Scientific-Practical Conference on the "Green Yard in the Field of Parenting and Early Childhood Development. Françoise Dolto's Intellectual Heritage" is to be held in Varna on 7th October this year.
Lecturers at the Scientific-Practical Conference, organized by the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) at MU-Varna, with the support of the French Institute in Bulgaria, will be three leading experts from France and Bulgaria on the pediatric, psychoanalytic and pedagogical knowledge on the child. These are Myriam Szejer - child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Marie-Christine Laznik - consultant on early signs of autism and Assoc. Prof. Monika Bogdanova, DSc - a psychoanalyst, lecturer at the Faculty of Pedagogy at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and a founder of the first "Green Yard" in Bulgaria. They are all followers of Françoise Dolto - a pediatrician, psychoanalyst and pioneer in child analysis.
The event is intended for a wide range of specialists - medical doctors, nurses, midwives, rehabilitators, psychologists, speech therapists, social workers, lecturers, pedagogy specialists, as well as for students, parents and everyone interested in the issues being discussed.
The Scientific-Practical Conference on 7th October 2018 is the first initiative under a project targeted at creating a new and sustainable structure in our Sea Capital, namely a Centre for Early Socialization and Prevention of Children Aged 0-3 Years - the "Green Yard of Varna". It will adapt, implement and develop Françoise Dolto's ideas and the already established Bulgarian experience in the functioning centre in Sofia, founded in 2015.
Françoise Dolto establisned the "Green House" ("Green Yard") for the first time in Paris as a place for reception, play, rest of the youngest, and in this way creating "space for socialization and a smooth transition to independence, to kindergarten or rehabilitation". She saw the centres as a kind of space between the family, home and socium – a place, where the child is with the other children and adults. Thus, on their territory meetings and communications at different levels (parents - children - specialists), early socialization and prevention through conversation and listening to the others, a model of the future society of tolerance take place. Today there are more than 800 Green/Open Houses in France, funded by the municipal authorities as places for receiving children and parents. Françoise Dolto's idea has been adopted, developed and adapted in many countries.
Françoise Dolto (1908-1988) – a pediatrician, psychiatrist, Freud's follower, Jacques Lacan's associate. She is one of the emblematic figures of the French and world psychoanalytic science. She is a founder of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. Her works begin with her revolutionary diploma thesis "Psychoanalysis and Pediatrics", and have been recognized as classic, with an undoubtedly original and proven contribution to the knowledge on the profound in man and child. With an exceptional clinical talent, she listens to and deciphers the words and deeds of the child in an idiosyncratic way. Throughout her professional and creative path she is guided by the idea of prevention and ethics, for "making concrete progress in favour of the development of children - the future adults and future members of the society", she always defends the "cause of children" in the pursuit of their own identity. She is well-known in Bulgaria with her books "When the Child Appears", "The Cause of Children", "The Major Stages of Childhood", "Teenagers", "The Female Sexuality", "Everything Is Language", "The Unconscious Image of the Body", etc.
The programme of the event is coming soon.
