After a theoretical session by Serra Ciliv filmmakers will be invited to move on to practical exercises led by Yaroslava Kot-Mironova and Alina Oborska (NGO IPWU).

Yaroslava and Alina work within a process-oriented approach, which is an interdisciplinary holistic method for understanding human behavior. This approach in practical psychology has developed from Jungian psychoanalysis and integrates body-oriented, transpersonal approaches, and principles of quantum physics. It has been actively practiced for more than 50 years in 16 countries through official training schools (USA, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Kenya, Spain, Italy, Thailand, Japan and etc.). Representatives of this approach have been consulting for international companies and organizations and are actively working in hotspots around the world – including Cairo, Ireland, South Africa, Congo, Algeria, Spain, and others. The founder of the method is Arnold Mindell (psychologist, psychotherapist, Ph.D., physicist), who believed that such an approach could be useful for psychologists, clinical psychotherapists, psychiatrists, as well as coaches, facilitators, mediators, social activists, and leaders of organizations or communities.

For four years, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, international and Ukrainian specialists from this approach have been closely collaborating to support the civilian population under several mental health projects, demonstrating high effectiveness specifically in group support formats.

In the practical part filmmakers will be able to:

1. Learn an effective tool called "inner work," which can be useful in various difficult moments for reconnecting with reality/power and achieving clarity.

2. Try body exercises in pairs, engaging different channels for experiencing feelings and states (sound, sensation, imagery, relationships, signals from the world), which you can use with colleagues for support and creativity.

3. Participate in a group process – a space for feelings and self-expression related to various roles, boundaries, relationship dynamics, belief systems, and larger social forces, aimed at finding temporary good solutions in conflict or sensitive topics for full development in diversity through recognizing what is hidden or excluded within the group or society.

Key principles of working with group include:

- Working with zones of post-traumatic growth (love of life, inner strength, spiritual growth, new opportunities, improved relationships);

- Addressing triggers through various channels of perception;

- “Vicarious Therapy" – improving one’s condition through witnessing the healing of another;

- Working with the body, including Somatic experience;

- "Deep Democracy" – a form of democracy based on principles and methods of basic awareness and including all the voices;

- Facilitating the organization of the process of collective problem-solving within a group.

The practical part will last for 3 hours. The group session is limited to 40 participants.

Yaroslava Kot-Mironova is a systemic process-oriented facilitator (IAPOP standards, 17 years of practice, specialization in relationships, internal, partnership, and group conflicts), an international affairs analyst, and co-founder of PWIU NGO (Hryhorii Skovoroda Process Work Institute of Ukraine) and the Lagertha NGO (focused on reviving the female elite). She is the initiator of the REGENERATION project, aimed at training specialists to provide group psychological support to civilians during wartime – a collaboration between PWIU, the Elena Pinchuk Foundation, and the Institute for Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (ISPP NAESU).

Alina Oborska is a certified process-oriented psychotherapist, facilitator, body-oriented trauma therapist, and Jungian analytical psychologist with 15 years of experience. She holds a PhD in Art Studies, is a director of theatrical arts and a co-founder of PWIU NGO (Hryhorii Skovoroda Process Work Institute of Ukraine) as well as of the For the Sake of Our Children’s Future NGO.

Access to the event is free with prior registration.