Positive Psychotherapy

04/03/2026

The first Center for in the Republic of Korea 🇰🇷 has been officially registered and opened in Seoul.

We warmly congratulate our colleagues and wish them growth, success, and a meaningful journey ahead. From our side, we are here to support wherever possible.

🌎 In any part of the world, it is possible to organize your first Basic Course in Positive Psychotherapy.
All you need are motivated participants and a place for training. WAPP can support you with experienced trainers, materials, and organizational guidance.

Let us continue growing together 🌱

03/03/2026

🌍 Today | Online Info Meeting – 8th World Congress on 2026

Dear colleagues,

Today we are meeting online to talk about our major upcoming event — the 8th World Congress for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy, which will take place 11–16 October 2026 in Montenegro.

If you have questions about the Congress — this is the perfect moment to join us.

📆 Today, 3 March 2026
🕕 18:00–19:30 CET (Berlin time)

🔗 Zoom link to join was sent to our members via email. Please check your inbox 📧

💬 The meeting will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into Bulgarian, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Members of the WAPP Board, the Head Office team, and representatives of our event organizer Artion will be present to guide you through:

• the Congress location
• keynote speakers
• program structure & formats
• registration categories & deadlines
• abstract submission & payment procedures
• practical and organizational details

And of course — we will answer your questions.

We warmly invite you to join us today.
Let’s begin this Congress journey together.

See you online 💙

— WAPP Board & Head Office Team

02/03/2026

🌍 Monthly Highlights | February 2026

The shortest month of the year, but definitely not the quietest one.

✨ 41 new members joined WAPP in February. Our global community continues to grow - welcome to your professional home.

📚 One of the most beloved classics of , “The Merchant and the Parrot” - the well-known collection of Oriental stories as therapeutic tools in PPT is now available in Polish. The book has been published on Amazon and in the WAPP Shop, making this bestseller accessible to our Polish colleagues.

🎓 We completed the second and final module of the Training for Trainers on Online Teaching Tools, led by our colleague from Germany, Timo Becker. Strengthening quality in education remains one of our priorities.

📖 The book “Living a Fulfilled Life” by Dr. Richard- Christian Werringloer is now available in Turkish. Previously popular among English-speaking colleagues, it can now reach and inspire our Turkish community as well.

🔎 This month we also launched the series “Unknown Facts about WAPP”, sharing small insights and stories you might not have known about our association. We hope you enjoyed discovering them as much as we enjoyed sharing them.

⏳ A gentle reminder: the abstract submission deadline for the upcoming Congress is approaching, as well as the end of the Early Bird registration fee. If you have been thinking about submitting your work or securing your place, this is the moment. We would love to see you there: wapp2026.org

🌱 As we step into spring, many new events and projects are already on the horizon. Stay connected and follow our updates.

01/03/2026

Thirty years ago, on a date that appears only in leap years, a professional association was founded that would grow far beyond its beginnings. On 29 February 1996, the World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy came into being - and what started as a shared vision has since become a Global Professional Home 🏠🌎

was built on a simple yet profound conviction: that every human being is rich in capacities 💎 like a treasury of precious stones waiting to be discovered and brought into light. Rooted in transcultural understanding and inspired by dialogue between traditions, it reminds us that healing does not begin with deficits, but with dignity; not with division, but with encounter.

For thirty years, WAPP has safeguarded this vision and allowed it to travel: across languages, continents, and generations. It has connected colleagues who might otherwise never have met. It has created spaces for learning, supervision, research, and friendship. It has helped transform individual practices into a shared movement.

Today we honor these thirty years with gratitude. And we invite you to celebrate with us.

🎉Join today’s flashmob and share your greetings to WAPP - visit our stories and add your photo & location to the anniversary celebration template. Let the faces of our community speak for the journey we have taken together.

And the main celebration awaits us at the 8th World Congress of Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy. We sincerely hope that many of you will join us there, so that we may mark this anniversary not only in words, but side by side,
looking toward the future we continue to build together. 👉Details: wapp2026.org

27/02/2026

🎂 UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT WAPP #4: Our first doors

Before WAPP became a global association, before congresses, committees, and international networks - there were rooms. Doors. Streets. Very concrete places where was born and quietly growing.

