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 [...]
European Victims and Perpetrators Now and Then, August 27-September 1, 2014 Kliczków Castle, Poland by Shmuel Erlich Conference Title and Concept This conference was conceived in the wake of the previous one and in many way was planned as its continuation. We adopted the same title, albeit with a slight change: Instead of "Perpetrators and Victims" [...]
Dear colleagues, dear reader in this newsletter you will find as usual the chair person´s letter (recent PCCA activities and plannings) we have Shmuel Erlich´s report in his role as director of the last conference in Kliczkow / Poland in 2014 Dorothee v. Tippelskirch-Eissing gave a lecture in Toronto and New York for German speaking readers [...]
by Dorothee v. Tippelskirch-Eissing First of all I want to thank those who have brought me here, especially Barabra Williams and Kas Tutors, who have been so kind to coordinate this workshop in such a generous and courageous way. It is a great honour for me having been invited to the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute [...]
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 [...]
Evolving a Joint Solution to the Aftermath of the “Final Solution” by Shmuel Erlich The road leading to the conception and implementation of the conference “Germans and Israelis – the Past in the Presence” (the so-called Nazareth Conference) represents a confluence of different themes, events, and personal as well as institutional contributions stretching over a period [...]
Contributions to the the Nazareth Project by Mira Erlich-Ginor "Miller the Pillar” was one of Eric’s interpretations in a Large Group in Israel in a Group Relations conference. He experienced the group as too dependent on him and envisioned himself as being the pillar in the mind of the group. For us, who initiated and worked [...]
On the Unexpected Contribution of Collective on Reflection-Based-Ongoing Learning via Group Relation Conferences by Jona M. Rosenfeld, Ph.D. I have often asked myself how I have so willingly and persistently worked with, and learned from, the Group Relation Conferences in the Tavistock Tradition over the past 30 years – and done so with so much ardor. [...]
a Cain- interpretation by Hermann Beland Rafael Moses belongs to the fathers of the Nazareth conferences. I will recall some memories which belong to the pioneering and mostly very courageous initiatives Rafael has organized confronting atrocities, helping both sides in the conflicts by letting meet both sides. I also want to remind us how he was [...]
The Process of Conference Design by Eric Miller It was in the spring of 1992 that I had the privilege of being invited to serve as director of the first German-Israeli conference. A small group of psychoanalysts from the two countries had for several years been working towards an encounter of this kind; now I was [...]