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Our 2-day international conference aims to provide the space and time for encounters and exchange, in the hope of creating a tradition and encouraging other European colleagues to organise similar professional events in the future. The following participants are welcome: associations for biblio/poetry therapy, university professors, researchers, librarians, teachers, psychologists, art therapists, other mental health professionals, independent practitioners, PhD students, biblio/poetry trainees, and all other attendees interested in biblio/poetry therapy.For further information and ticket booking see the conference website here: https://poetrytherapy.eu
Online ticket purchase closing: 15 September, 2024!
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FINAL PROGRAMME
1st day Friday, 4 October
Session 1 – Room Hamvas & Átrium
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Opening – Welcome & Overview – Dr. Judit Béres, President of the Hungarian Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy (Hungary, University of Pécs)
9:15-10:00 Keynote Speaker – Juhani Ihanus (Finland, University of Helsinki and Aalto University): From trauma to thauma: Biblio/poetry therapy as a source of wonder, empathy, and resilience
10:05-10:35 William Sieghart (United Kingdom, independent practitioner): Poetry Pharmacy
10:35-11:05 Dr Mariana Casale (United Kingdom, independent practitioner/ The University of Manchester): „Re-authoring Narratives of Hope”
11:05-11:35 Eevastiina Kinnunen (Finland, University of Turku): Narrative agency and narrative well-being in bibliotherapy research
11:35-11:55 Q & A session
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00-13:30 Davor Piskač (Croatia, University of Zagreb): Conceptual Metaphors and Symbolic Modeling in Modern Bibliotherapy
13:35-14:05 Tamara Trebes (Austria, Sigmund Freud University): The Triad of Triangulation Mechanisms in Poetry Therapy
14:05-14:35 dr. Igor Žunkovič (Slovenia, University of Ljubljana): Why Does Literary Bibliotherapy Work: Neurocognitive Basis for Therapeutic Effect of Reading Fiction
14:35-15:05 Torsten Pettersson (Sweden, Uppsala University): The Moon Is a Silver Coin: Let Poetry Stimulate the Transrational Potential in Children and Adults!
15:05-15:25 Q & A session
15:25-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:15 Thor Magnus Tangerås (Norway, Kristiania University College): Creative writing approaches for alleviating climate anxiety and increasing connectedness to nature
16:20-16:50 Merja Kauppinen (Finland, University of Jyväskylä): Environmental storytelling – using poetry therapy methods in educational context
16:50-17:20 Emica Calogjera Rogić (Croatia, independent practitioner): Biblio/Poetry Therapy: Mitigating Stress and Enhancing Creativity among Teachers in Croatia
17:20-17:40 Q & A session
18:00-19:30 Reception – dinner
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1st day Friday, 4 October
Session 2 – Room Juhar
10.05-10.35 Karoliina Maanmieli and Katri Kluukeri (Finland, University of Jyväskylä and Jyväskylä Summer University): Poetry therapy education in Finland
10.35-11.05 Marco Dalla Valle (Italy, University of Verona, BiPo – Associazione Italiana Biblio/poesiaterapia): Biblio/Poetry Therapy in Dante’s language
11.05-11.35 Güssün Güneş and Mehlika Karagözoğlu Aslıyüksek (Turkey, Marmara University): Reviewing Academic Studies on Bibliotherapy in Turkey
11:35-11:55 Q & A session
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00-13:30 Dr Lucy Windridge-Floris (United Kingdom, Cardiff Metropolitan University and Lapidus International): Writing Responses to Gestures of Islamophobia, A ‘duo autoethnography’
13:35-14:05 Petra Partanen (Finland, University of Jyväskylä): From the Women’s House of Language to the Mothers’ House of Language
14:05-14:35 Somayeh McKian (Czech Republic, independent practitioner): Life as a fat female body: Feminist narrative Inquiry with Iranian Women
14:35-15:05 Ildikó Sóron (Hungary, Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library, Hungarian Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy): Casework of women in a bibliotherapeutic course
15:05-15:25 Q & A session
