AUGUST 7, 2013
Legal establishment
SEPTEMBER 2013
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: loneliness; the various forms of love; infidelity; baptism from the perspective of patristic psychology.
OCTOBER 2013
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: unconscious; structure of the soul; defense mechanisms.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Interdisciplinary Course in Psychology and Psychotherapy, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
The first interdisciplinary course was approached from the perspective of patristic psychology and designed for last year’s undergraduate students.
The course has been organized as an open course with monthly attendance, also being attended by the MTh and Ph.D. students of the faculty and by other graduates of psychology, theology, philosophy, and medicine.
NOVEMBER 2013
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: inner anatomy; thoughts; belief; the ability to entrust.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Interdisciplinary Course in Psychology and Psychotherapy, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
DECEMBER 2013
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: methodology in patristic psychology – a vivid research tool
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Interdisciplinary Course in Psychology and Psychotherapy, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
JANUARY 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the anatomy of projection; ambivalence; the heart (kardia) and the emotional intelligence.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Interdisciplinary Course in Psychology and Psychotherapy, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
Lectures
• Lecture: Emotional Intelligence and Its Relationship with the Rational and Spiritual Intelligence, Catechetical Evenings, University Chapel Saint Dimitrie, Bucharest
FEBRUARY 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the definition and the specifics of patristic psychology.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Interdisciplinary Course in Psychology and Psychotherapy, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
MARCH 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: mental and/or spiritual illness versus mental and/or spiritual health; the border research method or the method of the concepts that are 'travelling' interdisciplinarily; the unconscious and its defense mechanisms.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Interdisciplinary Course in Psychology and Psychotherapy, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: The Perspective of Patristic Psychology, 14 March 2014
The first interview was released in March 2014. These lectures – interviews have been broadcasted on Radio Trinitas every month for five years, from 2014 to 2019.
The 57 Lecture-Interviews cover a broad range of thoroughly researched topics from a patristic psychology perspective. Interviews are a means of intervening upon the collective mind to rectify faulty patterns of thinking and to set straight various wrongful meanings.
Lectures
• Lecture: The unconscious and its defense mechanisms - the perspective of classical and patristic psychology, Catechetical Evenings, Saint Dimitrios University Chapel, Bucharest
APRIL 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: discernment and/or diagnosis; anatomy of fear/anxiety; time.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Interdisciplinary Course in Psychology and Psychotherapy, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
MAY 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: empathy; shame; narcissism; the anatomy of sadness/depression; trauma; the boundaries of being; lying and its forms.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Interdisciplinary Course in Psychology and Psychotherapy, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: Time - how do we waste it or gain it, 2 May 2014
• Lecture-interview: On lying and its forms, 25 May 2014
JUNE 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
• Interdisciplinary-approached topics: patience
• Research fellowship: London, Oxford, Durham (UK).
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Interdisciplinary course in psychology and psychotherapy, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: How do we acquire patience, 15 June 2014
Lectures
• Lecture: Trauma from the perspective of patristic psychology, The Catechetical Evenings, Saint Dimitrios University Chapel, Bucharest
WORKING VISITS
Meeting with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Oxford, UK
JULY 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
• Interdisciplinary-approached topics: love–associated pathologies and cure
• Research fellowship: London, Oxford, Durham (UK)
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: Love – passion or path towards perfection, 13 July 2014
AUGUST 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
• Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the foundations of patristic psychology; divorce – the impact on children.
• Research fellowship: London, Oxford, Durham (UK)
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Course – Introduction to Patristic Psychology, Nera Monastery, Caraș-Severin
Due to its interdisciplinary specificity and pioneering approach, this field is also of particular interest to the monastic community.
