Humans of Gestalt

Closing Gestalts
2024-11-30 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Mexico_City)
Abstract
Feedback, metaprocessing, reflections and thanks
language
English+ all
Zoom ID A:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85675525658?pwd=[REDACTED]
ID de reunión: 856 7552 5658Código de acceso: Open24
In case you have an error with the first zoom meeting, use Zoom ID B:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88528851454?pwd=[REDACTED]
ID de reunión: 885 2885 1454Código de acceso: Open2024

Being playful with Gestalt Resistances: mapping them on the Cycle and extending them to organisations
2024-11-26 07:00 - 10:00
Chantelle Wyley
Johannesburg, South Africa
Presenter Bio
Chantelle Wyley is a South African with a background in anti-apartheid work; with an organization development practice supporting transformation in African government and development systems. She is a graduate of the Gestalt International Organization and System Development (IOSD) and Cape Cod Model Training Programs. She is a Professional Certified Coach (ICF) and Master Coach (COMENSA) and accredited as a Gestalt Practitioner in Organisations (GPO) by the European Association of Gestalt Therapy (EAGT). She has a Lifetime Achiever award from the Gestalt Therapy (EAGT), and Systems Development, and is a founder member of Gestalt Africa, a platform for leadership development in service of political, economic and social equality and inclusion.
https://gestaltafrica.com/
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Input and workshopping
language
English

Neurodivergency: They are not mental diseases, they are human upgrades!
2024-11-23 08:00 - 10:00
Guillermo Leone
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Abstract
High sensitive persons, ADDH; Autism spectrum… focus in the talents instead of the deficits.
https://www.guillermoleone.com
language
English

Decolonizing Gestalt *NEW DATE*
2024-11-20 16:00 - 17:30
“The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.” – Maya Angelou

Colonialism is not an event of the past – it is a living modern system of suppression by dominant Western Euro-American paradigms that preserve colonial demarcations of power and privilege proliferated through dimensions of power, institutions, and being. Decolonization is not an end goal – it is an ongoing process in the direction of creating a world that is equitable and just.
For us to re-imagine and co-create new ways of relating with each other, we need to first decolonize ourselves and our systems. We need to recognize that we all carry remnants of colonization.
For Gestalt to remain relevant and to be a force of liberation, it needs to critically examine itself.
We will critically examine and name the growing edges of Gestalt, as a system of knowledge and as a global community.
Our Approach:
For us to lean into I-THOU in a holistic way we need to account for our power differentials and our different social-cultural context, the workshop offers opportunities to engage in:
(1) critical consciousness and reflexivity
(2) embodiment of decolonizing and liberation praxis
(3) dialogical seeing and listening to “Other-ness”, and
(4) envisioning a shared decolonized Gestalt future.
With welcoming yet provocative dialogue, we will create an experience for participants to engage with critical consciousness in an embodied way, with the intention of leading some experiential shift in the way we perceive the world.
The overall process brings up content for learning, provides time for individuals to reflect and consider their own context for learning and potential action, and allows participants to engage in a flexible process framework that seeks to give a more liberatory spatial experience.
The organizers have facilitated similar group processes in different Gestalt spaces over the last few years. These Gestaltists bring with them richness, diversity, and wisdom from different professional backgrounds (psychotherapist, organizational development consultant, coach, attorney, and advocate) whose expertise is informed by lived experience in Asia, Australia, and North America.

