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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

Daily Overview

Location: Great Hall (Pyrgos)

Date: Tuesday, 25/Aug/2026

2:00pm to 3:30pm	Invited Symposium 2 Location: Great Hall (Pyrgos) The Dialogical Process of Becoming a Psychologist Chair(s): Katrin Kullasepp (Tallinn University, Estonia and Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) Discussant(s): Jaan Valsiner (Aalborg University, Denmark) Presentations of the Symposium Becoming a Psychologist Through Making Sense of Others’ Intentions Katrin Kullasepp¹; Julie Bo Christensen²; Simone Indius³ 1: Tallinn University, Estonia and Fedreal University of Bahia, Brazil; 2: Tallinn University, Estonia and Familie Center Viborg, Denmark; 3: Tallinn University, Estonia Meta-Intentionality and Professional Identity in Psychotherapy: Aligning Intentions in the Dialogical Space of Therapy Simone Indius Tallinn University, Estonia Becoming Professional Psychologist in Practice - Identifications in and outside of Professional Settings Julie Bo Christensen Tallinn University, Estonia and Familie Center Viborg, Denmark Imagination and the Boundaries of Professional Identity: Dialogical Reflections from Psychotherapeutic Practice Jennifer Sigurddatter Tallinn Unviersity, Estonia
5:15pm to 6:45pm	Invited Symposium 3 Location: Great Hall (Pyrgos) The Dialogical Self in Flux Within Culture — Exploring Contradictions — Chair(s): Kiyomi Banda (Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan) Discussant(s): Tatsuya Sato (Ritsumeikan University); Yuko Yasuda (Ritsumeikan University) Presentations of the Symposium Living with Contradiction: Dialogical Self Processes in Caregiving for Toxic Parents in Japan Kiyomi Banda Kanazawa Institute of Technology Reconsidering ‘Cultural Transgression’: The Conflicts and Experiences of Families Supporting Japanese Nationals with Serious Illnesses Who Live Abroad Akiko Ichikawa Ochanomizu University Contradictions and Conflicts in Career Development: A Dialogical Self Theory Perspective Taiyo Miyashita The Japan Research Institute,Limited The Dialogical Self as Process: Autoethnographic Explorations of Self-Reconfiguration Across a Life Trajectory Teppei Tsuchimoto Ritsumeikan University

2:00pm
to
3:30pm

Invited Symposium 2
Location: Great Hall (Pyrgos)

The Dialogical Process of Becoming a Psychologist

Chair(s): Katrin Kullasepp (Tallinn University, Estonia and Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)

Discussant(s): Jaan Valsiner (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Presentations of the Symposium

Becoming a Psychologist Through Making Sense of Others’ Intentions

Katrin Kullasepp¹; Julie Bo Christensen²; Simone Indius³
1: Tallinn University, Estonia and Fedreal University of Bahia, Brazil; 2: Tallinn University, Estonia and Familie Center Viborg, Denmark; 3: Tallinn University, Estonia

Meta-Intentionality and Professional Identity in Psychotherapy: Aligning Intentions in the Dialogical Space of Therapy

Simone Indius
Tallinn University, Estonia

Becoming Professional Psychologist in Practice - Identifications in and outside of Professional Settings

Julie Bo Christensen
Tallinn University, Estonia and Familie Center Viborg, Denmark

Imagination and the Boundaries of Professional Identity: Dialogical Reflections from Psychotherapeutic Practice

Jennifer Sigurddatter
Tallinn Unviersity, Estonia

5:15pm
to
6:45pm

Invited Symposium 3
Location: Great Hall (Pyrgos)

The Dialogical Self in Flux Within Culture — Exploring Contradictions —

Chair(s): Kiyomi Banda (Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan)

Discussant(s): Tatsuya Sato (Ritsumeikan University); Yuko Yasuda (Ritsumeikan University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Living with Contradiction: Dialogical Self Processes in Caregiving for Toxic Parents in Japan

Kiyomi Banda
Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Reconsidering ‘Cultural Transgression’: The Conflicts and Experiences of Families Supporting Japanese Nationals with Serious Illnesses Who Live Abroad

Akiko Ichikawa
Ochanomizu University

Contradictions and Conflicts in Career Development: A Dialogical Self Theory Perspective

Taiyo Miyashita
The Japan Research Institute,Limited

The Dialogical Self as Process: Autoethnographic Explorations of Self-Reconfiguration Across a Life Trajectory

Teppei Tsuchimoto
Ritsumeikan University