Interviews
• Divorce and Its Consequences on Children, 10 August 2014
SEPTEMBER 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: communication; intimacy.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Couples’ Communication and Intimacy, 7 September 2014
OCTOBER 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: The impact of the educational system on children’s development; self-destruction mechanisms
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Pilot course - New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, Iași, Timișoara
Interdisciplinary course approached from the perspective of patristic psychology addressing specialists in the fields of psychology, theology, and medicine.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: The Importance and Influence of School Education on Children, 15 October 2014
Publishing
• Ph.D. thesis in English: Ciobanu, S., Psychological and Spiritual Illness in the View of Modern Psychotherapy and the Philokalia
NOVEMBER 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: freedom; will, elements of inner anatomy
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania
Interdisciplinary course approached from the perspective of patristic psychology addressing specialists in the fields of psychology, theology, and medicine.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Freedom and Its Limits, 2 November 2014
• On Will – How to use it Within Inner Change, 30 November 2014
DECEMBER 2014
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the thoughts of children; change; the process of Christ-actualization.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: The Manifestation of the Children’s Thoughts, 21 December 2014
JANUARY 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: guilt; self-blaming; tripartition in psychoanalysis and patristic psychology.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania
Interdisciplinary course approached from the perspective of patristic psychology addressing specialists in the fields of psychology, theology, and medicine.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: Self-Blaming, 11 January 2015
The first interview was released in March 2014.
These lectures – interviews have been broadcasted on Radio Trinitas every month for five years, from 2014 to 2019.
The 57 Lecture-Interviews cover a broad range of thoroughly researched topics from a patristic psychology perspective. Interviews are a means of intervening upon the collective mind to rectify faulty patterns of thinking and to set straight various wrongful meanings.
FEBRUARY 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: judging/ judgment/ analysis; projection - as a border mechanism; framing patristic psychology in the contemporary scientific field.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Judging the Family with Christian Values, 8 February 2015
MARCH 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: elements of inner anatomy; thoughts (logismoi).
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
Counselling
• In addition to the course activity, our Sympathizers benefit from Individual Counselling According to The Principles of Patristic Psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: The Ideal Spiritual Position of The Grandparents, March 1, 2015
APRIL 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the heart in patristics; agape and eros; how to say no or yes.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: How to Say NO or YES, 26 April 2015
MAY 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: envy.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
JUNE 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: worry - restlessness; the thought of wariness.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
JULY 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the criteria of normality/abnormality; disease on the path from 'image' to 'likeness'.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Research fellowship: London, Oxford, Durham, Newcastle (UK)
WORKING VISITS
Meeting with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Oxford, UK.
LAUNCH ACTIVITIES
• Launch of the Association's Facebook Page in Romanian under the protection of Saint Neagoe Basarab, 26 September 2015
OCTOBER 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: confrontation; conflict.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
LAUNCH ACTIVITIES
• Launch of the Association's Website in Romanian under the protection of the Theotokos, 1 October 2015
NOVEMBER 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the relationship between God's mercy, the freedom of the rational beings, and the evil in the world; on spoiling children.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Spoiling Children, 15 November 2015
LAUNCH ACTIVITIES
• Launch of the Association's Website in English, under the protection of Saint Andrew, Saint Patrick, and Saint Cuthbert, 30 November 2015
DECEMBER 2015
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: boundaries of being; anatomy of will; realistic optimism.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Realistic Optimism, 13 December 2015
JANUARY 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: ambivalence on the psychological/spiritual border; tripartition; formalism and authenticity.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
Interdisciplinary course approached from the perspective of patristic psychology addressing specialists in the fields of psychology, theology, and medicine.
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Formalism and Authenticity, 31 January 2016
The first interview was released in March 2014. These lectures – interviews have been broadcasted on Radio Trinitas every month for five years, from 2014 to 2019.
The 57 Lecture-Interviews cover a broad range of thoroughly researched topics from a patristic psychology perspective. Interviews are a means of intervening upon the collective mind to rectify faulty patterns of thinking and to set straight various wrongful meanings.
FEBRUARY 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: on lying – how to diagnose it; the inner cross - definition, confusions; emotional and spiritual intelligence - patristic correlates; gift and giver.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: Love in the Family with Many Children, 28 February 2016
LAUNCH ACTIVITIES
• Launch of the Project Dialogues of Dew, Grand Hotel Continental, Bucharest
The Audition of the First Dialogue: The Gift and the Giver
• Launch of the Socializing Project Praxis Get-Togetherigs - Journeys to the Place of the Heart, Grand Hotel Continental, Bucharest, Romania
MARCH 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: authenticity - authentic being; the border research method; the seductive force of evil; the contact with the true self.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: The Seductive Force of Evil, 27 March 2016
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherigs: The Joy of Meeting Your Self, Grand Hotel Continental, Bucharest
APRIL 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: depression/sadness; elements of inner anatomy; resistance and change; love and discernment.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Resistance and Change, 24 April 2016
ANNIVERSARY ACTIVITIES
• Anniversary of Saint Basil of Poiana Mărului, patron saint of the Association. Praxis Get-Togetherigs – Lecture on Love and Discernment, Grand Hotel Continental, Bucharest, 25 April 2016
MAY 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: anxiety and depression - comparative study; vainglory - vanity - the desire to please others; freedom according to the bodily and spiritual laws; the method of patristic psychology; empathy and narcissism; empathy and shame.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Empathy, 29 May 2016
Conferences
• Conference: The Patristic Space – as a Place for Meeting of the Specialists in the Field of the Soul, Constanța, 7 May 2016
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: a trip to Comana and Neajlov Delta, visit Comana and Neajlov Delta Monasteries.