Kirti Singh (she/her), MA, GPCC, PCC is a Clinical Therapist, a certified Executive Coach, and a Group Facilitator who brings with her a decade of knowledge and understanding of self and different systems. As a Clinical Therapist, Kirti provides supervised therapy services to individuals, couples, and groups at Toronto Psychological Services & Research Centre. She is an Experienced Professional Certified Coach offering Executive Coaching services to mid-senior level leaders; specializes in creating leadership workshops and leading group facilitation sessions. She is serving as a Teaching Faculty at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Ohio. She has lived and worked in Canada, the USA, and India adding to her experience of working with clients from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Martha Potts (Bibi) (she/her), PhD left a career in public transit to pursue a doctorate in organizational behavior at Case Western Reserve University. Her research conducted in Rwanda, Africa, focused on human systems transformation. Upon completion of her travels, she worked in the non-profit sector where her passions continued to evolve. She recently ended retirement to join ThirdSpace Action Lab where she functions as the Awareness
Building Manager. She is currently immersed in understanding ways in which Gestalt theory can support and nurture the multidimensionality of Black identities in a society in which systems, institutions, and policies are designed to disenfranchise them.
Margaret Yao (she/her), MBA, ICF ACC, GPCC coaches executives and emerging leaders who seek to live their values and bring their whole identities and talents to bear on work worth doing. Margaret also does group facilitation and teaches at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, where she trained. Recent coaching clients include leaders in democracy-related spaces, climate action, diplomacy, and human rights. Prior to serving as Chief People Officer of Democracy Fund, a private foundation that she helped establish, she led or facilitated organizational change in nonprofits and government and has published on leadership and inclusion.
Maya Simek (she/her), ESQ, LISW-S, MSSA, serves as a Clinical Law Professor/Director of Case Western Reserve School of Law’s Human Trafficking Law Project. Ms. Simek further serves as the Legal Director at Equality Ohio, where she developed, launched (2019), and is now supervising a state-wide legal clinic for the lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer (LGBTQ+) community. Ms. Simek focuses her practice on the interdisciplinary issues
impacting the LGBTQ+ community and human trafficking survivors, community lawyering, and the intersections between law and social work.
Zoom ID A:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85675525658?pwd=[REDACTED]
ID de reunión: 856 7552 5658
Código de acceso: Open24
In case you have an error with the first zoom meeting, use Zoom ID B:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88528851454?pwd=[REDACTED]
ID de reunión: 885 2885 1454
Código de acceso: Open2024

Open play and POP UP sessions
2024-11-17 10:00 - 11:30
ALL are welcome to these open meetings in any language.
Play- just being together in contact.
Pop up- if you did not offer to host a workshop, here you can share/propose your topic of interest and the group can arrange in breakout rooms with different hosts to explore the emergent figures.
language
English + all
Zoom ID A:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85675525658?pwd=[REDACTED]
ID de reunión: 856 7552 5658
Código de acceso: Open24
In case you have an error with the first zoom meeting, use Zoom ID B:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88528851454?pwd=[REDACTED]
ID de reunión: 885 2885 1454
Código de acceso: Open2024
Código de acceso: Open2024

Storie di nascita
2024-11-14 07:00 - 08:30
Federica Ronchi
Faenza, Italy
Dialogo aperto sulle storie di nascita: c’è una correlazione tra il modo in cui veniamo al mondo e il processo di fare esperienza del mondo?
Presenter Bio
Sono una Gestalt Therapist italiana, molto interessata al tema della nascita e della maternità. L'arteterapia è uno dei miei principali obiettivi professionali, che porto nei gruppi, nelle coppie e nelle sessioni individuali. Sono appassionata e curiosa, sempre disposta a imparare dal mio lavoro e dalla vita, considero il mio lavoro una finestra privilegiata sugli esseri umani e una bella opportunità di incontrare altre anime svelate.

I am a Gestalt Therapist from Italy, very interested in the topic of birth and motherhood. Art therapy is one of my main professional focus, taking it into groups, couple as well as individual sessions. I am passionate and curious, always willing to learn from my job and life, I consider my job a privileged window over human beings and a beautiful opportunity to meet other souls unveiled.

