ANDREJA KOKALJ is a first-generation student of Avi Goren-Bar’s
expressive arts therapy program in Slovenia. She studied law at the Faculty
of Law (MSc) and defense studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences (MA),
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She began her career in the judiciary
and continued in local self-government and research sectors. She works at
the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption of the Republic of
Slovenia, in the Investigation and Oversight Bureau. For several years she
has been a mediator at the District Court of Ljubljana, and at the Chamber
of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia. She is also a certified transactional
analysis (TA) counselor. She completed the Certified EU Civilian Crisis
Management Course in Switzerland. She is interested in the theory of law
and state with relation to gender issues and social justice, feminist legal
theory, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), cosmopolitanism, and
building peace through human development and dialogue. She is a
doctoral candidate at the University of Ljubljana, in the field of theory of
law and state.

Introduction
The latest wave of protests, political instability, and the rise of nationalism
in the West, terrorist attacks in Europe, growing anti-Semitism, and the
difficult security situation in the Middle East, appear to confirm that the
development of humankind involves constant turbulence in our immediate
surroundings and in our lives. This paradigm of our time differs
considerably from the human desire to live lives in peace, stability, and
with a sense of security and safety. In this article we shall pay particular
attention to the idea of maintaining an interactive workshop which we
believe can be one of the future developments for ‘instant’ supervision for
professionals working with post-traumatic clients in the field of expressive
arts therapy.

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