JUNE 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the narcissistic personality disorder - biblical and patristic correlates.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Fear in Children and Grown-ups, 26 June 2016
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: trip and visit to Mogoșoaia Palace and its gardens
JULY 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the intimate distance in the couple.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Intimate Distance Between Spouses, 31 July 2016
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: a trip to Ruse, the Cave of Saint Dmitry Basarabov, and Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
AUGUST 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
• Interdisciplinary-approached topics: anatomy of suspicion.
• Research fellowship: London, Oxford, Durham, Newcastle (UK)
WORKING VISITS
Meeting with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Oxford, UK.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Suspicion, 28 August 2016
SEPTEMBER 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: love as discipline; helplessness.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 1
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Helplessness, 25 September 2016
OCTOBER 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: delusion - or 'cancellation' of fear through escape into the imaginary and personification of the imaginary; shyness.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Shyness, 30 October 2016
NOVEMBER 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: limits and virtues; on the psychologist and the spiritual father in healing the soul; personal development – the patristic approach.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On limits and virtues, 20 November 2016
• Lecture-interview: The Collaboration Between the Psychologist and the Spiritual Father in Healing the Soul, 27 November 2016
Conferences
• Conference Personal Development from the Patristic Perspective, Ștefan cel Mare University, Suceava, 26 November 2016
DECEMBER 2016
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: love and confusions regarding love
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: Confusions Regarding Love, 18 December 2016
• Lecture-interview: On Love, 25 December 2016
JANUARY 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: love versus seduction; empathy in patristic perspective; on essential.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 3
Interdisciplinary course approached from the perspective of patristic psychology addressing specialists in the fields of psychology, theology, and medicine.
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Essential, 29 January 2017
The first interview was released in March 2014. These lectures – interviews have been broadcasted on Radio Trinitas every month for five years, from 2014 to 2019.
The 57 Lecture-Interviews cover a broad range of thoroughly researched topics from a patristic psychology perspective. Interviews are a means of intervening upon the collective mind to rectify faulty patterns of thinking and to set straight various wrongful meanings.
FEBRUARY 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the narcissistic personality disorder - patristic correlates; the wonder.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Wonder, 26 February 2017
MARCH 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: love as discipline; giving and the capacity of giving; the distinction between mental and spiritual illnesses.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 2
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Giving, 26 March 2017
Lectures
• Lecture: Differentiating Between Mental and Spiritual Illness, Dumitru Stăniloae Study and Research Orthodox Centre, Paris, France, 9 March 2017
• Lecture: Differentiating Between Mental and Spiritual Illness, Dumitru Stăniloae Study and Research Orthodox Centre, Paris, France, 16 March 2017
APRIL 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: monachos (monasticism/ asceticism), discernment, perception through the true self vs. false self, belief vs disbelief, on rebirth.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, groups 1 and 2
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology
Interviews
• Lecture -Interview: On Rebirth, 30 April 2017
MAY 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the faculties of the soul – criteria for healing; bodily law vs. spiritual law; purity.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, groups 1 and 2
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Purity, 28 May 2017
JUNE 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the three states of the soul and their connection to the faculties of the soul; joy.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, groups 1 and 2
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, group 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Joy, 25 June 2017
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: a trip to Ruse, the Cave of Saint Dimitrios of Basarabov, and Hisarya Resort, Bulgaria.
JULY 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: freedom and righteousness; time; silence and the Word/Logos; relationships.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Festive Course, Bucharest, groups 1, 2 and 3
Counselling
•Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Relationships, 30 July 2017
WORKING VISITS
• Meeting with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Oxford, UK
AUGUST 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
• Interdisciplinary-approached topics: emotions; responsibility; righteousness.
