Training workshop on the Narrative of Hope ballots, in therapeutic work with families of missing persons, abductees and returning hostages

background:

The events of October 7th and the "Iron Swords" War created a complex reality of dealing with a unique trauma that has not been studied in Israel until now, and the therapeutic experience in it is limited. Veteran therapists from all over the country, trauma specialists and long-term treatment experts in various approaches have come forward for this unique therapeutic work since October 7th.

This training is part of a therapeutic tool in the constructive narrative approach. By working on hard truths, adaptation, and hope, it enables long-term work with individuals, couples, families, and groups who are dealing with a loved one who is missing, kidnapped, or held hostage, a missing person whose whereabouts are unknown, or even a hostage who is struggling with his or her absence and the absence of loved ones.

In this workshop, we will learn about the unique treatment stages for blunt trauma that Prof. Pauline Boss has identified from her many years of work, and which have been translated into therapeutic practice by her and Dr. Sarah.

The cards were created in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Weiland and the MISSED FOUNDATION.

Each participant will receive the Tikvah Narrative Card Set translated into Hebrew during the workshop.

Participation in the workshop is conditional on participation in the seminar "The Narrative Approach to Treating Ambiguous Loss and Narrative Cards of Hope" or on watching its recording, which will be sent to registrants after the seminar itself (24.01.25).

schedule:

8:00 -8:30 Gathering

8:30-9:20 Opening large group meeting - community

9:20-10:00 Personal meeting with myself

10:00-11:00 Pairing Session – The Dyad

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Small group meeting – the family

12:30-13:30 Summary – Large Group – Community

Workshop description :

• The workshop will provide a space for personal and group familiarization with the cards while experiencing them personally.

• Therapists will be able to bring themselves in as part of a collective that experiences trauma in its development, and who simultaneously treat the cycles of trauma.

• The training is based on the work and guidance of Prof. Sarah Weiland and Prof. Pauline Boss's approach to the trauma of ambiguous loss.

Workshop objectives:

• A workshop to train therapists who deal with the trauma of vague loss and frozen grief, using the cards of the narrative of hope.

• Introduction to working with the cards in the personal, dyadic (couple), family, group, and community therapy space.

• Training therapists in practice in accordance with their work in Israel.

Target audience:
Specialist and intern psychologists, clinical social workers or social workers with bachelor's and master's degrees with experience in therapeutic work, expressive and creative therapists with master's degrees, psychiatrists, clinical criminologists, master's degree students in psychology.

About the lecturer:

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.

Workshop date: Friday, February 7, 2025, between 8:00 AM and 1:45 PM.

• The workshop will be held at the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Academic College.

• Each participant in the workshop will receive a set of cards at the end.