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| 20 Febr 2021 |
David Winter and Harry Procter published a new book:
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| 20 Febr 2021 |
New book by Hubert Hermans and Rob Bartels
Hubert Hermans, the creator of Dislogical Self Theory, has puiblished a new book, with Rob Bartels:
Citizenship Education and the Personalization of Democracy
 see https://www.routledge.com/Citizenship-Education-and-the-Personalization-of-Democracy/Hermans-Bartels/p/book/9780367467890
and: hermans-bartels
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| 20 Febr 2021 |
Our colleague Heather Foster in Wollongong, Australia, passed away on 22 September 2020, at the age of 77.
see Obituary
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| 20 Febr 2021 |
Rue Cromwell, pioneer of PCP, died on 8 December 2020, at the age 92.
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| 20 Febr 2021 |
Online Constructivist Meet-up series
The next meeting will be on 18 March 2021.
see https://www.constructivistmeetup.org/home
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| 20 Febr 2021 |
International PCP congress postponed
Due to the covid-19 pandemic the XXIVth International PCP congress that
was to be held this year in Padua, Italy, has to be postponed to July
14-17 2022, also in Padua - if all goes well.
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New George Kelly Society Steering Committee elected.for the term 2020-2022.
President: Prof David Winter, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
Vice-President:
Prof Gabriele Chiari, Florence, Italy
Secretary/Treasurer: Dr Desley Hennessy, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Information Officer: Prof Jörn Scheer, Hamburg, Germany
Members-at-large:
Dr.essa Chiara Centomo, Padua, Italy
Peter Cummins, MA, Coventry, UK
Dr Miroslav Filip, Brno, Czech Republic
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| 7 Nov 2020 |
Another online activity in PCP
Coventry Constructivist Central Special
Interest Group online
Sally Robbins writes:
Coventry
Constructivist Centre runs PCP and related courses, usually in person and based
in Coventry, England. We are known for keeping prices low and for running on a
not-for-profit basis. Please see more about us and our activities on our
website www.covpcp.com
Like most organisations, we have moved our current activities online during the
Coronavirus restrictions, so the courses are now accessible to people from
further afield. Our September Quarterly Study Day morphed from a whole day
event into a two-hour zoom session, and was very well received, so we are
sticking with that format at present.
Therefore, the scheduled Special Interest Group meeting on PCP and
Coaching will run from 2 to 4 p.m. next Friday 13th November,
UK time*. This is open to all with an interest in both PCP and
Coaching and is the first meeting of this sort. It follows the Coaching Course
we ran last year. Let me know at Sally@covpcp.com
if you would like to attend and I will send you the link. Given the lower
overheads involved, we are just asking for a £5 contribution to our zoom
subscription and I will send details of how to pay, should you wish to attend.
The Quarterly Study Day ‘ What if there is not much time?’, a
session about brief intervention, will run from 2 to 4 p.m. on
Friday 4th December, UK time*. See the website for more details.
Again, we ask a £5 contribution, and please let me know (Sally@covpcp.com) if
you are coming so I can email you the link. Sadly this year you will have to
provide your own mince pies!
We look forward to seeing you at this and other future events.
Sally Robbins
Course Organiser, Coventry Constructivist Centre, UK
*This is UK time. Double check on your Zoom Link for local times.Times
in other countries as follows: 6am (Pacific); 9am (Ecuador); 9am (USA
East); 2pm (UK); 3pm (Europe); 5pm (Moscow); 6pm (UAE); 9pm (Hong Kong); 1.00am
(Sydney)
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7 Nov 2020
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Constructivist Meet-Up Series
The latest info about the Meet-Up Series can be found on its Website at: https://www.constructivistmeetup.org/home |
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| 2 Sept 2020 |
Journal of Constructivist Psychology
For the latest issues of the Journal
of Constructivist Psychology (JCP)
see: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/upcy20/current
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| 2 Sept 2020 |
Constructivist Foundations
The free online journal Constructivist Foundations has its latest issue (15/3).
see: https://constructivist.info/15/3
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| 2 Sept 2020 |
International PCP Congress in Padua 2021
The next International
Congress (which is not the cancelled EPCA conference!) will be at the University
of Padua, Italy, from July 7-10, 2021 - the “Corona” situation permitting. It will
be organised by Sabrina Cipolletta.
