Working Parties Committee Activities
- The potential for activities was initially explored alongside the Presidents of the Regional Federations and individuals with experience in WPs and influence in the three regions of the IPA. The idea of further developing and integrating the WPs within the context of the IPA met with an excellent reception.
- On the basis of conversations with the Presidents of the Regional Federations and/or their representatives (NAPSAC), it was thought that we could begin by holding, for example, WP Satellites Symposiums during Federation Congresses and the IPAC. WPs and WGs representatives from the three regions will be invited to take part.
In the case of the IPAC, the IPA would undertake to pay for the meeting rooms and, if possible, one night’s hotel accommodation for each guest and to the organizers, as it is being done for the WPs mediators. In the case of the symposium being held at one of the Federation congresses, the local Federation would undertake to pay for the meeting rooms and would split the cost of travel expenses and one night’s hotel accommodation for guests and members of the WPC from other regions.
A model and an example for a possible Interregional Symposium of Working Parties:
What are the current tools of psychoanalysts? Do they work? What have the WPs and WGs seen in relation to the current practice of psychoanalysis in its different areas (whether technique, theory or training), over their years of operation?
Plenary meeting (in the morning, with the participation of WP representatives from the three regions).
Internal Interregional WP Workshops (in the afternoon, the coordinating groups of a same WP or WG, from the three regions, would hold meetings to exchange their findings).
The WPs participating in these symposiums would undertake to produce a document as a result of their work in a format for publication.
3. Other possible activities
- The idea is to offer also the possibility that WPs can make cross-regional invitations so that members from other regions can be invited to coordinate groups in other regions or to exchange expertise and experience, using the WPC Budget or evaluating the possibility to utilize CAPSA's budget.
- We intend to be open to suggestions for other activities coming from the WPs themselves.