Bg Social Trauma & Identity

International Workshop

Impact of Social Trauma onto Identity

Belgrade, October 3
th
- 5
th
2013



Workshop Staff:

Hanni Biran, Tija Despović, Ivanka Dunjić, Veronika Grueneisen,
Slavoljub Milojević, Jona Rosenfeld, Jelica Satarić and
Marina Mojović

Organized by:



Group Analytic Society-Belgrade
Psycho-Social Section



Consulting-Art Belgrade
and
Psycho-Social-Art Belgrade


About the workshop


Social traumas and disasters as sudden disruptions of the cultural and social tissues, overwhelming
usual coping mechanisms of persons, their families and communities, which happen in man-made
destructive situations of wars, exiles, bombings, terrorist attacks, disintegrations of states, erosion of
cultural-political systems or in other unbearable social changes, have damaging consequences on all areas
of human existence: biological, psycho-social and all others. The pain and complexities connected to these
phenomena are difficult to grasp, to hold and to comprehend, as majority of significant collective forces of
denial, dissociation, encapsulation, identification with aggressors, perversion, manipulation, etc. operate
below the surface in unconscious zones of people and their communities. It seems sometimes that the
relative neglect of trauma is almost as intriguing and meaningful as the impact of trauma itself, and even in
psychoanalysis for decades they did not achieve the required attention. It is beyond individual’s capacities
to comprehend and resolve collective traumatic experiences, but group and social reflexive frameworks
are necessary.
Group Analytic Society-Belgrade is developing professional work in this field through series of
ongoing workshops on the topics of social trauma, social unconscious, reflective citizens, social dreaming,
large groups, trauma induced identity disturbances and dissociation. In group-analytic encounters people
with narratives from different personal, families and social perspectives, while sharing their experiences,
thoughts, dreams, fantasies and feelings, struggle to transform unbearable and unspeakable pains as
victims, perpetrators, witnesses, bystanders or else, in efforts to understand oneself and the other.
Dehumanization of the other and of one self, attacks on national, ethnic or other identity aspects, coming
from within and from without, when realized and mirrored in the immediate group experience might
eventually diminish their destructive influence - split off aspects of identity emerging into dialogue areas
and vicious circles of trauma transmission over generations might be enlightened and diminished. Concept
of identity, holding both autonomous and belonging aspect, with its link between inner core-self and its
external/social aspects including the modern shift in its conceptualization towards mixed-identities with
aggregation of various selves, is among the most significant areas for studying the subject.
In this workshop experienced colleagues from Israel and Germany with group analysts from GAS
Belgrade as staff shall jointly create opportunities for working on the topic of ‘Impact of Trauma onto
Identity’. During this international event there shall be three social dreaming matrices followed with social
dreaming dialogues, four presentations followed by discussion groups, large groups and review and
application session. We hope jointly to move forward in understanding and containing these shadowy
zones of human existence.

About Workshop staff

Hanni Biran M.A., group analyst, clinical psychologist, supervisor and training
psychoanalyst. Born in Israel to a family of an Iranian origin. Married, two children
and two grandchildren. Clinical psychologist and supervisor, training psychoanalyst
in Tel-Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Group analyst in the Israeli
Institute Of Group Analysis. Works in private practice, teaches at Tel-Aviv
University, Bar-Ilan University and at TA Institute of Psychoanalysis, a member of
PsychoActive. Published many papers on social unconscious processes, group
dynamic, Social-Dreaming. Focused on W. R. Bion and elaborates on his concepts.

Tija Despotović is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst from Belgrade. Member of the
Belgrade Psychoanalytic Society (International Psychoanalytical Association),
training group analyst, President of Group Analytic Society Belgrade (EGATIN,
EFPP). She is Director of Training in Individual Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
(Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists of Serbia, European Federation of
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy). She works in private practice in Belgrade, Serbia
and wrote many papers in field of individual and group psychotherapy.

Ivanka Dunjić psychiatrist, training psychoanalyst and training group analyst from
Belgrade. Member of Belgrade Psychoanalytic Society (IPA). Chair of Belgrade
Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP), Chair of IGAB Training
Commettee. She works in private practice in Belgrade. She wrote several papers
on psychoanalysis and group analysis.



Veronika Grueneisen Training and Supervising Analyst, German Psychoanalytic
Society (DPG) and International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA); Chair, Partners in
Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA e.V.); Organisational Consultant, Member
AOC Society: The Tavistock Institute’s Advanced Organisational Consultation
Society; member, Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society (OPUS);
Nuernberg, Germany



Slavoljub Milojević MD, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and group psychotherapist, organizational
consultant, member of Group Analytic Society Belgrade, Conducted large and median groups of war -
torture victims, group of children without parental care and of adolescents, presents papers in the field of
social trauma and social unconscious.

