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Formation Open Dialogue 2025 - Niveau 2
Description
The "Foundation Training OPEN DIALOGUE", a so-called level 1 training consisting of an introduction to the concepts of Open Dialogue.
"Open Dialogue" is emerging in Finland, thanks to the team of Prof. Jaakko Seikkula, on better ways of understanding and responding to psychosis, schizophrenia and psychological distress. The treatment meetings are respectful of the experiences, the lived experience and the voice of the person in a vulnerable situation. Family and friends can participate in the meetings and all actors, including team members, have the same opportunity to be heard without a clear hierarchy of decision-making. Open Dialogue is a collaborative, very practical and integrative form of individual, systemic and family psychotherapy. Priority is given to dialogue before any other form of intervention.
How can a dialogue be so transformative? Why do some issues generate more dialogue than others? How do we give voice to experiences that do not yet have words? How can we develop more horizontal collaborative relationships and create a community of support for the mentally ill?
Questions like these inspire us to seek more dialogical ways of acting in our clinical practice. This is how we came across the open dialogue approach - a model of mental health practice that has been developed, widely studied and evaluated since the 1980s.
Initially implemented in the Lapland region of Finland, it has been adapted over the past decade and introduced in several European countries, as well as in the United States, Australia, Japan and countries in Latin America. Open dialogue proposes a mode of practice in which treatment decisions are constructed collectively in meetings. The idea is to have all conversations and decisions openly in the presence of the clients who need help, family members and other relevant social networks, as well as the professionals involved. Meetings are scheduled as soon as the team is contacted and, through thoughtful conversations, we seek to establish a dialogue between all, in which flexibility, polyphony, continuity. The values and principles for its realization include psychological awareness, co-responsibility and tolerance of uncertainty.
We invite you to a training that has been thought from the theoretical and clinical experience of trainers and assistants, and that is promoted and coordinated by the Association U_P. The modules will consist of theory-practice articulation, group dynamics and reflection exercises.
Through collaborative learning, this training aims to broaden the possibilities of a more dialogic therapeutic practice in the field of mental health and to build a reflective space in which it is expected that the philosophy of open dialogue will be experienced among the participants and that they will subsequently be able to develop it in the places where they work.
The second year of training in Dialogical Practices and Open Dialogue
will focus on deepening the philosophical and conceptual foundations of the
approach and the possibilities for practice in specific contexts of
both in mental health services and in community projects.
Dialogical skills will be worked on in more detail, as will the co-generation of spaces for dialogue. Clinical practice will be intensified, with a greater focus on the Open Dialogue approach, and the therapist's family of origin seminars will also be given more space in the training. Compared to last year's training, subjects in addictionology, couple therapy and dialogical practices, Open Dialogue and child/adolescent psychiatry will also be covered. In addition to those already mentioned, there will be a module on Exploring professionals' own life narratives and the impact that these stories have on their current professional practice.
Public concerned
Pré-requis
Have fully completed the first year of training and met the assessment requirements.
In order to guarantee richness, equal access and quality of exchanges, the maximum number of participants is 30.
Training will be conducted in French.
Pedagogical objectives
On completion of this course, the participants will be able to:
1- Be able to experience the fundamentals of the Open Dialogue approach, its basic principles and key elements.
2- To develop relacional skills that promote the co-creation of meaningful and constructive dialogical spaces.
4- Deepen reflections on the intertwining of personal life history and its effect on professional life.
5- Building collaborative networks with professionals, people under care, service users and their families/communities.
6 - Improve knowledge about working with couples from a dialogical perspective.
7 - Deepen understanding of dialogical practices with children and adolescents in different contexts: mental health services, families and institutions.
8 - Improve mastery of dialogic practices linked to working with addiction.
Pedagogical means
Dialogical approach: methodology based on various exercises of reflection on practice, with the aim of linking it to essential concepts.
Working with the person of the therapist/professional: the dialogical approach requires a careful experiential process on the part of the therapist/professional. To this end, the training prioritizes an axis of reflective work based on individual experiences, linked to relational development through exchanges and group work.
Concept and practice of networks: the broadening of the concept of family therapy to include relational and network therapy has brought a focus on “problem-generated systems” and “conversation systems”, where the use of language becomes fundamental. This approach seeks out the resources that exist in the people involved in the conversation as a transformative element.
Focus on experience and relational language: the dialogical approach is intrinsically experiential. Students are expected to understand the philosophical stance that underpins dialogical practices and open dialogues, through group exercises and reflections, reading and knowledge of the trajectory of systemic/collaborative/narrative/dialogical therapy, with an emphasis on contemporary authors. The main aim of the course is to articulate the practice of open conversations for collective problem-solving.
Evaluation methods
Written work: a written production about any subject related to what was discussed during the course, minimum 10 pages. Article format desirable – to be presented on the last two days of the course. It can be written in pairs or teamwork.
Initial, Processual and Final satisfaction survey.
When
De septembre 2025 à juin 2026
Prices
Hospitals and institutions : sur devis
Caregivers : 2 300,00 EUR
Professional : 3 800,00 EUR
Program
Block 1.
from 15 sept. 2025 to 18 sept. 2025
Day 15
Opening day – presenting the second-year training
what has been done so far in terms of Dialogical Practices?
Dialogue Meetings – dialogue generation & dialogical skills II
Day 16
Live session
Working group
Day 17
Supervision II
Day18
Supervision II
Block 2.
from 17 nov. 2025 to 21 nov. 2025
Day 17
FOT Seminar 2 – Presentations
Day 18
FOT Seminar 2 – Presentations
Day 19
FOT Seminar 2 – Presentations
Day 20
Habits & Dialogue: Re-thinking addiction
Day 21
Open Dialogue and addiction: same language?
Live session with a family
Block 3.
from 19 janv. 2026 to 20 janv. 2026
Day 19
Dialogue cures – Why?
Day 20
Team consultation
Block. 4
from 02 févr. 2026 to 06 févr. 2026
Day 5
Supervision II
Day 6
Supervision II
Block 5.
from 02 mars 2026 to 05 mars 2026
Day 2
Open Dialogue and child/adolescent psychiatry.
Day 3
Working collaboratively with young people, their families and other networks; multi-professional cooperation, service development.
Day 4
Family live session
Day 4
Couple Therapy and Dialogical Practices
Day 5
Collaborating with couples/families from a dialogical viewpoint: what has been my experience?
Block 6.
from 20 avr. 2026 to 22 avr. 2026
Day 20
FOT Seminar 3 – Presentations
Day 21
FOT Seminar 3 – Presentations
Day 22
FOT Seminar 3 – Presentations
Block 7.
from 18 mai 2026 to 19 mai 2026
Day 18
Exploring professionals’ own life narratives and the impact that these stories have on their current professional practice
Day 19
Development and challenges of building the Open Dialogue approach in the mental health service
Block 8.
from 08 juin 2026 to 12 juin 2026
Day 8
Supervision II
Day 9
Supervision II
Day 10
Anticipatory Dialogues
Day 11
Practical Exercise – Teamwork and anticipatory dialogues
Day 12
Evaluation and Closure
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