Please subscribe as soon as possible to make sure that your stay overnight is guaranteed.
If you are not an EPP member, you will have to pay €500 in advance to cover the costs of the symposium.
If you are an EPP member and you prefer a single room (in stead of the standard double room), you will be charged with an extra fee.
Date
May 28-29, 2026
Location
Hotel Kapellerput, Heeze
www.kapellerput.nl
Organization
Sara Scheveneels (UM), Sophie Rameckers (UvA)
P R O G R A M
Thursday 28th May
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Walk-in with Coffee/Tea |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Opening by organizers, Sara Scheveneels & Sophie Rameckers, and two PhD talks
· Christophe Romein (Erasmus University Rotterdam) · Donna Meyer (University of Amsterdam) |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Sanne Houben (Maastricht University) – ‘Therapeutic side effects: the balance between autonomy and nonmaleficence’ |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Kaya Peerdeman (Leiden University) – ‘Nocebo effects – Underpinnings and outcomes’ |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Antoinette van Laarhoven (Leiden University) – ‘Nocebo effects – Experimental and clinical research’ |
| 16.00 – 16.15 | Break |
| 16.15 – 17.15/30 | Interactive part |
Friday 29th May
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Nicolas van Dam (Melbourne school of Psychological Sciences” – ‘Non-ordinary experiences in meditation; considerations of help and harm’ |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | PhD talk Anna Backus (Maastricht University) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Milena Aleksic-Ayan (LMU-Munich) – ‘The Differential Effects of Trauma-Focused Interventions on Voluntary and Involuntary Retrieval of Distressing Memories: Insights from Analogue Studies’ |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch break |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Stefanie Meewis (Tilburg University) – ‘Nocebo effects and patient-provider communication – implications for practice and research’ |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | PhD talk Rick de Haart (University of Groningen) |
14.30 – 15.00 + closing words??
Registration deadline: 16 April 2026