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AFferenze

No. 1 (2024)

Under the same sky – Ukraine

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/gruoa1-2024oa22691
Submitted
aprile 29, 2026
Published
2026-05-13

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a group approach to address the emergency of refugees arriving from Ukraine following the outbreak of the conflict

with Russia. This is a project set up whitin The Arcipelago Cooperative and financed by the San Paolo foundation. This complex approach was designed to offer support to refugees, host families, workers and mediators. We believe that care should be understood in a complex way, encompassing both direct and indirect victims and their caregiving. The emergency context also forced us to reconsider the timing and method of care. It was necessary to develop the project in a few months and equip ourserlves with tools that integrated the use of words with physical activity. To this end, the group, understood as a group analysis, employed techniques borrowed from emergency psychology and psychotraumatology (group EMDR, emotion cards, drawing, debriefing).

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