Dear Friends,
Here I am writing to you at the end of my mandate and of three years in which I enjoyed your company and your participation to the EFTA activities. We did much together! Now I am applying again to EFTA-TIC and the General Board will then elect the new President at the Congress in Lyon.
We will meet in Lyon for the “big” congress with RELATES. We received 505 requests to intervene (87% from Europe, 13% from Latin America; 60% from western Europe, 39,5% from Eastern; few people are even coming from Asia/ Middle East, North America and North Africa). We are organizing a program of more than 300 session in parallel rooms. We have 8 invited keynotes, many ambassadors that have helped us expand the Congress and will offer their presentation. Many many interesting proposals. The prevailing European countries are France, Greece and Italy with more than 100 participants. For the first time we will have a room where professional participants will offer life supervision to others that wish to have it; and a room where there will be videos to be shared and enjoyed.
We are trying to make as much as possible an horizontal Congress with a lot of space to confront each other, to dialogue, to think new paths and possibilities for our systemic practices. We decided not to start ever before 9 and to have 90 minutes to enjoy lunch, while ending by 6pm, not later. I wish we will have fun and be together not only for work. With the Organizing and the Scientific Committee we have transformed the oral communications in a space for reflecting together, 15 minutes for the intervention and some common time to discuss. We are trying to do our best to organize a pleasant and intense systemic space. We will have some art I hope and I look forward to complicity, irony and entertaining time.