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23 October 2023 Short specialization programme in Personal Construct Psychology and Counselling (PC2)	Sabrina Cipolletta writes: Dear colleague,  We inform you that a second registration session for the short specialization programme in Personal Construct Psychology and Counselling (PC2) will be opened.  This short specialization programme trains professionals to be experts in the theory and methodology of Personal Construct Psychology (PCP). The course will provide attendees with advanced competencies and tools in the areas of assessment, counselling, healthcare, well-being, social care, education, professional-user communication, interpersonal relationships, and group dynamics.  Pre-registration will be opened on the programme website at the link: https://uel.unipd.it/en/masters/pc2-personal-construct-psychology-and-counselling/ from November 6, 2023 to November 24, 2023. The admission notice will be available on the programme website. For further information please email to PC2.PROGRAMME@unipd.it We ask you to disseminate the information and thank you for your collaboration.	Sabrina Cipolletta
23 October 2023 International PCP congress in Barcelona 2023	The 25th International Congress on PCP was held in Barcelona, Spain, from 10-13 July 2023, organised by Luis Botella and his team. The website is still available at https://www.pcp-net.org/barcelona-2023/ A selection of the pares presented at the congress will be published in the Journal of Constructivist Psychology (JCP).	Luis Botella
20 June 2023 Franz Epting died	Franz Epting passed away One of the Grand Old Men of Personal Construct Psychology and author of many classical works, who influenced generations of PCP scholars, died in Gainesville/Florida, USA, where he had been a professor for many years. He was the first president of the George Kelly Society (GKS). He was 85 years of age.
31 May 2023 Constructivist Psychology Blog launched	Constructivist Psychology Blog launched Miroslav Filip has launched the Constuctivist Psychology Blog on behalf of the George Kelly Society at https://constructivistpsychology.eu/. He writes: Practitioners, scholars, students and other colleagues whose work is based on the personal construct theory or other constructivist approaches are invited to popularize their ideas or findings via the blog of the GKS. The aim of the blog is to promote constructivist perspectives in a form comprehensible to a broader range of interested readers who are not necessarily familiar with psychology and constructivism. For guidelines, see https://constructivistpsychology.eu/secondary/	Miroslav Filip
21 March 2023 GKS Steering Committee elected	The GKS Steering Committee for the term 2022-2024 was elected in December 2022. It consists of President: Prof David Winter, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK Vice-President: Dr Miroslav Filip, Brno, Czech Republic Secretary/Treasurer: Dr Desley Hennessy, Wollongong, NSW, Australia Information Officer: Peter Cummins, MA, Coventry, UK Members-at-large: Prof Peter Caputi, Wollongong, NSW, Australia Dr.essa Chiara Centomo, Padua, Italy Dr.essa Chiara Lui, Padua, Italy David Winter Miroslav Filip Desley Hennessy Peter Cummins Peter Caputi Chiara Centomo Chiara Lui

First published as the Internet PCP Newsletter 1 Sept 1999