Last weekend (2 - 3 November 2024) on the outskirts of Hamburg, when golden autumn is still in no hurry to hand over its rights to winter, the seventh seminar-training ‘Psychological support for victims of war in Ukraine’ was held at the ‘Samaritan Workers’ Foundation of Germany ASB.

The seminar was attended by Ukrainian women from Odessa, Kiev, Kherson, Dnipro, Zhitomir and Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Mykolayiv regions, who by fate, fleeing the Russian military aggression found themselves in Germany.

The project is implemented by a married couple of doctors, political emigrants from Russia, Alexander and Galina Goncharenko.

Natalia Stepanenko from Chernihiv participated in this seminar as a psychologist.

She managed to master most of the theoretical and practical skills of psychological self-help with the participants of the seminar and to create a friendly team.

The friendly atmosphere and Ukrainian cuisine contributed to the positive result at the end of the seminar.

According to the tradition, at the end of the seminar the project team and the participants of the seminar-training summarised the results.

A lot of warm words were said by women to the project organisers, psychologist and cooks of ASB.

Recommendations and comments were made to improve the training process at the seminar.

Project manager Alexander Goncharenko noted that seventy nine Ukrainian refugees received psychological assistance during seven training seminars and promised to take into account the recommendations during the next similar events.

Communication with the women was not limited to the seminar. All of them became participants of the WhatsApp group: ‘Psychological help to victims of war in Ukraine’.

The project manager, on behalf of the team and the participants of the workshop, expresses her gratitude to the sponsors of the workshop, the Toepfer Foundation from Hamburg, the team and the head of ASB, Günter Arndt, and the managing director of Hamburg Foundation for Politically Persecuted Persons, Martina Baeurle, for their support to the project.

Photo 1 Collective photo is already a tradition;

Photo 2 Alexander Goncharenko tells about the project;

Photo 3 Psychologist Natalia Stepanenko;

Photo 4. On the first day for lunch cutlets with mashed potatoes;

Photo 5 Outsiders do not enter, there is a seminar;

Photo 6 Training in active psychological methods;

Photo 7. At the dinner table on the second day of the seminar;

Photo 8. Ukrainian dumplings.

 

 

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