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2 Sept 2020
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Constructivist Meet-up Series
To enable communication now that conferences had to be cancelled to due
to the Corona events, some colleagues have set up an online Constructivist Meet-up Series.
Harry Procter (UK) writes:
The latest Programme in the Meetup Series can be found in this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I6peFTlj8VmbtPbA8LediD66Npw74neK/view?usp=sharing
If anyone is interested in joining our Constructivist
Meetup Series of presentations coming up, email me and I will put you on the
mailing list. We're not making it totally public as we may get overwhelmed
Please email me at harryprocter20@gmail.com with your name and email address with a note about your affiliation and
knowledge of personal construct psychology and I will put you on the mailing
list to obtain a link before each of the presentations.
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15 June 2020
Constructivist
Meet-Up Series
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As
the EPCA conference in Barcelona (and other meetings) have been
cancelled due to the Corona situation a group of colleages has proposed
a virtual online Constructivist Meet-Up Series. Harry Procter writes:
Dear Colleague,
Greetings to you. We hope you are safe.
The
Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the cancelling of many
conferences, including the European Personal Construct Psychology
Congress which was to be held in Barcelona. To fill the void left by
this cancellation – but not as a replacement for the annual conference
itself -- we propose a Constructivist Meet-Up Series. This will
consist of a series of forums in which practitioners, professionals and
the professoriate can share ideas of broad interest to constructivist
and like-minded thinkers.
We hope that the theme of the meetup series would reflect the breadth of the field of applications of Constructivism and PCP and their relevance to Contemporary Society.
It could address issues related to the relevance of constructivism and
PCP to social, political, economic, educational, health, interpersonal,
clinical and other challenges that we are facing in contemporary
society.
The series would consist of a series of 2-hour interactive sessions conducted over the Zoom conferencing platform. (Times and dates will be determined later.) We would hold one 2-hour session every two weeks
for a period of several months. Dates are to be determined. Sessions
could be organized in a variety of ways. These include:
- A Talk (30-40 minutes) on a Topic of Broad Interest
- A Discussion Between People or in a Panel
- Break Out Discussions (including the possibility of “same language” break out groups for people whose first language is not English)
- Broad Discussion within the Entire Group of Attendees
- Informal and/or Open-Ended Discussion Among Attendees
Other formats are possible. Each session will be moderated by individuals familiar with Zoom technology. Sessions would be free and open to as many people as are interested, both inside and outside of the PCP community.
Would You Be Interested in Such a Forum?
We
are interested in such a meetup and if so, the topics that you might
wish to explore. Please click on the following link and respond to a
brief questionnaire about the meet-up series.
https://forms.gle/h5FF3e39kYvA4xgKA
We look forward to the possibility of meeting up with you!
Luis Botella, Sandy Burbach, Chiara Centomo, Michael Mascolo, Jelena Pavlovic, Harry Procter
(Constructivist Meet-Up Organizing Committee)
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2 March 2020
EPCA 2020
Submission and registration
dates extended
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Submission and registration dates for EPCA 2020 in Barcelona extended: cancelled !
Submission of contributions: 31 March
Early Bird registration: 6 April
http://www.pcp-net.org/epca-2020/call.html
http://www.pcp-net.org/epca-2020/registration.html
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12 February 2020
New Book
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A new book by Heather Moran has been published:
A Beginner's Guide to
Personal Construct Therapy with Children and Young people
Paperback
– Abridged, 22 Jan 2020
£ 9.99
Publisher's info:
This introduction to Personal Construct Therapy approach with children
and young people might be very useful to professionals with some knowledge of
Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) wishing to consider the practicalities of
therapy. It might also be a starting point for readers who are trying to find
out what a PCP therapist might do. It includes details that are not available
in other texts: issues around referrals; setting up for therapy and measuring
progress; what might happen at the start, middle and end of an episode of
Personal Construct Therapy; and how to write about the therapeutic work, with
sample letters and explanations. There are explanations for six Personal
Construct techniques which can be used in sessions, including two newly
developed and previously unpublished techniques, The Belgrade Difficult
Experience Comic Strip and The Super Simple Role Grid. Heather Moran is a
clinical and educational psychologist with 40 years experience of working with
children, adolescents, their parents and teachers. She has delivered workshops
and conference presentations about her therapeutic work and has a number of
journal publications. Her Drawing the Ideal Self technique has been used in
therapy and research to explore the personal views of children and young
people. Heather teaches on the Coventry Constructivist Centre’s Personal
Construct Psychology foundation course and is a visiting lecturer at the
universities of Birmingham, Coventry and Warwick. Find out more at:
drawingtheidealself.co.uk.
see: Website
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12 February 2020
JCP 1 / 2020 |
Journal of Constructivist Psychology 33/1
The latest
issue of the JCP has appeared.
