Programme for XII Nordic Conference 2025 in Group Psychoterapy
Thursday 11.09.2025
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12.00 – 13.00: Welcome registration
13.00 – 14.15: A light Lunch is served
14.15 – 15.00: Opening Ceremony by Marianne Malm and Susanne Broeng – (Plenum). Download the speach here
15.00 – 16.30: Keynote lecture: Exploring personal experiences of perceived violations and the sensitivity (or readiness) to feel offended by Emma Holten, author and activist, hosted by Helle Knudsen – (Plenum)
16.30 – 17.00: Break
17.00 – 18.30: Large group by Birthe Johansen and Lars Bo Jørgensen, hosted by Trine Østergaard – (Plenum)
19.00: Welcome Ceremony (we meet in the reception) by Trine Østergaard and Helle Knudsen. We are out of the Hotel in about an hour – pls. bring practical footwear and maybee a jacket or a raincoat. A glass of wine will be served
After the Welcome Ceremony the programme ends for Thursday – see you Friday morning
Friday 12.09.2025
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08.30 – 09.45: Social Dreaming by Susanne Broeng – (Plenum)
09.45 – 10.15: Break
10.15 – 11.45: Keynote lecture: Violation in a context of diversity and complexity – a case study on the collaboration between professionals from Copenhagen municipality and LGBT+ families by Manon de Jongh, hosted by Susanne Broeng – (Plenum)
11.45 – 13.00: Lunch
13.00 – 14.15: Keynote lecture: The unspeakable: No – trying to talk. Boundary issues at work in therapy groups at a Danish treatment facility for adults who suffer long term consequences of child sexual abuse, by Anne-Helene Døssing, hosted by Manon de Jongh – (Plenum)
14.15 – 14.45: Break
14.45 – 16.00: Parallel sessions/workshops with paper presentation: Working with transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) persons in group therapy by Martin Rosmo Hansen, (Room “Storsalen”), hosted by Susanne Broeng, and How to protect the small group in a big organisation by Eva Pacini, (Room 6), hosted by Helle Knudsen. Shared Leadership – at the Intersection of Art and Psychodynamic Organisational Psychology – Workshop by Morten Svalgaard, (Plenum), moderated by Trine Østergaard
16.00 – 16.30: Break
16.30 – 18.00: Median group (Plenum & “Storsalen”) by Helle Knudsen and Trine Østergaard, hosted by Marianne Malm – (Plenum)
19.00: Galla Dinner in “Storsalen” – Dress code are nice and informal.
Saturday 13.09.2025
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08.30 – 09.45: Social Dreaming Group by Susanne Broeng – (Plenum)
09.45 – 10.15: Break
10.15 – 11.45: Keynote lecture: How can men be allies in the fight against sexual harassment? by Kenneth Reinicke, hosted by Manon de Jongh – (Plenum)
11.45 – 12.00: Short break for reflections before lunch are ready
12.00 – 13.00: Lunch
13.00 – 14.15: Keynote lecture: Minority stress – on the psychological consequences of othering and the need for a pedagogy of discomfort by Iram Khawaja, hosted by Helle Knudsen – (Plenum)
14.15 – 14.30: Break
14.30 – 16.00: Large group by Birthe Johansen and Lars Bo Jørgensen, hosted by Manon de Jongh – (Plenum)
16.00 – 16.15: End of the Conference and Goodbye, hosted by Marianne Malm and Susanne Broeng – (Plenum)
XII Nordic Conference in Group Psychotherapy,
First Hotel Grand, Odense, september 11.-13.2025
Hosted by IGA, Aarhus and IGA, Copenhagen
Location is:
First Hotel Grand
Jernbanegade 18
5000 Odense C
Tel. +45 66 11 71 71
Conference Language is Scandinavian/English