Jonas Rosenfeld, PhD Social Worker. Past Director and Professor (emeritus), the Paul
Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Policy, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. Senior Consultant, the Unit of Learning from Success on Ongoing
Learning in Human Services, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, Jerusalem. Member of
OFEK; PCCA; IFSI, Israel Society for Psychotherapy, Israel.

Jelica Satarić, MD, is a psychiatrist, individual psychotherapist, and group analyst in
private practice in Belgrade. She is member of Serbian Medical Chamber, Serbian
Psychiatric Association, Serbia Psychoanalytic Society of Psychotherapists and
Group Analytic Society Belgrade (GAS Belgrade), in which she is a training group
analyst and co-leader of its Psycho-social Section. Active involvement in the Serbian
Reflective Citizens Project.

Marina Mojović MA, MD, psychiatrist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, group
analyst, organizational consultant in Serbia. She is a full member of the Group
Analytic Society International, of the International Association for Group
Psychotherapy and Group Processes, of the European Society of Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy, the International Society for Psychoanalytic Studies of
Organizations, and the Organization for Promoting Understanding of Society. In
Group Analytic Society-Belgrade she is a training group analyst, supervisor and the
founder of its Psycho-social Section, develops the Serbian Reflective Citizens
Project.





Workshop Program:

Day 1 Time sessions
Thursday,
October 3rd
8.00 – 9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30 – 10.00 Opening of the Workshop
10.00 - 10.15 Coffee break
10.15 – 11.30
Social Dreaming Matrix 1 (hosts Hanni and
Marina)
11.30 – 11.40 Small break
11.40 – 12.30 Social Dreaming Dialogue 1 (Hanni and Marina)
12.30 – 12.45 Coffee break
12.45 – 14.00
Presentation Veronika Grueneisen ( On Being
Both a Perpetrator and a Victim)
Presentatión Jona Rosenfeld (The Persistence of
Social Trauma as an Opportunity)
Discussion
14.00 – 15.15 Lunch break
15.15 – 16.45 Discussion Groups
16.45 – 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 – 18.30 Large Group 1 (Tija and Ivanka)





Day 2 Time Group
Friday,
October 4
th

08.30 – 09.45 Social Dreaming Matrix 2 (hosts Hanni and Marina)
09.30 – 9.40 Small break
9.40 – 10.30 Social Dreaming Dialogue 2 (Hanni and Marina)
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 12.00
Presentation Hanni Biran (The Unconscious
Emergence of Identity)
Serbian Perspective- Ivanka Dunjić
Discussion
12.00 – 12.10 Small break
12.10 – 13.25 Discussion groups
13.25 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.45 Intergroup session 1
15.45 - 15.55 Small break
15:55 – 17.10 Intergroup session 2
17:10- 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 -19.00 Large group 2 (Tija and Ivanka)





Day 3 Time Group
Saturday,
October 6
th

08.30 – 09.45
Social Dreaming Matrix 3 (hosts Hanni and
Marina)
09.30 – 9.40 Small break
9.40 – 10.30 Social Dreaming Dialogue 3 (Hanni and Marina)
10.45 – 12.00 Review and Application Session
12.00 – 12.30 Closing Plenary
12.30 – 12.45 Coffee



Registration Fees:


Before Sep. 15
th
Before Sep. 25
th
After Sep. 25
th

Trainees GAS-Belgrade 170 190 220
GAS-Belgrade members 190 210 240
GAS-international, IAGP
ISPSO, OPUS, PCCA members
230 250 280
Others 260 280 310

Lunch on Thursday and Friday, as well refreshment and coffee during breaks, are included in the
fee.

Venue: Consulting-Art doo. Belgrade, Banovo Brdo, 115 Petra Lekovića Street
http://www.flickr.com/photos/belgrade-conference-june-2013/sets/72157633097384770/show/

Language:
The workshop working language will be English and Serbian.

Time:
The conference will begin at 08:30 October 3th, 2013 and end at 12:30 on Saturday, October 5th, 2013.

All questions regarding registration, fees & payment and accommodation should be directed to: office:
[email protected] or to
Marina Mojović [email protected] mob. +381 (0) 63 77 87 642




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Hotels:

Trim Hotel (1)
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20-25 euro per person in a double room

Balkan Hotel Garni (2)
www.balkangarni.rs
Požeska 67a

Best Western Hotel Šumadija **** (3)
www.hotelsumadija.com
for a group reservation less than 35 euro
per person in double room

IN Hotel **** (4)
www.inhotel-belgrade.rs
70 euro per person in a double room,
for group reservation could be much reduced

Belgrade Art Hotel **** (5)
www.belgradearthotel.com
75euro per person in double room

Balkan Hotel **** (6)
www.balkanhotel.net
for a group reservation could be 35-45euro
per person in a double room

Metropol Palace Hotel (9)
www.metropolpalace.com
Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 69

Hostels and apartments:

ArkaBarka (7)
www.arkabarka.net
15 euro

Hostel Fair (8)
www.hostelfair.com
6 euro

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