The Mind Force Society has been organising and co-sponsoring scientific events since its founding in 2008 — from intimate residential retreats in Tuscany to international online symposia. Below is a record of our key activities, with our most recent event featured first.
⭐ Upcoming Event — 28 March 2026
Bridging Minds — Seminario di Alta Formazione
Comprendere e rispondere a Bisogni Emotivi Complessi nei giovani
In collaborazione con Giunti Psicologia.io e Scuola di Psicoterapia Integrativa Interdisciplinare
Gli adolescenti e i giovani adulti con bisogni emotivi complessi si trovano spesso all’intersezione di più sistemi: clinici, educativi, familiari e comunitari. Questo seminario di alta formazione riunisce clinici ed educatori per costruire un linguaggio e una comprensione condivisi, colmando il divario tra l’intervento terapeutico e il supporto educativo quotidiano.
I partecipanti acquisiranno competenze pratiche per identificare, comprendere e rispondere a complesse presentazioni emotive, sviluppando quadri di collaborazione interdisciplinare applicabili nella loro pratica professionale.
Past Events
Connect Symposium: Human Change Dynamics — 2021
11 September 2021 · Online (Zoom)
Co-sponsored by the Complexity Science in Psychotherapy Interest Section (SPR-IS), Mind Force Society – Institute for Complexity Studies, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
This symposium brought together international researchers to address empirical methods and findings in complexity science, human change, and psychotherapy research. Topics included dynamical systems, self-organisation, interactional synchrony, and the emergence of patterns of functioning.
Invited speakers: Klaus Mainzer (European Academy of Sciences and Arts), Claudi Bockting (Amsterdam University), Sander Koole (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Rosa Michaelis (University Witten/Herdecke), Mario A. Reda (Siena University), Günter Schiepeck (Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg).
Chair: Franco F. Orsucci (UCL / MFS-ICS) & Wolfgang Tschacher (Bern University).
Virtual Structured Discussions: Explorations Through the Crisis — 2020
June–July 2020 · Online (Zoom / Teams)
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mind Force Society and SPR organised a series of six weekly virtual discussions — Respond, Recover and Change — bringing together researchers from multiple continents to share, reflect, and plan new research in complexity science and human change.
Sessions: Sharing Is Caring · Embodiment, Physical Distancing and Treatment · Planning New Research on the CV-19 Impact · Advancements in Embodied Synchronization · Technology Enhanced Learning and Human Change · Social Distancing, Social Support and Social Media.
SPR Methods Workshop & Symposium: Pathways of Change — 2019
24–27 April 2019 · Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy
Co-sponsored by the University of Siena, Mind Force Society, Istituto di Psicoterapia Integrata, SITCC, and the SPR Special Interest Group on Complexity Science in Psychotherapy.
A residential workshop and symposium focused on the modelling of the temporal evolution of therapies, dynamical systems theory methods, and new meta-models integrating complexity science with psychotherapy research. Topics included self-organisation and synchrony, detection of attractors, phase transitions, fractal dynamics, and translational processes between research and clinical practice.
Faculty: Wolfgang Tschacher (Bern), Giulio de Felice (Rome), Johan Kleinbub (Padova), Günter Schiepeck (Salzburg), Chiara Mocenni (Siena), Omar Gelo (Vienna/Lecce), Franco Orsucci (London), Mattias Desmet (Ghent), Felicitas Rost (London), Mario Reda (Siena), Svenja Taubner (Heidelberg), Sergio Salvatore (Lecce), Christoph Flückiger (Zurich).
Tuscan Summer Academy — ConVersActions on the Matrix of Human Evolution — 2008
18–20 September 2008 · Certosa di Pontignano, University of Siena, Italy
The founding event of the Mind Force Society. A residential retreat gathering leading scholars for three days of interdisciplinary dialogue on the emerging science of mind, body, and complexity.
Keynote speakers: Peter Fonagy (UCL / Anna Freud Centre), Lamberto Maffei (CNR Pisa), Steven Suomi (NIH Bethesda), Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS / Harvard), Walter J. Freeman (UC Berkeley), Tito Arecchi (University of Florence), Harald Atmanspacher (Max Planck Institut), Giuseppe Vitiello (University of Salerno).
It was at this gathering that the Mind Force Manifesto was written, laying the philosophical and scientific foundations of the Society.
More events and activities will be added. If you have records of past events or would like to submit an upcoming activity, please get in touch.
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