Gender-based violence

Restoring new bonds, affirming rights, defending dignity

November 28-30, 2025, in-person and online.
The course provides 22 ECM credits
for social workers and healthcare personnel, including nurses and psychologists.

Information

When

28-29-30 November 2025

Where

Online and in presence,
at GRT headquarter, Via Molino delle Armi 19, Milan

Cost

€ 120
€ 95 > For reservations by October 15, 2025

Payment method

Payment by bank transfer to Gruppo per le Relazioni Transculturali at INTESA SANPAOLO, Milan, Corso Italia 22
IBAN: IT49P0306901791100000004744
Reference: Corso Novembre 2025

Registration

To register, please complete and submit the online form at the bottom of the page.

The organization

A training provided by the GRT School of Transcutltural Psychotherapy
Contacts: formazione@grtitalia.org – 02 26681866

The program

Friday, November 28, 2025

2:15 PM – 6:15 PM / Opening session

  • Margherita Fioruzzi (Mama Chat): Understanding It to Fight It: Gender-Based Violence and the Role of Psychological Support

  • Elisa Giustarini (Mama Chat): How to Handle Cases of Violence: Good Practices in Different Intervention Contexts

Saturday, November 29, 2025

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

  • Finizia Scivittaro: Why Women Become Victims and Why Men Become Violent

2:00 PM – 6:00 PM

  • Michela Fusaschi: Gendered Modifications of the Genitals: Postures, Acronyms, Violence through the Lens of Feminist Anthropology

Sunday, November 30, 2025

9:00 AM – 11:15 AM

  • Francesca Magli: Gender-Based Violence Against Migrant Women: Cases from Milan

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM / 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM

  • Massimiliano Reggi and Fardosa Muse: Combating Gender-Based Violence in GRT’s International Experience

I relatori

  • Margherita Fioruzzi
    CEO of Mama Chat, the free and anonymous online helpdesk for psychological well-being and the fight against violence.

  • Elisa Giustarini
    Psychotherapist and Project Coordinator at Mama Chat, the free and anonymous online helpdesk for psychological well-being and the fight against violence.

  • Michela Fusaschi
    Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Roma Tre, Department of Political Sciences, where she also coordinates the Gender Studies section of the PhD School in Political Sciences. She is an Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Politique / LAP, CNRS-EHESS Paris, and co-directs a research lab at EHESS Paris titled Atelier d’ethnographie féministe et queer. She is co-editor of the journal Condition humaine/Conditions politiques. Revue internationale d’anthropologie du politique and Associate Editor of the ‘Sociocultural Issues and Epidemiology’ section of Current Sexual Health Reports. For over twenty years, she has conducted research on gendered body modifications and has received numerous awards for her contributions to gender anthropology.

  • Francesca Magli
    Cultural and forensic anthropologist, working at LABANOF – Laboratory of Anthropology and Forensic Odontology, University of Milan, where she focuses on victims of torture.

  • Fardosa Muse
    GBV Expert at the GRT Regional Office (Nairobi, Kenya). Social worker with over ten years of experience in humanitarian contexts, implementing actions to combat gender-based violence in Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.

  • Massimiliano Reggi
    Social Psychologist and Cultural Anthropologist specialized in Ethnopsychiatry; President of the Transcultural Relations Group, Milan.

  • Finizia Scivittaro
    Psychologist, psychoanalyst, and transcultural psychotherapist; Vice President of the International Psychoanalysis Community – CIP; Coordinator at Eidos, Clinical Center for the Study and Treatment of Addictions; Vice President of the Family Counseling Center of the Italian Women’s Center in Padua – CIF; Vice President of AIPsiT.

    Photo credit: Freepik

Online registration

Course registration: “Gender-based violence“.