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The Swiss Foundation Antonio Meneghetti and the International Ontopsychology Association at UNESCO in Paris

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E’ stata un’esperienza magnifica. Soprattutto perché il 25 luglio 2017 erano i 10 anni dalla nascita della Fondazione di Ricerca Scientifica ed Umanistica Antonio Meneghetti e viverli in azione concreta...

From the 24th to the 28thth July 2017, the 8th World Congress of Psychotherapy “Life and Love in the 21st Century” (http://wcp2017.org/) was held at the UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris. The Swiss Scientific and Humanistic Research Foundation Antonio Meneghetti and the International Ontopsychology Association (NGOs in the Special Consultative Status with the ECOSOC of the United Nations) attended the Congress and presented four works as part of the scientific programme of the WCP, under the patronage of  UNESCO. This is one the most important conferences in the field of psychotherapy and takes place every three years.

 

After the events led by the Founder Professor Antonio Meneghetti on the “Leader” theme in 2000, and “Pedagogy” in 2006 and 2007, coming back to Paris at UNESCO was very exciting, especially because we had the chance to deliver some of our presentations in the same rooms where Professor Meneghetti presented his own!

The participation at the 8th World Congress of Psychotherapy was coordinated by Dr. Gabriella Palumbo, President of the International Ontopsychology Association.

The entrance of the UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris, where the 8th World Congress of Psychotherapy was held.
27th July 2017. Symposium “Life and Love n 3: love differently”, where the Scientific and Humanistic Research Foundation Antonio Meneghetti (CH) took part.
In front of an audience of 120 psychotherapy professionals …

Given the nature of the presented topic, references to the two conferences held at UNESCO by the Founder on 30th May 2006 (in that same hall) on “A new pedagogy for the future society” and on 13th June 2007 on “Contemporary Pedagogy: Responsibility and Training of Leader for the future society” is fundamental.
The presentation ended by inviting all the professionals and students attending the session at the XXX Summer Session of Ontopsychology on “Pedagogy and Politics” to be held in Lizori from 18th to 22nd July 2018.
At the same time, in another room of the UNESCO’s headquarters, Dr. Gabriella Palumbo was presenting her talk “Ontopsychological approach: rationale and method”, which was included in the symposium “Psychopathology of the Child and Teenager”, chaired by the president of the Scientific and Organising Committee of the Congress, Mr. Pierre Canoui.

The day before, on 26th July 2017, Dr. Adriana Roncella presented the results of the research “One-Year and Five-Year Results of the STEP-IN-AMI (Short Term Psychotherapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction) trial”, in the same room where the conference on pedagogy was organized in 2007!
This work received the Meneghetti Award prize for medicine in 2014 and was published in the book “Psychotherapy for Ischemic Heart Disease. An Evidence Based Clinical Approach “, by A. Roncella and C. Pristipino, published by Springer in 2016.
It was a great experience. Especially because the 25th July 2017 was the 10th anniversary of the institution of the Scientific and Humanistic Research Foundation Antonio Meneghetti and living it in concrete action….

… in one of the most significant places for the history of Ontopsychology and in an important Congress on the area of psychotherapy, where the history of Ontopsychology has begun, has a taste of happiness that rewards the many efforts the Foundation and the Associations are doing to carry on and explain the thought of Antonio Meneghetti.