Antonella Delle Fave
Proffessor of Psychology, Medical School, University of Milano, Italy
Antonella Delle Fave, MD specialized in Clinical Psychology, is professor of Psychology at the Medical School, University of Milano, Italy. Her research work is centered on the study of mental health indicators, flow experience and daily experience fluctuation patterns across life domains and cultures, and among individuals experiencing conditions of diversity and adversity. Together with international partners she has developed a mixed-method design project aimed at identifying happiness and well-being components across countries. Her scientific production includes papers in international peer-reviewed journals, as well as authored and edited academic books. She served as President of the International Positive Psychology Association, the European Network of Positive Psychology, and the Società Italiana di Psicologia Positiva. She is currently Editor in Chief of the Journal of Happiness Studies.
Antonella Delle Fave
Professor of Psychology, Medical School, University of Milano, Italy
Towards a dynamic and sustainable view of happiness
Antonella Delle Fave
Today’s worrying global situation calls for new models of mental health and well-being. The predominant maximization perspective, grounded in the western individualistic worldview, must leave room to a different conceptualization and operationalization of well-being as a multifaceted and dynamic construct, that emerges from the interaction of individuals with ceaselessly evolving life stages, social contexts, and cultural systems. The recent evidence of harmony and balance as core dimensions of happiness, at both the intrapsychic and interpersonal levels, may contribute to this change in perspective by promoting a more sustainable and constructive interaction between individuals, among societies, and with the natural environment.
Marilyn Fitzpatrick
Professor, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Canada
Marilyn Fitzpatrick, PhD. is a Professor Emerita at McGill University, Montreal where she directed the Counselling Psychology Program. She has conducted research, written, and spoken internationally about values and how they can be strengthened to support mental health. She is currently the Clinical Director of Medipsy Psychological Services where she offers clinical services, training, and supervision in how to do values work in psychotherapy. She is also the founder of the Hero Next Door, an initiative available on Instagram, and as a podcast on Spotify and YouTube. Hero Next Door offers inspiration and expertise to help listeners understand and strengthen caring values.
Marilyn Fitzpatrick
Professor Emerita, Deprtment of Education and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Canada
Your Best-Self Vision and Your Caring Values
Marilyn Fitzpatrick
Imagine that you have a clear vision of your best self and a strong sense that you are living that vision. Chances are that you arrived at your vision - and that you stay motivated to act on it - by consulting your core values. These values act as a constant guide in rising to challenges, making decisions, and navigating relationships. Maybe however, your best-self vision is not so clear, or you have trouble staying motivated to act on it. Or maybe, you want to help your clients or your children to discover and live their own best-self visions. This talk will take you on a journey to explore this terrain. Drawing on research from clinical, counselling, social, and organizational psychology, we will explore how caring values influence us. We will consider why we may overlook or minimize their importance and the consequences for ourselves and for the world. Finally, we will consider the steps that can help us to better connect to our best selves.
Del Loewenthal
Emeritus Professor, University of Roehampton, United Kingdom
Professor Del Loewenthal is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (FBPsS), the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCPF), the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS), and also Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (PFHEA). He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, UK, and Chair of the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), UK. Del has lectured and conducted workshops in Africa, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer, and chartered psychologist. His recent books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (2017, Routledge; Greek edition 2023); and Handbook of Photography and Phototherapy (2023, Routledge). He is also Founding Editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (Routledge). www.delloewenthal.com www.safpac.co.uk
Del Loewenthal
Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling
University of Roehampton
United Kingdom
What can Psychotherapy, Counselling and Counselling Psychology learn/relearn from Athens (and Jerusalem): Surfaces and depths in the therapeutic use of photographs.
Del Loewenthal
This Keynote invites participants to explore: what psychotherapy, counselling and counselling psychology learn/relearn from Plato's therapeia, Pyrho’s scepticism, and Aristotle‘s praxis (and Levinas’s ethics). Could such notions conversely lead towards therapies without foundations?
There are many related questions regarding our therapeutic practices: What is the place of theory? Are theories better considered as having implications but not applications? What do we mean by therapeutic research and what place, if any, has empirical research in the light of phusis/physis?
There are also related questions concerning ourselves as psychological therapists: What helps or hinders an exploration of the most effective expressions of our desire to help? Is it possible to have both justice and action? Can we as psychological therapists assist in an embodied way so that we can help others not do violence to others? Indeed is it possible for us not to interrupt our own and others’ continuity, not to play roles in which we no longer recognise ourselves and whereby we betray not only our commitments but our own substance? An exploration of the above questions will be considered through exploring surfaces and depths in the therapeutic use of photographs.
William L. Randall
Professor of Gerontology, University St. Thomas, Eastern Canada
William L. Randall
Professor of Gerontology, St. Thomas University of Toronto, Eastern Canada
The Adventure of Aging: Changing the Narrative of Later Life
William L. Randall
