DIARY 2007 

Activities this year ….
A two day workshop on "Managing Abused Children" was conducted by Dr Anula Nikapota, Senior Tutor, Institute of Psychiatry - King's College, London & Emeritus Consultant Child Psychiatrist - South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, London, on the 17th & 18th January at the Resource Centre.

A follow up session / supervision was done by Dr Shamil Wanigaratne, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Senior Lecturer South London & Maudsley NHS Trust & Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London at Samutthana Colombo on the 25th January. 

A workshop on "Trauma & Mourning" conducted by Dr Barbara Preitler, Assistance Professor - Dept of Psychology, University of Klagenfurt, Austria was held at the Centre on the 7th of February.

A follow up session / supervision was done by Dr Shamil Wanigaratne, Video link via Skype on the 22nd February.

A two day workshop - "Need Assessments & Advance Therapies" was conducted by Mr Padmal de Silva, Hon Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London on the 27th and 28th of February at The Church of St Paul the Apostle, Col 10. 

Mr Padmal de Silva conducted a workshop in Kandy on "Working with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder & Jealousy" in collaboration with Shakthi Niketana on the 2nd of March.

A workshop on "Helping people with Psychological Problems" was conducted by Mr Padmal de Silva on the 8th of March at the Centre.

A supervision/workshop was conducted by Dr Anula Nikapota on "Working with Abused Children" on the 31st of March at Samutthana, Colombo. 

A follow up/workshop & supervision was conducted by Dr Shamil Wanigaratne on "Working with Alcohol Problems" at Samutthana, Colombo on the 3rd of May.

"Introduction to Motivational Interviewing" by Dr Shamil Wanigaratne was held on the 4th of May at the Colombo Centre.

On the 9th of May, Samutthána organised a workshop "Issues in Stress counselling" for Members of the "Rebuilding Lives" Project at Seenigama which was conducted by Mr Padmal de Silva, Hon Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.

9th & 10th of May also, Samutthana organised a workshop conducted by Dr Rachel Tribe & Dr Harriet Calvert at Shakthi Nikethana Kandy on "Working with families & Children".

Samutthána had their annual International Conference "Renewal & Regeneration" between 11th &13th May at the SLFI. His Excellency, Mr Dominick Chilcott graced the event as the Guest of Honour. There were over 29 Presenters & Speakers from 9 different countries & approximately 15 Humanitarian Agencies/Organizations. An average of 135 participants represented most Humanitarian Agencies, INGO's & NGO's. The theme was, Preparedness for Disaster, Medium Term Interventions Post Disaster & Review of Outcome Post Tsunami and Preparedness for Peace & Post Conflict.

We also marked our 1st year anniversary by organizing a workshop "Managing Energy & Wellbeing" at the Samutthána Resource Centre, on the 27th of May. This was conducted by Dr Bill Mitchell & Karen Roberts MsC of Mitchell Practice, UK.