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FAQs

The here and now is the foundation of Yehia Rakhaw School. It is where emotions emerge, relationships unfold, conflicts surface, creativity appears, and meaning is co-created. It is both a clinical stance and a human position, one that connects inner experience with social and cultural realities.

Legacy is not something frozen in the past. It is what we carry forward: schools of thought, mentors’ voices, cultural memory, collective trauma, and shared hope. This conference explores how legacies can be honored without becoming rigid, and how they can stay alive through dialogue, creativity, and responsibility.

Media shapes how stories are told, silenced, distorted, or amplified.

Cinema, storytelling, and digital media influence identity, belonging and collective imagination, and trauma. The conference creates a space to work on the area where media intersects with mental health, group processes, and social responsibility.

It is intentionally all three, and also something in between.

Alongside theoretical reflections and clinical practice, the conference welcomes experiential learning, artistic expression, and cultural dialogue. Knowledge here is not only presented; it is lived and shared.

Its spirit.

The conference is inspired by the idea that healing happens in encounter between people, disciplines, cultures, and generations. It privileges presence over performance, dialogue over certainty, and shared responsibility over individual authority.

Not just new ideas—but new questions, connections, and resonances.

 Many participants leave with a deeper sense of professional grounding, renewed inspiration, and a felt experience of belonging to a wider human and professional community.

To show up.
To listen.
To reflect on our roles—as professionals, storytellers, and members of a shared world, and to ask together:
What does responsibility look like, and how it is actualized in the here and now?

The Rakhawy School approaches psychotherapy as a lived encounter in the here and now, grounded in group processes, cultural context, and the principles of Encounter, Togetherness, and Responsibility (ETRe), with an emphasis on encounters, presence, and shared meaning and responsibility rather than technique alone.

For Young Professionals & Trainees

Very much so. This conference was designed with emerging voices in mind. It offers a space where curiosity, questioning, and professional becoming are welcomed—not rushed or judged.

No. The conference culture values encounter over hierarchy. Senior practitioners are invited not as distant experts, but as participants in dialogue—sharing experience while remaining open to learning from younger generations.

You may gain:

A deeper sense of professional identity

Exposure to different schools and cultures of practice

A lived experience of group processes

Inspiration for your future path—clinical, academic, artistic, or community-based

Many young professionals describe this kind of conference as a turning point, not just an event.

Both. You will encounter ideas, but also moments of presence, reflection, and lived group experience. The here and now is not only discussed but also practiced.

Not at all.
This conference welcomes those who are still forming their voice, believing that uncertainty, exploration, and questions may be considered part of professional maturity, not a lack of it.

For Media Professionals, Filmmakers & Storytellers

No. Media professionals are essential participants.

The conference recognizes storytelling—cinema, media, narrative—as a powerful force shaping individual and collective mental health.

Your place is at the heart of the dialogue.

 Media does not merely reflect reality; it creates meaning, memory, identification, and silence. This conference invites filmmakers and storytellers to explore their role as participants in collective emotional life.

No clinical background is required. Concepts will be approached through dialogue, examples, lived experience, and shared language—not technical exclusion.

You can expect conversations about:

  • How stories influence identity, growth and development, healing, crisis and trauma
  • Ethical responsibility in representation
  • The emotional impact of images and narratives
  • Where therapy and storytelling meet, and challenge each other

Yes. Creativity is not an accessory here—it is a way of thinking, feeling, and engaging with reality.

For International Participants

While rooted in Egypt and inspired by local and regional traditions, the conference speaks to global questions:

  • How do we heal in divided worlds?
  • How do culture and identity meet in groups?
  • What does responsibility mean across borders?

Arabic and English are both official conference languages.

They are held as parallel voices in dialogue, not as dominant and secondary languages. The atmosphere encourages patience, listening, and mutual respect.

Both.

It offers a grounded cultural context while remaining open to international perspectives. Participants are invited to bring their own cultural lens into conversation, not to leave it at the door.

An atmosphere of encounter rather than performance.

You will meet professionals from different regions, traditions, and generations—connected by shared concern for mental health, group processes, and social responsibility.

Often, participants leave with:

  • A renewed sense of meaning in their work
  • Cross-cultural connections
  • New ways of thinking about groups, media, and community
  • A felt experience of belonging beyond national or professional borders