THIRD WORLD CONFERENCE

2-3-4-5 June 2022 Arezzo
Auditorium Business and Convention Center

Best practice: the evolutionary adaptations of the therapeutic technique fitting to the evolution of psychopathologies

For the first time, a truly global conference will be held because it will take place in presence in Italy and with direct connections with congress halls at our official offices, to which other halls organized by institutes connected with the CTS in the world will be added.

The congress will be translated into different languages ​​simultaneously by the heads of the worldwide offices of the Strategic Therapy Center

In the event that the regulations in force prevent it from taking place in person, the entire congress will be held online

Official Locations

French: Gregoire Vitrie

Spain: Maria Matin de Pozuelo

Russia: Elena Pervisheva

Perù: Ricardo de la Cruz

Mexico: Liliana Velarde 

Bolivia: Norman Romei

Colombia: Maria Andrea Hernandez 

Costa Rica: Gabriella D'Arsiè

England: Padraic Gibson

Belgium: IGB Institute

Usa: Cristian Moretto and Flavia Liguori

Chile: Evelyn Leighton

Paraguay: Leticia Diaz

The conference

Il Third World Conference of the Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy World Network (BSST) it is designed as a sort of sequence of specialized refresher seminars: the therapeutic strategies and tricks that have been developed in recent years to maintain the high efficacy and efficiency of the approach to the observed evolutions in psychopathological dynamics will be proposed.

It is important to consider that mental and behavioral disorders have evolved over time, this has made it necessary to readjust therapeutic techniques, even well-known disorders in the strategic tradition over time have highlighted developments and changes, which have required variations and readjustments of strategies of intervention.

To this we must add that in recent times new clinical problems have emerged in relation to the great changes in communication, relationships and lifestyles. All this has made it essential to develop new expedients and therapeutic maneuvers. Even therapy responds to the laws of evolution, if it does not adapt sooner or later it succumbs to reality.                     

By virtue of all this, Brief Strategic Psychotherapy satisfies the fundamental criteria of a scientific discipline: efficacy, efficiency, replicability, transmissibility and predictivity, demonstrating in the facts as well as in its epistemology to possess rigor and at the same time be driven by creativity and inventiveness never dissociated. with proven empirical efficacy.

Speakers


The most important exponents of the Brief Strategic and Systemic Psychotherapy model

Location


Arezzo Business and Convention Center Auditorium
2-3-4-5 Giugno 2022

Program


A full immersion in the world of psychology, psychotherapy and performance science

How to register


Choose your mode of participation by purchasing online

Attend the 3rd BSST World Conference

2-3-4-5 June 2022 at the Auditorium Centro Affari e Convegni in Arezzo

Speakers

George Nardone

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Jean Jacques Wittezael

Psychotherapist and teacher

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Stefan Geyerhofer

Stefan Geyerhofer

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Gregory Vitry

Sociologist and teacher

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Claudette Portelli

Psychotherapist and teacher

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Joan Celia

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Stephen Pallanti

Psychiatrist and university professor

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Jeffrey B. Jackson

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Jade Pietrabissa

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Ferdinand Wolf

Psychologist and teacher

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Elisa Balbi

Psychotherapist and teacher

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Camillo Loriedo

Psychiatrist and university professor

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Padraic Gibson

Psychologist and teacher

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Gianluca Castelnuovo

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Michael Hoyt with F. Cannistrà

Psychologist and psychotherapist

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Robert Milanese

Psychologist and psychotherapist

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Program

  • June 2 2022
  • June 3 2022
  • June 4 2022
  • June 5 2022
13:30/14:30

Conference registration

14:30/15:00

20 years of BSST narrated by the three creators

Stefan Geyerhofer - Jean Jacques Wittezaele - Giorgio Nardone
15:00/17:15

Dialogue between mind, brain, logic and therapeutic languages

Giorgio Nardone - Stefano Pallanti - Jean Jacques Wittezaele

Epistemology, neuroscience and Brief Strategic Therapy

17:15/17:45

Interaction with the audience

17:45/19:30

Getting the numbers to talk: Research methodologies to increase therapeutic efficacy.