type (workshop/ process)
language
Italiano

The Painful Legacies of Race and Class: Exploring the Impact of White Supremacy and Anti-Blackness on Contact and Intimacy
2024-11-13 08:00 - 11:00
Jennifer Jones & Alison Gerig
Philadelphia, United States
Abstract
Very few countries throughout the globe have escaped the impacts of imperialism, colonization, genocides, and slave trades. These historical and current experiences of supremacy, dominance and oppression create in many people legacies of dehumanization and disconnection. These internalized, often out-of-awareness fixed gestalts of race, class, and ethnicity guide how we engage with one another and block contact and intimacy. The first step in having the freedom to choose how to loosen the hold of these fixed gestalts is to bring them into embodied awareness. Attendees are invited to witness and engage with the disruptions of contact that two queer Gestalt therapists have navigated in building intimacy and connection at the intersectional contact boundaries of race and class in the United States. Alison and Jennifer, who have been friends and colleagues for over two decades, will share their challenges and learnings in examining their intimacy and contact through racialized and classed lenses. They will model this experiment by using an embodied awareness approach. Attendees will then have an opportunity to explore their own challenges with creating intimacy at these intersectional boundaries of race, class, and ethnicity and will be invited to experiment bringing into awareness their own somatic experiences.
Presenter Bio
Jennifer C. Jones, PhD, LCSW, is a 54 y.o., multiracial Black, queer, fairly able-bodied, cisgender woman with U.S. citizenship. Jennifer incorporates an economics human rights perspective, a harm reduction framework, and Gestalt Therapy principles in her work and engagement with others. She co-founded Rising Caps Collective with Aisha Mohammed, LMFT, supporting expansive healing to address traumatic legacies of colonization, slavery and capitalism. Jennifer works with Lykos Therapeutics (formerly, Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies Public Benefit Corporation) as a Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) consultant and a MDMA-assisted Therapy educator. Since 2003, Jennifer has practiced trauma-informed psychotherapy and clinical supervision with individuals and therapists working with people identifying as: lgbqa; transgender or gender non-binary; people of color; sex workers; neurodiverse, substance users; experiencing class oppression; formerly incarcerated and/or having a positive HIV status. Previously, she served as the Chief DEI Officer of Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers and as a member of the faculty and leadership of the Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia (GTIP). As a parent who believes a just world is possible, Jennifer is committed to the unity of the global poor and dispossessed organizing across color lines to fight for everyone’s economic human rights.
Alison Gerig has been a Gestalt therapist since 2009 when she attended the Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia (GTIP). She holds a commitment to disrupting the ways in which we uphold White supremacy within the psychotherapy field. She strives to bring a liberatory lens to her clinical work that focuses on undoing fixed gestalts stemming from the relational and dominant cultural fields that then manifest into depression, anxiety, shame, hopelessness, self-critique, illness, and disconnection from being fully present in the here and now. Using the therapeutic relationship as a healing anchor, Alison offers gestalt theory, embodiment/somatic, and parts work opportunities to undo these introjects and begin to create new meanings and choices about being members of our cultures, communities, families, and relationship to ourselves. Alison currently lives and works on the stolen land of the Lenni Lenape people (Philadelphia, PA). She is white, queer, able-bodied, spiritual, comes from generational wealth in the southern United States, and is raising a spriteful teenager. She loves to bake, play the piano, and find joy with her loved ones.
https://www.alisongerig.com
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Workshop/experiential
language
English – We welcome any translators who are willing to translate

В движении: миграция как процесс контакта
2024-11-12 12:00 - 14:00
В движении: миграция как процесс контакта
Мы хотим провести круглый стол по вопросам эмиграции и переселения.
Мы поговорим друг с другом об эмиграции как о контакте с потерянным домом и с новым местом, куда мы приезжаем.
Мы хотели бы, чтобы дискуссия была открытой и мы могли свободно обсуждать с участниками наш опыт эмиграции – делиться, рассуждать и даже спорить
Presenters:
Kolesznyikov Jevgenyij – Колесников Евгений
Ivanyutenko Anna – Иванютенко Анна
Shtonda Aleksandr – Штонда Александр
(In Motion: Migration as a Process of Contact)
A Russian-language international round table discussion on migration and resettlement. (no translation will be offered for this session)
We will talk to each other about emigration as a contact with a lost home and a new place where we are coming. We would like the discussion to be open and we will freely talk with the participants about our experience of emigration – share, reason and dialogue.

Zoom ID A:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85675525658?pwd=[REDACTED]
ID de reunión: 856 7552 5658
Código de acceso: Open24
In case you have an error with the first zoom meeting, use Zoom ID B:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88528851454?pwd=[REDACTED]
ID de reunión: 885 2885 1454
Código de acceso: Open2024

Just another human being-The metapmorphosis of the psychotherapist
2024-11-12 10:00 - 12:00
Radmila Zivanovic
Skopje, North Macedonia
Abstract
In this session of exploration, I will invite you into exploration of the lived and still alive experience of being psychotherapist while being just an another human being. We are going to explore the ongoing change and development but also the moments of stagnation, withdrawal and giving up. Holding to the humanity and giving back the extraordinarity of the role, still keeping the uniquness and the tendency to construct and decosntruct, to build and destroy. All this moments are complex interplay of the capacities and sensitivity of the psychotherapist, specificity of the field, the context, developmental and life-specific issues, the things we aspire to, the weaknesses/biases that we are aware of and the meaning we give to life. We all part of our special transformational journey that very often we do not pay attention, we do not share it, we take it for granted, we forget to embrace it and celebrate it. This session, is one of those oportunities to create of what we have experienced and discovered, a self-nurturing and self-reflective experience of the role we invest most of our grown up lives.
Presenter Bio
Radmila Zivanovic is licenced psycholosgist, EAGT psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor. I work in my private practice in Republic of North Macedonia for 10 years now. At the same time I feel I am more than the limits and can be less than the opportunities. I am very curious, creative, active and funny. Like to move out very often from the professional rutine by enhansing the contact with what is more human, imperfect and grounded aspect of my therapeutic role. I consider myself as a psychotherapist and not only gestalt psychotherapist.
https://gestaltinstitutesinergija.mk/team/radmila-zivanovic/
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Process group- part 2
language
English