For
details,
see https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/upcy20/33/1?nav=tocList |
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12 February 2020
EPCA 2020
dates |
The website of the XVth Biennial Conference of the European Personal Construct Association (EPCA), to be held in Barcelona, Spain is online.
Dates:
Abstract submission: 28 February 2020
Earlybird registration: 13 March 2020
For registration and accommodation see the Website.
see http://www.pcp-net.org/epca-2020/
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22 January 2020
New issue of "Costruttivismi" online |
Vol. 6, n. 1 and 2 of the free Italian e-journal Costruttivismi have been published.
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22 January 2020
EPCA 2020
is online
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The website of the XVth Biennial Conference of the European Personal Construct Association (EPCA), to be held in Barcelona, Spain is now online.
see http://www.pcp-net.org/epca-2020/
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10 December 2019
EPCA Conference 2020 |
Save the date!
The XVth Biennial Conference of the European Personal Construct Association (EPCA) will be held in Barcelona, Spain next year, organised by Luis Botella and his team at Ramon Llull University.
from June 29 to July 2, 2020
More information will be available soon.
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6 December 2019
Alpine Tales 2020
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Massimo Giliberto, Chiara Lui, Elena
Bordin, and Claudia Pasti write
ECTN “Alpine Tales” 2020
After the success of last years, Alpine Tales returns
with new ideas and opportunities that will provide the perfect occasion to
experience what living constructivism means.
The event is going to be a “tangible experience of embodied constructivism: A “non-scholastic
school”, where everybody is a teacher and a student at the same time, just as
in life, where everyone has something to offer or to embrace”.
Teachers, scholars, students, clinicians and other people involved in PCP are
going to be living together, sharing ideas and learning from each other,
building bridges and sharing resources that will enrich their professions and
their experience of Personal Construct Psychology.
The Winter School offers a program of workshops, peer supervision, and experiential
group activities. There will also be plenty of leisure time, in order to
visit the surrounding area, relax or enjoy the local winter sports, socializing
and exchanging ideas and interests in a really informal way.
This year's edition will be held from the 30th of January until the 2nd of
February 2020 and will be hosted in San Martino di Castrozza, surrounded by the
beautiful Dolomites, at a height of 1487 meters.
Everybody is invited to participate in the co-construction of Alpine Tales, so
feel free to present your experiential workshop proposal interpreting this
year’s theme: “SELVES, COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY OF SELVES”!!
You can register and find more information on the website http://www.costruttivismo.it/alpine-tales-2020/.
There are only 36 places available! 6 December 2019
Please feel free to contact us for any questions or doubts concerning the event
at alpine.tales2020@gmail.com !
Hoping that you will join us in our adventure on the Italian Alps.
ICP - Institute of Constructivist Psychology -
Padua (Italy)
ECTN - European Constructivist Training Network
SCI - Società Italiana di Costruttivismo
see http://www.costruttivismo.it/alpine-tales-2020/.
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6 December 2019
New issue of Constructivist Foundations |
The latest issue of the AHCI journal Constructivist Foundations has been published today.
To access the full articles for free visit the website.
see https://constructivist.info/15/1
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9 October 2019
ICPCP 2021
Padua, Italy
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The XXIVth International PCP Congress
will be held
in Padua, Italy
8-11 July, 2021.
Sabrina Cipolletta of the University of Padua will be in charge of the organisation.
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Sabrina Cipolletta
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9 October 2019
ICPCP 2019
Cairns, Australia
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The XXIIIrd International PCP Congress was held in Cairns, Australia
from 25th to 28th July, 2019.
One focus was the inclusion of representatives of the Aboriginal people who contributed to the motto of the conference: Ancient wisdom: Anticipating the future.
Main speakers were Sabrina Cipolletta, Rosemary Wanganeen, Daniel
Hutto, M;ichael McLeod, Sharon Payne, Grace Sarra, Marnee Shay, Darren
Garvey and Jo Tanginoa.
The congress was organised by Desley Hennesy, along with Carole Carter, Bronwyn Seaborn, Deborah Truneckova, and Lyn Toms.
