Online Seminar: 
The social Brain

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Friday september 18th 
Saturday september 19th 

French to english simultaneous translation

Boris Cyrulnik is one of the most relevant voices today in the field of mental health. He is an international reference in the study of resilience. His extensive interdisciplinary epistemological framework is pioneering for its integration of the human sciences, ethology and for the understanding of the brain and neurosciences as an integral part of human development. This integrates the understanding of the human brain with social context, relationships, love and human bonds. 

This seminar will focus on the brain as a social organ. Its construction through interpersonal relationships from an interdisciplinary perspective, in which both biological and relational aspects will be discussed and how these influence each other. 

Attendees will have the opportunity to understand how bonds, experience, language, meaning, and the construction of one’s own reality are all closely linked to biology, the brain and human development. From here we will discuss mental health prevention and treatment, health and pathology, neuro-emotional development through the life cycle and the importance of resilience. 




Who is this seminar for?


Mental health professionals and other professionals interested in the social brain: psiquiatrists, psicologists, psychotherapists, neuropsychologists, teachers, social workers, research groups, students, etc. 

Boris Cyrulnik


French neurologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and ethologist. He is professor and director of studies at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the University of Sud Toulon and head of the clinical ethology research team at the Hospital de Toulon. Author of more than twenty books in French with translations in several languages dedicated to working with the person and their capacity for resilience and different emotional needs.

He has dedicated his life to working on the concept of Resilience. A concept that is defined as the human ability to overcome and get stronger after being subjected to the effects of adversity; the Cambridge dictionary defines the term resilient as “able to be happy, successful, etc. again after something difficult or bad has happened” 


In the words of Cirulnik himself:

“The definition of Resilience could not be simpler: it is starting a new development after a trauma. There cannot be a simpler definition. The tricky thing is to discover what conditions allow it, that is, security, recovery, relationships and culture. You have to put all this together to answer that question."

His work exposes the need for people to strengthen the bonds of care and affection. They transcend the survival of the individual, granting an internal-relational structure to the person in their context. Structure that is formed through the delicate contribution and perception of conscious and non-conscious memory that conditions and sculpts the way each human being has to face adverse situations in his life. 


Online program
Day 1
Friday september 18. 
From 9:00 to 17:30.

9:00-9:20 Registration – Attendee orientation in the use of the interactive platform.

9:20-9:35 Inauguration - (D. Doumpioti with J. Barudy)

9:35–10:25 The social brain with Boris Cyrulnik.            
Psychobiological development and developmental traumas. The influence of stress and adverse situations in brain psychobiological brain development and the importance of creating secure emotional and continued bonds. 

10:25–10:40 About the social brain, Cyrulnik talks with J. Barudy.

10:40-10:55 Break

10.55-11.20 The social brain: Observations from child systemic trauma therapy.
Jorge Barudy

11:20-11:50 Q&A 

11:50-12:05 Break

12:05-13:00 The first 1000 days.
B.Cyrulnik
Early childhood and early childhood experiences in the development of the attachment bond. Acquisition of neuro-emotional protection factors and critical periods of vulnerability or resilience to abuse.

13:00-13:15 Break

13:15-13:40: The mother’s first 500 days. 
Contributions from neuroscience.
Erika Barba-Müller 

13:40-14:00: Q&A

14:00-15:30 Lunch break 

15:30-16:20 Pain and suffering. 
B.Cyrulnik
Mistreatment, abuse and negligence. Early relational trauma and its effects. Acute chronic stressors. Family and psychosocial stressors. 

16:20-16:35 About pain and suffering; Cyrulnik talks with J. Barudy.
 
16:35-16:50 Break 

16:50-17:15 Teenage pain and suffering. Observations from Family Therapy. 
Ana Caparrós 

17:15-17:30 Q&A

Day 2
Saturday september 19.
From 9:15 to 14:30.

9:15-9:30 – Check in (Short space for any technical issues with the use of the online platform).

9:30-10:20 Traumatic memory and transmission. 
B.Cyrulnik
Intergenerational transition of psychosocial trauma, from attachment to attachment wounds. Transmitting means of love. Inheriting hell. Memory and guilt. Interpreting what has been transmitted.

10:20-10.35 Break 

10:35-10:50 About traumatic memory and transmission, Cyrulnik talks with J. Barudy 

10:50-11:00 Q&A

11:00-11.15 Break 

11.15 -12.05 Theory of spirit; faith as a factor of resilience. 
B.Cyrulnik 
Faith as a resilient factor. Religiosity as a resilient factor, similarity with good attachment effects during early years. Adaptative advantages of religion. Analysis of the need for belief. The dangers of fundamentalism. 