What about...
2024-11-10 10:00 - 12:00
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Popup session
language
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian

Neurodivergencia: No son enfermedades, ¡Son superpoderes!
2024-11-09 08:00 - 10:00
Guilermo Leone
Buenos aires, Argentina
Abstract
Personas Altamente Sensibles, TDAH, Espectro Autista ver sus talentos en lugar de sus déficits.
Presenter Bio
Guillermo Leone, Argentino, nacido en 1961, psicólogo clínico formado en Gestalt (AGBA) en Constelaciones Familiares (CLCF) pensamiento complejo y profesor de post grado en diversos institutos de Gestalt en Argentina (AGBA, IGec, Gestalt Sur, CGSI; en Perú, en Brasil: IGSP, IPGF, CeG-SC, y otros y en España. Autor de numerosas publicaciones en Argentina y el Exterior. Publicó dos libros: “El oculto equilibrio de las cosas” (2016) y “La trama colectiva” (2022) Trabaja y forma profesionales en un enfoque innovador al que llama “Psicopatología de campo transgeneracional”. Como modos de descentrar el síntoma del individuo y de leerlo como respuestas adaptativas del contexto. Asimismo viene desarrollando estudios sobre la alta sensibilidad el TEA, TDAH, y las neurodivergencias en general, considerándolas expresiones de la evolución que son rechazadas por amenazar el status-quo.
https://www.guillermoleone.com
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Spanish
English