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9 October 2019
JCP 4 / 2019
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Journal of Constructivist Psychology 32/4
The latest
issue of the JCP has appeared.
For
details,
see https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/upcy20/32/4?nav=tocList
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19 April 2019
Obituary in PCT&P |
Bill Warren published an obituary for Dorothy Rowe (1930-2019) in "Personal Construct Theory & Practice".
See: http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp19/warren-rowe19.pdf
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Dorothy Rowe, the last of the pioneers of PCP in the UK, passed
away on 25th March in her native Australia. She was 88 years old. By
the occasion of Fay Fransella's 80th birthday she published an account
of her relationship with PCP in PCT&P (see http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp07/rowe07.pdf)
in 2006
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9 April 2019
Re-issue of "Inquiring Man"
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Nick Reed writes that the Bannister-Fransella classic
“Inquiring Man” has been re-issued by Routledge. The print edition sells at a prohibitive
price of ₤ 90 (equivalent to € 104) but as an e-book it is ₤ 27.98 (or € 32). (But at Abebooks used copies start at $US
1.00...)
See: Routledge
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5 April 2019
Obituary in PCT&P |
Larry Leitner published an obituary for Al Landfield (1924-2019) in "Personal Construct Theory & Practice".
See: http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp19/leitner-landfield19.pdf
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5 April 2019
New edition of
ICP Lab Notes |
Mary Frances writes:
The
new spring edition of 'lab notes' from ICP International Lab is online.
Our latest selection of links from a constructivist world-view: on
questioning the middle ground; drone photography as an orthogonal view;
how we are charmed by magicians' tricks; and challenging our
perceptions of an ancient culture
Online + all 12 editions here:
See: http://www.icp-intlab.org/lab-notes/
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5 April 2019
ICPCP 2019
Cairns, Australia
Paper submission
deadline extended! |
Desley Hennessy writes about the International PCP Congress in Cairns, Australia
from 25th to 28th July, 2019.
We've
decided to extend the
date for submission of abstracts to 30th April!
Get in quick, so you don't miss the opportunity to present alongside
such wonderful PCP people as Sabrina Cipolletta, Massimo Giliberto,
Richard Bell, David Winter etc! AND... we have some wonderful Aboriginal
speakers, as well as traditional land-owners that you can chat to. Not
to mention our fantastic pre-conference workshop by Red Dust Healing
(attached)
see: https://www.cairnspcp.org/
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22 March 2019
New editors for PCT&P
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Chiara Lui and Massimo Giliberto have joined the Editorial Team of Personal Construct Theory & Practice (PCT&P). Chiara Lui is now Managing Editor. Viv Burr and Jörn Scheer will stay on board.
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Chiara Lui
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Massimo Giliberto
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Viv Burr
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Jörn Scheer
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see: http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/welcome.html
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22 March 2019
New article in PCT&P |
PCT&P opened this year's isue with a discussion paper by Viv Burr and Nigel King on "Interpretive Clustering".
see: http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp19/index.html
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22 March 2019
New issue of Constructivist Foundations
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The latest issue of the AHCI journal Constructivist Foundations has been published today.
To access the full articles for free visit the website.
see http://constructivist.info/14/2 |
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22 March 2019
International
Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS)
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The International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS)
founded by Hubert Hermans is about to formalise its structure.at the
XXI. International Conference of the Dialocial Self in Barcelona, June
10-13, 2020
see: www.dialogicalself.org |
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22 March 2019
ICPCP 2019
Cairns, Australia
Registration
deadline extended!
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Desley Hennessy writes about the International PCP Congress in Cairns, Australia
from 25th to 28th July, 2019.
GREAT NEWS EVERYBODY!!!
We have decided to offer a special discount
registration price of $990
until 18th April!
So, if you haven't
registered yet, make sure you get in before it's too late!
see: https://www.cairnspcp.org/
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9 February 2019
Lab Notes |
New edition of Lab Notes
Mary Frances writes that the new winter edition of 'lab
notes' is online. “As usual, we have chosen 4 interesting articles/links from a
constructivist point of view – this edition features desire lines, echo
chambers, teaching tips, and the value of being uncomfortable”.
See here
for details
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19 January 2019
ICPCP 2019
Cairns, Australia |
Update on the next international PCP Congress 2019
The congress will be held in Cairns, Australia
from 25th to 28th July, 2019.