• Research fellowship: Romania
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
• Interviews
Lecture-interview: On Emotions, 27 August 2017
SEPTEMBER 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Research fellowship: Romania
.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Responsibility, 24 September 2017
OCTOBER 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Research fellowship: Romania
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Righteousness, 29 October 2017
NOVEMBER 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
• Interdisciplinary-approached topics: courage; tranquillity.
• Research fellowship: Romania and abroad.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Courage, 26 November 2017
WORKING VISITS
Meeting with Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, Nafpaktos, Greece
DECEMBER 2017
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Research fellowship: Romania
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Tranquility, 31 December 2017
JANUARY 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: The Word and the words; the anatomy of fear: the dynamics between uncertainty and trust.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest – groups 1, 2 and 3
Interdisciplinary course using the guidelines of patristic psychology for specialists from the following fields of study: psychology, theology, and medicine.
Counselling
• Individual counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology
FEBRUARY 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: monachos vs dependency; restlessness as a state of non-existence.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, groups 1, 2 and 3
Counselling
• Individual counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology
MARCH 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: clinical depression/akedia – the patristic sadness; the boundaries of being; the true self.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, groups 1, 2 and 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
APRIL 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: imagination and fantasy; the magic cognition; self-love (filavtia) and fantasy; self-knowledge.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, groups 1, 2 and 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Self-Knowledge, 1 April 2018
• Lecture-interview: The Specialists from The Field of the Soul, 15 April 2018
The first interview was released in March 2014. These lectures – interviews have been broadcasted on Radio Trinitas every month for five years, from 2014 to 2019.
The 57 Lecture-Interviews cover a broad range of thoroughly researched topics from a patristic psychology perspective. Interviews are a means of intervening upon the collective mind to rectify faulty patterns of thinking and to set straight various wrongful meanings.
MAY 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: desires; people-pleasing; pathologies with religious justification and content; imagination.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, groups 1, 2 and 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Religiously Justified Pathologies, 6 May 2018
• Lecture-interview: How to Use Our Imagination, 20 May 2018
LAUNCHING ACTIVITIES
• The Launching of our Association’s YouTube Channel 'Patristic Psychology' under the protection of Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Arsenios the Great, 8 May 2018
JUNE 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: self-confidence; trauma; empathy; self-victimization.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, groups 1, 2 and 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-interview: On Self-victimization, 3 June 2018
• Lecture-interview: On Trauma, 17 June 2018
JULY 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: prayer – as a form of inner diagnosis and treatment; prayer – mind/willingness; gentleness vs. firmness.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Applied-Course: New Perspectives in Psychology and Psychopathology, Bucharest, groups 1, 2 and 3
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-Interview: On Gentleness and Firmness, 29 July 2018
ORGANISING ACTIVITIES
• General Elections – the changing of the Board of the Association and the beginning of a new stage in the development and advancement of the field of patristic psychology.
AUGUST 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: inner dissipation.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-Interview: On Inner Dissipation, 26 August 2018
OCTOBER 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: self-esteem vs. self-hate; the word; self-sight; inner standpoint (locus).
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 1, module 1, Bucharest
During the applied course for specialists, it has become obvious the real need of the participants for a personal development course.
Thus, after extensive research and under the approval of the new Board, we developed and pioneered the nine-module personal development course, launched in October 2018.
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-Interview: On Word (Logos), 7 October 2018
• Lecture-Interview: Self-Sight, 28 October 2018
NOVEMBER 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: self-love vs. self-denial; self-confidence; watchfulness in the writings of the Holy Fathers; the anatomy of choice.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 1, module 2, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
DECEMBER 2018
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: self-sight vs. self-illusion; image dependency; self-sight and fellow-sight; sainthood; spiritual discipline.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-knowledge, group 1, module 3, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-Interview: On Sainthood, 2 December 2018
• Lecture-Interview: On Spiritual Discipline, 30 December 2018
JANUARY 2019
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: discernment; attention; errors of thinking; vivid habitude vs. atrophying routine; inner birth.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 1, module 4, Bucharest
During the applied course for specialists, it has become obvious the real need of the participants for a personal development course.
Thus, after extensive research and under the approval of the new Board, we developed and pioneered the nine-module personal development course, launched in October 2018.
