WBA I Healing Horizons: Winter School on Trauma Awareness

February 19th, 2025 – 7 UE
09:00 Registration
09:15 Opening
10:00 lecture
10:30 Discussion (with self-awareness)
10:45 short break
11:30 lecture
12:15 Discussion (with self-awareness)
13:45 Lunch Break
15:15 2 or 3 parallel Workshops
15:30 short Break
16:15 Group Supervision

February 20th, 2025 – 7 UE
09:45 lecture
10:30 Discussion (with self-awareness)
10:45 short break
11:30 lecture
12:15 Discussion (with self-awareness)
13:45 Lunch Break
15:15 2 or 3 parallel Workshops
15:30 short Break
16:15 Group Supervision

February 21st, 2025, – 7 UE
09:45 lecture
10:30 Discussion (with self-awareness)
10:45 short break
11:30 lecture
12:15 Discussion (with self-awareness)
13:45 Lunch Break
15:15 2 or 3 parallel Workshops
15:30 short Break
16:15 Group Supervision

February 22nd, 2025 – 7 UE
10:00 lecture
10:30 big group discussion
10:45 short break
12:15 Parallel supervision groups (A,B)
13:45 Lunch Break
15:15 Parallel supervision groups (A,B)
15:30 short Break
16:00 Summary and résumé with discussion

Ass. Prof. Dr. Erzsébet Fanni Tóth M.A

• Researcher and lecturer
• Vice Dean for International Relations at Sigmund Freud University Vienna
• Founding Director of the Institute for Transgenerational Trauma Transfer Research
• She is a researcher, lecturer, serving as the Vice Dean for International Relations at Sigmund Freud University Vienna.
• She is also the Founding Director of the Institute for Transgenerational Trauma Transfer Research.
• Dr. Tóth’s academic background is diverse, having studied psychology and cultural anthropology at Utrecht University, sociology and socio-cultural anthropology at Central European University, and earning her Ph.D. in psychotherapy science from Sigmund Freud University.
• With over 15 years of experience in academia, she specializes in the interdisciplinary application of qualitative research methods, focusing on migration, trauma, identity, and gender.
  Dr. Tóth is actively involved in international research projects, particularly in the areas of cultural and minority research.

Univ. Spec. Iva Žegura, Clin. Psych., Mag. Psych.

• clinical psychologist, mag. psych. at University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče- Zagreb, Croatia
• Award „APA Global Citizen Psychologist Citation“

Iva Žegura was born on 14th of February 1979 in Zagreb. She attended the 1st gymnasium in Zagreb. She graduated and specialized in clinical psychology at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She is currently attending doctoral studies. She has the status of a licensed clinical psychologist by Croatian Psychological Chamber. She received education in gestalt integrative therapy, cybernetic psychotherapy, and sexual therapy. Since 2004, she works at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče in Zagreb, currently at the Department for psychotic disorders and has huge outpatient ambulance for LGBTQ+ affirmative mental health care.

In her extensive clinical practice, she collaborates with several university departments of psychology in Croatia; on the Psychology of Nursing course at the Nursing Study of the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb; lectures and mentors the propaedeutics of psychotherapy classes at the Edward Bernays College of Communication Management. Also, she collaborates as external expert with various governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as institutes and institutions in Croatia and the region (IGW Centre Zagreb, Office of the Ombudsman for Gender Equality, Directorate for the Prison System and Probation – Training Centre of the Ministry of Justice and Administration, LORI, KolekTIRV, Sarajevo Open Centre, etc.).

She is a mentor to psychology students who do regular student internships and a mentor to trainee psychologists in clinical psychology. She is a member of the National List of Experts for the Health Care of Transgender People by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia. She is the president of the Section for Clinical Psychology and Section for psychology and human rights by Croatian Psychological Society – CPA and vice-president of the Section for Psychology of Sexuality and Psychology of Gender. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Croatian Psychological Chamber – CPC for two mandates. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Zagreb Psychological Society and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Croatian Psychological Chamber. She is currently president of Committee for trainee psychologist, an active member of the Division of Clinical Psychology by CPC and Committee for professional concerns. Currently she actively participates in the Working Group for developing a new version of Psychological Code of Ethics by CPC.

She is the representative of CPA in the Board on Cultural and Ethnic Diversity at the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations – EFPA. From 2021, she was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the European Professional Association for Transgender Health – EPATH, and in 2023 serves as president elect. Since 2021 she participates in WPATH’s GEI Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement Committee and become WPATH GEI Institute lecturer in 2023. Since 2022, she has been a representative of the Croatian Psychological Society in APA’s Ipsy Net. From the October 2022, she is national representative of The Global Network of Psychologists for Human Rights. She regularly participates in domestic and foreign psychological symposia, congresses and conferences covering various topics in the fields of clinical psychology, psychological diagnostics, psychotherapy, gestalt psychotherapy, psychiatry, sexual medicine, sexual health, sexual orientations, gender identities, transgender mental health care, human rights, and social justice, interculturality, scientific research in psychotherapy.

