Marit Joffe Milstein & Ido Peleg

Marit Joffe Milstein and Ido Peleg will present and discuss a project that they conducted in a psychiatric hospital for 8 years, a Large Group that was open to the participation of all the employees, both clinicians, and administrators. The group met once a month, each time for 75 minutes. Participation was voluntary and usually consisted of 25 to 60 people. Marit did not work at the hospital in any other capacity and Ido is a member of the hospital's staff. They will present and discuss some of the processes and dilemmas concerning this group and its conducting. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own work place experiences.

A psychiatric hospital is a microcosm of society. This includes both its patients and its staff. 'Mazor' Psychiatric Hospital in northern Israel is a large organization with more than 400 employees, who take care of 360 patients. Employees come from different professions and disciplines and have differences in culture and language of origin (Hebrew, Arabic, and Russian), education, and economic status. They bring with them many differing views on what constitutes health and illness, madness and normality, and right and wrong.

Marit Joffe Milstein is a Group analyst, Psycodramatist, Supervisor. She is a former Chair and staff member of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis. ( IIGA). Works at Sheeba hospital clinic for children & adolesence Eating disorder. She teaches and supervises in several colleges and health institutes in Israel.Marit combines her past artistic experience (theater and music) in her work.

Dr Ido Peleg is a psychiatrist and group analyst. He is assistant manager of Mazor psychiatric hospital in Akko and clinical lecturer-educator at the Rappaport faculty of medicine, Technion IIT in Haifa. He teaches at the Iaraeli Institue of Group Analysis.

Schedule

UK Time

12:30- 13:00 Coffee and Meet

13:00- 14:30 Interactive Seminar

14:30 - 15:00 Poem Break

15:00- 16:30 Experiential Group - Mike Tait

The Experiential Psychotherapy Initiative Community is an organisation that aims to provide high-quality and affordable training for health professionals. All staff work as a cooperative to make this achievable. Anyone who attends 8 or more seminars across any year will receive a CPD Certificate and be eligible for a low-cost psychodynamic supervision group as well as other groups we run from time to time.