INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR / 20-06-2024

Gregoire VITRY

Claude de Scorraille

Barbara LIANO

Emmanuelle GALLIN

 
Padhraic GIBSON

D.Psych, consultant clinical psychotherapist, founder of OCD Clinic® ( the OCD clinic ) and training at The Coaching Clinic®. A senior research associate at LACT/SYPRENE and lecturer at Dublin City University, he specializes in behavioral psychology and strategic problem solving. He teaches and conducts research at the Centro Di Terapia Strategica in Italy. Author of research published in renowned journals such as the British Medical Journal, he currently supervises international research projects.

CONFERENCE: “Efficiency of the strategic systemic approach for OCD / CBT vs Systemic Approach” 

Key points :

• The evolution of OCD treatment involves specific treatment protocols and strategic therapeutic communication.
• Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is effective but has high dropout rates.
• Brief strategic therapy (BST) offers a non-confrontational, rapid change approach.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a common treatment for OCD, which aims to change destructive thought patterns through gradual exposure to anxiety triggers. However, many patients do not respond fully to CBT and the intense nature of ERP, which is an essential component, results in a high dropout rate. Brief strategic therapy (BST) offers an alternative with rapid, non-confrontational techniques that change perceptions and reactions to the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Unlike CBT, which relies on patients' conscious efforts, TBS uses strategic interventions to create emotional experiences, thereby reducing resistance and improving adherence. BST's collaborative, low-explanatory approach leverages natural resistance to transform compulsive behaviors into controlled actions, providing a promising avenue for people who struggle with traditional CBT methods.

 
Claudette PORTELLI

CONFERENCE: “An operational diagnosis for OCD and how online sessions can be ever more effective and efficient” 

This intervention will emphasize the importance of a thorough operative diagnosis in order to distinguish the different variants of OCD, the underlying perception (fear of contamination, of hurting others, of doing wrong, etc.), emotion (fear or other basic sensation) and the type of compulsions (preventive, proprietary, restorative, magical, logical, with sequences, etc.) An operative diagnosis will help the therapist understand how the problem works, in order to be able to choose the most appropriate intervention, i.e. the strategies/prescriptions but also the type of language, to create a collaborative therapeutic relationship. Additionally, this intervention will also focus on how online therapy can be made more effective and efficient with OCD patients.  

 
Matteo PAPANTUONO

CONFERENCE: “Indirect therapy” 

Indirect therapy: in what cases and how it can be applied. More specifically, Matteo Papantuono will refer to resistance to change, issues such as addictions, certain cases where the family is involved and oppositional disorders.

Gregoire VITRY

Dan SHORTS

Clinical psychologist. Expert in Ericksonian psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis. Executive Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute in Phoenix. He has years of experience in diverse settings such as Domestic Violence Agency, University Counseling Center and in the school sector with the Department of Special Education.

CONFERENCE: “The use of anxiety”

The principle of utilization is a defining element of Ericksonian therapy that underlies its approach to skills-based psychotherapy. More than a technique, this principle of well-being assumes that people are best served by learning to use their personal attributes in service of a meaningful outcome in the outside world.  

Conversely, people who struggle with themselves, trying to suppress powerful behavioral or emotional impulses, become weaker and more and more anxious. So, those with an anxious or compulsive mind tend to ruminate on their past mistakes and obsess about the risk of making the wrong choice in the future. From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, a predisposition to anxiety can significantly increase an organism's chances of mastering environmental challenges, if expressed at the right time, with the right intensity, and in the right way.  

During this seminar, Dr. Short will discuss opportunities to help clients learn how to use both rumination and obsession, resulting in personal empowerment and a sense of competence.

 
Lucia ROMO

Lucia Romo is professor of Clinical Psychology at Paris Nanterre University. She also works as a clinical psychologist at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital (AP-HP) in Garches. She is attached to the Inserm CESP Unit, U1018 INSERM “Primary care and prevention”.

