Conference / Meeting

Vieni come sei - Come as you are

Inauguration of the gender identity and sexual orientation counselling service provided by the Psychological Counselling Service
25 November 2022
Start time 
3:00 pm
Palazzo Piomarta - Corso Bettini 84, Rovereto
Aula Magna
Organizer: 
DiPSCo and Psychological Counselling Service
Target audience: 
Everyone
Attendance: 
Free
Reservation required
Contact person: 
Paola Venuti
Contact details: 
Anna Peripoli
anna.peripoli@unitn.it

Programme

15.00 – 15.15: Welcome address

15.15 – 15.30: Why an LGBTQIA+ counselling service?

Carolina Coco, Ezio Elasdi - Psychological Counselling Service University of UniTrento

Carolina Coco is a psychotherapist at the Observation, Diagnosis and Education Lab of the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of the University of Trento. She coordinates the Psychological Counselling Service of the University of Trento which is available to all students of the university.
Ezio Elasdi is a psychotherapist at the Psychological Counselling Service of the University of Trento, where he provides counselling to university students. He organizes support groups on anxiety management and to talk about a wide range of psychological issues.

15.30 – 16.00: Il Servizio Clinico e di Ricerca "6 come sei". Orientamenti Sessuali e Identità di Genere

Roberto Baiocco - Director of the "6 come sei" service - Sapienza University of Rome

Roberto Baiocco is a professor of developmental psychology at Sapienza University of Rome. He has been leading the "6 come sei" (You are who you are) Service, a clinical consultancy centre on the topics of sexual orientations and gender identities, since 2010. This is also one of his main areas of research.

16.00 - 16.30: Fuori binario. Percorsi e orientamenti

Giuseppe Burgio - Director of Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Queer - Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore”

Giuseppe Burgio is an associate professor of general and social pedagogy at the "Kore" University of Enna and Graduated Sylff Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research. He is the director of CIRQUE (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Queer) and author of several books including "Mezzi maschi. Gli adolescenti gay dell’Italia meridionale” (2008), “Adolescenza e violenza. Il bullismo omofobico come formazione alla maschilità” (2017) and “Fuori binario. Bisessualità maschile e identità virile” (2021).

16.30 – 17.00: Il diritto all’Identità di Genere (via video link)

Cathy La Torre - Lawyer, co-founder of GayLex and Wild Side Human First, a network of lawyers and activists for the protection of the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans people

Cathy La Torre is a lawyer specialized in human rights, anti-discrimination law, privacy law and new technologies law. She has collaborated with the Italian Trans Identity Movement (Movimento Identità Trans, MIT). In 2008, she participated in the creation of the Centro Europeo di Studi sulla Discriminazione (European Centre on Discrimination Studies). She is one of the founders of GayLex and Wild Side Human First, a network of lawyers and activists for the protection of the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans people.

17.00 – 17.30: L’esperienza Arcigay in Trentino

Shamar Droghetti - President of Arcigay Trentino

Shamar Droghetti is the current president of Arcigay del Trentino and is in charge of the School division of Arcigay at the national level. In the past he was vice president of Arcigay del Trentino until 2018, and held the position of head of the Youth division in Arcigay.

 17.30 – 18.30: Discussion table and questions from the audience

Moderator Paola Venuti - Vice Rector for teaching and learning at the University of Trento

Paola Venuti is a Professor of Clinical Psychopathology and Dynamic Psychology at the University of Trento, she leads the Observation, Diagnosis and Education Lab of the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of the University of Trento and is Vice Rector for teaching and learning.