INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR 2023 - 7th edition
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INTERNATIONAL CERTIFYING WEB-CONGRESS
4 half-day conferences, training and certification workshops that bring together psychologists, doctors, philosophers, researchers and therapists in brief therapies, family therapy, hypnosis, NLP, systemic and strategic approach.
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MIMETHYS - JST - SFWORK - PARIS 8 UNIVERSITY - FLORENCE UNIVERSITY - DILTS STRATEGY GROUP - INTERNATIONAL BATESON INSTITUTE - IEFSH - DAN SHORT - CRITICAL NOTEBOOKS ON FAMILY THERAPY AND NETWORKING PRACTICE - CENTER FOR SYSTEMIC ACTION - RAMSAY GROUP
June 22, 2023 - from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Turn feelings of helplessness into resources
Session details
January 26, 2023
from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Editorial
Faced with an addictogenic society dictated by individualism and performance, pleasure and the instantaneous, how does the educational function of families adapt? Separations, addictive behaviors and ambiguous loss of the loved one who is there without being there, absorbed by a life which oscillates between pleasure and boredom, between digital and consumption of products: what are the risks of this addictogenic society on family ties? What skills should families develop to deal with these new addictions?
Jean-Pierre Couteron, author, clinical psychologist in CSAPA, former President of the Addiction Federation, will open this new session by presenting the challenges of prevention practices and support for change in this addictogenic context.
In a first workshop, we will be interested in the intervention of the therapist and the dialogue with the families with Stéphane Bujold, a psychologist in Canada who will rely on the work of Guy Ausloos. Samuel Shannon, doctor in human development and family sciences with a specialization in couple and family therapy, and researcher at the University of Monroe in Louisiana will question the notion of loyalty within families with addictive behavior.
In a second workshop, Georges Brousse, Professor of Addictology and Psychiatry in charge of the Department of Addictology and dual pathologies, CHU of Clermont Ferrand - Clermont Auvergne University will present the situations of dual pathologies. Anne Gouyon, PhD will take a look at the links that are woven between addiction and the addictogenic society.
Speakers and program
Opening conference
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"From preventive education to recovery support, families in times of addiction"
More than ever, in a society whose many dimensions are highly addictive, families are called upon, from the beginning to the end of the different trajectories encountered; whether they are educational or therapeutic, whether they concern their children or involve couples. At the opening of this new Lact symposium, we will try together, without claiming to be exhaustive but with the ambition to shed light on the issues that concern the various professionals involved in the broad field of the use and risks of addictive objects, to describe professional practices that bring us together, whether we are doctors, psychotherapists, educators, peer helpers or expert patients or simply close to a user.
The richness of the palette of therapeutic tools, cognitive remediation, therapies in all its forms, narrative, systemic family, CBT, schema therapies, therapies focused on emotions, EMDR, mindfulness, respiratory control and many others its full usefulness only in a layout that gives families a suitable place. And in preventive education, the same diversity must also make sense to allow families to take their place. We will try together to see how everyone can contribute.