12:05-12:20 Break 

12:20-12:45: Faith as a factor of resilience: Observations from a spiritual and religious care. 
Antoni Boix

12:45-13:10 Q&A 

13:10-13:25 Break

13:25-14:15 Narrative of resilience. Boris Cyrulnik and Jorge Barudy. 
Cultural beliefs, the way in which others see our pain and talk to us about them. Structure of traumatizing events; the development of subject’s history before the tragedy and how this can affect positively or negatively in the re-signification process. Disposition of resilient factors of support. Narrative as a path to illuminate the subject’s world and provide coherence. 

14:15-14:30 Closing statement. 

* Program Subject to possible modifications. *

Panelists


Jorge Barudy 

Neuropsychiatrist, child psychiatrist, psychotherapist and family therapist.

Founder of EXIL in Brussels (Belgium), Barcelona (Spain) and Chile (Medical-psycho-social center for victims of violence, torture and violation of Human Rights) and co-founder, in 2000, of the IFIV Institute (Instituto training and action research on the consequences of violence and the promotion of resilience) in Barcelona.

Since 2008 he co-directs the training program and teaches the "Postgraduate Diploma in Systemic Child Trauma Therapy" aimed at professionals in psychology, psychiatry and other related disciplines, which is held in Barcelona, Donostia and Malaga (Spain) and Viña del Mar (Chile).


Erika Barba-Müller 

Doctor in Neurosciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​her thesis led to the discovery that the mother's brain changes structurally during pregnancy. He has scientific publications in this regard in high impact journals such as Nature Neuroscience and Human Brain Mapping, among others. 

She currently also practices as psychotherapist and psychoanalyst at the Barcelona Psychoanalytic Institute. She attends sessions in her private practice in the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Unit of the Sant Pere Claver Health Foundation.


Ana Caparrós

Psychologist, Couple and Family Therapist at La Casa Therapeutics and Teacher-Supervisor at ESBA (Systemic School).

Current president of the Spanish Federation of Family Therapy (FEATF). Psychologist since 1994 and accredited family and couple therapist in 2005. She has a Health Center (The Therapeutic House) in Cartagena where she serves families and couples. At his school, ESBA teaches the supervision program accredited by FEATF and Sanidad.



Antoni Boix

Diploma in Nursing and Postgraduate in Health Education Methodology for the UB. He is currently studying the Degree in Religious Sciences at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of Barcelona and training in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis at ALEA. He worked as a Nurse from 1992 to 2014, when he began his dedication to spiritual care at the San Juan de Dios Health Park in Sant Boi de Llobregat, a responsibility that includes care, teaching, management and research tasks. During this stage, she has completed the Postgraduate Program in Humanization and Spiritual Care in Plural Societies at the University of Barcelona (University School of Nursing. San Juan de Dios Teaching Campus).

Psychologist, Couple and Family Therapist at La Casa Therapeutics and Teacher-Supervisor at ESBA (Systemic School).

Current president of the Spanish Federation of Family Therapy (FEATF). Psychologist since 1994 and accredited family and couple therapist in 2005. She has a Health Center (The Therapeutic House) in Cartagena where she serves families and couples. At his school, ESBA teaches the supervision program accredited by FEATF and Sanidad.


Moderator

Dimitra Doumpioti

Directora del centro
Founder and Director of Hestía.

She is licensed with a degree in Psychology from the University of Manchester, UK. A degree in Transpersonal Psychology from the University of Liverpool. A Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis from the University of Barcelona and a Master's degree in Systemic Family Therapy from UAB, Barcelona.

She has worked as a researcher, therapist, trainer and consultant with major institutions such as the University of Manchester, the Max Planck Institute (Germany), the Province of Barcelona and the Hospital de Sant Pau, among others.

She teaches courses in family therapy, psychology and provides coaching to public and private institutions. She is also Academic Assistant of the Department of People Management and Organisation of ESADE Business & Law School.

Practices in Spanish, English and Greek.

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Prices: 


Mental health professionals ......... 160€
College students................................125€

Groups (5 people)..............................600€ 



IMPORTANT INFO: 

*To access the group discount all members of a group need to complete the registration form mentioning in the “comments” section that they are part of a group and all the names of the applicants of the group. After we receive all the forms of a group we will send an online payment link with the corresponding discount. 

** In the event that the seminar is suspended for reasons beyond the control of the Hestia center, a refund of the registration may be claimed.

*** In the event that an attendee will not be able to attend for personal reasons, we cannot refund the fee but the inscription can be transferred to another person. If this is the case please contact us at actividades@thestia.es to process the transfer. 


          
          
   Meet Cyrulnik

To meet Cyrulnik and get to know more about his work you can watch the following video, an interview by BBVA (in spanish):

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