15:25-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:15 Dr Anne-Marie Smith and Debbie Burns (United Kingdom, Liverpool John Moores University): Reading and Writing the self: bringing poetry/bibliotherapy into university spaces
16:20-16:50 Dr Wanda Matras-Mastalerz (Poland, Institute of Information Sciences in Cracow): Poetry as a tool to support the psychosocial functioning of seniors in crisis situations
16:50-17:00 Q & A session
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2nd day Saturday, 5 October
Session 1 – Room Hamvas & Átrium
8:40-9:25 Keynote Speaker – Dr Victoria Field (United Kingdom, The Poetry Practice Ltd, Lapidus International, IFBPT): This Being Human – How poetry therapy builds connection and community
9:30-10:00 Luca Buonaguidi (Italy, University of Verona): Poetry and Psyche. From poetic inspiration to poetry therapy
10:05-10:35 Péter Hamvas (Hungary, University of Pécs, Hungarian Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy): Tolstoy Therapy. Lessons of a pilot group
10:35-11:05 Anne Kyong Sook Øfsti (Norway, VID Specialized University Campus, Oslo): The Gift of Literature to Therapeutic training and practice
11:05-11:35 Renata Martinec (Croatia, University of Zagreb): Biblio/poetry therapy with other expressive art-therapies in overcoming existential crisis
11:35- 11:55 Q & A session
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00-13:30 Päivi Kosonen (Finland, University of Turku): Narrative agency oriented bibliotherapy work with cancer patients
13:35-14:05 Johanna Holopainen (Finland, University of Jyväskylä): Breast Cancer Survivors’ experiences in the writing and the poetry therapy group process
14:05-14:35 Mervi Nyfors (Finland, University of Oulu): Group poetry therapy among patients with advanced cancer
14:35-15:05 Ágnes Bálint (Hungary, The Debrecen Reformed Theological University, Hungarian Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy): I lift up my eyes to the mountains – addressing the spirituality of cancer patients
15:05-15:25 Q & A session
15:25- 15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:15 Åsa Andtskär and Felicia Hume (Sweden, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm): Utilizing bibliotherapy in the context of cancer
16:15-16:45 Prof. Jürgen Pieters (Belgium, Ghent University - CHARM (Consortium for Health Humanities, Arts, Reading and Medicine): Farmacology of fiction. Some thoughts on medical bibliotherapy
16:45-17:15 Ljiljana Plavac (Croatia, independent practitioner): Bibliotherapy in Aromatherapist Personal Development
17:15-17:35 Q & A session
17:40-17:55 Closing Remarks – Dr Judit Béres, President of the Hungarian Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy (Hungary, University of Pécs)
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2nd day Saturday, 5 October
Session 2 – Room Juhar
9:30-10:00 Sanja Skočić Mihić and Nadia Novak Ramić (Croatia, University of Rijeka): Healing stories and bibliotherapy in inclusive education and teachers’ professional development
10:05-10:35 Noémi Birta-Székely (Romania, Babeș-Bolyai University, Hungarian Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy): Experiences of an online bibliotherapy group organized for teachers
10:35-11:05 Penelope Kolovou (Germany, Bielefeld University): “The Hero’s Journey” for teachers’ well-being. A therapeutic expressive writing intervention
11:05-11:35 Maja Cvjetković (Croatia, Construction Technical School in Rijeka): Creative Bibliotherapy – Examples of Good Practice
11:35-11:55 Q & A session
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-13:30 Sandra Barăo Nobre (Portugal, University of Lisboa): Bibliotherapy Circles in Portuguese Schools
13:35-14:05 Ivana Bašić and Iva Šišak (Croatia, Balance Center for Bibliotherapy and Logopedagogy, Zagreb): Bibliotherapy laboratory – cycle of experiential and educational workshops
14:05-14:35 Kvetoslava Kotrbova (Slovakia, Comenius University Bratislava): Bibliotherapy as a part of therapeutic education in Slovakia
14:35-15:05 Manca Marinčič (Slovenia, University of Ljubljana): An Example of Bibliotherapeutic Reading of a Short Story
15:05-15:25 Q & A session
15:25- 15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:15 Morkus Dusevičius and Neringa Lašienė (Lithuania, Lithuanian Bibliotherapy Association): Bibliotherapy in Lithuanian prisons: needs, challenges and opportunities
