Description of the training group:

The Ripples group is a follow-up group to the Maagan and Siphon groups. It is a space for learning discourse for therapists who are in an ongoing therapeutic process in the trauma cycles of missing persons - abductees, hostages returning to family and community. The group is a group for integration, processing and joint thinking of the therapists, accompanied by theoretical learning, practical tools and models of work from the instructor's professional experience, in direct connection to knowledge and experts in the world, and in connection with therapists who bring relevant connections from their professional experience. The group is based on bringing a study case, so that in each meeting a different therapist brings a case for learning. In each meeting we discuss a theory adapted to the topic.

Goals of the training group:

✓ Continue to acquire knowledge and connect existing knowledge on the topic of vague loss and frozen grief.

✓ Personal space for therapists in group support.

✓ Training therapists in existing practice and models in accordance with their work in Israel.

About the instructor:

Galit Itzhaki Dreizin, Jungian psychotherapist, MSW, criminal profiler. Has been working in the field of absences for over a decade both in Israel and in the therapeutic research arena worldwide, and is a therapist instructor in the Narrative of Hope cards.

About the Hope Narrative Cards:

The cards were developed by the organization Missed, which aims to help families and friends of missing people cope with the ambiguous loss they experience. The cards were created in collaboration between experts in the field and families who have experienced such a loss.

They can be used independently at home or as part of psychological therapy, and are designed to help build a personal narrative in the frozen grief process.