Positive Psychotherapy

05/12/2025

WAPP President, Dr. Hamid Peseschkian, warmly invites all colleagues to join us next year at the 8th World Congress of Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy, which will take place on 11–15 October 2026 in Budva, Montenegro.

It will be our big gathering — days of inspiration, learning, and meaningful conversations by the sea.
Registration and abstract submission will open on 15 December 2025.

Places are limited, so we encourage you to prepare and register as early as possible.
We look forward to welcoming you in Budva! 🇲🇪

04/12/2025

📚 New Turkish Publication from WAPP Press

Dear colleagues,
We would like to inform you that the Turkish edition of our book, “Pozitif ve kültürlerarası psikoterapide gerçek yetenekler”, is now available in electronic format.

Gülle, N., & Yalçin, Ö. (2025). Pozitif ve kültürlerarası psikoterapide gerçek yetenekler. Wiesbaden: WAPP Press.
ISBN 978-3-910225-55-8

Prepared on the basis of the primary and secondary capacities of Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (PPT), this book offers a clear and structured overview of the capacities to love and know. It includes theoretical explanations as well as descriptions of possible challenges that may arise depending on how each capacity is developed in the individual.

The e-book can be purchased on:
🌐 website: https://www.positum.org/shop/books/
🧑‍🏫 Member Portal: https://wapp.member365.org/store/

We hope this publication will serve as a useful resource for the Turkish PPT community and for colleagues working with worldwide.

Warm regards from the WAPP Press team

02/12/2025

WAPP Monthly Highlights – November 2025

There’s something special about belonging to a community that never stops learning, creating, and connecting.

🎉 28 new members joined WAPP this month — welcome to our ever-growing global family!

🌍 Thanks to the efforts of our colleagues from Armenia and Mongolia, translated versions of the Glossary of Positive Psychotherapy Terms are now available on our website — another step toward making PPT accessible in even more languages.

💫 Within the Soul Evening Project, Volodymyr Karikash led an inspiring webinar on “The Therapist’s View on the Spiritual Dimension,” which gathered many colleagues for reflection and exchange.

📖 Our Turkish colleagues, Nihal Gülle and Özlem Yalçin, published their new book in Turkish, dedicated to the topic of Actual Capacities — a wonderful addition to WAPP Press releases.

🏛 And of course, the highlight of the month — last week in Wiesbaden, the heart of , brought together the Head Office team, the WAPP Board strategic meeting, and the 26th International Trainer Seminar. Around one hundred trainers and candidate trainers from 20 countries met to learn, exchange insights, and celebrate 30 years since the very first Trainer Seminar.

Being part of WAPP means growing together — professionally, personally, and transculturally. What a way to close the year! 🌿

30/11/2025

A glimpse into the 26th International Trainer Seminar in , which took place in Wiesbaden on 26-29 of November 2025. While we’re waiting for the official photos, we’re sharing a bit of the atmosphere from this year’s gathering of trainers and candidate-trainers.

These days are always about more than theory — it’s about real conversations, heartfelt exchanges, shared learning, and the joy of meeting face-to-face. So many insights, so much warmth, and a deep sense of unity in diversity — colleagues from many countries, different backgrounds, different stories, yet one common language of care and understanding.

21/11/2025

“Reflections of the Year – How to Use Self-Reflection as a Psychotherapist” by Gabriela Hum (Romania)

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📅 Date: 3 December 2025
🕔 Time: 17:00–19:00 CET (Berlin time)
🌐 Language: English with simultaneous Ukrainian translation
🎓 CPD: 2 credits

Join us for an end-of-year Soul Evening with Gabriela Hum 🇷🇴 — clinical psychologist, positive psychotherapist, international trainer and supervisor — on the theme “Reflections of the Year: How to Use Self-Reflections as a Psychotherapist.”

This webinar offers a guided professional space to pause, look back, and reconnect with your development throughout the year. Through structured reflection and practical exercises, we will explore how self-reflection strengthens therapeutic presence, emotional resilience, and the effectiveness of your work with clients.

✨ What we will explore:
• Reviewing your year through a constructive and compassionate lens
• Deepening self-awareness with reflective tools
• Identifying patterns in your therapeutic practice
• Renewing clarity, purpose, and direction for the year ahead

📝 For the experiential part, please have your 2025 agenda or schedule with client sessions available.

🔹 Free for WAPP members
🔹 5 EUR for non-members or lapsed

👉 Registration required: https://wapp.member365.org/public/event/details/0ace66e9ab3edf8fe22421d00ebe890d5ee5102b/1
📩 Zoom link will be sent after registration.

✅ CPD credits will be automatically assigned to WAPP-certified psychotherapists and trainers after attending the webinar.

About the Speaker

Gabriela Hum is a clinical psychologist, positive psychotherapist, and international trainer and supervisor based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is the president of the Romanian Positive Psychotherapy Association and is affiliated with the World Association for Positive Psychotherapy (WAPP). Gabriela has extensive experience in self-discovery work and training for psychotherapists, with contributions across China, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine.

We look forward to seeing you there!