It all began on 5 May 1969, when Nossrat Peseschkian opened his private practice for psychotherapy at Taunusstraße 14. A small beginning with a very big idea.

In the 1970s, the work continued at An den Quellen 1.
In 1997, the movement expanded into the Kaiser-Friedrich-Residenz, Langgasse 38–40.
From 2004 to 2006, it was Langgasse 36.
And since 2006, the WIAP Academy and WAPP Headquarters have been located at Luisenstraße 28.

Swipe through the carousel to see the places where Positive Psychotherapy took shape and where our global community found its home.

What started behind a single door now connects more than 3000 people across all the continents 💙🌎

24/02/2026

This is a short excerpt from an interview with Hamid Peseschkian, WAPP President on the program “Slušamo te” broadcast on the leading national TV channel of Montenegro 🇲🇪

▶️ https://youtu.be/JIZ7VJWOPsA

In this conversation, Dr. Peseschkian speaks about the global challenges of mental health, the increasing pressure modern societies face, and why transcultural understanding is no longer optional, but essential.

What makes people vulnerable?
Are mental disorders becoming inevitable in our time?

And how can cultural differences become a resource rather than a source of conflict?

A thoughtful and timely discussion, well worth watching.

Our next World Congress on will be in Montenegro on a beautiful coast of Budva. Details & registration: wapp2026.org

This is a short excerpt from an interview with Hamid Peseschkian, WAPP President on the program “Slušamo te” broadcast on the leading national TV channel of ...

24/02/2026

Today marks four years since the full-scale war in Ukraine began.

At WAPP, we are proud to have more than 1000 Ukrainian members in our community. Today, we simply want to say: we see you, we admire your strength, and we are thinking of you.

Our association is built on respect, diversity, and solidarity.

20/02/2026

3rd Edition of a classic book by N. Peseschkian “Positive Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice” in Romanian language.
Get the copy: https://www.edituratrei.ro/carte/psihoterapie-pozitiva/14496/

18/02/2026

Dear friends,

As you know, our major upcoming event - the 8th World Congress for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy - will take place from 11–16 October 2026 in Montenegro.

We are aware that many of you may have questions regarding the Congress. To address these questions and to present the key aspects and practical details of the event, we are organizing an online information meeting, to which we warmly invite you.

📆 When: 3 March 2026 at 18:00-19:30 CET (Berlin time)

🔗 Zoom link to join the meeting was sent to everyone by email. Please check your inbox 📧

💬 Language: The meeting will be held in English, with simultaneous interpretation into Bulgarian, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

During this session, members of the WAPP Board, the Head Office team, as well as representatives of our event organizers (Artion) will be present.

We will introduce and discuss:

🔹 the Congress location in Montenegro
🔹 invited keynote speakers
🔹 the preliminary program structure and presentation formats
🔹 the Congress website
🔹 registration categories and deadlines
🔹 registration, abstract submission, and payment procedures
🔹 organizational and practical aspects of participation
🔹 answers to your questions

We would be very glad to welcome you to this online meeting and to provide a clear overview of the Congress and its key details. See you there!

With best regards,
WAPP Board and Head Office Team

16/02/2026

We are pleased to announce the release of the Polish edition of “Oriental Stories as Techniques in Positive Psychotherapy: The Merchant and the Parrot” by Nossrat Peseschkian.

📕🇵🇱https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3910225691

This iconic book - one of the most well-known and widely read works by the founder of Psychotherapy, has now been published in Polish and is available for order in a printed edition via Amazon.

In addition, a polished and carefully revised e-book version is available on WAPP Shop, offering an updated and refined reading experience:
https://www.positum.org/product/oriental-stories-polish-ebook/

Blending timeless Oriental stories with clinical insights and therapeutic wisdom, this book remains a cornerstone of Positive Psychotherapy and a valuable resource for psychotherapists, educators, and all those interested in transcultural understanding and narrative approaches in therapy.

We warmly encourage our colleagues to order a copy and include this classic work in their professional collection - a truly foundational book by the founder of our method.