainty, also offers hope and creative possibilities. I am convinced it will be a fruitful congress, and I look forward to meeting you there.
Bruno van den Bosch
President of the European Association of Integrative Psychotherapy

Welcome
Dear friends, colleagues, my beloved people, I have had the pleasure and honor to be your host and to speak on behalf of the host country of the 11th International Congress of Integrative Psychotherapy. For us Georgians, as the old proverb says, “the guest is from God!”
Integrative psychotherapy as the dialogue platform between modalities in the beginning of the 21st century is ready to bear and process a very deep and multifaceted narrative: Human Rights, Connection and Diversity. It is symbolic that this is happening here, in Georgia, in a small, very beautiful country with an ancient culture that went through a lot of hardship throughout the centuries, in the country on the border of Eastern and Western civilizations which created its independent, unique pieces of art and left huge cultural heritage. Georgian civilization dates back 1.7 -1.8 mln years.
Connection and diversity between nations, languages, cultures, different scientific fields, valid psychotherapy approaches, different individuals, creates an universal unity and this ever-changing world requires quick and accurate response from us, and to realize this, the main human right: freedom of choice and individual will is required.
We stand on the guard of mental health, on the guard of the proper functioning of those basic systems which are responsible for performing the main role for prosperous human life. Each psychotherapy session is a mini life scenario, which prepares an individual to perform his own life scenario. How to conduct it, and what will help us to implement a successful practice? How is professional fairness integrated in the therapeutic process itself? This is just a small list of questions that we will try to answer during our congress.
My dear colleagues, at the verge of the dialogue of countries, in Georgia, we are waiting for you for an intermodal dialogue.
Maia Begashvili
Academic head of the International Academy of Mental Health and Integrative Psychotherapy, national delegate of the European Association for Psychotherapy in Georgia
Keynote speakers

HEWARD WILKINSON
Dr Heward Wilkinson (MSc Psychotherapy, Leeds, 1992; D. Psychotherapy, Middlesex, 2011; UKCP Reg. Integrative Psychotherapist from 1994; Fellow of UKCP and EAIP and Honorary Member, EAP)
has a literary, theological, and philosophical background before becoming a psychiatric nurse, nurse teacher, and then psychotherapist full time. He has also been Chair of the Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College of UKCP for a total of 8 years and is Vice President of EAIP.
He believes that the foundations of psychotherapy lie more in history and philosophy than in science.

EMMY VAN DEURZEN
Founder director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the Existential Academy in London
Philosopher, counselling psychologist, existential therapist and international author and speaker
Author of the books - Rising from Existential Crisis: Life Beyond Calamity with PCCS books, Paradox and Passion (Wiley, 2nd edition, 2015) and Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (Sage, 2009)

OANA MARIA POPESCU
✉️ eaipcongress@mentalacademy.ge
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Go to RegistrationWhen registering for the congress, you have to choose the registration category that corresponds to your characteristics (for example EAP member, student, etc.). In case of taking advantage of preferential conditions, the participant is obliged to send the document confirming compliance with the category to the following email address: eaipcongress@mentalacademy.ge. Submission of inaccurate or incomplete data may be the basis for refusal of registration or cancellation of existing registration.
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