Presentación de un caso clínico: una mirada novedosa e integradora desde el enfoque de tramas familiares
2024-11-08 12:00 - 14:00
Tramas familiares (Adriana Leto, Monica Nigro)
Buenos aires, Argentina
Abstract
“Tramas Familiares es un enfoque, un método psicoterapéutico , síntesis de tres líneas teóricas: la Gestalt relacional, la Ecosistémica y la Transgeneracional.
Hemos visto en la clínica, que los vínculos emocionales conforman una trama o una red familiar; todos somos parte de esta red y estamos interconectados .Nuestra tarea es crear conciencia de esta trama, comprenderla y trascenderla.
Proponemos a las familias espacios lúdicos de juego libre con materiales inestructurados, que favorecen la libertad y la posibilidad de que emerjan las escenas del fondo familiar que dan cuenta de las temáticas que cada familia tiene que atravesar y precisa trabajar. En estas escenas se despliega la dinámica familiar actual ahora y se hacen presentes los guiones, mitos y leyendas de cada familia
Trabajamos en el “campo familiar” junto a padres e hijos, resignificando las situaciones problemáticas, transformándolas en oportunidad de crecimiento y de ampliación de la consciencia familiar”
Presenter Bio
“Monica Nigro: Licenciada en Psicología. Matricula 703 (UBA 1972). Co-fundadora de la Asociación Gestáltica de Buenos Aires (AGBA) y Psicoterapeuta Gestáltica especializada en parejas infértiles. Presidente de AGBA en tres oportunidades y directora de la Escuela que depende de AGBA durante tres mandatos uno de los cuales esta en curso.
Realizó cursos con Maria Rosa Glaserman y Estrella Joselevich.
Psicodramatista por el Instituto de Psicodrama Bs. As.dirigido por Dr. Carlos Menegazzo y Dra. Monica Zuretti.
Astrologa recibida en Casa Once (1999)
Formada en Parejas y Familias en el Centro de Familias y Parejas (CFP), en Psicodrama y en PNL. Egresada en Constelaciones Familiares del Instituto Berth Helinger. Ha realizado seminarios de Enfoque Gestáltico Sistémico en terapia con parejas y familias dictados por el Dr. Joseph Zinker en el Coloquio de Gestalt en Buenos Aires (1997).
Actualmente dirige el curso de Especialización de Parejas y Familias, co-coordina el departamento de Parejas y Familias de AGBA y se desempeña como docente de dicha escuela, y como docente invitada de “La Montera” Escuela de Gestalt de Sevilla, España. Docente invitada por la Asociación Gestáltica Uruguaya y la Aociacion Peruana de Gestalt.
Realizo supervisiones en el centro Nº2 Manuela Pedraza, en el equipo de Grupos.
Forma parte del seminario de “Actualización en Gestalt” del Centro Eber Carillo (Perú)
Actúa como supervisora invitada para residentes de varios Hospitales de CABA y participa en el dictado de seminarios en la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), asi como también ha aportado sus puntos de vista en diversos congresos internacionales.
Presidenta del próximo Congreso Latinoamericano de Gestalt a realizarse en Argentina en mayo 2017.
Desde su práctica clínica atiende a adultos, parejas y familias y se desempeña como supervisora en esa misma área.
Co-Dirige Tramas Familiares.”
“Adriana Leto: Licenciada en Psicología. Matricula 14.906 (UBA 1987) Psicoterapeuta Gestáltica por la Escuela de Especialización en Gestalt de la Asociación Gestaltica de Buenos Aires (AGBA 1993). Se desempeña como docente de dicha escuela en la materia Gestalt y Creatividad. Coordinadora grupal con orientación Junguiana (Centro Junguiano de Antropología Vincular) Consteladora Familiar por el Centro Bert Hellinger de Buenos Aires.
Ha realizado seminarios de Enfoque Gestáltico Sistémico en terapia con parejas y familias dictados por el Dr. Joseph Zinker en el Coloquio de Gestalt en Buenos Aires. (1997) Supervisora acreditada por AGBA. Miembro del departamento de Parejas y Familias de AGBA. Realizo un seminario con el Dr. Hugo Dopazzo, basado en el libro “El buen morir” (1994) .Realizo tareas en el área clínica con pacientes oncológicos y portadores de HIV. Coordinó grupos con portadores de HIV con la Lic. Rosi Zupnik en AGBA. Docente en el curso de especialización de Parejas y Familias en AGBA.
Profesional en Soundtouch, el arte del Toque Sonoro por MANDALA, Escuela itinerante de Soundtouch , dirigida por Karina Quiroga (2017). Proximamente presentará un Taller Sobre Familias en el Pre-Congreso Latinoamericano y II Congreso Internacional de Gestalt a realizarse con modalidad virtual, Uruguay, octubre 2021.
Desde hace más de veinte años trabaja en la clínica con familias en período de crianza, junto a la licenciada Daniela Menegazzo. Desde entonces investigan acerca de la vincularidad entre padres e hijos, ello las llevó a coordinar seminarios de familia en diferentes instituciones; además de presentar trabajos sobre Familia en varios congresos internacionales de Gestalt.
Co-Dirige Tramas Familiares. Centro de Formación y Asistencia clínica en el área de parejas y familias.”
https://tramasfamiliares.com

language
Spanish

Just another human being-The metapmorphosis of the psychotherapist
2024-11-05 10:00 - 12:00
Radmila Zivanovic
Skopje, North Macedonia
Abstract
In this session of exploration, I will invite you into exploration of the lived and still alive experience of being psychotherapist while being just an another human being. We are going to explore the ongoing change and development but also the moments of stagnation, withdrawal and giving up. Holding to the humanity and giving back the extraordinarity of the role, still keeping the uniquness and the tendency to construct and decosntruct, to build and destroy. All this moments are complex interplay of the capacities and sensitivity of the psychotherapist, specificity of the field, the context, developmental and life-specific issues, the things we aspire to, the weaknesses/biases that we are aware of and the meaning we give to life. We all part of our special transformational journey that very often we do not pay attention, we do not share it, we take it for granted, we forget to embrace it and celebrate it. This session, is one of those oportunities to create of what we have experienced and discovered, a self-nurturing and self-reflective experience of the role we invest most of our grown up lives.
Presenter Bio
Radmila Zivanovic is licenced psycholosgist, EAGT psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor. I work in my private practice in Republic of North Macedonia for 10 years now. At the same time I feel I am more than the limits and can be less than the opportunities. I am very curious, creative, active and funny. Like to move out very often from the professional rutine by enhansing the contact with what is more human, imperfect and grounded aspect of my therapeutic role. I consider myself as a psychotherapist and not only gestalt psychotherapist.
https://gestaltinstitutesinergija.mk/team/radmila-zivanovic/
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Process group- part 1
language
English