19/11/2025

There are moments that stay with us long after the event ends — moments of meeting, of warmth, of shared discovery.

This short video from our previous International Conference in Istanbul in 2024 captures exactly that: the smiles, the embraces, the spontaneous hallway conversations; the feeling of being seen, understood, and connected across cultures and continents.

WAPP conferences have always been more than a scientific program.
They are places where professionals from all over the world find a common language, even when they speak in different ones; where experience, knowledge, and humanity meet as naturally as hands reaching out to hands.

There is something truly unique in these gatherings — something our guests consistently describe as warm, inspiring, and unlike any other conference they have attended.

Next year, we will have the joy of coming together once again — for the 8th World Congress of Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy, which will take place 11–16 October 2026 in Montenegro, on the stunning Adriatic coast.

In this extraordinary place, at a beautiful seaside hotel, the horizon touches the sea as gently as our thoughts touch one another.

Let this video be a small reminder — and at the same time, a quiet invitation toward what lies ahead.

Welcome to the memories.
Welcome to the journey ahead.
See you at the World Congress 2026.

💻 Registration starts on 15 December 2025

12/11/2025

📍 7th National Conference on Positive Psychotherapy in Romania
🗓 10–12 November 2025, Florești, Romania 🇷🇴

Our Romanian colleagues recently held their autumn conference — the last in this year’s series of national events.
The 2025 conference theme was:
“Resources and Perspectives in Positive Psychotherapy of Family and Couple Relationships.”

Around 70 participants from across Romania attended, exploring family and couple dynamics through the lens of Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy. Among the international speakers was Arno Remmers (Germany).

We sincerely thank the Romanian Association of Positive Psychotherapy and all participants for their inspiring contributions and warm hospitality.

Swipe to see some photos from the event ➡️

11/11/2025

Dear Trainers and Candidate Trainers in Positive Psychotherapy,

We already have many registrations for the upcoming:

«Special Online Training in Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy»

However, we would be happy to see even more of you take part in this unique, 👀one-time opportunity to learn the tools and techniques for conducting online training.
This seminar will not be repeated in the future.

We warmly remind and encourage you to join, as the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) may soon begin requiring proofthat trainers who provide online seminars possess relevant competencies and technical skills to conduct them.
All participants will receive a certificate and 30 CPD credits toward continuing professional development.

👉Details and registration:
https://wapp.member365.org/public/event/details/9b832bcc08aeed6876069f73ac17ca49d6fc7958/1

‼️ Please register as soon as possible

If you require interpretation, please select the “Course Registration with Translation” option — this is necessary so we can assign interpreters in advance.

06/11/2025

Dear colleagues,
The World Federation for Psychotherapy (WFP), based in the United States, is organizing the 24th World Congress of Psychotherapy, which will take place on June 4–6, 2026 in New York.

Please note that this event is not the World Congress organized by WAPP.

All details, registration options, and the official program are available at the link below:

05/11/2025

📚 Just arrived!
The second, updated and expanded edition of “Positive Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychology” has officially landed — now in the hands of the editors, Prof. Erick Messias and Dr. Hamid Peseschkian.

This new edition brings together:
✅ 75 authors
✅ from 19 countries
✅ across 55 rich chapters on positive mental health, clinical applications, and cross-cultural perspectives.

Copies will soon reach authors worldwide.
You can already order the book on Springer, in print or ebook format.

A solid step forward for the growth of and interdisciplinary collaboration in mental health.

🔗 Link to order: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-94645-5

05/11/2025

Join today:

“The Therapist’s View on the Spiritual Dimension” by Volodymyr Karikash

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📅 Date: 5 November 2025
🕔 Time: 17:00–19:00 CEST (Berlin time)
🌐 Language: Ukrainian with simultaneous English translation
🎓 CPD: 2 credits

Join us for a professional dialogue with Volodymyr Karikash, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 on the topic “The Therapist’s View on the Spiritual Dimension. This special Soul Evening introduces a new discussion format exploring the therapist’s role in working with the spiritual dimension.

🔹 Free for WAPP members
🔹 5 EUR for non-members or lapsed

👉 Registration required: https://wapp.member365.org/public/event/details/3c1faba8278817784fb913a47feca9748e551825/1
📩 Zoom link will be sent after registration.

✅ CPD credits will be automatically assigned to WAPP-certified psychotherapists and trainers after attending the webinar.

About the Webinar:
This professional dialogue will explore how psychotherapists perceive and engage with the spiritual dimension in their practice. Topics will include:
- How we recognize and experience the presence of the spiritual dimension in therapy
- Understanding the meanings of “soul” and “spirit” across different languages and traditions
- Distinguishing between spirituality and morality
- The unique position of the psychotherapist in contact with the spiritual dimension
- Meta-skills required to work effectively with this level of experience

About the Speaker:
Volodymyr Karikash, Ph.D. is a co-founder of the Ukrainian Institute of Positive Cross-Cultural Psychotherapy and Management, psychotherapist registered in national and international associations (USP, UAPP, WAPP, EAP), WAPP Master Trainer and Supervisor, and Honorary Member of the World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy.

We look forward to seeing you there!
Soul Evening Team