There will be a pre-congress workshop on the 24th
of July.
The theme will be “Ancient Wisdom Anticipating the Future”.
The
Website has details incl. deadlines on Submission of contributions,
Registration, Accommodation etc. at https://www.cairnspcp.org/ The congress also has a facebook page with regular updates at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180862295314470/permalink/2030053967061961/
Keynote speakers will include Sabrina Cipolletta, Massimo Giliberto and Rosemary Wanganeen.
The venue:
DoubleTree by
Hilton Hotel Cairns, 121-123, Esplanade, Cairns, Queensland 4870,
Australia.
Deadline for abstract submissions: 24 February 2019
Registration
- Deadline extended - see above!
Early bird up to 24th Feb
Regular rate up to 12th May
Late comers after 12th May
Cairns
is a city
of 145.000 inhabitants, situated in northern Queensland, confronting the Great
Barrier Reef. July is “winter” in Australia which for tropical Cairns means a
mean maximum temperature in July of 26 degrees C. It has an international
airport.
see: https://www.cairnspcp.org/ |
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Al Landfield, one of the last survivors of the first generation
of Kellyan scholars, passed away in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, on 11
January 2019 at the age of 94.
He will be remembered as one of the giants of PCP, author of numerous
books, and initiator of the first International Congress of PCP, in
Lincoln, Nebraska in 1976.
He published an account of PCP's early years in PCT&P in 2011: "Going to Ohio State and to George Kelly".
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27 December 2018
New issues of "Costruttivismi" online |
Gabriele Chiari writes:
Vol. 5, n. 1 and 2 of the e-journal Costruttivismi have been published.
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15 December 2018
Alpine Tales 2019
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ECTN “Alpine Tales” 2019
The European Constructivist Training Network (ECTN) writes:
The European Constructivist Training
Network (ECTN) would like to invite you to join us for Alpine Tales
2019, the fifth Winter School of constructivist psychology on the topic Body & borders. Where system encounters
the world.
21-24 February 2019 - San Martino di Castrozza
(TN) - Italy
After the success of the last two
years, Alpine Tales returns with new ideas and opportunities that will provide
the perfect occasion to experience what living constructivism means.
The event
is going to be a “tangible experience of embodied constructivism: A “non-scholastic
school”, where everybody is a teacher and a student at the same time, just as
in life, where everyone has something to offer or to embrace.
Teachers,
scholars, students, clinicians and other people involved in PCP are going to be
living together, sharing ideas and learning from each other, building bridges
and sharing resources that will enrich their professions and their experience
of Personal Construct Psychology.
The Winter
School offers a program of workshops, peer supervisions and experiential group
activities. There will also be plenty of leisure time, in order to
visit the surrounding area, relax or enjoy the local winter sports, socializing
and exchanging ideas and interests in a really informal way.
This
year's edition will be held from the 21st until the 24th of February 2019 and
will be hosted in San Martino di Castrozza, surrounded by the beautiful
Dolomites, at a hight of 1487 meters.
Everybody
is invited to participate in the co-construction of Alpine Tales, so feel free
to present your experiential workshop proposal interpreting this year’s theme:
“Body & borders. Where system encounters the world”!
To
register, go to the website http://www.costruttivismo.it/alpine-tales-2019/. There are only 36 places
available! Please feel free to contact us for any questions or doubts
concerning the event at alpine.tales2019@gmail.com !
Hoping that you will join us in our
adventure on the Italian Alps,
Best Regards,
Massimo Giliberto, Giovanni Stella, Chiara
Lui, Elena Bordin
European Constructivist Training
Network
Società Costruttivista Italiana
Institute of Constructivist
Psychology – Padua
http://www.costruttivismo.it/alpine-tales-2019/
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15 December 2018
ICPCP 2019
Cairns, Australia
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Next international congress 2019
Desley
Hennessy who will be chairing the XXIIIrd International Congress on PCP has
changed the name of the Facebook group "Congresses on
Personal Construct Psychology" to "XXIIIrd International Personal
Construct Psychology Congress" (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180862295314470/),
to inform the about 600 followers of that list.
The congress will be held in Cairns, Australia
from 25th to 28th July, 2019. There will be a pre-congress workshop on the 24th
of July. The theme will be “Ancient Wisdom Anticipating the Future”.