She works on addictions with and without substances, and the evaluation of psychotherapeutic interventions. She conducts research on prevention systems (telephone applications, internet and distance programs) and her research is carried out in co-construction with populations of young people and adults.

CONFERENCE: “Ruminations: a transdiagnostic process” 

Kinderman's transdiagnostic model makes it possible to approach psychopathological disorders in a processual manner and facilitates the understanding of disorders going beyond the limits of strictly categorical models.

Negative repetitive thoughts (PRN) or ruminations represent a type of process present in different problems such as anxiety disorders, addictions, depressive disorders, etc.

We will discuss the particularities of these rumination processes, their evaluation and possible CBT interventions.

 
Veronique ENNES

After a 23-year career as a manager of health establishments, I committed myself in 2017 to learning the strategic systemic approach at LACT. I am qualified as a relationship systemician-clinician; I work in a private practice in Martinique and I collaborate with LACT within the training department. I participated in the creation of the SYPRES union - Syndicate of Systematic Practitioners, of which I am treasurer and responsible for member relations.

Moderator

Psychologist and psychotherapist, she is a research associate at the Arezzo Strategic Therapy Center. She has contributed to the evolution of the model for more than 15 years through her clinical practice in Italy and Spain.  

International speaker and official supervisor of brief strategic therapy. 

Has published :

• Violent adolescents: Against others, against themselves, with Elisa Balbi, Michele Dolci and Giulia Rinaldi, Ponte alle Grazie, 2009. 
• Missed Pleasure. The paradoxes of sexuality in the twenty-first century and their solution, with Giorgio Nardone and Elisa Balbi, Ponte alle Grazie, 2020.
• Adolescence in the balance: What are the adults of tomorrow like? Emerging psychopathologies and their early treatment, with Giorgio Nardone and Elisa Balbi, Ponte alle Grazie, 2024.

CONFERENCE: “Adolescence in balance”

Adolescence, an age of transition and transformation, is a period of development full of changes and above all challenges to which young people, increasingly insecure and disoriented in their confrontation with life, unfortunately sometimes react in a dysfunctional way. Phobic, obsessive and compulsive, eating, paranoid and borderline disorders, drug addiction or Internet addiction have a strong impact on their lives and that of their families, disabling them. Increasingly heinous phenomena of violence against others and/or against oneself are recorded.  

Brief strategic therapy has developed specific treatment protocols that have proven effective in these situations, involving, depending on the case, the different social actors involved in the disorder, first and foremost the family.

Elisa BALBI

Psychologist and psychotherapist, she is a research associate at the Arezzo Strategic Therapy Center. She has worked alongside Professor Giorgio Nardone for almost twenty years training students from around the world in clinical practice, contributing to the evolution of the model through her own practice and being part of the Therapy Center's internal team strategic of Arezzo.  

An international speaker, she is an official supervisor of brief strategic therapy. 

She is co-author, among others, of:

- Traveling the sea without the sky knowing: Lessons on therapeutic change and non-ordinary logics, Ponte alle Grazie, 2008.

- Violent adolescents: Against others, against themselves, Ponte alle Grazie, 2009. 

- Short-term and long-term psychotherapy: Successfully treating even major psychopathologies, Ponte alle Grazie, 2017.

- Missed Pleasure. The paradoxes of sexuality in the twenty-first century and their solution, Ponte alle Grazie, 2020.   

- Adolescence in the balance: What are the adults of tomorrow like? Emerging psychopathologies and their early treatment, Ponte alle Grazie 2024.  

CONFERENCE: “Adolescence in balance”

Jean-Pierre POURTOIS

Jean-Pierre Pourtois, professor emeritus at the University of Mons (UMONS), is a recognized specialist in educational sciences. First a teacher in 1961, he devoted his career to the study of the family impact on the educational development of children. His research highlights the importance of the socio-family environment in academic success and advocates a diversified and adaptive educational approach. Author of several influential works, Pourtois advocates for an education that values ​​cognitive, emotional and social experiences, in order to promote complete emancipation of the individual from an early age.

