Dear Friends and Colleagues,
In this very warm summer I am writing to you from a cold winter, being in Buenos Aires in order to represent EFTA in Latin America. RELATES is an association of Latin speaking countries the most part of which is in South America but it also includes Spain, Portugal, Italy and France. It was founded by our members J.L. Linares and R. Pereira.
RELATES is already member of our international Network of Family Therapy, which is very interesting for EFTA. Last year we participated to the Asian Conference of Family Therapy in Tokyo and to the IFTA Conference in Bangkok thanks to the commitment of our Board Member Martine Nisse and in the second also of our Board Member Umberta Telfener and General Secretary Nevena Cavsloska. You can find a report in this Newsletter by M. Nisse. This October we will be again in Asia (Taipei, Taiwan) for the AAFT Conference (Martie Nisse).
I was also present in EFTA CIM Conference in Toulouse, very interesting and very well organized by Thierry Darnaud and Anna Chouhy. Toulouse could become in the future the permanent Conference for Research in substitution of Heidelberg which closed with last year meeting.
We absolutely need to increase our research activity. For this reason I invite you to consider going to Berlin Conference this Fall.
I will be in Manchester for the EFTA NFTO Meeting organized by Monica Whyte in connection with the AFT (UK) Conference and in Timisoara for the EFTA TIC Meeting which will be as usual very interesting for trainers.
I would like also to point another interesting conference taking place in Milan on the 40th Anniversary of the Italian law by Franco Basaglia for the closing of Psychiatric Hospital : many of us will be there from different countries and EFTA sponsored the event.
As you see there are too many occasions and it is very difficult to make a choice !!!
