Conference Agenda

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

Bob Fecho

Teachers College, Columbia University, United States of America

Dialogical Self Theory and its Potential for Understanding Union Leadership Identity

Najeeha Pulikkal Valiyathodi, Manoranjan Dhal

Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India

From Conflict to Reflection: Temporal Dynamics of Dialogical Self-Reorganization in Trade Union Leadership

Ishan Vats, Manoranjan Dhal

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Competency Alignment and Sustainable Competency Enactment: An Empirical Examination through Dialogical Self Theory

Krithika Selvaraj, Manoranjan Dhal

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India

Problematizing Identity in Metamodern Era: Who is the Metamodern Human?

Babak Ghaempanah, Katie Stephenson, Svetlana Khapova

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Autobiographical Tattoos and Self-Construction

Csilla Cseko¹, Anna Cseko-Szel²

1: University of Pécs, Hungary; 2: Regional Psychiatry Hospital Randers, Denmark

Voices of Culture Within the Woman’s Self: Rethinking the Ideal Self Through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Anife Fevzieva, Vasily Kostenko

HSE University, Russian Federation

Multiple I-Positions of a Soldier Amputee Due to an Anti-Personnel Mine

Hernan Sanchez Rios, Javier Noreña Salas

Universidad del Valle, Colombia

The Liberating Power of Dialogue in Arrested Transitions

Marta B. Erdos

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

Innovations in Assessing Dialogical Qualities: Novel Instruments and Validations

Chair(s): Or Burstein (Ben Gurion University)

Discussant(s): Piotr K. Oleś (Faculty of Psychology at Kraków, University SWPS); Athina Filippidou (University of Ioannina)

Presentations of the Symposium

Dialogical Flexibility Scale – Further Development and validation

Piotr K. Oleś
Faculty of Psychology at Kraków, University SWPS

Internal Dialogical Activity and Mental Health Indicators: Psychometric Validation of the Greek IDAS-R

Athina Filippidou; Georgia Gkantona
University of Ioannina

Development and Validation of the Dialogicity Scale (DS): A Theory-Driven Psychometric Evaluation of Dialogical Capacity

Or Burstein; Tehila Kogut
Ben Gurion University

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

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

Voices Across the Divide: Rethinking Gender Identity and the Tension Between Similarity and Difference in Adult Mother–Daughter Conversations

Ronit Even Zahav

Ruppin Academic Center, Israel

Dialogical Self — Created to Be Integrated: Formation of the Maternal Bond

Kristiina Uriko, Roland E. Uriko

Tallinn University, Estonia

Maternal Grief: In the Space Between Silence and Words — Experiencing the Loss of a Child in the Tempi Train Disaster

Kia Thanopoulou

Family Therapy Unit, Greece/ Integrated Mental Health Care Unit of Attica

Beyond the Mother Role: A Dialogical Exploration of Identity, Care, and Separation Through a Dream

Ifigenia Sotiropoulou

"Logo Psychis" -Training and Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy, Greece

Innovative Methodologies for Studying the Dialogic Self

Chair(s): Sandra Ferraz C D Freire (Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil)

Discussant(s): Manuel De La Mata Benitez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)

Presentations of the Symposium

Family Voices at the Table in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Dialogical Perspective on Food Management

Mónica Roncancio Moreno; Juan José Cleves Valencia; Arcadio De Jesús Cardona Isaza
Universidad del Valle, Colombia

A Map, a Suitcase, a Passport, and a Letter: Creative Instruments for Exploring I-Positions in the Search for Asylum

Pilar Orrego-Gañán¹; Alicia Español²; Manuel De La Mata-Benítez¹
1: Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; 2: Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain

Social Construction of Gender by School Children: Navigating Self Dynamics Mediated by Avatars

Sandra Ferraz C D Freire
Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil

The Trajectory Equifinality Approach: a Fruitful Methodology to Investigate the Role of Imagination in the Developmentof the Dialogical Self

Angela Branco
Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil

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

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

Verdis Athanasios

National and Kapodistiran University of Athens, Greece

Parts, Voices and Positions: A Dialogue Between Dialogical Self Theory and Internal Family Systems Theory in the Context of Multiplicity-Informed Psychotherapy

Polina Roussou

Logo Psychis'- Training and Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy, Greece

Writing the Self: Dialogical Transformations for Research and Life

Reinekke Lengelle

Athabasca University & The Hague University Applied Sciences, Canada

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

Dialogical Self Theory In Collaborative Writing. Qualitative Research With Clinicians And People With Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia (TRS)

Giacomo Chiara¹, Elena Faccio², Andrea de Bartolomeis³, Felice Iasevoli⁴, Roberto Vitelli⁵

1: University of Naples, Italy; 2: University of Padua, Italy; 3: University of Naples, Italy; 4: University of Naples, Italy; 5: University of Naples, Italy

Challenges in Outcome Studies for Dialogical Self-Therapies

Barbara Mainguy^1,2, Lewis Mehl-Madrona^1,2,3,4

1: Coyote Institute, United States of America; 2: Maine Street Medicine Works, PLLC; 3: Northern Light Acadia Psychiatry Residency, Bangor, Maine; 4: Department of Native Studies, University of Maine, Orono

Co-constructing "Being Understood" in Life-Story Interviews: A Dialogical Narrative Analysis of Brain Tumor Illness Narratives

Yingdi Liang

The University of Tokyo, Japan

The Readerly Writerly Self: Exploring Literacy Through a DST Lens

Chair(s): Dawan Coombs (Brigham Young University)

Discussant(s): Dawan Coombs (Brigham Young University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Orthographic Mapping and the Dialogical Self: Situating Post-COVID Literacy Pedagogy

Greg Bruno
Kingsborough Community College - CUNY

Using Dialogical Self Theory to Examine Shifts in Reader Identity at the Secondary Level

Mercedes Allen
Brigham Young University

Empowering Readers: Incorporating DST to Prepare Students for a Dialogical Classroom

Kaylee Smedley
Brigham Young University

Phantom Mirrors, Promoter Bridges: Keeping Dialogue Open in AI-Assisted First-Year Writing

Chelsey Barber¹; Kelsey Hammond²
1: Stony Book University; 2: Teachers College, Columbia University

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