Inhalt

Family in transition

Modern family life is undergoing rapid changes and is packed with dilemmas. The basic rules on which people base their privacy have fundamentally changed because of the internet and social media. The speed of living, working and learning seems to be increasing and business-like striving for productivity and perfection are encroaching on parental and family roles.
What are the challenges of blended families today? An overload of complexity, unresolved conflicts from preceding separations, not matching of parents and children of diverse systems, mixed life-cycles, no time for the new couple, etc. How can professionals help the families to live a better life?
The forms of family life have pluralised, affecting how young people enter into partnerships and parenthood. The attitude towards children is transforming; what it means to be a responsible parent has a great influence on everyday family life as well as work and career advancement. In addition, the challenge of active fatherhood and equal participation of both parents is not influenced only by personal values and decisions, but also by the prevailing cultural imaginary.
The conference organizers think it is time to reflect images, theories, interventions that inform the therapeutic work with families. Presenters from Austria, China, Germany, Iran, Russia, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Ukraine will help us explore the topic with many different regional shades.
There will be panel discussions (involving the participants), group workshops and a fishbowl discussion.

Program

06.12.2024 – Friday

2:00 – 3:00 PM        Registration
3:00 – 3:30 PM        opening ceremony, introduction, guiding through the program
3:30 – 5:00 PM        Paneldiscussions: Nuclear families and their alternatives- what made people look for alternative forms and what evolved from that? 

• 1^st+2^nd generation of the Mühl commune in dialogue with a therapist + researcher
• childhood in a Kibuzim
• work in the commune

5:00 – 5:30 PM        Break

5:30 – 7:30 PM        Workshops (5-7 parallel workshops)
Why is family? Obligations, wishes, hopes, shortcomings in family lives and why do less families search for therapeutic help these days?

7:30 – 7:45 PM        Break

Optional:
7:45 PM German movie: Meine keine Familie von Paul Robert, Comune member of Mühl Kommune
 

07.12.2024 – Saturday

9:00 – 11:00 AM      Paneldiscussions

• Families in Italy; the clash between reality and ideology
• Working with families in Slovenia – overview of family life in Slovenia, ways of therapeutic approaches
• Globalized Families – Coming home within Culture and Migration

11:00 – 11:30 AM     Break
11:30 – 1:00 PM Workshops (5-7 parallel workshops: therapeutic techniques working with families)

• demonstration of analogue techniques like The River of Life, role playing, sculpturing and hypnosis
• Blended Families creating new models of “the Family”: resilience in separating and rebuilding
• the quest for  minimalism in an ever changing system
• Welche Herausforderungen begegnen u.a. TherapeutInnen, die mit Familien therapeutisch arbeiten wollen (German)
• multifamily concepts

 
1:00 – 3:00 PM         Lunchbreak
3:00 – 5:00 PM         Paneldiscussion

• Eternal love and security- what makes a family endure? 
• alternatives to traditional family life in the public interest – fostering

5:00-5:30 PM      Break
5:30-7:00 PM      Workshops

• Families coping with chronic illness
• Family and disability-levels of meaning
• The Psychotic Family and their cultures, values

• alternative ways to grow up outside the family
• Familienleben von Pflegekindern bei PsychotherapeutInnen (German)
• Blended Families nowadays, state of art
• It takes a village to bring up a child? Mental parental illness, young carers and alternative social support systems. families in different life cycles, 1 parent families

 
7:00 – 7:30 PM          Break
 
Optional:
7:30 PM                Book presentation: Ausplaudereien eines Familientherapeuten aus Meyn /Aus dem Nähkästchen eines Familientherapeuten (German)
 

08.12.2024 – Sunday

9:00-10:30 AM         Paneldiscussion

• how politics shape family ties and structure – or not?
• Panel- discussions from Students: Students discuss: our visions about families and realistic forms of living family

 
10:30-11:00 AM      Break
11:00-1:00 PM         Fishbowl
Panel: with International students ideas: what do (our) families/ and I need and how can family therapist help with what they/we need more: Young generation talking about their visions.
Lessons learnt and what transitions are emerging in therapeutic theories and techniques to help families cope with change?

Presentation of the installation