She is the author of several scientific papers, review articles and books: “Psychological aspects of coronary heart disease” and “Coming out: To Understand vs./feat. to Accept” and the chapter “Different partnerships – psychological aspects of LGBT partnerships and parenthood” in the university textbook “Psychological aspects of the modern family, marriage and partnerships” and the chapters “Transition process of gender non-normative, transgender and transsexual people – perspective of clinical psychology” in the handbook “Medical aspects of gender affirmation”. She is the editor of the first handbook in the Croatian language on sexual medicine, “Fundamentals of Sexual Medicine”, for which she also wrote the chapter on gender dysphoria. She participated in the translation of several books from the English language: J.F. Masterson “In Search of the Real Self – Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age”, “An Oral History of Gestalt Therapy”, for which she wrote the foreword and afterword, and “50 Great Myths of Psychology”. She also collaborates with the Journal of Sexual Medicine as peer reviewer and is a member of editorial board of Clinical Psychology- Journal of clinical and health psychology, clinical neuropsychology, counselling, psychotherapy, and related disciplines.

She is a member of several national and foreign professional societies and associations: Croatian Psychological Association, Croatian Psychological Chamber, Society of Gestalt and Integrative Therapists of Croatia, Croatian Society for Sexual Therapy, Zagreb Psychological Society, European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations, World Professional Association for Transgender Health- WPATH, European Professional Association for Transgender Health – EPATH, European Society for Sexual Medicine- ESSM, European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment, European Psychiatric Association. She is the recipient of several professional certificates of appreciation and awards, including the Marulić Social Award: “Fiat Psychologia” for special contribution to Croatian applied psychology (2011) and the Certificate of Distinguished Contribution to the Croatian Psychological Chamber (2020), and the APA Division 52- International Psychology Global Citizen Psychologist Citation 2022 Award for exceptional volunteer professional engagement and contribution to increasing visibility and strengthening the availability of psychological scientific and practical knowledge both in the local and international community related to LGBTQ+ mental health.

In 2024, she was awarded the Ramiro Bujas award by the Croatian Psychological Association for a particularly valuable achievement in the social affirmation of psychology.

MMag.pth. Dr. Mariia Lenherr, MSc

• Mariia Lenherr is a psychotherapist based in Baden, Austria, specializing in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy.
• She offers therapy sessions for individuals, couples, families, and groups, and is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, German and English.
• Lenherr is a certified therapist for children and adolescents.
• Besides, she is a lecturer at Sigmund Freud University in Austria.

Hesna Al Ghaoui

• She was war journalist for 10 years (reported from over 20 countries including conflict zones like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Ethiopia, and the Gaza Strip)
• She is a filmmaker (TV documentary series on Hungarian Television called Babel (with 37 episodes) – different topics related to social psychology and human decisions shaping our contemporary society
• She works towards exploring fear, resilience, trauma, and moral injury
• In the past ten years, she focused most of her work on exploring and studying different topics related to mental health and well-being. Her main topic is the emotion of fear.
• In the past four years she focused her work on studying resilience and posttraumatic growth, which topic she researched at UC Berkeley Institute for Personality and Social Research – Psychology Department
• She is Resilience Trainer
• Her latest project just came out in 2024: a digital app for children affected by war. (see: www.magicmitten.org)
  This social-emotional learning tool, called Magic Mitten. It’s a blend of storytelling and interactive exercises to help children cope with the aftermath of trauma, including loss, fear and painful memories.

past 20 years: She have been cooperating with several global humanitarian organizations and NGOs on several domains. Lately a cooperation began with UNESCO which decided to implement her app in its programs supporting Ukrainian refugees.

In the past years, she gave more than 100 talks and keynotes for companies (like Microsoft, Samsung, Telekom, Danone, Roche, PWC, Forbes, Mercedes, KPMG, Citibank, Bosch), at professional conferences, community and cultural events, high schools and universities about the subject of fear and ways to cope with this emotion.

She regularly write articles for newspapers and magazines, and her work has been featured in several television and print magazines, including Forbes magazine.

• currently a PhD student at the Open University, UK
• worked for three years as a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Specialist (MHPSS) in conflict zones such as Iraq, Syria, India and Myanmar.
• led projects supporting Yazidi survivors, victims of ISIS and children affected by conflict
• led projects focussing on maternal mental health and employee resilience
• extensive individual clinical and psychotherapeutic work with children and adolescents, eating disorders, veterans, prisoners and victims of torture

• completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree of Psychology at ELTE in Budapest, specialising in Clinical and Health Psychology for adults
• experiences mainly at clinical work and diagnostics at psychiatries
• specific training in Family Therapy and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität
Weiterbildungsakademie
Tel: +43 1 90 500 70 1555
Email: weiterbildung@sfu.ac.at
Web: https://weiterbildungsakademie.sfu.ac.at

Registration:
https://wba.sfu.ac.at/anmeldung/1727632098645