16:15-16:45 Zeynep Gözde Şen and Funda Yeșil (Turkey, Rami Library, İstanbul Medeniyet University): Bibliotherapy practices in Türkiye: the case of Rami Library
16:45-17:15 Zsuzsa Borbély (Hungary, Hungarian Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy): Experiences and challenges of movie, tv-series and adaptation bibliotherapy practice
17:15-17:35 Q & A session
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Workshop Schedule
1st day Friday, 4 October
10:15-11:45 Workshop series A (3 workshops running paralelly)
• Room Boróka: Anne Taylor (United Kingdom, Professional Writing Academy): The poetic body – using mindful movement to inspire poetry and transformation
• Room Kankalin: Dome Bulfaro (Italy, Poetry Therapy Italia, Associazione Mille Gru, University of Verona, BiPo – Associazione Italiana Biblio/poesiaterapia): The Kintsugi writing® Kintsugi story, poem and quatrain
• Room Bodza: Eyal Ivnitsky (Israel, Ha-Mila The Israeli Bilbiotherapy Center): Poetry Therapy Interventions: The 3 Working Pivots model
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:45-15:15 Workshop series B (3 workshops running in parallel)
• Room Boróka: Geraldine Campbell and David Madden (Ireland, Irish Poetry Therapy Network, IAPOETRY): “When the universal becomes personal” Working with Trauma
• Room Kankalin: Tamar Kichli Borochovsky (Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Efrat Kuris Borochovsky (Israel, independent practitioner): Literature as a family member and as a family therapist: Writing a life story with the elderly as a means of unraveling unconscious layers through family bibliotherapy
• Room Bodza: Efrat Havusha-Feldman (Israel, Ha-Mila The Israeli Bilbiotherapy Center): How to heal a wounded story
15:25-15:45 Coffee break
16:20-17:50 Workshop series C (3 workshops running in parallel) Room Boróka, Kankalin, Bodza
• Room Boróka: Helena Broms (Sweden, Swedish Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, The Library Association’s expert network for Bibliotherapy): Climate worries – using stories to relieve for young adults
• Room Kankalin: Reinekke Lengelle and Jon Sayers (Canada & The Netherlands, Athabasca University/The Hague University & United Kingdom, Independent Scholar): The Choir Within You: Cacophony to Harmony
• Room Bodza: Eszter Csorba-Simon (Hungary, University of Pécs, Hungarian Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy): The Therapeutic Potential of Lyrics. Bibliotherapy in prison
2nd day Saturday, 5 October
Workshop series D 10:15-11:45 (3 workshops running in parallel)
• Room Boróka: Eva Selin (Sweden, Läsfirman) Silverbook. A Poetry Mirror of the Unconscious
• Room Kankalin: Foteini Dimitriou (Greece, independent practitioner): Chair Yoga and reflective Poetry writing
• Room Bodza: Irene Monge (Italy, BiPo – Associazione Italiana Biblio/poesiaterapia): Narrative-philosophical practice with Plato’s Myth of the Cave
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
Workshop series E 13:45-15:15 (3 workshops running in parallel)
• Room Boróka: Annamari Typpö (Finland, Finnish Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy: Narratives of Birth: Exploring Maternal Stories through Biblio/Poetry Therapy
• Room Kankalin: Berit Kaschan (Estonia, Biblionaut: Our Grandmothers and their Blessings
• Room Bodza: Fani Giannakopoulou and Ruth Bezzina (Greece & Malta, University of West Attica, University of Malta): Encounters of Being: Unearthing Power in Personal Narratives for Connection and Healing
15:25-15:45 Coffee break
Workshop series F 15:55-17:25 (3 workshops running in parallel)
• Room Boróka: Dr. Mari Alschuler (Ohio, USA, Youngstown State University): Utilizing Poetry Therapy and Journaling with LGBTQ+ People
• Room Kankalin: Dimitra Didangelou (Belgium, Expressing MySelf Institute): From Nature's Wisdom to Inner Truth Through Book Pages
• Room Bodza: Beáta Berta and Ágnes Leichtman (Hungary, Hungarian Association for Biblio/ Poetry Therapy): Shining, Burning, or Being Burnt Out: Bibliotherapeutic Tools in Preventing Burnout
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
MagNet Közösségi Ház, Andrássy út 98, Budapest 1062, Magyarország,Budapest, Hungary
