EFTA-RELATES 202527-30 AUGUST 2025LYON, FRANCE
It is our great pleasure to announce
the 12th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA), and the 21st Congress of the Red Europea y Latinoamericana de Escuelas Sistémicas (RELATES), together,
co-organized with Unité DIPHE of Université Lyon 2 from Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 August 2025.
Welcome Note
Relationships between people families, work teams, communities and nations have all undergone major changes in recent decades. Multiple influences, including cultural and scientific evolution are all central to the context of systemic thinking and therapy.
Disciplines such as physics, medicine, psychology, environmental and social sciences have made decisive contributions to the advancement of our knowledge. Distant galaxies have come closer due to our increased knowledge of the cosmos, and our probes and rockets are reaching towards the farthest edges of space-time. On the other hand, violence and barbarism destroy lives, property, and certainties on a daily basis, sparking vicious and often deadly clashes between individuals, communities, nations, and cultures.
In spite of these challenging realities, systemic therapists and practitioners are compelled to pursue their commitment to healing the resulting psychic and relational suffering and, above all, to rekindle hope, resilience and optimism for a better future.
The EFTA-RELATES 2025 Congress, in collaboration with the DIPHE research laboratory of the University of Lyon 2 aims to be a place of possibilities, challenging indifference and isolation. It will bring together hundreds of professionals, centres, and bodies within the European Family Therapy Association and the Red Europea y Latinoamericana de Escuelas Sistémicas, all committed to the mission of promoting the health of groups, institutions, families, couples and individuals.
The aim of this Congress is to share systemic knowledge - whether through confluences or controversies - we will share, discuss and seek resonances on differences that make a difference. The important goal will be to combine the theoretical foundations of the systemic approach with the diversity and plurality of people and clinical practices, all enriched by research data.
This fruitful gathering will take place on August 27, 28, 29 and 30, in the summer of 2025, in the exquisite city of Lyon, France.
We will explore interactive, artistic and dialogical paths inviting your active participation in the event.
About Lyon
Great cities do not emerge by chance. It is factors of location, climate, geography, history and the men and women of the region that determine their existence. Lyon is the result of this outstanding combination. Its' 2,000-years history testifies to Lyon’s ability to build its wealth and its success without ostentation but not without wisdom and clear-sightedness.
A city of trade, Lyon was the first city to hold large traders’ markets. A city of communications, it created a major access network that opened onto Europe and the rest of the world to encourage exchanges and influence between people, goods and ideas. A city of finance, Lyon was innovative in exchanging currencies and setting up the first banking system in France.
The cradle of a long tradition of welcome and of 2,000 years of contact with Europe and the rest of the world, Lyon, is where the world comes together!
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