The event is with preliminary registration in Zoom at this link: https://bit.ly/3n3GORn
The pandemic places unprecedented challenges and affected everyone in one or other way. From August this year our team of psychotherapists in Kabinet.bg works free of charge – via video, phone, chat and e-mail sessions – with people in risk and need of support. More than 65% of them are women. These are young mothers, women with no job and income, women fighting serious illness, women in unhealthy partnerships and dysfunctional families, women who suffered psychic trauma. We meet women under quarantine, women who had loss and women at the Covid-19 front line – medical staff and teachers.
This discussion is an opportunity to share our observations on the psychic challenges and the possible roles of women in Covid-19. We would like to try to answer some important and critical questions.
What does it mean to be a woman in times of unprecedented crisis? What are the dimensions of the female? How to survive when the whole family is closed at home? Is it a good strategy to be active in crisis? But what if you lost your job? Do we face more aggression and violence now? How psychotherapy works and helps?
On Human Rights Day we at Kabinet.bg believe that timely access to psychotherapy and emotional support, mental health care, and prevention of psychic problems are basic human rights. Today we set a start to a public campaign in which women and girls can ask questions and share their stories on how they live through the crisis.
Please address your question to the participants at info@kabinet.bg.
Event programme:
16:45-17:00 Registration and joining the room.
17:00-17:05 Mila Mancheva, associate researcher social inclusion, Center for the Study of Democracy, moderator
17:05-17:15 Tzvetelina Iossifova, psychotherapist, Chair of the Bulgarian Society of Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis and leader of Kabinet.bg
17:15-17:25 Nadejda Dermendjieva. Executive Director, Bulgarian Fund for Women
17:25-17:35 Elisaveta Belobradova and Krassimira Hadjiivanova, founders of the women’s media Maiko Mila and the cause Ole Male, social entrepreneurship for the inclusion of mothers of disabled children
17:35-17:45 Velislava Popova, Chief-in-editor at Dnevnik.bg
17:55-18:05 Lilia Dragoeva, Executive Director, Bilitis, Monika Pisankaneva, founder of Bilitis and activist for LGBT rights
18:05-19:00 Discussion
The event is executed by Kabinet.bg with the support of the Bulgarian Fund for Women. Kabinet.bg is a project of the Bulgarian Society of Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis, supported by the Central European Initiative Covid -19 Extraordinary Call for Proposals.
