I Environmental Seminar of the Mental Health Center for Children and Youth Warsaw-Wola and the Health Policy Office of the City of Warsaw "At the Common Table" titled "Connecting Forces and Their Fate" 📅 13.09.2025 (8:30 AM - 7:00 PM) 📍 Location: Ratuszowa Hall, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw The event is free of charge. The participant list is already closed. Sign up for the waiting list via the registration form. Link below. Lectures will be delivered by: - Prof. Irena Namysłowska - Joanna Chmarzyńska-Golińska - Gustaw Sikora - Łukasz Prochwicz - Cezary Żechowski Panel of coordinators of the Mental Health Center for Children and Youth at Wolski Hospital. Event description: Connecting forces is a term derived from social neurobiology, referring to interpersonal relationships that create bonds - positively colored, based on trust, closeness, and mutual resonance. Connecting forces include attachment, friendship, love, but also processes that foster coexistence: education, cooperation, synchrony, imitation, identification. These forces are present not only in personal relationships but also in the formation of groups - those that work towards a common goal, based on cooperation and mutual understanding. But also those where connecting forces are distorted by fantasies, projections, mechanisms of splitting, and externalizing negative aspects "outside" the group. "Connecting Forces and Their Fate" - the title of our conference - aims to draw attention to these phenomena. We want to collectively examine how we cooperate, how we build interdisciplinary relationships, and how collaboration is possible between individuals and groups with different identities, sensitivities, or languages. This is an invitation to reflect on what connects us, what divides us, and what makes it possible for us to sometimes meet at a common table. To sign up for the waiting list, fill out the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FAIpQLSe5gpivzQ2/viewform