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-Interview: On Inner Birth, 27 January 2019
The first interview was released in March 2014. These lectures – interviews have been broadcasted on Radio Trinitas every month for five years, from 2014 to 2019.
The 57 Lecture-Interviews cover a broad range of thoroughly researched topics from a patristic psychology perspective. Interviews are a means of intervening upon the collective mind to rectify faulty patterns of thinking and to set straight various wrongful meanings.
FEBRUARY 2019
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the anatomy and physiology of change/metanoia; healing and its components; magic healing; illusion dependency.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 1, module 5, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Interviews
• Lecture-Interview: On Illusion Dependency, 24 February 2019
MARCH 2019
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: emotion management/self-control; fear; fear of making a mistake/fear of being wrong; fear of failure; courage.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 1, module 6, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
APRIL 2019
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: false guilt vs. shame of being; blaming, exculpation and self-entitlement; labelling; discernment; the birth of the inner being.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 1, module 7, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Conferences
• Conference: Christ and the Rebirth of the Inner Being – The perspective of Patristic Psychology, Găbud, Mureș, 29 April 2019
MAY 2019
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: beings dependency; lack of boundaries and its associated pathologies; sainthood.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 1, module 8, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
Conferences
• Conference: 'How I Wanted to Become a Saint' - The Perspective of Patristic Psychology, Bradwell-On-Sea, Essex, UK, 26 May 2019
JUNE 2019
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the compulsion to do “good” vs. unification with The Good; loneliness.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 1, module 9, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: a trip to Ruse, the cave of Saint Dimitrios of Basarabovo, and Veliko Târnovo, Bulgaria
JULY - SEPTEMBER 2019
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Research fellowships: Romania and abroad.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
• Summer Programme Dedicated to our Active Sympathisers – praxiems; individual and group exercises; meetings to support the progress and advancement of the individual inner work throughout the summer.
OCTOBER 2019
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: beings dependency – obstacles in overcoming our recovery from this dependency; healing.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 2, module 1, Bucharest
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Inner Abilities Development, group 1, module 1, Bucharest
During the applied course for specialists, it has become obvious the real need of the participants for a personal development course.
Thus, after extensive research and under the approval of the new Board, we developed and pioneered the nine-module personal development course, launched in October 2018.
We launched the second personal development workshop course called Inner Abilities Development, in October 2019. Sympathisers who have completed the first personal development workshop-course, focused on Self-Knowledge, may attend this course.
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Encounters: surprise-invitation for our Active Sympathisers at Café/Teahouse in Bucharest.
NOVEMBER 2019
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: accessing the true self; how to work with the inner self; the faculties of the soul.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 2, module 2, Bucharest
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Inner Abilities Development, group 1, module 2, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Encounters: surprise-invitation for our Active Sympathisers at Café/ Teahouse in Bucharest.
DECEMBER 2019
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the ability to see your wounds, the difficulties that may arise, and solutions; self-acceptance.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 2, module 3, Bucharest
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Inner Abilities Development, group 1, module 3, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: Meeting with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Oxford, UK
• Praxis Encounters: surprise-invitation for our Active Sympathisers to Café/Teahouse in Vienna, Brussels, London, Oxford, and Durham.
JANUARY 2020
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: inner discipline, ways of identifying one’s spiritual needs; prayer, and healing.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 2, module 4, Bucharest
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Inner Abilities Development, group 1, module 4, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
FEBRUARY 2020
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: conflicts and their management; inner and outer conflicts.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 2, module 5, Bucharest
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Inner Abilities Development, group 1, module 5, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
MARCH 2020
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: aggressiveness; forms of aggressiveness; possible blockages in healing and how to overcome them.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 2, module 6, Bucharest
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Inner Abilities Development, group 1, module 6, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
APRIL 2020
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: time management; the pathologies and one’s healing in relation to time.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 2, module 7, Bucharest
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Inner Abilities Development, group 1, module 7, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
ANNIVERSARY ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: The Resurrection of Our Lord, 18-19 April 2020
Given the global health crisis of 2020, the Active Sympathisers from Romania and abroad have gathered online to celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord. Together, we listened to the Service of the Resurrection broadcast live by Radio Lumina, from the Diocese of Severin and Strehaia. All Active Sympathisers had the chance to sing Christ has risen! in a few languages (Romanian, Greek, Slavonic, English, French, Italian, German) and be part of the Festive Programme especially planned by our Association.
