Why focus on the “here and now”?

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.

What do you mean by “legacy”?

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.

How does media fit into a conference on mental health, group therapy and group work?

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.

Is this a clinical conference, an academic one, or a cultural event?

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.

Konstantinos Liolios – The Second International Conference On Mental Health and Media

KONSTANTINOS LIOLIOS: Psychiatrist, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Group Analyst in Private practice. Training Analyst in HOPEinGA (Hellenic Organization Psychotherapy Education in GA), Athens Greece. IAGP (International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes) Board of Directors member, IAGP Analytic Group Section Chair, IAGP International Trainer (Education Committee), and IAGP Social/Collective Trauma Committee member, Co-Editor of IAGP Globeletter. Group Analytic Society International (GASi) Full Member. Social Unconscious, Trauma, Dreams and the clinical use of Art (Poetry and painting) in Group Analytic groups, are the basic areas of interest.