The primary task is to learn from the experience of exploring how unconscious and nonverbal communication and group dynamics shape Decision-Making processes and influences accountability and other aspects of living and working together.

LFA is aimed at developing fundamental competences for all those who work in residential or semi residential institutions, and more generally in mental health institutions. Such competences are highly valuable for a wide range of professionals such as educators, nurses, assistants, administrators, managers, consultants, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists, neuropsychiatrists, social workers, carers, etc. However, as has already been successfully experienced in the past editions, professionals working in other areas, like the section of profit and corporate worlds, are also most welcome to join the conference.

Learning from action is the methodology of this training. This means that other languages ​​are explored besides the verbal one. The focus of this Working Conference is to learn to give meaning to actions as constituting another language that conveys individual and group communications that are not expressed verbally because they are unconscious and not yet sufficiently elaborated to be mentalized.

Friday 17th October
11,45-12,45 Registrazione dei partecipanti e spuntino / registration and snack
13,00-14,00 Riunione Plenaria di apertura / Opening plenary
14,00-14,30 Pausa / Break
14,30-16,00 Riunione decisionale plenaria / Decision-making plenary
16,00-16,30 Pausa / Break
16,30-17,15 Gruppi decisionali 1 / Decision-making groups 1
17,15-18,45 Attività 1 / Activities 1
18,45-19,00 Pausa / Break
19,00-20,00 Riunione di comunità della sera 1 / Evening community meeting 1
20,00-20,15 Pausa / Break
20,15-21,45 Cena / Dinner
21,45-22,15 Tempo libero comunitario 1 / Community free time 1

Saturday 18th October
08,00-09,00 Colazione / Breakfast
09,00-10,00 Riunione di comunità del mattino 1 / Morning community meeting 1
10,00-10,30 Pausa / Break
10,30-11,00 Gruppi decisionali 2 / Decision-making groups 2
11,00-12,30 Attività 2 / Activities 2
12,30-14,00 Pranzo / Lunch
14,00-14,30 Tempo libero comunitario 2 / Community free time 2
14,30-14,45 Pausa / Break
14,45-15,15 Gruppi decisionali 3 / Decision-making groups 3
15,15-15,30 Pausa / Break
15,30-16,45 Gruppi di revisione / Rewiew groups
16,45-17,15 Pausa / Break
17,15-18,45 Attività 3 / Activities 3
18,45-19,00 Pausa / Break
19,00-20,00 Riunione di comunità della sera 2 / Evening community meeting 2
20,00-20,15 Pausa / Break
20,15-21,45 Cena / Dinner
21,45-22,15 Tempo libero comunitario 3 / Community free time 3

Sunday 19th October
07,00-08,00 Colazione / Breakfast
08,00-09,00 Riunione di comunità del mattino 2 / Morning community meeting 2
09,00-09,15 Pausa / Break
09,15-09,40 Gruppi decisionali / Decision-making groups 4
09,45-11,30 Gruppi di Applicazione / Application groups
11,35-12,45 Attività 4 / Activities 4
12,45-13,45 Pranzo / Lunch
13,45-14,15 Lavaggio piatti & pulizie conclusive / Washing up & cleaning
14,15-15,15 Riunione plenaria conclusiva / Closing plenary
15,15-15,30 Commiato / Leave taking (tempo libero comunitario 4 / Community free time 4)

Any changes to this programme will be decided according to Staff needs and shared with partecipants before and during the Event

Director – Luca Mingarelli
Psychologist, social enterpreneur, founder director and creator of Therapeutic Communities for Adolescents, President of the Charity Rosa dei Venti onlus, Past President of Il Nodo Group, Board member Mito&Realtà Scientific Association, Director of The National Network Therapeutic Community for Adolescent, Board member of International Network DemocraticTherapeutic Communities (INDTC), Board Member of The Consortium for Therapeutic Communities (TCTC). Director and Co-Director of LFA since 2011, LFA in Japan (2017 and 2019), of other GRCs in Italy (ALI, ECW) and abroad. Author of many volumes: Difficult Adolescents, an autobiography of a TC for adolescents; Roles in Therapeutic Community – life and care organization- (2018); Learning form Action: Working with the Non-Verbal with R.D.Hinshelwood (Phoenix 2022). Ambassador of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Third Paradise.

Associate Director– Lili Valkó
Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, group analyst from Budapest, Hungary. She has been working in various roles in the therapeutic community Thalassa Ház since 2007. She is an editor of the Hungarian psychotherapy journal “Pszichoterápia” and an active member of CSAKIT (Hungarian Association of Group Analysis). Member of the LFA staff several times since 2016.

