Missing Persons, Hostages and Their Families
Training Group for Therapists Dealing with Unexplained Trauma

The course will be a safe space for therapists to bring themselves, as those who are part of a collective that experiences trauma in its formation, and who at the same time treat the cycles of trauma. In addition, the course will be accompanied by theoretical learning, practical tools and models of work from the professional experience of the instructors, and a direct connection to knowledge and experts in the world. The course is based on bringing a case study, in each session a different therapist brings a case for learning, each week through a learning protocol adapted to the topic. Course objectives:  Providing knowledge, professional language of the field of blunt trauma and frozen grief.  A personal place for therapists in group support.  Training therapists in practice and existing models in accordance with their work in Israel. About the lecturer: Galit Itzhaki Dreizin, Jungian psychotherapist, MSW, criminal profiler. Has been involved in the field of absences for over a decade both in Israel and in the therapeutic research arena worldwide. Guest lecturer: Professor Keren Shalev, Director of the Institute for Missing Persons Research at the University of Portsmouth, England.