MAY 2020
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: healthy boundaries in daily interactions; relationships.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 2, module 8, Bucharest
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Inner Abilities Development, group 1, module 8, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Encounters: surprise-invitation for our Active Sympathisers to tea/coffee in Sibiu, Alba-Iulia.
JUNE 2020
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the middle way; healing.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Self-Knowledge, group 2, module 9, Bucharest
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Inner Abilities Development, group 1, module 9, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Encounters: surprise-invitation for our Active Sympathisers to tea/coffee in Sibiu, Alba-Iulia.
JULY 2020
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
• Summer Programme Dedicated to our Active Sympathisers – praxiems; individual and group exercises; meetings to support the progress and advancement of the individual inner work throughout the summer.
“Step by Step” Project Dedicated to our Aspiring Sympathisers – praxiems, individual and group exercises; meetings to support the progress and advancement of the individual inner work throughout the summer.
AUGUST 2020
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
• Summer Programme Dedicated to our Active Sympathisers – praxiems; individual and group exercises; meetings to support the progress and advancement of the individual inner work throughout the summer.
• “Step by Step” Project Dedicated to our Aspiring Sympathisers – praxiems, individual and group exercises; meetings to support the progress and advancement of the individual inner work throughout the summer.
ANNIVERSARY ACTIVITIES
• The 7th Anniversary of the Association – gathering with our Active Sympathisers at the Association’s Headquarters in Bucharest (in person and online): presentation of our Association’s Activities throughout its 7 years of existence; the launching of our anniversary video; socializing activities. The gathering took place on 7 August 2020, when the Romanian Orthodox community celebrates Saint Theodora of Sihla.
LAUNCHING ACTIVITIES
• The launching of our Association’s Facebook Page in English under the protection of Saint Oswald, 5 August 2020.
CERTIFICATIONS
• The certification of our Association’s first Patristic Psychology Based Trainer – Alexandru Nechifor, PhDc.
SEPTEMBER 2020
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Research fellowships: Leuven (Belgium), Amsterdam (Holland)
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
• Summer Programme Dedicated to our Active Sympathisers – praxiems; individual and group exercises; meetings to support the progress and advancement of the individual inner work throughout the summer.
• “Step by Step” Project Dedicated to our Aspiring Sympathisers – praxiems, individual and group exercises; meetings to support the progress and advancement of the individual inner work throughout the summer.
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
OCTOBER 2020
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
• Interdisciplinary-approached topics: sensibility and its forms.
• Research fellowships: Leuven (Belgium), Amsterdam (Holland)
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Emotion Management, groups 1&2, module 1, Bucharest
During the applied course for specialists, it has become obvious the real need of the participants for a personal development course.
Thus, after extensive research and under the approval of the new Board, we developed and pioneered the nine-module personal development course, launched in October 2018.
We launched the third personal development workshop course called Emotion Management, in October 2020. Sympathisers who have completed the first two personal development workshop courses focused on Self-Knowledge and Inner Abilities Development may attend this course.
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
NOVEMBER 2020
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
• Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the anatomy of inner experience; the states of the spiritual soul; the emotion of discontent.
• Research fellowships: Leuven (Belgium), Amsterdam (Holland)
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Emotion Management, groups 1&2, module 2, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
DECEMBER 2020
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
• Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the emotion of Truth and the emotion of falsehood, opposing perspectives.
• Research fellowships: Leuven (Belgium), Amsterdam (Holland)
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Emotion Management, groups 1&2, module 3, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
JANUARY 2021
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
• Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the emotion of courage and the emotion of fear, opposing perspectives.
• Research fellowships: Leuven (Belgium), Amsterdam (Holland)
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Emotion Management, groups 1&2, module 4, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
FEBRUARY 2021
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the emotion of empathy – healthy frameworks, pathologies in excess or deficit.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Emotion Management, groups 1&2, module 5, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• The launching of the project: God's Lovers Day, 14 - 28 February 2021, Bucharest
The topic of the first meeting: falling in love; eros and agape
• Praxis Encounters: surprise invitation for our Active Sympathisers to tea/coffee, Alba-Iulia.