Giorgio Nardone - Jeffrey B. Jackson - Padraic Gibson - Stefan Geyerhofer - Gianluca Castelnuovo - Gregoire Vitry
  • Empirical research for the development of therapeutic techniques
  • Empirical research on the language of therapy
  • Research methodology for the validation of results: evidence based research and longitudinal empirical research in the field
  • Proposals for other investigation methods
19:30/20:00

Interaction with the audience

 

 

09:30/11:45

A good start is half the battle: Advanced techniques for the first session

Giorgio Nardone - Michael Hoyt with F. Cannistrà - Ferdinand Wolf with Andrea Leonardi
  • Evolution of the Miracle Demand and Other Solution-Focused Therapy Techniques
  • Evolution of the Single Session Therapy technique
  • Evolution of the technique of strategic dialogue and hypnotherapy without trance
11:45/12:15

Interaction with the audience

12:15/13:15

Demonstration with Giorgio Nardone

George Nardone
13:15/14:30

Lunch break

14:30/16:30

The most love how feared pathologies: the evolved treatment of eating disorders

Giorgio Nardone - Gianluca Castelnuovo - Jeffrey B. Jackson - Elisa Valteroni
  • Juvenile anorexia
  • Adult anorexia
  • binge eating 
  • voting
  • Bulimia
  • Uncontrolled feeding
16:30/17:00

Interaction with the audience

17:00/19:00

The pursuit of missed pleasure: The advanced treatment of sexual disorders and more

Giorgio Nardone - Stefan Geyerhofer - Jean Jacques Wittezaele - Elisa Balbi
  • anorgasmia
  • Inability to erect
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Phobia of female and male penetration
  • Compulsive cyber sex
  • Hyper sexual transgression and forms of violence
19:00/19:30

Interaction with the audience

09:30/11:45

Art and technology of psychotherapy: The advanced treatment of phobic-obsessive disorders, specific phobias and phobic obsessions

Giorgio Nardone - Jean Jacques Wittezaele - Roberta Milanese
  • Panic attacks
  • Pathophobia
  • Hypochondria
  • Monophobias
  • Phobic fixations
  • Agoraphobia vs claustrophobia
  • Projective phobias
11:45/12:15

Interaction with the audience

12:15/13:15

Demonstration with Giorgio Nardone

George Nardone
13:15/14:30

Lunch break

14:30/16:00

Art and technology of therapy: The advanced treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its variants

Giorgio Nardone - Padraic Gibson - Claudette Portelli - Jeff Jackson
  • Obsession with recheck
  • Compulsion to sanitation
  • Hoarding and holding mania
  • Propitiatory rituals
  • Compulsions based on pleasure
  • Preventive Compulsivity
16:00/19:00

Long-term short-term psychotherapy

Giorgio Nardone - Camillo Loriedo - Stefano Pallanti - Jean Jacques Wittezaele - Giovanna Celia

The evolution of the treatment of borderline personality disorders and major depression, chronic diseases

19:00/19:30

Interaction with the audience

09:00/11:00

Post-congress workshop with Giorgio Nardone - Beyond oneself: art and science of Performance

George Nardone
  • In the mind of the performer

11:00/11:15

Pause

11:15/12:15

Perceptual-cognitive styles and performance

George Nardone

 

 

12:15/13:30

Lunch break

 

 

13:30/14:30

Change while remaining yourself: create strategic flexibility

George Nardone

 

 

14:30/15:30

The performative trance: Learning to enter the state of grace

George Nardone

 

 

15:30/16:30

Invent and act: Suggestive rituality

George Nardone

 

 

16:30/16:45

Pause

 

 

16:45/18:00

Demonstration with volunteers and interaction with the public

George Nardone

 

 

Live participation prices

* MAX NUMBER OF SEATS

Online participation prices

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FAQ

How can I sign up?

To register for the Conference just fill out the online form that you find in the "Attend the conference"Of this site. You will be able to pay comfortably with your credit or debit card even if you do not have a PayPal account.

Who is participation open to?

Graduates in psychology and medicine, psychologists and doctors can participate in the event. 

Where and when does the 3rd World Congress take place?

The 3rd World Conference of the BSST World Network will be held from 2 to 5 June at the Auditorium Centro Affari e Convegni in Arezzo and online.

Can I participate in a single day?

