Agenda
Agenda
Program:
Friday, October 10, 2025
Day I of the Congress
8:00 - 9:00 AM: Participant Registration
9:00 - 9:30 AM: Opening Remarks, Welcome Address - Dr. Roman Solecki (Director of the Krakow Institute of Logotherapy).
9:30 - 10:00 AM: Dr. h.c. Alexander Vesely-Frankl (Austria) - Message to Congress Members.
10:00 - 10:45 AM: Dr. Ozkan Kenarli (Turkey) - "Existential Analysis and Logotherapeutic Intervention for Bipolar Patients."
10:45 - 11:45 AM: Prof. Svetlana Shtukareva (Russia) - "An Effective and Novel Method for Conducting Logotherapy Sessions: 'Consultation-Therapy'."
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Coffee Break
12:15 - 12:45 PM: Prof. Elisabeth Lukas (Austria) - "Logotherapy: Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow" - An Interview.
12:45 - 1:30 PM: Dr. hab. Aleksander Posacki (Poland) - "Philosophical Sources of Viktor Frankl's Anthropology."
1:30 - 2:30 PM: Lunch Break
2:30 - 3:30 PM: Expert Panel: "Logotherapy as Psychotherapy" - Chaired by Dr. Rafał Szykuła.
3:30 - 4:15 PM: Can Sabaner (Turkey) - "The Meaning Crisis: How Adolescents Navigate Meaning in a Postmodern World."
4:15 - 5:00 PM: Dr. Barbara Pahljina (Croatia) - "Marriage Love, Crises, and Working with Couples in Logotherapy."
5:00 - 5:45 PM: Book Promotion: Prof. E. Lukas and Dr. H. Schönfeld's "Psychotherapy with Dignity: Concrete Logotherapy" - Chaired by Dr. Artur Mnich, Psychiatrist.
5:45 - 6:00 PM: Summary of Day I of the Congress - Michał Kuś (Vice-Director of KIL).
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Day II of the Congress
8:00 - 9:00 AM: Participant Registration
9:00 - 9:15 AM: Opening, Welcome Address
9:15 - 10:00 AM: Dr. Özkan Kenarlı (Turkey) - "Paradoxical Intention: An Application for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - Case Study.
10:00 - 10:45 AM: Dr. Piotr Szczukiewicz (Poland) - "Meaning and Personhood: The Place of Logotherapy in the Existential-Humanistic Stream."
10:45 - 11:15 AM: Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM: Prof. Dr. habil. Eric Pfeifer (Germany) - "Towards the Potentials of Combining Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy and Music (Therapy): Introduction of a Music-Assisted Model of Meaning Fulfillment."
12:00 - 12:45 PM: Daniel Stoica-Florea (Switzerland) - "Paradoxical Intention: Embracing Freedom Through Depathologization and Humor."
12:45 - 1:30 PM: Expert Panel: "Logotherapy in Prevention and Education" - Chaired by Dr. Jolanta Kraśniewska (Vice-Director of KIL).
1:30 - 2:00 PM: Congress Summary - Board of the Krakow Institute of Logotherapy.
2:00 - 3:00 PM: Lunch Break
3:00 - 5:00 PM: Workshops:
Prof. Mariusz Jędrzejko (Poland) - "Psychosocial and Psychosomatic Consequences of Screen Technology Overuse: Logotherapy in the Treatment of Cyber-Disorders."
Daniel Stoica-Florea (Switzerland) - "Logodrama - Paradoxical Intention in Action: An Empowering Tool for Compassion, Creativity, and Courage."
Prof. Svetlana Shtukareva (Russia) - "Analysis and Supervision of Therapy Cases."
Beste Erdinç (Turkey) - "Development of the Existential Vacuum Scale."
Yusuf Akyıl (Turkey) - "Existential Journey with Creative Drama."
Archezja Foundation for Educational Support (Poland) - "Live with Meaning" Logoprevention Program.
Limited spots available for workshops!
*7:30 - 9:00 PM: Theatrical Play by Viktor Frankl, "Synchronization in Birkenwald," at the Groteska Theatre in Krakow.
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