MARCH 2021
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the emotion of joy – how to contain it, pathologies in excess or deficit; the emotion of sadness– pathologies in excess or deficit.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Emotion Management, groups 1&2, module 6, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
APRIL 2021
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: forms of pain and the experience of pain; peace – its anatomy and forms.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Emotion Management, groups 1&2, module 7, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
LAUNCHING ACTIVITIES
• Project Launching: Praxis Interviews, 25 April 2021, Bucharest
The launching marked the Anniversary of Saint Basil of Poiana Mărului, the protector of our Association.
The First Interview: Familiarity – to which family do you belong?
MAY 2021
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the emotion of humbleness– pathologies in excess or deficit; the forms of pride and its experience.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Emotion Management, groups 1&2, module 8, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
ANNIVERSARY ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: The Resurrection of Our Lord, our Association’s Headquarters, 2 May 2021, Bucharest
The Association formed a family to celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord with our Active Sympathisers remaining in Bucharest. At the gathering, the Active Sympathisers had the chance to sing Christ has risen! in a few languages (Romanian, Greek, Slavonic, English, French, Italian, German) and to enjoy the festive lunch hosted by our Association.
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Encounters: surprise-invitation for our Active Sympathisers to Comana and The Neajlov Delta.
JUNE 2021
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the forms of humility and its experience; inner dissipation - opposing perspectives with humility.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Emotion Management, groups 1&2, module 9, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: a trip to Ruse, the cave of Saint Dimitrios of Basarabovo, Aladja Monastery, Kranevo, and Balcic, Bulgaria.
• Praxis Encounters: surprise-invitation for our Active Sympathisers to Râșnov.
JULY - SEPTEMBER 2021
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Summer Programme Dedicated to our Active Sympathisers – praxiems; individual and group exercises; meetings to support the progress and advancement of the individual inner work throughout the summer.
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
ANNIVERSARY ACTIVITIES
• The 8thAnniversary of the Association - 7 August 2021
The launching of our 8thAnniversary Video on our YouTube channel, under the protection of Saint Theodora of Sihla.
LAUNCHING ACTIVITIES
• The Launching of our Association’s Vimeo Chanel: 'Patristic Psychology' under the protection of Saint Theodora of Sihla, 7 august 2021.
ORGANISATIONAL ACTIVITIES
• The Founding of the VoP Club, 25 August 2021
On their first meeting, Praxis volunteers founded The Volunteers’ Club (The VoP Club), with the approval of The Board and assisted by the President of The Association, Dr Ciobanu. The Club functions under the protection of Saint Tit, the Apostle.
OCTOBER 2021
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: poorness in spirit; duplicity; double-standard; credulity; ideals and their pursuit.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Management of the Evangelical Happiness, groups 1&2, module 1, Bucharest
During the applied course for specialists, it has become obvious the real need of the participants for a personal development course.
Thus, after extensive research and under the approval of the new Board, we developed and pioneered the nine-module personal development course, launched in October 2018.
We launched the fourth personal development workshop course called The Management of the Evangelical Happiness, in October 2021.
Sympathisers who have completed the first three personal development workshop courses focused on Self-Knowledge, Inner Abilities Development, and Emotion Management may attend this course.
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
NOVEMBER 2021
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: the dynamics of wealth-poverty; material worries and addictions.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Management of the Evangelical Happiness, groups 1&2, module 2, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
DECEMBER 2021
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary-approached topics: obedience; obedience in spirit; bodily spirituality; unbelief/materialism.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Courses
• Personal Development Workshop-Course: Management of the Evangelical Happiness, groups 1&2, module 3, Bucharest
Counselling
• Individual Counselling according to the principles of patristic psychology.
SOCIALIZING ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: Carols Programme - meeting with Active Sympathisers on the anniversary of Saint Spiridon, at the headquarters of the Association in Bucharest and online, 12 December 2021.
ANIVERSARY ACTIVITIES
• Praxis Get-Togetherings: The nativity of the Lord - the headquarters of the Association in Bucharest and online, 25-26-27 December 2021.
The association formed a family to celebrate the Nativity with the Active Sympathisers. During the meeting, the Active Sympathisers had the opportunity to sing carols, the Troparion, and the Catavasias of the Nativity. They could also share poems/prayers/reflections on the Nativity and discuss Christmas traditions in the origin areas of each of them. In addition, they watched movies together and then discussed them, participated in a riddle contest, and enjoyed the festive meal especially prepared by the Association.