![]() Jean-Pierre COUTERON | Author, clinical psychologist at the CSAPA, "the hyphen" association Oppelia Boulogne Billancourt. |
![]() Gregoire VITRY | Doctor-researcher in psychology, graduate of the school of Palo Alto, he has worked for several years with Giorgio Nardone, Nathalie Duriez, Michael Hoyt, Teresa Garcia, Jean-Jacques Wittezaele, Wendel Ray and the MRI in order to promote research and systemic approach training. |
Workshop 1
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Moderator: Grégoire VITRY
![]() Stephane BUJOLD | Clinical psychologist, clinical advisor in an addiction center, trainer and supervisor of several teams, coordinator of an addiction prevention program for adolescents and speaker. LECTURE: "Dr. Ausloos' concepts in working with families struggling with addiction" At first, Guy enjoins us to tame the families who are affected by the diseases of control. To do this, the transition from guilt to responsibility will allow the construction of this alliance essential to work with precarious families. By restoring the family's competence to make changes, they will be able to find their own solutions and thus avoid being dependent on the services or the therapist. Secondly, the techniques of reframing, positive connotations, favorable hypotheses, the like after and working on the rules will be useful in our work supporting families struggling with addiction. |
![]() Samuel SHANNON | Samuel Shannon , Doctor of Philosophy, was born in Oceanside, California, and moved several times before spending most of his childhood in a small town in northern Virginia. He is the eldest of five children. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Brigham Young University, and his master's and doctorate degrees from Ohio State University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy Programs at Louisiana Monroe University, where he teaches, supervises research and therapy, and participates in the therapeutic process whenever he can. He is the proud father of 4 children, whom he raises and educates with his wife from their home in Monroe, Louisiana. CONFERENCE: "The loyal dependency: Seeing more than a dependent" Addiction is often seen as an individual problem, but it has ramifications for the whole family, and addiction itself plays a role in how the family functions. Regardless of the type of addiction, the family process works together to create the situation in which the addictive behavior occurs. In this sense, dependency is an expression of both loyalty to the family system and destructive entitlement within the family system. This creates an imbalance in which the dependent family member seemingly provides fewer resources in the relationship while demanding more resources. If it persists, this exchange is unfair and harmful to all parties involved. Paradoxically, the carrier of the symptom of addiction is easy to pathologize and label as the problem, despite their position of loyalty to the family member and the system as a whole. A more contextual view is to understand the larger system that created the conditions under which destructive law makes sense. A contextual response recognizes how each member gives and takes. Recognizing how each family member succeeds and fails in giving and taking frees family members to change the way they share. |
Workshop 2
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Moderator: Olivier BROSSEAU
![]() Georges BROUSSE | Psychiatrist and addictologist at Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital. CONFERENCE: "Addictive pathologies and mental pathologies, a double penalty: how better, well, finally, to talk about it with those around you?" Mental pathologies and addictions are, as we know, often linked. A third of people suffering from psychic disorders present addictive behaviors and more than half of people suffering from addictive behaviors present psychiatric disorders. Too often, diagnoses are not made. Too often, the accompaniments are not put in place. But in a society where the question of “addictions” is put forward, the elaboration and the possibility of exchange around what could accompany consumption or underlie it is not done. Therefore, a comprehensive care integrating both the environment, psychological suffering and addictive behavior must be the subject of work with patients and families. It is a question of helping to identify the symptoms and the responses that we can build, on a logic of decision of care shared with the patients, according to an approach capacitance, including the reduction of the risks. We should help patients to define with their families and friends the place they can take in this journey. |
![]() Anne GOUYON | Anne Gouyon combines a course in agronomy, ecology and social sciences (Engineer and Doctor AgroParisTech), supplemented by training in clinical psychology and systemic therapies (Univ. Paris 8-LACT). Consultant, researcher, therapist and trainer with 30 years of international experience, she is President of AgroParisTech Alumni, administrator of AgroParisTech and its Foundation, at the heart of the challenges of the future of our societies and our ecosystems. CONFERENCE: "How to live in an addictogenic society?" “We will have to live together like brothers, or die together like fools”. This African adage reminds us that our future and our freedom are played out at the societal level. The social environment plays a major role in addictive dynamics, well beyond the family, which is both the plaything and the actor. The disintegration of ties, rituals, institutions and collective “containers”, stress, injunctions to perform, conform and consume, and now systemic crises and eco-anxiety, create suffering in need of appeasement. Everyone is also offered, or even permanently imposed, something to soothe, anesthetize, stimulate and distract themselves compulsively: psychotropic drugs, junk food, consumption, travel, overwork, series, social networks or video games -- which in turn feed permanent stress, the destruction of social ties and ecosystems. Psychology, sociology, economy, ecology, so many knowledges, views and practices to cross in order to resist, and find the path to a free, conscious, psychically autonomous, united and sustainable life. |
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