EABP Committees 2025

If you are interested in participating on one of the committees please contact us.

Auditors

Erik Jarlnaes, Jill van der Aa

EAP Representative

Elfriede Kastenberger

Ethics Committee

The committee consists of five people and deals with all matters touching on the ethics code, procedure for complaints, ethics advice and similar professional issues. It also acts as an informational resource for EABP members on ethics issues.

Chair: Mariella Sakellariou

Vice Chair: Regina Hochmair
Joachim Vierrege

Anja Van der Schrieck

Science and Research Committee (SRC)

The SRC supports projects that further the scientific aims and objectives of EABP and research projects in body psychotherapy.

Co -Chairs: Biljana Jokic & Courtenay Young

Frank Röhricht
Kalina Raycheva

Olesya Ovchinnikova (EABP Board representative)

International Membership Committee (IMC)

The IMC looks at:
• matters regarding Membership Criteria and Membership acceptance
• how to create value to the membership experience – from the process of joining through to being a leader of the Association.

Chair: Irena Anastasova

Sofia Petridou

Mihaela Richter

Elmedina Cesko

Sladjana Djordjevic ( Consultant of the IMC)

Luciano Sabella

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

As Body Psychotherapists we need to keep up with new developments in psychotherapy, and in BP in particular, this enlivens and helps to continue making our work relevant. We hold responsibility for maintaining and improving our work with clients, supervisees and trainees. We have to ensure that we remain aware of what we need in order to deliver good practice. We do this by taking part in supervision, inter-vision and reflective groups, by paying attention to our thinking and by regularly self-reflecting on our actions and practices in our daily work.

The CPD Committee function therefore is to structure these processes. It is responsible for setting up structures that support our members to work continuously at meeting the requirements needed for good practice – including attitudes and actions, as well as behaviours. Being a body psychotherapist is not only an identity but also an ongoing process. This process, which is individual and collective, has to be nurtured and supported. The Committee is promoting CPD as an excellent way of doing that.

Chair: Fabio Carbonari
Lilamani del Soldato
Arber Zeka
Marc Rackelmann

Congress Planning Committee (CPC)

A CPC is established for each congress.

CPC 2026 Cork Congress:

Chair: Patrick Sell
Kathrin Staufer
Stefan Ide
Sofia Petridou
Madlen Algafari
James Byrne
Joe Foyle
Geraldine Kilkelly
Siobhan O’Malley
Thomas Riepenhausen

Continuing Congress Content Committee (CCCC)

We use EABP congresses not only as fruitful meeting places for our members, but also to develop Body Psychotherapy theory, methods, research and clinical practice. We are currently aiming for a general description of the field of Body Psychotherapy, in which the different modalities can place themselves. We call this ‘mapping our field’.

Our congresses provide an opportunity to explore new developments and the latest findings in Body psychotherapy and related fields. They also provide an exciting opportunity for people to participate and be involved in helping shape and influence current debates.

The CCCC’s function is to debate and exchange key developments and emerging new ways of thinking to set out a framework of congress subjects, more concretely: to set out the general direction of future congress themes, based on the aim of ‘mapping our field’. The CCCC has a consultative function to the CPC (Congress Planning Committee) and can suggest congress titles to the EABP Board and the CPC.

Chair/practitioner: Sheila Butler
Carmen Joanne Ablack
Olesya Ovchinnikova
Patrik Sell

Think-Tank Committee

Within the EABP we are aiming to investigate the possibilities of a unified field or container theory, that can do justice to the diversity of approaches, models, concepts and ways of working represented by EABP members. This should be based upon discussions of fundamental theory as well as clinical practice. In a diverse organization such as EABP, this is a complicated process. The discussions are influenced by language and cultural differences.

The Think Tank Committee’s function is to prepare and propose a structure for such discussion processes. By naming and defining crucial topics of discussion, and possible areas of agreement and divergence, the committee aims to outline the issues that will need to be addressed. It also aims to propose a possible course for future discussion amongst the wider membership.

Chair: Carmen Joanne Ablack

Lidy Evertsen
Morit Heitzler
Gustl Marlock
Nick Totton

Agne Matulaite

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