Administrator – Federica Belosi (under the supervision of Stefano Rambelli)
Pedagogist specialized in planning and management of educational intervention in social hardship. She worked as an educator in facilities for intellectual disabilities and later as a coordinator in a community for minors. Since 2018 she has been coordinator of residential facilities for the La Pieve cooperative, (Ra), dealing to date with both intellectual disability and mental health, including in patients with dual diagnoses and/or criminal offenders. Since 2022, contact person in the psychiatric area for the Sol.co Ravenna consortium. She participated in two editions of LFA in 2022 and 2023, Administrator in training in LFA2024.

Consultants:

Stefano Rambelli
Psychologist, psychotherapist. Currently working with Sol.co Ravenna. For years he has been involved in therapeutic pathways and communities for patients with mental suffering, including criminals, and in the supervision and training of healthcare teams; he also provides consultancy, training for groups, organizations and institutions in both the Profit and No-Profit sectors. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of the Nodo Group, of the Board of Directors of Mito e Realtà and of the National Table for Mental Health of Federsolidarietà-Confcooperative

Mazal Menahem
Rehabilitation psychologist – supervisor, Ph.D. in clinical neuropsychology, EMDR Diploma and supervisor. Working in the community mental health center of Hevel Eilot in South Israel, previously as a manager. From 2006 to 2020, national director of trauma therapy and resilience development in the Israeli Ministry of education. Since 2006 co-director for national psychotherapy programs for children at risk. Teaching educational psychologists a psychoanalytical systems approach for intervention in school. Kibbutz Samar member.

Iwona Munia
Therapeutic community practitioner, Clinical Psychologist and Special Educational Needs teacher. She works at Community Housing and Therapy as Head of Learning and Development. Iwona has experience of working with vulnerable adults and children in variety of settings, including secure units, day centres and schools. She is interested in group work, group analysis and therapeutic communities and has been working with groups since the 2000s.

Scientific Supervisor (not present at the event): R.D. Hinshelwood
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, former Director of the Cassel Hospital in London. Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK

The A group’ s fee for the conference is €658,80 (vat included) in a double room and €732,00 (vat included) in a single room
The T group’ s fee for the conference is € 793,00 (vat included) in a double room and €866,20 (vat included) in a single room

Fees include participation to the whole Working Conference and overnight stay, including meals.
Request for any additional nights must be submitted to the Administrator

3 Special Fees are available to participants, the deadline is 15th September: Special Fees must be requested by mail using this email: lfa@ilnodogroup.it

There will be: a 10% discount for persons from abroad, from the organizations in partnership and for two participants from the same association or company, a 20% discount for three or more participants from the same organization (it’s possible to use only one kind of discount).

Administrator: Federica Belosi
e-mail: lfa@ilnodogroup.it
phone +393497813278
Application form: www.ilnodogroup.it

From a geographical point of view, Possagno is located in the north-east of Italy in the province of Treviso in Veneto, surrounded by mountains to the north and south, while in the other two directions it opens towards the towns of Cavaso del Tomba and Paderno del Grappa. It is a small cluster of houses surrounded by greenery in which the Temple of Canova stands out, located high above the rest of the town, and the imposing complex of the Cavanis Possagno Institute.

CO-SPONSOR:
Mito&Realtà

Partnership
AIRSAM – www.airsam.it

Cooperativa Sociale UTOPIA – Comunità Acquaviva www.cooputopia.it

FENASCOP – www.fenascop.it

Fondazione ROSA DEI VENTI onlus – www.rosadeiventi.org

MULBERRY BUSH SCHOOL – https://mulberrybush.org.uk

OPUS – www.opus.org.uk

OFEK – http://www.ofek-groups.org

SIRPLo – https://riabilitazionepsicosociale.it (voce : Sezioni regionali)

TCTC – www.therapeuticcommunities.org

Thalassa Haz T.C. – www.thalassahaz.hu

Cooperativa Sociale LE VELE Onlus – www.levelemilano.it

The Network of Therapeutic Communities in Japan – www.reflective-tc.jimdofree.com

Metanoia Instituutti – https://www.metanoiainstituutti.fi

International Network of Democratic Therapeutic Communities – www.indtc.org

China American Society of Studying Group and Organization (Cassgo) – 中美团体与组织研究学会 (cassgo.cn)

Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems – www.csgss.org

C.O.I.R.A.G. www.coirag.org

Lituanian group relation society

Group relation international

AKRIce https://www.akriceinstitute.org/

Società psicoanalitica italiana

C.N.C.A. Coordinamento Nazionale Comunita’ Di Accoglienza https://www.cnca.it/

CHT Community Housing and Therapy’s https://cht.org.uk/

INTERSTICIA https://intersticia.org/

La Pieve Cooperativa Sociale onlus – www.lapieve.it

Il Porto onlus http://www.ilporto.org/

Laura Cooperativa Sociale onlus – www.cooperativalaura.it

Consorzio Sol.co Ravenna Cooperativa Sociale- www.solcoravenna.it

Italian Society of Epidemiological Psychiatry (SIEP) https://siep.it/