 Hello and welcome to Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy TV, and it's my great pleasure to introduce Elena Maria and Maria Luisa from the International Integrative Psychotherapy Association, interviewed in Italy, you're in Italy, and we're going to talk a little bit about the fantastic conference that is taking place in Milan in March of this year between the 20th and the 25th. So, very welcome to MIP TV, and thank you so much for taking the time. So, just tell us a little bit about the International Integrative Psychotherapy Association. When was it formed and what was it, what's its function, for want of a better word? Yes, so thank you for this interview, it's a pleasure for me to talk about this, because I think it's very important this association, it's a professional association, and what a little bit of story starting from 2000, all the person that have been following the Integrative approach all over the world connected and decided to found an international association in order to permit to allow all the person to meet and also to recognize themselves in belonging to the same association with the same background. With the same philosophy and with the same practice. So, that has been a very important moment in which we decide to put this kind of link all over the world. This is the 8th conference, so I'm presuming that this is the, how long has the association been going for, how long has it been running, when did it start? Yeah, the association starts in 2000, but then we started with the conferences, because the conferences is a main moment of our association, because as the real moment in which we can meet, we can see each other in the face and we can talk and we can confront and we can share. The conference is a very important moment in which we contact, we update, we exchange experiences. This is a sharing, an important sharing as persons and professionals. This is very much a meeting of like minded people, professionals with the same vision, with the same ideas, with the same philosophies. Exactly, we started in 2001 in New York and then every two years we had conferences and so the next one will be in Milan in this year, 2017 and we had already in Italy another conference which was in 2007 in Rome. But then we had in France, in Spain, twice in Spain and in UK and in Slovenia and so we are very proud that we could go around in Europe. Also giving welcome to people coming from so many parts of the world. This year in Milan we will welcome persons coming from Russia, from South Africa, from Australia, from Turkey, from Canada, from so many countries, South America. So it's a real international conference. Yeah, it sounds like it's travelled Europe and now it's spreading out into the world at large. Yes, so I imagine that our next conference will be outside Europe. Yes, yes. Any idea where that might be? Have you got any plans for the next outside Europe conference? Yes, I hope so, yes. Where do you think it might be? Where do you think it might be? Yeah. Where do you think in the world it might be? Well, I still have not a real idea probably could be in Romania, so in the place of East Europe, but I don't know. I would like also Turkey, well, it depends which country will be available also to do this kind of work, of course, yes. It takes organisation and also planning, doesn't it? Yes, a lot of organisation of course, yes. And also we would like to have a place where it's not so difficult for people to travel to and so. Yes, a location that's easy to access and people can get that. So this conference is running in March. It runs from the 20th to the 25th, Monday to Friday. Who will be speaking at this conference? Who are the people that will be addressing the delegates and what will be going on at the conference? What kind of activities will people experience? Yeah, the activities are very interesting, there are many. So most of them are workshops in parallel. So we will open with a session altogether, but then every day in the morning and in the afternoon we will have parallel workshops with many trainers or psychotherapists or even counsellors. We will have an interactive approach and the title of the conference is the healing relationship body, mind and spirit. So it's a very important title for us because now we know that there is a very deep interconnection from the body and the mind. At the point we cannot even let's say distinguish from these two interfaces. But I think that also this is the part in which probably we are conditioned from our nature. And so for me the spirit is the path that is free. So is the path which allows ourselves to gain a sort of freedom, a sort of unconditional situation from the condition of body and mind when they are so only natural, let's say, or maybe social conditioned. So I think that every person has his own point of view about what is spirit, what is soul. And this will be a very important confront among so many people interested in this three angle of the life. It sounds very much like an intersubjective approach where you're looking not only about the relationship but also about the spiritual connection that exists between two human beings. It reminds me very much of the work of Patricia Clarkson. The intersubjective position gives the sense to everybody because it's clear for us now that we are depending each other continuously and we are co-creating every moment of our life. And this is an important moment in which we take also responsibility for our own soul, spirit, body, mind. Especially in this moment of, I think, of the history of the Universal Hearth history because, well, because, oh, I think that we have done so many progress as human beings. We are so advanced in so many things, not only techniques, but also human interchanges. And at the same time, the temptation from so many parts is to push bad, I don't know, bad stimuli. And so we have to deal with so important reality which are bad stimuli, but also to evaluate so many good stimuli that we have from the history of the Hearth. So it's important for me to evaluate this. Yes. Sounds like a very comprehensive response to the question. But yes, you give a real sense of what that mind, body, spirit and the relationship is. And that's just so important. So thank you so much, Alina Maria, for agreeing to come on and speaking about the conference. We'll put some details in the comments below so people can click onto the website. And if they're interested, they can find more details, maybe book on. And again, from Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy TV, I'm aware we've not spoken too much to Maria Louise who's in the background there. But maybe we'll catch up again. But from all of us at Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy TV, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you to you very much.