by Veronika Grüneise and Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing In July 2017, Ross A. Lazar - psychoanalytic psychotherapist of children and adults and organisational consultant, Bion scholar and group relations expert and member of PCCA's Advisory Board - died at the age of 72. Born in the USA as a “Jewish boy in New Jersey”, as he [...]
Past: Veronika Grueneisen and present: Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing One of the major developments in PCCA itself is the change in the chair: After eight years, Veronika Grueneisen did not stand again for the chair. With the appropriate mix of sorrow and relief about this step in her own development, and with great delight at Dorothee's [...]
by Veronika Grueneisen On Dec. 5th, 2015, we had a one day event in Krakow. It was designed to introduce the work of PCCA to a wider Polish audience, but also to introduce the way of thinking about groups and possibly destructively escalating group minds, on a more theoretic level, in order to make it a [...]
by Veronika Grueneisen Since our anniversary Newsletter published in January, 2015, PCCA has been actively seeking to promote working with our envisioned structure. 1. We decided to organise the next conference A House divided against itself? Identities and Cultures in Violent Conflict Kliczków Castle, Poland April 6th - 11th, 2016 as soon as possible, in response [...]
by Veronika Grueneisen With this Newsletter, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first Nazareth Conference. Let me take the opportunity to touch the past that has lead us here, the present and the future. The conferences had created a setting that allowed Germans and Israelis who were – in their different ways as [...]
by Veronika Grueneisen This year, we are looking back on 20 years of work confronting collective atrocities: The first Nazareth Conference “Germans and Israelis – The Past in the Present” took place in 1994. A Newsletter to commemorate the beginning, looking at past experience is to come out next. The first conference encouraged those who were involved in [...]
by Veronika Grueneisen I am pleased to update you on the latest developments in PCCA, as you will see we are constantly reviewing our aims, the people we want to work with, and geographical areas. All this without losing our focus and the specificity of PCCA endeavour- to address the impact of national and international large [...]
by Veronika Grueneisen We are continuing to work on PCCA's mission which is: to foster learning about irresolvable collective conflict in the presence of the Other. PCCA brings victims and perpetrators, and their descendants, together around shared tasks so that both can learn and gain perspective, in the presence of the Other, about the traumatic impact [...]
by Veronika Grueneisen Since the first Nazareth Conference in 1994, things in the world have changed a lot. Then, it was one year after Oslo. Rabin’s policy represented hope and moving on for many inside and outside Israel. The conferences focussed on the split between victims and perpetrators. Nowadays, no peace is in sight, in the [...]
by Veronika Grueneisen, Nov 2010 PCCA e.V. was founded in the summer of 2007 in order to address issues of collective atrocities, specifically the aftermath of the Holocaust in 2nd and 3rd generation Germans and Israelis/Jews. The focus was clearly on creating a frame for conferences in the Nazareth series. Since then, we have continued to develop our [...]