Keynote 1: Without roots we do not fly

Biography

Psychologist, epistemologist, systemic thinker, activist, teacher of the Milan School of Boscolo and Cecchin, President of EFTA, the European Family Therapy Association.

Abstract

"Without roots we do not fly"

Our aim as clinicians is to create a generative process that awakens evolution. To do so we need to explore the past - even trigenerational - the future and be aware of the culture in which the system we are working with has grown. We know that any system has resources and acts at its best at any moment. Sometimes we have the feeling we are stuck; it is that moment we need to explore the client's loyalty to their stories: what they know and what they do not know that they do not know, what they easily tell us and what needs to be explored together. That is the moment in which we need to deepen the family history embedded in the historical context.

Exploring the genealogical tree, I will propose some unwritten rules in families: commands one has given oneself, repetitions of past events, traumas, invisible loyalties, substitute children, settling of ancient scores ....

We will speak together also about the anxiety of the future which rightfully is so frequent among young people.

All this through clinical cases and possibly in a dialogue with the public.