You have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the list of all events and activities planned within the Forum.
The timing of workshops, lectures, and presentations may slightly differ from the planned schedule, due to organizational matters and the security situation.
Participants of the Forum will be informed well in advance about any significant changes to the speaking schedule.
Forum Program
19 october 2023
08:30 – 09:00
Participant Registration
09:00 – 09:30
Forum Opening
Larysa Rybyk
Head of the International association of psychologists for grief and bereavement;
“Education standards in the field of grief and bereavement”
Session 1
Education in the field of grief
09:30 – 10:30
The consequences of fear and removal of death: is death education possible?
Ines Testoni
Professor, Associate Professor at the University of Padua, FISPPA Department, Italy.
Director Master in “Death Studies & The End of Life”
10:30 – 10:50
Cofee break
10:50 – 11:50
Educating about Death and Grief
Prof. Marie-Frédérique Bacqué
Clinical Psychopathology Professor at the University of Strasbourg
11:50 – 12:50
Simon Shimson Rubin
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology University of Haifa, School of Psychological Sciences
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
Session 2
War and bereavement
14:00 – 14:30
Post-war psycology. What "price" will Ukraine pay for the Victory Altar?
Oleksandr Timchenko
Founder of the Research Laboratory, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, specializing in “Legal Psychology”
14:30 – 15:00
Military captivity as a Result of Breaching Psycological Security of Armed Force
Yuriy Shyrobokov
Colonel, Chief of the Research Laboratory (Moral and Psychological Support) of the Scientific Center of the Air Force at Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University. PhD
15:00 – 15:30
Criminogenic consequences of war
Volodymyr Medvediev
Professor of the Department of Legal Psychology National Academy of Internal Affairs, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor
15:30 – 15:50
Coffee break
15:50 – 16:20
Principles of psycological support for families of the missing
Larysa Rybyk
Head of the International association of psychologists for grief and bereavement
16:20 – 17:20
The Stigmatization Issue in Society for Young Disabled Individuals
Lyudmyla-Oksana Andriyishyn
Head of the Outpatient/Consultative Department at the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Clinical Center for Palliative Care
17:20 – 17:50
Psycological Trauma from Loss of Mobility. Sense of Lss in Physical Presence
Dragomir Rancovic
Coordinator of the International Peace Support Mission in the Balkans (former IFOR, SIFOR), Surgeon, Participant of the Balkans War
17:30 – 18:00
Using Self Awareness, Self-Care, and Mutual Support to Accept and Move Through the Grief Caused by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
James S. Gordon, MD
Founder and CEO of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
Author of Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing
20 october 2023
Session 3
Parental Grief
09:00 – 09:30
Perinatal loss during the war
Sergiy Tkachenko
Major General of the Medical Service
09:30 – 10:00
Gendef-specific Aspects in Experiencing Parental Loss
Larysa Rybyk
Head of the International association of psychologists for grief and bereavement
10:00 – 10:30
Parental grief in palliative care during the war
Vira Zalyvadna
Trainer of the Grief Therapy course, Psychotherapist, Facilitator of support groups for loss
10:30 – 10:45
Coffee break
10:45-11:15
Features of telephone counceling for clients experiencing bereavement
Olga Mukha
Head of the Psychological Support Helpline for cancer patients, their loved ones, and the general population at the All-Ukrainian Call Center “VARTOZHYTY”
11:15 – 12:00
Internet-based bereavement interventions: As efficacious as face-to-face treatments?
Birgit Wagner
PhD, professor of clinical psychology and behavioural therapy at the Medical School Berlin
12:00 – 12:30
Childhood Grief: Supportive Adult Behavior
Anna Kholodenko
Active member of the Ukrainian Association of Psychotherapists, International Association of Psychologists for Grief and Bereavement, National Psychological Association (Juvenile Division)
12:30 – 13:00
Working with women after the loss of their husbands in war. (Experience in organizing widow camps)
Olena Shylova
Practical Psychology Instructor. Serves as a coordinator for grief and loss in the psychological service.
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Session4
Children of War
14:00 – 14:30
Resentment towards the deceased
Olena Shytko
Practicing Psychologist, Candidate in Symbol Drama Psychotherapy
14:30 – 15:00
When Grief Takes a Different Path: Complicated Grief. Methodology for Conducting Grief Therapy
Lyudmyla Svitlychna
Member of the International Association of Psychologists for Grief and Bereavement. Instructor of the “Grief Therapy” course.
15:00 – 15:30
Interrupted grieving
Olena Mykolenko
Master of Psychology (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 2004), psychotherapist in the fields of client-centered therapy and transactional analysis
15:30 – 15:50
Cofee break
15:50 – 16:20
Traumatic Grief in Adolescents
Larysa Rybyk
Head of the International association of psychologists for grief and bereavement
16:20 – 16:50
5 Initial steps in Creating a Therapeutic Group for Loss
Olena Rybalko
A psychotherapist specializing in grief and loss, practicing psychologist, and a member of the International Association of Psychologists for grief and bereavement
16:20 – 16:50
Paul A. Boelen
16:50 – 17:20
Yossi Levi-Belz
17:20 – 17:50
Franziska Lechner-Meichsner
17:50 – 18:10
Maja O’Connor
18:10 - 18:30
Geert E. Smid