Positive Psychotherapy

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

Project

📅 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

03/11/2025

✨ WAPP Monthly Highlights – October 2025 ✨

It feels great to belong to a community where something meaningful is always happening — where learning, sharing, and growing never stop. 💙

🎉 56 new members joined WAPP this month — welcome to our global family!
🌍 October was full of inspiring events:
🇷🇴 In Romania, the National Association of Positive Psychotherapy hosted two important gatherings — the Trainers’ Meeting (Oct 6–7) and the Conference “Dialogue Between Medicine and Psychologies.”
🇧🇬 In Bulgaria, the National Conference on Positive Psychotherapy (Oct 11–12) united local and international experts in a truly warm atmosphere.
💻 Within the Soul Evening Project, Todor Semyonov (Bulgaria) led the online workshop “Psychotherapies in the Virtual World.”
📚 And perhaps the highlight of the month — the release of the long-awaited second, revised, and expanded edition of “Positive Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychology” (edited by Erik Messas & Hamid Peseschkian), now available from Springer: 700 pages, 55 chapters, 75 authors from 19 countries!
🌎 WAPP Press also celebrated new translations of Nossrat Peseschkian’s classics: “Oriental Stories” in Polish and Armenian, “Life is a Paradise” in English-Ukrainian and Russian, and the first Georgian edition of “Positive Family Therapy”.

Belonging to WAPP means being part of a professional home that never stops moving, learning, and connecting across cultures. Let’s keep this spirit alive — together. 🌿

31/10/2025

"The Cognitive Behavioral Tsunami: How CBT became the dominant psychotherapy"
by Dr. Farhad Dalal (UK)

📅 Date: 11 December 2025
🕖 Time: 19:00–20:30 CET
🌐 Language: English with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian (+ languages to be added if 20+ from one country register)
🎓 CPD: 2 credits

We continue our exclusive “Meet the Expert” series, where leading thinkers in psychotherapy share ideas that shift perspectives and inspire reflection.

Join us for an eye-opening conversation with Dr. Farhad Dalal (UK) — psychotherapist, group analyst, and author of the acclaimed “CBT: The Cognitive Behavioral Tsunami”.

In this event, Dr. Dalal will explore how modern psychotherapy has been shaped not only by science, but by power, ideology, and institutional politics. This lecture reveals what lies behind the dominance of — and questions what we call “evidence-based.”

🔹 How did CBT become the leading therapy model?
🔹 What role did politics and ideology play in this rise?
🔹 What happens when science becomes a tool of power?

An unmissable session for psychotherapists, trainers, consultants, and students eager to look deeper into the structures influencing the “psy” professions today.

🔸 Free for WAPP members
🔸 10 EUR for non- or lapsed members

👉 Registration is required:
https://wapp.member365.org/public/event/details/8d9364cfb56e5f934afed0c2a2d5c7fb5f697ecf/1

📩 Zoom link will be sent automatically after registration.
✅ 2 CPD credits will be awarded to WAPP-certified psychotherapists and trainers upon attendance.

About the Expert:
Farhad Dalal, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist and group analyst in private practice in Devon, UK. He is the author of several influential books, including Taking the Group Seriously, Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization, Thought Paralysis: The Virtues of Discrimination, and CBT – The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics and the Corruptions of Science. He currently teaches group psychotherapy in India and continues to write on ethics, power, and the evolving politics of psychotherapy.

Join us for a remarkable evening of insight, dialogue, and reflection with one of the most provocative voices in contemporary psychotherapy.

— WAPP Head Office

29/10/2025

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

Project

📅 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

28/10/2025

🎥 Webinar Recording Available!

Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar “Psychotherapist in the Virtual World” with Todor Simeonov.
For those who couldn’t attend — or who would like to rewatch — we’re happy to share the video recordings:

▶ English version: https://youtu.be/Iz_QtJE6oEs
▶ Ukrainian version: https://youtu.be/Jqtn95O75BU

The session explored how therapy and wellbeing evolve in digital spaces and how psychotherapists can adapt to the rapidly changing virtual environment.

We hope you enjoy watching!
Soul Evening Team

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

23/10/2025

🎓 Dear Trainers and Candidate Trainers,

If you require translation, please make sure to register as soon as possible for the upcoming Training of Trainers on Online Training in Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy!

We urgently need to finalize the technical arrangements for interpretation, so your early registration is very important.

📅 Module 1: 23–25 January 2026 — with Gabriela Hum
Focus: Practical application of PPT techniques in an online format

📅 Module 2: 20–21 February 2026 — with Timo Becker
Focus: Technical skills and tools for effective and engaging online training

👉 Register here:
https://wapp.member365.org/public/event/details/9b832bcc08aeed6876069f73ac17ca49d6fc7958/1

🟢 Participation is free of charge for all active WAPP trainers and candidate trainers (membership fees paid).

🗣 For those needing simultaneous interpretation, the total fee is €100 for all five days, provided there are at least 10 participants from your language group.

Please register now to help us organize translation and technical support in time.

💡 Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your online teaching skills! And get CPD for advanced training for trainers ✅

WAPP Head Office

21/10/2025

🌍 Healing Across Cultures – Positive Mental Health in a Complex World

In 2026, the global community of Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy will gather once again — this time on the Adriatic coast of Montenegro — for the 8th World Congress of Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy.

It will be a week of learning, reflection, and connection — exploring how we can nurture understanding and harmony across different experiences, values, and traditions.

We are excited to announce the main theme of the Congress: “Healing Across Cultures – Positive Mental Health in a Complex World”

As Prof. Nossrat Peseschkian said, “Every person carries within them a message from another world.”
Together, we’ll discover how these messages can turn difference into dialogue, pain into growth, and complexity into connection.

💫 Registration opens on 15 December 2025!
The official Congress website will also go live that day, with all details about participation packages and fees.

Let’s keep walking the road of healing — together, across cultures. 💛