The Program

For the GaKiJu-Workshop from 19th – 21st September 2025 in Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
Identity Crisis in a Changing World

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Friday, 19 September 2025

Time Program item
15:00-16:00 Arrival and registration
16:00-16:45 Welcome
Gudrun Maria Maierhof (UAS), Anja Khalil (GaKiJu) and Organization team
16:45-17:00 Room organization for the large group session
17:00-18:30 First Large group (Thomas Jung)
18:45-20:00 Lecture and discussion

Sasha Dehghani: Beyond a Clash of Civilizations”
Identity and the Quest for Peace

20:00 Dinner

Saturday, 20 September 2025

Time Program item
09:00-10:30 Social Dreaming (Carla Weber, Katrin Stumptner)
10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Workshops (parallel sessions)

01 Anja Khalil: What is true??? You? Me? My body?
My self?
– Struggling for one’s own truthfulness and the truthfulness of the shared reality with others

02 Katrin Stumptner: Trust The Group – A central statement by S.H. Foulkes regarding the groupanalytical attitude – in working with adolescents

03 Leticia Castrechini-Franieck: Vulnerable Children and Adolescents – Adapting Group Analytic Theory in Challenging Contexts

04 Robert Mayerle, Frank Pinterowitsch: ”Totally cringe“– shame effects in the adolescent group

12:30-14:30 Lunch break
15:00 – 16:30

Workshops (parallel sessions)

05 Kathrin Bach: Queer Youth, between the search of identities and life as a transgender person.

 06 Karoly Oriold: Only the shoes remain – From children’s home to the highest Institution of the FIDESZ government.

07 Anke Mühle: “Me, Mum, Dad and the Others“ The application of the „Watch, Wait and Wonder“- Interventions program in parent- childgroups with high and multiple burdened parents.

08 Ewa Bak: “The group as a place to think when the world is dominated by action.“

16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Second Large group (Thomas Jung)
19:00-22:00 Dinner followed by an intercultural evening

Sunday, 21 September 2025

Time Program item
09:00-10:30

Social Dreaming (Carla Weber, Katrin Stumptner)

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Third Large group (Thomas Jung)
12:30-14:00 Lunch on site and farewell