The events of October 7 and the "Iron Swords" War created a complex reality of dealing with a unique trauma that has not been studied in Israel so far, and therapeutic experience is also limited. Veteran therapists from all over the country, trauma specialists, and long-term treatment experts in various approaches have come together for this unique therapeutic work since October 7. This group is an ongoing training and educational group for working with the Tikvah Narrative Cards for therapists who are actually engaged in long-term accompaniment of families of missing persons, abductees, and returnees in the circles of vague trauma and its unique treatment stages.

Training group description:

The training group will provide continuing education for therapists who are engaged in long-term treatment of trauma and absence cycles. The group will be accompanied by theoretical learning, practical tools and work models from the professional experience of the facilitators, and a direct connection to knowledge and experts around the world. The group is based on bringing a study case, in each session a different therapist brings a case for learning, each week through a learning protocol tailored to the topic. In addition, the group will meet for two frontal training sessions.

Goals of the training group:

✓ Acquiring knowledge and professional language in the field of blunt trauma and frozen grief.

✓ Personal space for group support therapists.

✓ Training therapists in existing practice and models in accordance with their work in Israel for ongoing work in the field of blunt trauma.

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 intended to help build a personal narrative in the frozen grief process.

*Course participants will receive the Narrative of Hope card set as part of the course.

About the lecturer:

Galit Itzhaki Dreizin , Jungian psychotherapist, MSW, criminal profiler. Specializes in the field of absence

For over a decade, both in Israel and in the therapeutic research arena worldwide, she has been an instructor of therapists in the Tikva Narrative Cards.

About the Hope Narrative Cards: