Exploring the cultural burdens of several countries in Eastern Europe through the eyes of our parts
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- As a follow-up to this workshop we hosted a live Q & A discussion on this topic to provide further support.
Irina, Iryna and Eliza offered a separate Q&A webinar related to this now available here • Q & A Webinar Cultural...
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At the 2021 IFS Conference, three presenters from Eastern Europe, Irina Diyankova, Iryna Natalushko and Eliza Mikucka shared about the history of oppression and cultural traumas in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia. They spoke with courage and bravery, and we were honored to learn from them. Together with Irina, Iryna and Eliza, we wanted to share this workshop with the larger IFS community to bring greater attention to the cultural burdens and trauma these countries hold.
***Workshop Description ***
This workshop will present some material that many people may find to be upsetting or triggering. We invite you to take good care of yourself before, throughout and after the workshop. Participation in any exercise is voluntary. Before the start of the workshop, you may want to prepare your system by checking in with your parts and inviting those that are young and wounded to go to a safe place; you may want to bring a soothing/grounding object to your space, diffuse aroma oils and have a drink (non-alcoholic) and a snack at hand.
In this workshop, presenters will explore the cultural traumas of several countries in the Eastern European region: Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. Through literature review, discussion of clinical practice, personal and cultural experiences, they will introduce participants to traumatic parts of their countries’ histories, their legacy, and compare/contrast their impact on contemporary descendants of the survivors.
Presenters will use the IFS model to help understand the profound impact of these past events on the current ways internal systems may organize within individuals living in these cultures. Workshop participants will be guided through several experiential explorations to deepen their understanding of the impact of communism, totalitarianism|, oppression, genocide and war on the human psyche.
I am a Polish immigrant, born and raised in Poland and living in Canada since my teens. I'm also a therapist currently in the beginning stages of training in IFS. Thank you for this presentation! I am very grateful for this account of and perspective on the impacts of this legacy. It is so healing to see this profound impact on my system and some of the challenges I face acknowledged in this way. And it is a deeply compassionate response to the challenges faced by many others with a background similar to mine. I also need to acknowledge that what is currently happening in Ukraine in 2022 is absolutely horrific and horrifying and I find that it is nearly impossible to speak or think of any of these legacies most of the time.
‘There are values worth fighting for’- but not people-and by extension not me- thank you for this important work- about time this conversation is taking place
Hi IFS Institute members, thank you for the broadcast of the IFS method and all these informational videos about IFS.
I have a question regarding the protective parts of some of our international political leaders, who protect them by making them neglect or act in an harmful way toward other people even their own citizens.
How is it possible to meet those parts and help them as international organizations (I think about the UN especially) without those leaders'parts willing to be met or going to therapy?
For example, the UN gives some instructions to the international leaders to cope with the tragic consequences of the climate changes, but those leaders do not fulfill those instructions.
As it impact us all globally, the UN need some efficient levers to make those leaders comply with their instructions, but those leaders have some protective parts who prevent themselves from doing what needs to be done.
Regarding an IFS perspective : how could the UN discuss with these leaders ? Did some recommandations from the psychiatric field already give some advises to the UN organization?
Thank you in advance
good query topic
This helps me understand why it was so devastating to be married to the only grandson of a Eastern European family who escaped from WW2. My innocent, carefree happy life was quickly suppressed to "you don't matter & we don't trust anyone." I understood there might be some problems but was not ready for the playing out of exactly what your slides have described in my marriage. I was worth zero
Can you share a demo session hopefully with unburdening of composite burdens such as secrecy, lack of personal power and purpose etc?