Conference Agenda

Self-criticism as a dialogical process: Matching together Emotion-Focused Therapy and the Dialogical Self

João Salgado

University of Maia, Portugal & Center of Psychology at University of Porto

Embodied Dialogues and Photographic Mirrors: Activating the Dialogical Self through Expressive Arts

Fotios Ntagkas¹, Olga Xanthoudaki², Georgia Gkantona¹

1: University of Ioannina, Greece; 2: NiMA: Arts-Based and Performing Arts Therapy Workshop

City Dialogues

Penelope Gkini¹, Anna Kiapoka²

1: Porizo, outdoor psychopedagogy; 2: National Organization for Prevention and Addiction Treatment (EOPAE), Greece

Dialogical Bodies and Decolonial Methodologies: Collective Image‑Reading as an Approach to the Dialogical Self of Brazilian Women Educators

Marcella Di Santo¹, Crista Weise²

1: Federal Institute of Goiás, Brazil; 2: Autonomous University of Barcelona

Knowledge in Tension: Dialogicality, Decolonisation, and Social Representations

Subas Amjad Ali^1,2

1: University of Pécs, Hungary; 2: Università degli Studi di Roma

The Self in Dialogical Relations with Territories

Maria Elisa Pinto, Tiago Costa, Sandra Ferraz C D Freire, Maria Claudia S Lopes de Oliveira

Universidade de Brasília, Brazil

Discovering Qissas as Dialogical Narrative Methodology

Rashida Mustafa

Teachers College, Columbia University, United States of America

Identity Development from Erikson to Hermans

Annerieke Oosterwegel

Utrecht University, Netherlands, The

UrU: A Nomothetic Map for the Digital Exploration of Idiosyncratic I-Positions

Annerieke Oosterwegel

Utrecht University, Netherlands, The

Tracing and Mapping Early Dialogicality in Preschool Children: A Thematic Analysis of Reflective Journals and Application of the IMAP-C Method

Despina Sakoulogeorga¹, Athanasios Verdis², Georgia Gkantona³

1: Primary Education, Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports; 2: Department of Secondary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; 3: Department of Psychology, University of Ioannina

Working with Childhood Dreams and Early Memories: Tracing Common Themes and Voices

Androniki Nikolaou, Eugenie Rozou, Maria Viou, Athena Androutsopoulou

LOGO PSYCHIS, Greece

Constructing Voices of the Professional Self: A Bakhtinian Perspective Grounded in Healthcare and Social Welfare Practices

Chair(s): Atsushi Tajima (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan); Mikhail Gradovski (University of Stavanger)

Discussant(s): Kyoko Murakami (University of Westminster)

Presentations of the Symposium

Dialogical Selves in Professional Practice: Focusing on Bakhtin’s Ideas on Ambivalence

Atsushi Tajima
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Development of the Professional Self in the Process of the Supervision in the Field Placement among the Social Work Professionals-to-be

Heidi Lie Eriksen; Mikhail Gradovski
University of Stavanger

Golden Cracks of the Professional Self: Kintsugi, Vulnerability, and Dialogical Reflection in Healthcare

Itsuki Sano
Mie Prefectural Mental Care Center

The Algorithmic Gaze as an External Other: Dialogical Interpretation of Eye Contact in AI-Assisted Medical Interview Assessment

Seiko Miura
Kanazawa Medical University

Identity and Migration from a Dialogical Perspective. Obstacles and Resources

Chair(s): Manuel L. de la Mata-Benítez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain); Alicia Español (Pablo deOlavide University)

Discussant(s): Jaan Valsiner (Aalborg University; Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna; Tallin University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Sense of We-ness in the Narrative of a Venezuelan family in Spain: A dialogical perspective

Manuel L. de la Mata-Benítez¹; Alicia Español²
1: Universidad de Sevilla; 2: Pablo d eOlavide University

Cross-Border Family Care in Educational Migration: A Dialogical and Semiotic Cultural Psychology Analysis

Mariann Märtsin
Tallin University

Proculturation Without Transformation? Dialogical Stability Under Intercultural Conditions”

Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Education as change: a Few Projects and Some Reflection

Beatrice Ligorio

University of Bari, Italy

New Directions in Dialogical Process Analyses in Psychotherapy?