Time
to adjust your holiday plans for 2019 and inquiring about the flights to the lucky
country “down under”!
see: https://www.cairnspcp.org/
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15 December 2018
JCP 4 / 2018
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Journal of Constructivist Psychology 31/4
The latest
issue of the JCP has a special section on “Constructivism and ethical
meaning-making: A target article and responses”.
The target
article is by Jon Raskin and Alanna Debany, among the responders are Viv Burr
and Spencer McWillams.
The journal
is free for members of the (North American) Constructivist
Psychology Network CPN.
For
details,
see https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/upcy20/31/4?nav=tocList
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15 December 2018
Rivista Italiana di Costruttivismo
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Rivista Italiana di Costruttivisto, no 11.
The
Padua-based Rivista Italiana di Costruttivismo
has published its 11th edition. http://www.rivistacostruttivismo.it/en/
It is free
but you need to register.
see http://www.rivistacostruttivismo.it/en/
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15 December 2018
EPCA conference 2020
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The next European (EPCA) PCP Congresses will be held in Belgrade, Serbia
from
2nd to 5th July, 2020.
Many thanks to Dusan
Stojnov and his team in the Serbian Constructivist Association.
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17 July 2018
International PCP conferences |
The next International PCP Congresses will be held:
2019: July 25-28: Cairns, Australia
2021: Padua Italy
The places of the next European PCP Conferences (EPCA), to be held in 2020 and 2022, will be announced shortly.
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17 July 2018
EPCA conference
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The XIVth EPCA conference has been held successfully from July 5-8, 2018 in Edinburgh.
see here
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25 May 2018
JCP 2 / 2018 |
Vol 31, Number 2 of 2018 of the Journal of Constructivist
Psychology have been published.
For members of the Constructivist Psycholohy Network (CPN) the subcription is included in the membetship fee.
For the contents, see here
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4 April 2018
New issue of Constructivist Foundations
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The latest issue of the AHCI journal Constructivist Foundations has been published today.
To access the full articles for free visit the website.
see http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/13/2 |
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31 March 2018
ICP International Lab
Lab Notes
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Mary Frances writes:
Take
a look at the new spring edition of 'lab notes', the online magazine
from ICP International Lab. Each issue features four links of interest
from a constructivist point of view - all editions are online and free
to access.
see http://www.icp-intlab.org/lab-notes/
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12 January 2018
New versions of Gaines/Shaw's free
RepGrid programme
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Brain Gaines and Mildred Shaw write:
Rep Plus 1.1
is freely available for Windows and OS X and can be downloaded.
Rep
Plus is intended to replace Rep 5 which became unavailable in 2014, and
was designed to be familiar to those who have used Rep 5. It includes
more functionality because it is based on our ongoing research since
2002 when a partial snapshot of our code was used to create Rep 5.
We
have cleaned up many of the extensions to grids made in the 1980s/1990s
to support knowledge-based systems development, and brought them into a
coherent theoretical framework based on Kelly’s notion of anticipation
supported by the “intersection of properties,” have developed new
multiple-grid analyses to support colleagues in Sweden carrying out
large-scale studies of communities, extended our content analysis tools
that served as a a “mode grid editor” to support Honey/Jankowicz
content analysis methods, and added quality-control “synopses” of grids
to enable us to help colleagues who were having problems in analyzing
some of their data.
We
also developed a WebGrid server that allowed the upload of grid files
from most past and present grid programs, made that available to
colleagues wishing to put up WebGrid servers, and made it easy for users
of Rep Plus to switch back and forth between Rep Plus and WebGrid.
Brian’s
research in recent years has been primarily on the foundations of
logic, and Rep Plus includes semantic network and logical
inference/semantic analysis tools which are being made available to
colleagues in the logic research community. They also serve to implement
Kelly’s model of anticipation and are well-integrated with the grid
tools.
The manuals
show how conceptual structures can be represented in either grids or
nets and the equivalence of the alternative perspectives. Hopefully,
this may support further research on the theoretical foundations and
wider applications of Kelly’s mathematical psychology.
see http://cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaines/repplus/
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Brian Gaines
Mildred Shaw
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5 January 2018
New issues of "Costruttivismi" online |
Gabriele Chiari writes:
Vol. 4, n. 1 and 2 of the e-journal Costruttivismi have been published. They include also some articles in English.
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19 December 2017
New article in PCT&P |
 Personal Construct Theory & Practice.published an obituary for Helen Jones, wirtten by Peter Cummins.
see Obituary
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