World-Attuned Therapy. Briskness, Connection, Presence

About the conference

Can acceptance and commitment save us?

During the “World-Attuned Therapy. Briskness, Connection, Presence” conference we will discuss how the contextual-behavioral approach can help find answers to the contemporary social, ecological and existential challenges. We will focus on relationality, engagement, and mindfulness as foundations of practice, which go beyond the confines of the therapy room.

The event combines both theoretical and experiential aspects. Through lectures, workshops, and shared practices, the conference encourages a dialogue between science, action, and everyday being in the world – with others, with nature, and with oneself.

We cordially invite scientists, researchers, and practitioners who are interested in contextual behaviorism to submit presentation proposals. Let’s come together to search for answers to important questions.

Thematic Scope

We invite the submission of abstracts related to the following areas:

• Ecological Track – How does the environmental context affect mental health and human functioning? We invite exploration of topics related to ecopsychology, climate activism, the human–nature relationship, outdoor therapy, and the impact of the climate crisis on people’s life choices.
• Creative Approaches to Suffering – Contextual-behavioral thinking applied to domains not typically associated with behaviorism, or creative interventions within familiar topics. Art, the body, and expression. Fresh ideas in the face of unsolvable problems – both on a personal and macro scale.
• Psychotherapist’s Identity – Who are we as therapists? How do our values, history, and context shape our practice? Proposals may cover ethics, boundaries, self-development, working with burnout, diversity and representation in the profession, collaboration in interdisciplinary teams, integrating–using–enriching one’s work with (mere elements of) other modalities, and building and developing one’s professional identity.
• Cultural, Social, Historical, and Economic Context – The invisible metafactors, which shape the learning history of entire societies in a broad way, where psychotherapists and clients may function within the same common conditions or represent separate social classes. How can we account for objective socioeconomic factors in CBS work? How far and wide should functional analysis reach? Is individual psychotherapy justified in the face of global or generational processes?
• Clinical-Therapeutic Track – Professionalism, effectiveness, creativity – in the service of reducing suffering and building health for contextual-behavioral therapy clients, and in other areas of mental health specialization.
• Developmental Track – Therapy based on universal processes, which, at the same time, is sensitive to client’s life phases and their personal personal characteristics, such as disability, neurotype, sexuality, and more. Developmental challenges and crises.
• Digital Context – How does technology affect our relationships, suffering, and ways of providing support? This track invites exploration of online therapy, social media presence, digital therapeutic tools, and the challenges and opportunities of life in a world of screens and algorithms.
• Working with the Body – JHow does the body speak when words fall short? This track focuses on embodied experience. We invite participants to share their somatic practices, approaches that integrate body and mind, and their experience of working with psychosomatic and chronic pain. We are interested in the role of movement, touch, tension, and pleasure in the process of change, and the ways in which the body forms an element of therapy.

Please note! You may select 1 to 3 tracks for a single abstract submission.

Call for Papers

Submission guidelines

Abstracts can only be submitted via the registration form . Each form allows submission of only one abstract. Multiple abstracts can be submitted, each via a separate form.

Your abstract should include:

• Poster: introduction, method, results, and interpretation.
• Lecture: introduction, aim, topics covered.
• Workshop: introduction, educational aim, program, methods of delivery.
• Morning sessions (meditation, yoga, tai chi, etc.), networking meetings: introduction, aim, program.
• Symposium: general description of the symposium’s aim (150 words) and separate abstracts for each presentation (introduction, method, results, and interpretation).

Follow the template below to prepare your text (maximum 300 words).

Upload the file containing your abstract to the application form.

Name the file using the main author’s registration number.

The scientific committee will verify the thematic relevance, and the theoretical and methodological accuracy of all submissions and will make a selection.

Download the abstract template

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