2024 Case Conference Workshop
The Role of Large Group Identity in
Understanding and Intervening with Societal Conflict
April 18-20, 2024, 2:00-6:00pm, UK Time
This Workshop Will Be Conducted Online
Thank you for your interest in our workshop! The workshop is currently at full capacity.
To join the waiting list, please register below. Spots will be filled from the waiting list if any cancellations occur.
Workshop Description
Using current cases, this Workshop explores the Large Group Identity dynamics of societies in conflict and the implications of those dynamics for intervention. How can we identify large group identity in others and in ourselves, learn about the emotional history it represents, and bring this knowledge to fruition in working with disturbed societal relationships? In the intimate setting of a small group, the Workshop uses a clinical case conference model to illuminate how historical trauma becomes part of current large group identity and profoundly affects a society’s relationships, within and across its boundaries.
Workshop Participants
The Workshop is directed to those who already have some knowledge of Professor Vamik Volkan’s theory of Large Group Identity and are interested in an in-depth exploration of cases – either one’s own case or the cases of others. We also welcome former participants in the IDI Case Conference, as we develop together this methodology for deeper societal understanding and more effective intervention.
Workshop Events
While our focus will be on cases, with two case conferences in the schedule, the Workshop will also include a focused review of Professor Volkan’s ideas on large group identity, chosen trauma and the Tree Model of intervention, and an opportunity for members to explore large group identity in their own lives.
Faculty:
| Regine Scholz | |
 | Training Director of the IDI. From 2010-2017 Board member of the Group Analytic Society International. Founding member of the German Society for Group Analysis and Group Psychotherapy (D3G). Co-organizer of the conferences “Voices after Auschwitz.” Read More |
| Vamık D. Volkan | |
 | Vamık D. Volkan, M. D., DLFAPA, FACPsa, is the founder and President Emeritus of the International Dialogue Initiative. He was born to Turkish parents in Cyprus. Before coming to the United States in 1957 he received his medical education at the School of Medicine, University of Ankara, Turkey. Read More |
| Gerard Fromm | |
 | Gerard Fromm, Ph.D., President of the IDI, is a Senior Consultant to the Erikson Institute for Education and Research of the Austen Riggs Center. Formerly he was the Institute’s first Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director as well as the Director of the Center’s therapeutic community program. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center. Read More |