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DEVELOPING
THE POSITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY IN KOSOVA Second
training seminar in Positive Psychotherapy |
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Since my meeting with positive psychotherapist in late 1999 in Vienna Congress of Psychotherapy, land-working of positive psychotherapy in Kosova was start. It was new experience in searching of meaning the concept of positive thinking, living, working, dealing, treating etc…The needs of positive concepts for Kosovar people after such trauma events, was more than important. In the following time after the establishing of Kosova Association for Psychotherapy, education of new generation of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and pedagogues in counseling and psychotherapy was one of the priorities of developing the mental health system in Kosova.
A small presentation in World Conference of Positive Psychotherapy in Wiesbaden 2000, was beginning in developing of Positive Psychotherapy in Kosova. Basic know ledges learned during the seminars, it was the very exciting and gives the enough motivation for chance in developing the psychotherapy in Kosova. In collaboration with WIAP and KAP( Kosova Association for Psychotherapy) first time was organized the training seminar in Kosova from Positive Psychotherapy.
The first seminar was organized from 9-11 May 2003 in
Prishtina University of Neuropsychiatry Clinic.
International Training Seminar was focused on “New Techniques in Psychosomatic Medicine
and Psychotherapy”
The
participated participants in that seminar were psychiatrists, general
practitioners, internal medicine, family doctors, nurses, clinical
psychologists, social workers, pedagogues and students of psychology. Total
number was 83.
Trainer was
Dr. Hamid Peseschkian, M.D., D.Med.Sc. from Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy.
The seminar was
consists of lectures, practical exercises, group work, self-discovery group.
Each of the
participants get the certificates of attendances in training seminar with 25
hours signed by WIAP and KAP.
After that,
three of our members had the advanced training seminars, in collaboration with
WIAP and three of them now have finished the basic course seminar.
The second training seminar was organized from 3-6 Jun 2004
in Prishtina University of Neuropsychiatry Clinic.
The first day was organized for the participants who didn’t
have chance to attended in previous seminar. It was introducing of Positive
Psychotherapy, the concepts in PP, balance models and some information about
the psychotherapy training. This first day was done by Enver Cesko,
psychotherapist.
The three other
days was follow up training on “New Techniques in Psychosomatic Medicine and
Psychotherapy II”. The trainer was Dr. Hamid Peseschkian from WIAP.
The seminar
was consists of lectures, practical exercises, group work, self-discovery
group, psychodrama and relaxation exercises
In the end of the seminar each of the
participants get the certificates of attendances in training seminar with 25
hours signed by WIAP and KAP.
Big number of participants was the students of psychology, last year of study, residents of psychiatry, family doctors and mental health workers, psychologists and pedagogues. The total numbers of participants were 78.
During the four days of training seminar activities, Kosovar delegation with Hamid Peseschkian had short meeting with chief of Psychology department in Prishtina University , prof.dr. Neki Juniku. The delegation discussed about the possibilities of certificate the graduated psychologist in psychotherapy and organizing the postgraduate studies for Master degree in family counseling. They also discussed for other legislative ways of developing the psychotherapy in Kosova doing the collaboration with WIAP and Prishtina University for Psychology.
We hope that coming days will shows some results of that collaboration.
Dear colleagues,
As you see the psychotherapy in Kosova is growing up and has good perspective of developing. Many of them are very motivated and have very positive energy of working in psychotherapy. We hope that for four or six years in Kosova we will have three or more certificate positive psychotherapist. In next training seminar which will be in Odessa our three colleagues will be graduated with certificates of basic course.
In the end let of this information I would like to end by one ancient story about the Nastraddin. The story is called
“The
rich and poor”
After the dryness which was taken for
months, in all city people was worry about food. But not all people died for
hunger: the rich people had been reserved enough wheat, oil, and stew meat. Cadi
said to Nastraddin:
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Nastraddin, all the citizens
consider you as a vice and important man. Don’t be empty-handed. Go to the
square and call the people and try to persuasive the rich with poor people to
share what they have. Nastraddin at least this time believed that his wife has
right. He done as she told and after two hours he came back with smile at home.
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Oh my dear wife.
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Did you succeed to persuasive them?
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It wasn’t so easy. I convinced only
the half of them.
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What does it mean only half ?
- But I succeed to persuasive the poor people.”
I hope that this training seminar start to convinced at least half of the audience from participants .Coming days are the challenges for the development of Kosova Association for Psychotherapy.
Hoping to see soon each other in Odessa,
Best regards and have a good summer holidays
Enver Cesko, MA
Presedent of Kosova Association for Psychotherapy