Invitation to the Annual General Assemblies & Workshop 3rd October, 2019

Dear ECPA Members,

It is now time to convey our annual General Assemblies that this year 2019 are integrated in the Conference “From Conflict and Hate to Healing and Hope: Psychological Perspectives on Community and Wellness” organized by Naples Community Psychology Lab (Caterina Arcidiacono and colleagues) (Italy).

This year we have an electoral cycle both for President of the next mandate 2019-2021 (President and Treasurer), and President-Elect (President and Treasurer) 2021-2023.

General Assembly I

Date: 3rd October, 2019

Location: Lanificio 25- piazza Enrico De Nicola (second courtyard) Napoli

Time: 19.30 – 21.00

Proposed Workplan

The 2017-2019 activity and financial reports are to be presented and discussed.

General Assembly II

Date: 4^th October 2019

Location: DSU, University Federico II, Via Porta di Massa 1, second floor, room Iacono- Via – 80135 Napoli

Time: 13.30 – 14-30

Proposed Workplan

This year we have a two section electoral cycle:

A: The Board decided to submit an electoral cycle for the mandate of President of the Board 2019-2021;

B: Following the ECPA statutes this year we have a regular election for President Elect 2021-2023;

Therefore we hereby present to you the electoral calendar.

2019 Electoral Calendar & Invitation for candidates

Following the procedures of previous electoral cycles for the European Community Psychology Association, we are now in contact to invite you to participate in the elections:

ELECTION A: ECPA President of the Board and Treasurer for the term 2019-2021

ELECTION B: ECPA President of the Board and Treasurer for the term 2021-2023 (Being President-Elect for the mandate 2019-2021).

The two ballots shall be differentiated and contain the names of associate members who wish to be candidates for the position of President and Treasurer (2019-2021), and another for President-Elect for current term 2019-2021, that become President and Treasurer (2021-2023).

The ECPA is now accepting candidates for both the positions President and Treasurer with the following procedures and calendar:

• Candidates for both positions of President and Treasurer are to present a letter to the electoral committee using the following email address – maria_moniz@ispa.pt – by September the 13th;
• The letters received are to be issued to ECPA members on the 17^th of September, together with a voting ballot, and we may receive your vote in one of the following three options:
  • Return to the email address maria_moniz@ispa.pt;
  • Delivered in person in the Naples Event
  • Proxy-vote with an email of the associated member stating that the vote is to be issued by the named associate,

Please note that for these options the vote(s) should be issued to the electoral committee until the September the 13th at 20.00 hours, so that the results are presented in the GA to be held on the October the 4th.

Your participation is crucial for the vitality European Community Psychology.

Thursday, 3 October 2019, 13.00 – 19.00 (6h)

Workshop Instructor: Susana Helm, PhD is a Community & Culture Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai`i Mānoa, in Honolulu, Hawai`i, USA. Dr. Helm is an American of Italian descent – her grandmother moved to the US from Chiavenna early in the 20^th century.  PhotoVoice and photography for social action has been a useful tool in her community and academic work since the 1990s.

Member of IAPS- The Italian American Psychological Society.

Note: This is a 6-hour workshop to be conducted in English. Please feel free to bring snacks for yourself and to share. Please wear comfortable clothes, including walking shoes. Submit your photo before the workshop, and if you have questions, please contact me:  PhotoVoice.Napoli@gmail.com

Part 1. 13.00 – 14.30, Introduction & Overview

This workshop will be introduced by Maria João Vargas-Moniz, President of ECPA and Professoressa Fortuna Procentese, Scientific Director of the Community Psychology Lab, University Federico II. PhotoVoice is a technique for promoting social justice and social action through community collaboration when local residents use photography to voice their concerns, identify solutions, and address power imbalances.

This workshop will provide participants an overview of the PhotoVoice technique, including “Photography 101.” Dr. Helm will share examples from her work in Honolulu. Workshop participants are referred to these articles, which may be read prior to the workshop:

• Wang C & Burris MA. (1997). Photovoice. Concept, methodology, and use for participatory needs assessment. Health Education & Behavior, 24(3), 369-387. DOI: 10.1177/109019819702400309.
• Wang CC & Redwood-Jones YA. (2001).  Photovoice ethics. Perspectives from Flint Photovoice.  Health Education & Behavior, 28(5), 560-572.  doi: 10.1177/109019810102800504
• Helm S, Lee W, Hanakahi V, Gleason K, McCarthy K, Haumana. (2015). Using photovoice with youth to develop a drug prevention program in a rural Hawaiian community. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 22(1), 1-26. doi: 10.5820/aian.2201.2015.1.  PMCID:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4401743
• Helm S & Davis K. (2017). Puni Ke Ola. Drug prevention in rural Hawaiian communities. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 8(2), 1-6. https://www.gjcpp.org/pdfs/SB4-HelmDavis_Final.pdf

Part 2. 14.30 – 16.30, PhotoVoice Session

Next, we will conduct a one-hour PhotoVoice session with workshop participants using the SHOWED facilitation technique based on the conference theme as it occurs in our personal and professional lives: dal conflitto e dall’odio alla cura e alla speranza (from conflict and hate to healing and hope).

