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13 September 2014

SAPC Media Workshop 2014

Media and Psychoanalytic Work: opportunities and threats.

The new media offer opportunities to achieve learning, mutual impact and co-operation previously unthought of. At the same time they challenge many of the traditional ways we currently have of thinking about our work, particularly as psychodynamic practitioners. We all need to make informed personal and professional decisions about how to interact with this technology. Together in this workshop we explore a range of ways that media impacts on our work.
1. Media and Social Change
2. Media and National Mental Health
3. Media and Public Profile
4. Media and Ethics

DATE: 13 September 2014 TIME: 08h30-15h30
VENUE: Orchards Retreat Centre
PRICE: R600(Students R300)
BOOKINGS: Michelle Scott (Michellesco@gmail.com) Please send PS No, applying for CPD points.

Programme: SAPC Media Day 2014
08h30-9h00 WELCOME
09h00-10h00 Media and Social Change:
*Advantages and challenges that New Media offers in the promotion of social change.

Presenter: Jenny Radloff
10h00-10h30 TEA
10h30-11h30 Media and National Mental Health: *How does New Media provide opportunities to engage the National Mental Health crisis?
*Concerned Practitioners Initiative.

Panel: Mia Malan, Mary-Anne Smith, Felicity Van Vuuren
11h30-12h30 Media and Public Profile:
*How do we, as groups, access New Media to better disseminate our work and a psychoanalytic perspective to the broader public?

Facilitator: Dain Peters
12h30-13h30 LUNCH
13h30-15h00 Media and the Therapeutic Frame:
*How Social Media impacts on the ethical management of our therapeutic spaces.

Facilitators: Julie Green and Julia Kuhn, SAPC EAC
15h00-15h30 CLOSING

Guest Presenters:

Jennifer Radloff works for the Association for Progressive Communications, an international network and non-profit organisation that wants everyone to have access to a free and open internet to improve our lives and create a more just world. She coordinates capacity building for the Women’s Rights Programme with a focus on digital security and digital storytelling. Jennifer manages a project in the Republic of Congo on holding governments accountable to gender based violence and manages APC’s work with women human rights defenders.Jennifer has been involved in gender and information work since 1992 and working with women’s rights activists regionally and globally to use Information and Communications Technology appropriately and securely in their advocacy and activism. She sits on the Executive Committee of Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition and the board of Women’s Net, South Africa.

Mia Malan is the Mail and Guardian health editor and heads up the health journalism centre, Bhekisisa.The centre runs critical thinking forums on health issues and health journalism trainings. Mia started reporting on health when she landed her first job at the SABC’s Eastern Cape office in 1995.Nothing seemed to work in the province, so broken down hospitals were big stories. She then moved on to work for radio and television current affairs programmes in Johannesburg, and then moved to Kenya for four years in the early 2000s to head up the media development organisation, Internews Network’s Kenya health journalism training programme.After a stint in the US as Internews’s chief health journalism trainer she returned to South Africa as a John S Knight Journalism fellow and also taught journalism at Rhodes University.

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