Chair(s): Valsiner Jaan (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil And Competence Center of Cultural Psychology, Tallinn University)

Presenter(s): Masayoshi Morioka (Ritsumeikan University, Japan); Julie Bo Lindgren (Tallinn University, Estonia, and Denmark); Simone Indius (Tallinn University, Estonia, and Denmark); Jennifer Sigurddatter (Tallinn University, Estonia, and Germany); Anna Gabinska (SWPS University, Poland); Maria Viou (Logo Psychis-Training and Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy, Greece); Georgia Gkantona (University of Ioannina, Greece); Hubert Hermans (International Society of Dialogical Science)

The Dialogical Self: Contributions from a Semiotic Cultural Perspective

Angela Branco

University of Brasiia, Brazil

The Many Voices of Grief: DST and Writing the Self

Reinekke Lengelle

Athabasca University & The Hague University Applied Sciences, Canada

Edgar Morin’s Complexity Thinking: Its Added Value for Dialogical Self Theory

Peter Zomer

Zomer and Cornelissen

Creating Relational Ripples in Psychotherapy: The Relational Space Within and Between Us

Marilena Karamatsouki^1,2

1: Stegi Psychotherapeias (private practice), Greece; 2: Synixiseis - Center for Psychotherapy and Education of Dialogical Appreciative Psychotherapy

Relationships Between Self-talk and Self-reflective Processes

Alain Morin

Mount Royal University, Canada

Do People Gesture When They Talk To Themselves?

Tom Brinthaupt¹, Juana Park², Elena Cuffari³

1: Middle Tennessee State University, United States of America; 2: American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; 3: Franklin and Marshall College, United States of America

I-Positions of Outsiderhood in a Researcher–Practitioner: From Curiosity to Guilt-Driven Reflexivity

Saho Kajiwara, Yuko Sen

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Challenging the Cognitive Paradigm: A Comparative Study of Cognitive and Dialogical Models in Explaining Women’s Sexual Satisfaction

Sinem Begüm Akiş, Anna Gabińska

SWPS University, Poland

Quranic Narratives Within The Framework of Dialogical Self Theory: Repositioning and Identity Construction In An Age of Uncertainty

Yakup Keskin, Umit Tabar

IDEIS, Netherlands, The

Scholars Within the Self: A Dialogical Self Perspective on the Formation of Ways of Seeing and Thinking through Reading Scholarly Works

Takashi Iba

Keio University, Japan

Developing the Dialogical Self by ZELVI/FLOW: A DST-Centered Pedagogical Framework for Countering Religious Identity Deadlocks in Youth

Ibrahim Kurt, Ina Ter Avest

IDEIS Institute, Netherlands, The

Imported Self Theory: AI, Disposable Identities and the Collapse of Ideal Sovereignty

George Stanciulescu

Freelance, United Kingdom

Transformative Dialogical-Self through Graduate Education from Ordinary to Professional Working Adults: A View of Triple-loop Learning Theory

Chair(s): Kaori Toyoda (Takushoku university (Japan)); Taiyo Miyashita (The Japan Research Institute, Limited (Japan)); Julie Bo Lindgren (Tallinn University (Estonia))

Discussant(s): Jaan Valsiner (Tallin University (Estonia)); Tastuya Sato (Ritsumeikan University (Japan))

Presentations of the Symposium

Professional Development through Graduate Education from a Micro-view of DST to a Macro-view of TLLT

Kaori Toyoda
Takushoku University

Mid-Career Doctoral Education and Career Development through Dialogical Self Theory  

Taiyo Miyashita
The Japan Research Institute, Limited (Japan)

Professional Identity in Practices of Psychologists on DST

Julie Bo Lindgren
Tallinn University (Estonia)

Dialogues of Becoming: The Self in Psychotherapy, Training, and Life Transitions

Chair(s): Tsabika Bafiti (Logo Psychis-Training and Research Institute for systemic psychotherapy, Greece)

Discussant(s): Eugenie Georgaca (University of Thessoniki)

Presentations of the Symposium

When the Self Becomes the Other: Dialogical Encounters with Early Therapy Selves

Tsabika Bafiti; Elena Kyriazopoulou; Peggy Poimenidou; Sofia Papageorgiou
Logo Psychis-Training and Research Institute for systemic psychotherapy, Greece

“I Am Not Sure, but I Am Here”: Professional Maturation as a Dialogical Process in Therapist Training

Tsabika Bafiti; Katerina Zerma
Logo Psychis-Training and Research Institute for systemic psychotherapy, Greece

Becoming a Mother: Dialogues Between Past, Present, and Imagined Future Selves

Peggy Poimenidou; Tsabika Bafiti; Elena Kyriazopoulou
Logo Psychis-Training and Research Institute for systemic psychotherapy, Greece

Therapeutic Endings as Dialogical Milestones in Group Psychotherapy

Elena Kyriazopoulou; Tsabika Bafiti; Peggy Poimenidou
Logo Psychis-Training and Research Institute for systemic psychotherapy, Greece