“Resilience in Resistance”

Marianne Feydt runs Medisinsk Yoga Norge, with a team that includes doctors, psychologists, physiotherapists, a midwife, and trauma therapists. She is trained as a psychotherapist, couples and relationship therapist, and conversation coach (senior practitioner level, affiliated with EMCC).

Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter is a community psychologist and former fieldworker with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She has previously worked for MSF with refugees in South Sudan, in Liberia and Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola epidemic, and with psychosocial support in Ukraine in 2015/2016. In her clinical work with elderly patients, Ane has highlighted how unprocessed trauma can mimic or exacerbate age-related cognitive decline, often being misinterpreted as dementia.

Ingeborg Svartsund Arntsen is a specialist psychologist in clinical adult psychology. She has worked in geriatric psychiatry outpatient clinics and is now head of a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit (BUP), with responsibility for staff management. Since 2018, she has also served on a voluntary basis as coordinator of the Norwegian Network for Global Mental Health.

Mari Kjølseth Bræin is a specialist in clinical child and adolescent psychology in 2012. For the past 25 years, Mari has worked with children, young people, and families who have experienced stress, both in Norway and internationally with organizations such as UNICEF. For the last 10 years, she has helped lead professional development and competence building in the field of trauma in Norway through her work at RVTS East.