CONFERENCE: “School – I love you, neither do I”

The conference “School – I love you, me neither” by Jean-Pierre Pourtois explores the impact of the family environment on children's academic success. It reveals that family experiences predispose children to succeed or fail in school, by influencing their ability to develop cognitive, social, and emotional skills. Pourtois also discusses the importance of diversified and interactive pedagogies, both at the family and educational level, to encourage the integral development of students. It calls for an overhaul of teaching practices to respond to current educational challenges and support student development.

 
Barbara LIANO

Conference: “Problem Solving: burn-out”

Join us for a unique participatory workshop, which offers you the opportunity to work directly on a burn-out situation, whether for yourself or someone close to you. Through practical exercises and guided discussions, you will discover and apply the collective intervention methodology of Problem Solving developed by LACT, a problem solving technique from the systemic approach.

 
Hervé INSA

With a degree in computer engineering and artificial intelligence, I began my career in management and project management. With 23 years of experience, a significant part of which at Orange France, I decided to redirect my career towards support. After obtaining an RNCP certification in Professional Coaching, I became an Agile Coach, specializing in supporting managers and their teams. I combine Lean Agile methodologies and managerial strategies to promote participatory leadership and the adoption of continuous improvement practices, aimed at developing collective performance.

CONFERENCE : “ Problem Solving: burn-out ” with Barbara LIANO.

 
Olivier BROSSEAU

Therapist, coach, supervisor and trainer in strategic systemic approach, associated with LACT. He teaches at the IAE of Paris within the Master of Administrations and Companies the module "Organizations and behaviors".

Moderator

 
Audrey BECUWE

Audrey Bécuwe is HDR Lecturer in management sciences at IAE - University of Limoges. She is the author of 24 scientific publications in the field of human resources and management. Trained in the strategic systemic approach, she co-wrote with Grégoire Vitry and Damien Richard articles based on this approach in the field of occupational health and the management of interpersonal conflicts. Several of his publications have been the subject of journalistic articles in the media The Conversation. Finally, she is the author of a novel entitled "The blizzard sometimes does things well" published under the pen name Audray B. Morning. The characters in this fiction were drawn using the systemic approach.

CONFERENCE : “The institutionalization of the profession of systems engineer”

 
Bénédicte CRUCIS

Her first professional life in marketing and then health communication took a turn when Bénédicte met the Palo Alto school. She realizes that the philosophy that accompanies her is the one that has always governed her way of operating: it is a revelation. In 2019, she was certified as a psychopractitioner. Her passion for relational dynamics and this model led her to make it her expertise and her profession, she founded Meetwiz. Collectively or individually, Bénédicte supports executive managers and executives.

Member of SYPRES, she contributes to the recognition of the status of systemician through the transmission and development of the strategic systemic approach

CONFERENCE: “From obsessive control to organizational chaos”

In today's world, control reigns supreme in every aspect of our daily lives, including, or perhaps starting with, business.

This intervention will seek to highlight the consequences of obsessive control not only on the way an individual, a service, a department and also an entire company operates.

The conference “From obsessive control to organizational chaos” by Agnès Calendray and Bénédicte Crucis addresses the theory illustrated with concrete cases on the collective and individual dimensions.

 
Agnès CALENDRAY

As a Human Resources professional, I held HRD positions for 25 years in extremely changing environments, combining Agility, Pragmatism and Customer Satisfaction. 

Independent since 2018, I now work in companies as part of HR consulting and coaching missions (individual or collective).

My dual training in Coaching (Self Intelligence ® and Brief Systemic Strategic Intervention) allows me to offer support focused both on the individual and on the organization as a living system.

In parallel with my work in business, I am established as a psychopractitioner in Versailles.

CONFERENCE: “From obsessive control to organizational chaos” with Bénédicte CRUCIS