• Workshop participants are requested to submit one of their own photos as a jpeg prior to the workshop: Napoli@gmail.com
• Jpegs should be no larger than 2mb and labeled with your name.
• We will debrief the activity by highlighting what worked well, challenges, and critical questions.

Part 3. 16.30 – 19.00, Photography for Social Action, Social Justice

We will participate in a short (45 min) photo walk in the neighborhood where the workshop will be held, again guided by the conference theme. Please bring a digital camera, preferably a cel phone. Participants will complete a SHOWED worksheet for their photo (15 min). Then workshop participants will co-critique the aesthetic value of the photos as this pertains to the social action and social justice component of PhotoVoice (45 min). Good pictures tell better stories.

We will conclude with a discussion of how workshop participants may use PhotoVoice in their own work (45 min) – from needs assessment, to intervention development, to feasibility studies, to outcome evaluations, and other forms of research and knowledge co-construction.

This event is organized by the Department of Humanities and the Community Psychology Laboratory of the University Federico II, IAPS (Italian American Psychological Society), and “Psicologi per la Responsabilità Sociale” in collaboration with AIP (Associazione Italiana di Psicologia), CNOP, PSICAMP (Ordine degli Psicologi Nazionale e della Regione Campania), and SIPCO.

This conference will be characterized by a diversity of contributions in the form of oral communications, round tables, symposia, and cultural events as well as creative activities, aimed at a better understanding of rising global social-psychological and mental-health problems, highlighted, but not limited to, the migrant crisis, rising nationalism, stereotyping, bullying, and youth depression.

The intent of this conference is to generate a coherent understanding of these and related issues, and to highlight possible solutions.

We are pleased to invite you to attend this event by joining us in Naples on October 2019.

Download the conference program here.

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The third edition of SIPCO’s (the Italian Community Psychology Association) Summer School, this year addresses two group-based research methods: Web focus and Delphi Method.

The goal of the conference and workshop is to provide time and space for both researchers and practitioners from various areas of community psychology in Europe so they can meet, present their work and research, inspire each other, and enjoy socializing together.

Organisation

Institute of Applied Psychology at Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, European Community Psychology Association (ECPA), and The Society for Community and Action Research (SCRA) Division 27 Americal Psychological Association.

Program

Conference: December 3 – 4, 2018 (9.00 – 16.00)

ECPA general assembly: December 3, 2018 (16.00 – 17.30)

Workshop on Community Service Design: December 4, 2018 (14.00 – 18.00) and 5, 2018 (9.00 – 13.00) by Prof. Alessandra Talamo from University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

The Service Design Thinking workshop will provide a practical experience of some of the most popular techniques for the design of innovative services in real contexts. These participatory techniques are aimed at creating new services connecting the needs and wants of stakeholders with objectives and potential boundaries from service providers.

Conference language: English

Conference fee: No fee (free access)

Workshop language: English

Workshop fee: 50 €

Deadline for active participation in the conference

Please send an email to CommunityPsychologySlovakia@gmail.com with the following information:

• Name and surname of the presenters
• Workplace address
• Title of the presentation
• Research based abstract (max 250 words) until September 16, 2018.

The proceedings from the conference will be published in electronic form with ISBN. The deadline for the submission of the conference papers is November 1, 2018 ( CommunityPsychologySlovakia@gmail.com ) in order to be reviewed and published prior the conference.

To participate in the workshop: Please send an email until November 15, 2018 to caterina.arcidiacono@unina.it

More information

Komunitná psychológia na Slovensku (Community Psychology in Slovenia)

Contact person: Júlia Halamová, 00421908604141

julia.halamova@gmail.com

Looking forward to see you in Bratislava in Slovakia!

Program

December 4, Tuesday 2018 (14.00 – 18.00) and 5, Wednesday (9.00 – 13.00)

Fee: 50 euro

For inscription and information: caterina.arcidiacono@unina.it

The Service Design Thinking is a holistic approach that helps to innovate (create new) or improve existing services to make them more useful, usable, desirable for users and efficient as well effective existing services to make them more useful, usable, desirable for users and efficient as well effective for providers ( Moritz, 2005; UK Design Council, 2010).

Designing a service requires the consideration of the whole experience of people using it, and that it becomes tangible and usable through a sequence of actions (Moritz, 2005; Stickdorn & Schneider, 2012).

During the workshop participants will get chance of exploring use some most commonly used DST tools.

Read the full program here.