Community psychology and BioCultural societies: points of intersection

Today I took part in the Google Hangout "Community psychology and BioCultural societies: points of intersection", organized by G+ communities BioCultual Landscapes and Seascapes and Environmental psychology. 

My interlocutors were Dr. Bernadette Montanari - ethnobiologist, Center of biocultural diversity at Kent university; Prof. Douglas Perkins - professor in Community psychology at Vanderbilt university, US; Nikolay Mihaylov - MA in Clinical psychology and PhD candidate in Community research and action at Vanderbilt university, US.

 The discussion explored the basics of Community psychology, and how Community psychology can support bio-cultural diversity and can help building of resilient communities in their natural settings?

Important issues were discussed, like community environment - community behavior, community behavior, place attachment, place identity, community research, community empowerment and action, community identity, traditional ecological knowledge and many more.

Today's guest in Open School of Psychology - Ivan Delchev

by: Georgi Stankov

Today at Open School of Psychology we had a honorable guest - Mr +Ivan Delchev - co-founder and co-owner of Soft Consult Group. He is the head of the company's Quality Assurance department and a successful independent internet marketing consultant. 

Mr Delchev shared with OSP's students his company's experience and fundamental principles in management, leadership & co-leadership, staff recruitment and training, and the overall process of developing a new product from the initial discussion with the client, through the test and re-test procedures, to the final implementation. We also used Mr Delchev's competence and asked for his feedback on our very new Small world project.

Later we made an analysis of the interview with Ivan Delchev. The students discussed the psychological aspects of what we learned about the software development companies and their work. 

Photos in three steps:

We are very official... and stiff as trees :)
Ivan Delchev is the high man with white-grey shirt.

Here I show to students how to overcome the camera stress.

He-he... We rule!

We will upload the video from the interview with Mr Delchev in two weeks. Of course, we will inform you in time - this conversation is a worth watching!

The Garden Association at Izmir Architecture Week 2012

A short photo reportage about our participation at Izmir Architecture Week 2012: with +Turkan Fırıncı, +Georgi Stankov and our partner from Izmir Children's Atelier Mrs +Elif Kayran. Our workshop and presentation took place on the 4th and 5th of October.

We are very thankful to Prof. Hikmet Sivri Gökmen from Dokuz Eylül University for her kind invitation and hospitality. Also we thank to her team of young and beautiful students, who attended the workshop and the presentation.

With Prof. Gökmen and her students

Meeting the kids. Most of them were from a disadvantaged
Roma community in the suburbs  of Izmir. This was their
first contact with psychologist and architects

And her ewe are already arkadaşlar.

Our team - Turkan and Georgi - with the kids and their tutor.

Training for the architecture students from Dokuz Eylül University.
We taught them how to work and effectively communicate with children.

THE WORKSHOP ITSELF:

Me with several kids

 These are the products of the collaborative work of children and students of architecture: great projects for playgrounds!

Exhibition