CURRICULUM VITAE
MARIJA KRIVACIC,
international gestalt therapist, conflict resolution
and nonviolent communication trainer and facilitator. Her main fields
of expertise are psychosocial support and peace education.
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH
1964, Peæ, Kosovo - Serbia.
EDUCATION:
1998. International Qualification in Gestalt Therapy - International
Gestalt Therapy Program (Bertram Muller, pH, Germany) & Gestalt
Studio Belgrade (Lidija Pecotic, Ph.D., Malta)
1988. BA in psychology (University of Belgrade).
From 1993 onwards she has participated in many international training
of trainers seminars for constructive conflict resolution, NGO management,
facilitation and mediation lead by experts from the International
Fellowship for Reconciliation, UK, Harvard Balkan Peace Project,
Charities Evaluation Services, UK, Danish Center for Conflict Resolution,
and many other organizations.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
1999- : Project consultant and training supervisor "Summer
School" (Association for Creative Development / Open Society
Fund)
1999- : Project programm assistant of "Mobilizing Democratic
Potential" (Olof Palme, Sweden), intended for support and strengthening
different NGO in Belgrade
1998- : Group MOST, Executive board member. Main activities of Ms.
Krivacic in Group MOST consist of program development, strategic
planning, fostering communication and cooperation with local and
international NGOs.
1998. - Program consultant and supervisor of program implementation
of "Open Clubs" Project (Open Society Fund)
1997-1998: Program assistant on "Practicing Democracy"
project (Group MOST, funded by HEKS, Switzerland) focusing on creating
various mechanisms through which civic groups of active young people
can develop skills for public debate and effective democratic deliberation.
These mechanisms included seminars and workshops for local trainers
and debating workshops for pupils, students, NGO activists, etc.
1996-1998: Program assistant on "Fostering Civil Society"
project of Center for Antiwar Action (funded by National Endowment
for Democracy, Washington). The project focused on creating mechanisms
for civil society development in Yugoslavia through a series of
seminars on human rights, conflict resolution strategies and NGO
management for lawyers, journalists, NGO activists, etc, and on
supporting local NGOs.
1997- : Associate program assistent of "War, Trauma and Refugee
Program" at Incest Trauma Center (Belgrade).
1995- : Co-author and trainer/supervisor of "Art of Parenthood"
program for parents (PSIHOKOD, Belgrade).
1993- : Member of Group MOST / Center for Antiwar Action, Belgrade.
Project program assistant of "Goodwill Classroom" project
(UNICEF) focusing on large-scale peace education of schoolteachers
and schoolchildren through training seminars on all levels of the
schooling system throughout Yugoslavia
1993- : Psychotherapist at the Marriage and Family Counseling Center,
Belgrade
1992- : Co-author and trainer/supervisor of "Art of Communication"
program for adults (PSIHOKOD).
1990-93: Ms Krivacic worked as a psycholologist in the Center for
Social Work
1990- : One of the founders of PSIHOKOD, service for psychosocial
support and psychological preventive programs for children, adolescents
and parents. Ms Krivacic is co-author and trainer/supervisor of
"Art of Growing up" program for adolescents.
Ms. Krivacic is the co-author of 9 programs and training manuals
and she has conducted more than 150 adult training seminars and
about 130 workshops on various conflict resolution, nonviolent communication,
psychosocial support, NGO management and civic education topics.
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS/BOOKS:
-Kijevcanin, S., Macura-Milovanovic, S., Krivacic, M. at all (1995,1997)
Goodwill Classroom: Workshops for senior primary-school pupils,
in Kovacs-Cerovic, T. Rosandic, R. and Popadic, D. (Eds.) Goodwill
Classroom: school program for constructive conflict resolution,
volume 2. Belgrade: UNICEF (in Serbian, Albanian and English)
-Kovacs-Cerovic, T., Jankovic, S., Jerotijevic, M., Kecman, T., Kijevcanin,
S., Krivacic, M. and Mrse, S. (1993, 1996): Cognition through Games:
educational workshops. Belgrade: UNHCR (in Serbian and English)
-Lobodok-Stulic, I., Krivacic, M., Kijevcanin, S. at all (1998)
The Art of Growing Up. Belgrade: Association for Creative Development
(in Serbian)
MEMERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
1996 - International Gestalt Therapy Association (IGTA)
1993 - Group MOST / Center for Antiwar Action, Belgrade
1990 - Psihokod, Belgrade
LANGUAGES
Russian (fluently)
English (basic)
CONTACT ADDRESSES:
Marija Krivacic
Karadjordjeva 23
11000 Belgrade, YU
tel/fax: (381) 11 628 532
E-mail: krivacic@eunet.yu
most@most.org.yu
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