Film, Psychological, and Media Workshops
Film, psychological and media workshops will be organised at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina from 6 to 8 June at 12 p.m.
The workshops are intended for anyone who is interested in topics of gender-based violence, women’s labour rights, the position of women in art, women filmmakers, feminist psychological approach, patterns of behaviour in partnerships, and gender-sensitive journalism.
The workshops will be held as part of the ‘Autonomous Festival of Women’ (Serbian AFŽ), which is taking place at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, from 6 to 12 June, during the Heroines programme arch.
For a week, Novi Sad is becoming a city of women through public discussion, workshops, and performances.
The ‘Autonomous Festival of Women’ is a unique event promoting feminism, gender equality and the culture of non-violence, guided by the experience of previous activists and feminists, and based on women’s cooperation and solidarity taught by the earlier movements for gender equality and women’s artistic practices.
The festival form will present innovative methods for initiating conversations about the position of women in society, with an interactive approach to the target group in which activism should be encouraged, in order to achieve real, not just performative, improvement of the position of women in the local community.
Schedule of activities and topics of the psychological workshops:
6 June / 12 – 2 p.m.
Workshop 1 – How Do We Choose Partners from the Point of View of the Emotional Attachment Theories
Psychological research has shown that adults, in their romantic relationships and partnerships, show patterns of emotional attachment that are similar to the patterns of the emotional attachment of children to their parents. Recent research has shown that in addition to these parental influences, life experience also influences the formation of affective attachment styles.
Early formed patterns of affective attachment survive and last through the years of growing up, influence the formation of our personality traits, and permanently shape behaviours, expectations, and feelings towards the partner. In a romantic relationship, our behaviour is a consequence of expectations and beliefs from childhood, that is, beliefs that we have created about ourselves, and close relationships based on our emotional relationships from the past. All people, in a relationship or in a marriage, fall into one of four categories of emotional attachment: the secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganised type of emotional attachment. They all differ from one another in terms of intimacy and togetherness, the way they deal with conflicts, their attitude towards sex, their ability to express their desires and needs, and the expectations they have from their partner and relationship.
7 June / 12 – 2 p.m.
Workshop 2 – Let’s Play: Concept of the Drama Triangle
Psychological games are ways in which a person expresses their life beliefs and places others and the world into them. Eric Berne noticed patterns in human interaction, which he called psychological games. He defined them as a series of hidden exchanges in human communication that are complementary, repetitive, and that lead to a very specific and clearly defined psychological gain.
An unconscious game is always the result of an internal conflict. People start the game in the hopes of resolving the conflict and confirming a positive attitude about themselves, others, and the world, but it always happens to prove the opposite, negative attitude regarding an important life issue, that is, an attitude about themselves, others and the world.
There are several ways to better understand and analyse games, and one of them is Karpman Drama Triangle. Karpman used triangles to map conflicting or dramatically related human relationships. Karpman’s dramatic triangle represents the connection between personal responsibility and power in conflicts and the destructive and changing roles that people play. Karpman placed the three roles on an inverted triangle and listed them as three aspects, that is, the faces of the drama. These three Roles are the Persecutor, the Victim, and the Rescuer.
8 June / 12 – 2 p.m.
Workshop 3 – Insecurity in Partner Relationships: Why Do You Think All Men/Women Are the Same?
Self-confidence and level of satisfaction with the partnership are closely related. Self-confidence is determined not only by the way a person experiences themselves but also by their ability to accept love and affection in a partnership. People with low self-esteem are convinced that their partner sees them as negatively as they see themselves, which leads to less satisfaction with the relationship.
There are various behavioural patterns in the partnership that are a manifestation of internal processes driven by a lack of self-confidence:
– Sacrificing one own’s needs in order to please the partner,
– Preoccupation with the partner and the partnership, concern for the relationship, constant questioning about whether the partner wants less intimacy,
– Projection of negative outcomes, thinking about how the relationship is going in a negative direction, the feeling of being unfulfilled and unhappy (a consequence of unspoken and unmet needs),
– Hiding one’s own wrong beliefs (which leads to distance in the relationship, and the real cause is not recognised),
– Avoiding closeness and intimacy (the other extreme of insecurity), flirting with other people, ignoring the partner, their needs, and feelings, and making decisions without agreement.
Communication skills are key to any intimate relationship. The more intimate the relationship, the greater and more complex the demands for communication.
Media workshops:
Distinguished journalists who will lead media workshops are Jovana Gligorijević, Vanja Đurić, and Brankica Drašković.
Check out the whole ‘Autonomous Festival of Women’ programme at this link.
Erste Bank is the partner of the Heroines programme arch.
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