Spring School

Is it possible to combine learning, warm meetings with colleagues, outdoor recreation, activities for children, interesting excursions, and master classes in one place at one time? Of course. At the spring school of Jungian child psychotherapy!

The first spring school took place on April 28-May 3, 2025, in the Zakarpattia region. It was an incredibly intense five days. Activities included:

• A lecture by Jörg Rasche, “Manifestations of the symbolic in children’s creativity during the therapeutic process. A Jungian view of the symbolic function.”
• Lecture with a presentation by Jörg Rasche, “Early love: child – mother – music. A psychoanalytic approach to Robert Schumann’s ‘Scenes from Childhood,’ Op. 15.”
• Presentation by Oksana Zaleska: “Art as psychotherapy.”
• Presentation by Yulia Larina: “Madonna and Child: In Search of Harmony. Transference and Countertransference in Child Psychotherapy.”
• Presentation by Yulia Grushetska: “Therapeutic Setting, Manifestations of the Containing Function in Child Psychotherapy”
• Serial drawing with Oksana Zaleska and Svitlana Snitko (resource practice for psychologists)
• Social games with Svitlana Snitko and Oksana Zaleska (the game “Vidbyvna”) for adults and children.
• Viewing of the Studio Ghibli cartoon “Spirited Away” with Dmytro Zalesky
• Piano concert by Jörg Rasche
• Vernissage and large open discussion group on the symbolism of drawings with Jörg Rasche
• Spring fair with Oksana Zaleska
• Clinical supervision groups
• Discussion groups

There was also an opportunity to hike in the mountains, commune with nature, visit a cheese factory, see a lavender field, enjoy spa treatments, and eat delicious food at a restaurant, as the school was located in a quiet, cozy place in Transcarpathia, on the grounds of an eco-resort.
In the fourth year of the full-scale invasion, the school became a place of significant restoration and renewal. That is why PAChAP, in partnership with the Jungian Child Psychotherapy (JChP) project, plans to start a tradition and make it annual!

School speakers:
Jörg Rasche
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Jungian analyst (IAAP), sandplay therapist (ISST), child psychiatrist. Member of the C.G. Jung Institute in Berlin. For many years, he served as president of the German Association for Analytical Psychology (DGAP) and as vice president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP).

Dmytro Zalesky
Jungian analyst, the first individual member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) in Ukraine since 2010. Affiliated member since 2020 and full member since 2021 of the Czech Institute for Analytical Psychology (CIAP Training Group of the IAAP).

Oksana Zaleska
Jungian analyst, child psychotherapist, candidate of psychological sciences, member of the Ukrainian Association for Analytical Psychology (UAAP of IAAP), member of PAChAP, leading expert, supervisor at the NaUKMA Mental Health Center.

Yulia Hrushetska
Child psychotherapist; psychologist, supervisor at the NaUKMA Mental Health Center; member of the UDG (IAAP) and PAChAP

Yulia Larina
Analytically oriented psychotherapist, child psychologist, lecturer, supervisor, and author of children’s books. Member of the Ukrainian Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), member of PAChAP

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