Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 15th Sept 2026, 11:03:19am EEST

 
9:30am
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10:00am
Opening Session
Location: Amphitheatre I (KEDEA)
10:00am
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11:00am
Keynote Speech 1 - Prof. Bob Fecho
Location: Amphitheatre I (KEDEA)
Chair: Prof. Hubert Hermans, Radboud University
 

Becoming Alive: Reimagining the Post-Divorce Self as a Work of Art

Bob Fecho

Teachers College, Columbia University, United States of America

11:30am
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1:00pm
Invited Symposium 1
Location: Amphitheatre I (KEDEA)
 

Navigating the Future: Internal Dialogues in Decision-Making, Wisdom, and Self-Continuity

Chair(s): Anna Gabińska (SWPS University, Poland); Małgorzata Puchalska-Wasyl (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)

Discussant(s): Anna Gabińska (SWPS University, Poland)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

How Far Ahead Can We Think? Dialogical Flexibility and Episodic Future Thinking

Gniewko Toruj1; Taciano L. Milfont2; Michalina Marczewska1
1: The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; 2: University of Waikato: Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

 

The Future Self Speaks: Letter Writing As a Dialogical Bridge Across Time

Michalina Marczewska1; Piotr Oleś2
1: The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; 2: SWPS University, Poland

 

Internal Dialogues and Critical Thinking: Intellectual Humility as a Moderator of Cognitive Efficiency

Jan Kutnik
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

 

The Relationship Between Wisdom and Integration in Internal Dialogues

Małgorzata M. Puchalska-Wasyl1; Bogusław Bielawski2
1: The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; 2: -

 

Narrativity And Dialogical Activity In Solving Life Dilemmas

Łukasz Kaczmarek
University, Poland

 

Deciding What to Study: Effectiveness of the Dialogical Dilemma Solution Technique on Lebanese Senior High School Students Making Choices About Their Future Studies

Anna Gabińska1; Houda Younes2
1: SWPS University, Poland; 2: Wellspring Learning Community, Lebanon

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Oral Session 3: Health, Illness and Embodied Experience
Location: Amphitheatre I (KEDEA)
Chair: Dr. Athena Androutsopoulou, 'Logo Psychis'- Training and Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy
 

Examining the Relationship Between Caregiver Burden, Attachment and I-Positions in Relatives of Patients Suffering from Cancer

Ilayda Bagatur, Anna Gabińska

SWPS University, Poland



Favorite Fiction Stories and the Voices of Women with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome: A Group Intervention in Narrative-dialogical-informed Medical Care

Vera Triantafyllidi1, Eleni Kalampoka2, Lina Michalas1, Athena Androutsopoulou2

1: 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 'Alexandra' General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; 2: 39;Logo Psychis'- Training and Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy, Greece



Integration of Osteopathy and Dialogical Self-Therapy for Physical Afflictions

Sophie Redlin1, Lewis Mehl-Madrona2, Barbara Mainguy3

1: Moral Injury Partnership, United Kingdom; 2: University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; 3: Coyote Institute, Oroni, Maine, USA



Dialogical Self Dynamics and Affective-Semiotic Fields in Adolescents with Overweight

Maria Cecilia Salcedo Ariza1, Monica Roncancio Moreno2

1: Universidad del Valle, Colombia; 2: Universidad del Valle, Colombia

4:00pm
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5:00pm
Invited Workshop 1
Location: Amphitheatre I (KEDEA)
 

Dialogical Sonic Self-Portraits: Voice as Common Ground in Dialogical Self Theory

Verdis Athanasios

National and Kapodistiran University of Athens, Greece

5:15pm
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6:45pm
Oral Session 5: Inner Dialogue, Reflexivity and Identity Construction
Location: Amphitheatre I (KEDEA)
Chair: Dr. Małgorzata M. Puchalska-Wasyl, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
 

Parrhesia, Dialogue, and the Authenticity of Identity

Marta B. Erdos

University Of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hungary



Reading Narratives: Generation and Dialogue of Fictional Characters within the Self

Takashi Iba

Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Japan



Internal Dialogue Within Digital Gameplay: Who Are We Talking To, and Why?

Małgorzata M. Puchalska-Wasyl

The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland