Life Staging

04/03/2026

NYC/ to be continued 💖

04/03/2026

In New York at AGPA and meet with friends and colleagues. Socialize and learn and give a workshop in Life Staging for the sixth time. And, of course, enjoy NYC.

14/02/2026

I have asked AI to make a "conversation" about Life Staging from my writing about the approach. This is what they came up with:

13/11/2025

AGPA CONNECT 2026 New York

"Dear Elisabet Wollsén,

The Workshop Committee is pleased to invite you to serve on the faculty for AGPA Connect 2026: Group Life: Holding Space for Deeper Connection taking place on Monday, March 2 through Saturday, March 7. Workshops will be scheduled on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 5-7, 2025. We are grateful for your contribution to this important program".

"You are invited to lead an in-person Workshop: 2 ½ Hours (Half-Day) for Life Staging® – Using Group Sculpting for Creative Supervision and Group Work."

For the sixth time, I will be presenting my work at this fantastic gathering, which attracts around a thousand international participants every year. It is not easy to get a place in this crowd; being accepted requires an enormous amount of work, before but not after, fortunately.
Then it's time to mingle and hit the dance floor! I feel honoured and, at the same time, it is really fun to return to this context, with what it means to make new contacts and maintain previous ones with colleagues I have met there.
The content is also of a high standard, with psychotherapists, researchers and other inspirational figures generously sharing their experience. It's a little bit special, as I've come to realise...

"You are invited to lead an in-person Workshop: 2 ½ Hours (Half-Day) for Life Staging® – Using Group Sculpting for Creative Supervision and Group Work."

05/09/2025

BACK FROM EUROPEAN PROFESSIONAL TOUR

Last week, 1 600 family therapists from 66 countries gathered in Lyon for the EFTA conference. The opening welcome session was a moving ceremony featuring a video about the current wars and suffering in the world. Followed by welcomes from the president, Umberta Telfener and other keynote speakers, such as Maurizio Andolfi and Carlos Sluzki (90+!).
The workshops, symposia and meetings with old and new colleagues/friends were very rich and inspiring. I lead two workshops: one on 'Life Staging' and the other on 'The 5-Question Approach', both of which I developed from my nearly 50 years of professional experience.

I will write more about these workshops in an upcoming post!

24/08/2025

Professional tour in Europe!

After rewarding, fun and creative days, living and working with European colleagues from seven different countries, we ended our 3.5-year Intervision Group collaboration in Nordhorn, Germany. We are a group that has met both in person and via Zoom. Sharing and exploring our ways of practicing our profession and joining other art experiences (music, ballet, painting etc.) has given us inspiring ideas on how to use and deepen the arts in our work as supervisors and coaches! And realized that through our long experience in the subject, we can already consider ourselves practitioners in the “Art of Supervision”!

After Nordhorn, together with two colleagues from Norway and one from Austria, we gave a workshop entitled “Art in Supervision and Supervision as an Art” at the “ANSE Summer University” in Munich. Focusing on developing the resonance we get through our senses. Activating and inviting the embodied, non-verbal, auditory, kinesthetic and visual experiences, talents and knowledge that was already there, but is often overlooked in many common supervision approaches.

I am now on my way to the EFTA (European Family Therapy) conference in Lyon where I will give two workshops and meet colleagues in family therapy.

On the way a stop in Lausanne with more art and ambiance!

My workshops at EFTA are about “The Life Staging Approach” and “The five question structure” (Ria-Ra in Swedish), both of which I have developed during my (now 46 years) as a family therapist, researcher, supervisor and teacher in Family Therapy.

Maybe see you there?

08/08/2025

Like to know more about my approach? Check out my you tube channel;

A Swedish Company, also working internationally. Offering a narrative and artistic approach in doing: Supervision Management Psychotherapy Education Workshops Webinars Group Work Handledning, meta-handledning, föreläsningar, par- och familjeterapi, utbildning mm. inom psykosocialt och psykoterapeu...

24/07/2025

From IFTA conference in Toyama/Japan 2025

This is a short interview with Elisabet Wollsén at the 2024 IFTA conference in Toyama, Japan.

05/07/2025

Come and join!
The International Relations SIG (of AGPA*) is very excited to host our next global group practice sharing on July 12th at 9:00 AM EST / 3:00 PM CET.

We will hear from two of our esteemed colleagues:

Elisabet Wollsén (Licensed Psychologist and Psychotherapist in Family Therapy – Sweden), developer of the Life Staging® therapeutic approach. Elisabet will explain how our embodied wisdom—activated through unique, collaborative team-building activities—can support greater complexity and richer storytelling in therapy.

Marcia Honing (PsyD in Group Therapy; Expressive Arts Therapist – Israel, Brazil), who will share insights from her experience and research on integrating these two therapeutic methods, including the benefits and challenges involved

Please see the attached flyer for more details.The Zoom link is as follows:
https://kellen.zoom.us/j/91736334277?pwd=ALb6FeylGUU2cm9fweHagWeSR3dRF5.1
Meeting ID: 917 3633 4277

*American Group Psychotherapy Association.

23/05/2025

MEETING SYSTEMIC FAMILY THERAPISTS AT THE EFTA CONGRESS IN LYON IN AUGUST 2025 (photo from IFTA japan 2024).

This will be so much fun! I have had two workshops accepted despite the large number of proposals. Here are the reviewers' comments;

Title: Life Staging family therapy supervision; a body-based approach Workshop: “An experiential collaboration will be important during this congress.
Reviewers; "A closer attention to the body's influences and reactions, the knowledge that is embedded in the body, is inspiring and developing to use.”

Title: *5-question model: making the context understandable and optimal for its purpose! Workshop
Reviewers; "Curious about what the five questions are, curious to participate. *Ria- Ra in Swedish.

More information click on the links here;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh0_k5DNbYg&t=46s
https://efta-relates2025.com/

21/05/2025

WORKSHOP WITH EUROPEAN COLLEAGUES AT ANSE SUMMER UNIVERSITY AUGUST 2025

Participants of the Intervision Group “Supervision Music and Art” are offering a 180-minute workshop during Summer University in Munich with the title: "The Art of Supervision - Supervision as Art"
As participants of the Intervision Group “Supervision Music and Art” we explored our art experience in connection with our supervisory work. In this workshop we want to invite the participants to do the same together with us.

• What is creativity?
• What is art?
• Where is the bridge to supervision?

More info:https://zurl.co/UrAAg
Registration: https://zurl.co/dmZvH