Yes, it is possible to register only for the single day of Sunday 5th June. During the registration phase you can choose whether to participate in all 4 days of the Conference or on a single day on Sunday.

Can I sign up even if I don't have a Paypal account?

Yes sure. Once the procedure for entering personal data has been completed, you will be redirected to the Paypal site. Just click on the "Pay with a card" button and you can make the purchase by entering your card details in the appropriate text field.

Can I pay by bank transfer?

No, payment can be made by card through the online registration form.

Can I have an invoice?

Yes sure. You can indicate the header of the invoice in the registration field of the form at the time of purchase. When you receive the payment confirmation email, you will find the invoice in "xml" format attached.

Is the release of the certificate of participation expected?

Yes, the Strategic Therapy Center, at the end of the event, will issue the certificate of participation in the Third World Conference of the Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy World Network.

What if I have an unforeseen event and cannot participate?

The participant can request a refund within 15 days from the date scheduled for the Conference. After this date it will no longer be possible to request refunds.

I don't speak Italian will there be a translation?

Yes, thanks to the managers of the Strategic Therapy Center offices around the world, the consecutive translation of the Congress will be carried out for online participants.

The BSST profile

Our story

The Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy World Network was founded by the 700 participants present at the 1st European Conference (held in Arezzo in November 2003) which, gathered for 4 days, analyzed the evolutions of mental health problems, comparing the models that practice psychotherapy, together with the research activity, had developed in the last decades in parallel in Europe and in the rest of the world.

Thanks to that comparison, it was clearly highlighted how some European researchers had perfected Advanced treatment protocols for specific pathologies, as well as the wording of Communication techniques that have extraordinarily increased the effectiveness and efficiency of treatments, both in the clinical setting and in organizational contexts.

The pragmatic application of the strategic and systemic approach to human interactions has revealed that it is one of the most effective operational models for solving interactive and psychopathological problems without any use of drugs.

Realizing the scientific relevance and importance that all this could mean, they decided to create a network called "Network of Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy", involving the most illustrious exponents with the task of expanding research at an international level and comparing the Models in different cultures and social contexts, facilitate publications, organize meetings in order to create an elites of professionals with the aim of promoting the development and dissemination of knowledge derived from the evolution of Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy.
On that occasion, Prof. Giorgio Nardone, Director of the Strategic Therapy Center in Arezzo, was unanimously elected Coordinator of the Network.

Mission

  • Helping people, families and all those extended human systems (organizations, associations, groups) that are confronted with suffering and / or difficulties that limit their possibilities
  • Organize at least every 3 years an international conference for the presentation of the most advanced researches both in the field of communication and therapy of mental and behavioral disorders
  • Offer the members of the Network the most recent acquisitions concerning the main issues of brief therapy, advanced research, in order to identify ever shorter and more effective treatments
  • Identify communication and problem solving models that quickly trigger the necessary change within organizational systems.

Accomplished results

We have created an international network present in 32 countries which includes professionals from public and private bodies, research and training institutes.
The recognition of the ONLINE published journal "Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy European Review" (ISSN 1826-3992) freely disseminated all over the world, to disseminate the most significant contributions of scholars and researchers by stimulating as much as possible the interactions between training, practice, theory and research

Affiliation

All participants in the International Congress will automatically have the right to become associates of the Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy World Network, at no cost.

This is to avoid, unlike other international scientific associations, the establishment of any type of speculative lobby or closed circle for adepts only, but to create a space for exchange and constant evolution of the technique in the field of psychotherapy.

Scientific Committee

  • Paul WatzlawickHonorary President - 25/07/1921 - 31/03/2007
  • George NardoneBBST World Network Coordinator
  • Elkaim Mony07/11/1941 - 20/11/2020
  • William Gulotta
  • Camillo Loriedo
  • Enrique Molinari
  • Enrico Pio Ricci Bitti
  • Alessandro Salvini
  • Saulo Sirigatti04/07/1933 - 17/08/2021
  • Teresa Garcia13/01/1958 - 31/01/2019
  • Stefan Geyerhofer
  • Wendel Ray
  • Jean Jacques Wittezael
  • Gianfranco Cecchin22/08/1932 - 02/02/2004
  • Andrew Leonardi

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