International School of Psychology and the Humanities (PsyHuman)

Summer School

4th Edition: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Individual and Community Well-being

June 16 2025 - June 28 2025

Registration fee – Reservation required, Call

Organizer: psyhuman.dipsco@unitn.it

Target audience: University community

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Period

In-presence activities in Rovereto will start on Monday morning 16 June and will finish on Friday afternoon 28 June 2025, plus an optional online session approximately a month after the end of the School (see ‘Workload and Credits’ below).

Venue

Academic activities will take place at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science (DiPSCo), in Rovereto (Italy).
Seminars and workshops will be held at Palazzo Piomarta, corso Bettini 84, Rovereto (Italy).

Programme

The 2025 PsyHuman International School fosters a model of well-being promotion that encompasses psychological, physical, and socio-cultural determinants of health, while challenging the dominant narratives of the ‘ideal’ mind- and body-type. It is based on the idea that the approaches of the humanities can complement clinical psychology and bio-medical sciences to promote individual and community well-being, as well as to question mainstream conceptualisations.

The two-week programme will be structured around in-presence seminars, workshops, and outdoor activities, from Monday to Friday.
Seminars will be delivered by both faculty members and external guests, to ensure a multidisciplinary approach, and a variety of topics and methodologies. Participants will be encouraged to share their own knowledge and competencies in the classroom.
Narrative Medicine Workshop: Activities based on the signature practices of Narrative Medicine (i.e., close reading, attentive listening, self-reflection, writing to a prompt, storytelling and sharing), aimed at strengthening narrative competence (“the capacity to skillfully receive the accounts persons give of themselves – to recognize, absorb, interpret and be moved to action by the stories of others”, Rita Charon, 2017: 1).
Outdoor activities: the programme includes one all-day excursion (to be defined); a half-day guided tour of Rovereto; and a workshop at the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Rovereto (MART).

The PsyHuman International School offers seminars and workshops that draw on a wide range of approaches to well-being promotion, including those of cognitive, psychological, and bio-medical sciences as well as gender, law, literary, philosophical, and sociological studies.

Lectures and workshops will address the following issues:

gender non-conformity in sports
gender violence
LGBTQIA+ communities’ health and well-being
literature, theatre and medicine
mindfulness and contemplative practices for well-being
narrative approaches to mental illness
narrative medicine
neuroaesthetics and the artist’s brain
new addictions in the era of civilisation
queer activism and migration
sexuality, ableism, and fundamental rights
the neuroscience of love

Participants will enhance the following life skills: narrative competence, affiliation, self-awareness, and interpersonal relationship skills.

Workload and Credits

The School is taught entirely through English. The programme consists of approx. 7 hours per day of activities (seminars, workshops, excursions).

At the end of the in-presence activities all participants will receive an Attendance certificate.
Only the participants of the post-School online session (optional) will be sent an official UniTrento Transcript of records certifying 6 ECTS and a mark. Please, refer to the Syllabus and Assessment Tasks document in the download Box.

UniTrento participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Please, ask at your students' support desk if this extracurricular activity can be recognised in terms of credits or thesis points or extra credits, according to the rules of your course.

Participants’ Background

The PsyHuman International School is open to up min. 10 and max. 25 senior undergraduate and graduate international students (upper-level Bachelor's and all Master's students).

Participation is open to UniTrento students but priority will be given to international students.

The PsyHuman School is addressed (but not limited) to students in the psychological and social sciences, gender studies, and the humanities. We welcome participants who are eager to enhance their multidisciplinary competence.

A good level of English is needed (minimum level B2).

Application Process

All students are required to upload their CV, ToR (Transcript of Records), identity document, and a motivation letter when applying online.

The School will be activated with a minimum number of 10 participants.

Deadlines

More information will be available soon.

Participation Costs

All students: 400 Euros
Payment details will be sent to admitted participants.

The participation cost includes lunch and dinners in the university canteen from Monday to Friday and a socio-cultural program consisting of: a guided visit of the town, a welcome coffee break and a farewell buffet, a one-day excursion, and a visit to a museum or other attraction.

Excluded are: accommodation, breakfasts and weekend meals, insurance, visa and travel costs.

No scholarships awarded.

Accommodation

All participants are responsible for planning and paying for their own lodging in Rovereto, possibly near the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science and the city centre, where classes will be held. Ideally, check-in should be on Sunday 19 January and check-out on Saturday 1 February.

Possible housing solutions in the Info Kit in the downloads.