“La alegría consciente” Clowngestalt
2024-11-04 09:00 - 10:30
Néstor Muzo
España
Abstract
La expresión del humor y la risa pertenecen al ser humano mas allá de cualquier convencionalismo, cultura, raza, religión, ideas, creencias o género. Es hora de actualizarnos siguiendo el ritmo de los tiempos que corren, y teniendo en cuenta nuestras necesidades y recursos, existe un “tesoro” a nuestro alcance como es la alegría. Una emoción que utilizado de manera consciente nos permite integrarnos con lo que somos y ampliar la mirada sobre nosotros mismos. Me gustaría transmitir en este encuentro con el público la emoción y la relevancia que supuso para mí vislumbrar y comprender lo bien que conjugaban el lenguaje del payaso con la filosofía gestáltica. Gracias a esta nueva óptica encontré otra manera de verme, de experimentar esa Alegría consciente en algunos momentos de mi vida, y sobre todo, tuve la oportunidad de integrarme con todo lo que soy: antes que nada persona, y luego artista y terapeuta.
Presenter Bio
Terapueta gestáltico, clown, Director de escena. Formación en Interpretación, Clown Artístico, Clown de hospital. Post grado en Dinámica de grupos, Gestalt, Eneagrama, Certi-ficación en Coach Wingwave. Discípulo del Dr. Claudio Naranjo en programa SAT. Conoce y experimenta todo el proceso SAT de la mano del propio maestro Claudio Naranjo, y le dio la oportunidad de navegar en su propia oscuridad, descubriendo que el vacío puede ser fértil. Después de su re nacer, su inspiración le llevó a crear el primer postgrado de Clowngestalt, del cual es pionero; además de autor del libro “Clown gestalt, el viaje del antihéroe”. Co fundador y Director artístico de los Doctores Apapachos en Puebla, México. Miembro didacta y supervisor de la Asociación Española de Terapia Gestalt, de orientación gestaltica. Dirige la Formación en la Especialidad en Clown Gestalt desde el 2012. Avalada por la Asociación Española de Terapia Gestalt – Imparte formación y talleres en Europa y America latina.
https://teatroytransformacion.com/nosotros/nestor-muzo/
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Charla Sui Géneris
language
Spanish

Gestalt and Neurodivergent Couples and Partners: the relational dance.
2024-11-03 09:00 - 10:30
Hope Valletta, M.Sc., RP, NB, AuDHD Gestalt Psychotherapist and Supervisor
In this session we will dive into the dynamics of neurodivergent and neurotypical relationships through the lens of Relational Gestalt Therapy. Using the unique framework that Gestalt provides, we’ll explore how to truly meet one another in the complexity of a neurodivergent field.

Together, we will examine:
– Common misunderstandings in mixed-neurotype relationships
– The importance of timing and pacing in communication
– How trauma can emerge in relational dynamics
– Couples work, based on the model from Margherita Spagnuolo-Lobb
– Gender explorations and rediscovering intimacy

type (workshop/ popup/ process)
This workshop is ideal for those interested in learning how to navigate relational fields with sensitivity to neurodiversity and to create more meaningful connections within couples, families, and social constellations.
language
English

Lets Play Games: "Mirror, Mirror, what you see"
2024-11-02 11:00 - 12:30
Sophia Sisauri
Tbilisi, Georgia
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Process, (Breathwork + musical)
Type: Pop Up / Process / Singing
If you would like to relax and give some space for your inner voice please join.
“Words make you think, Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought”
Let us create space where each of us will be able to calmly speak to THE SELF. The theme of the meeting is “What your Love looks like”
You will need a mirror, yourself and your curiosity.
I am Sophia, I dance and sing for pleasure. I love to share my passion with another and observe how we resonate with each other.
Your presence is important for me.
See you there!
language
English

Living Gestalt
2024-10-30 09:00 - 11:00
Thato Matshitsa
Johannesburg, South Africa
Abstract
Whilst Gestalt has its roots in Psychology and Therapy; at its core, Gestalt is a way of being and living in the world. Gestalt offers us very practical and theoretically sound approaches that supports us to artfully navigate our professional and personal lives.
In this session, Living Gestalt, I will share how I practice and use Gestalt in my profession as Development Planner and we, together, in conversation will explore various Gestalt principles and practices that we deploy in our way of being in our work, personal lives and life in general.
Presenter Bio
Thato is a Development Planner by profession, in the service of the City of Tshwane. He and his team are responsible for the facilitation of Strategic and Catalytic Projects in the City; and he uses and practices Gestalt approaches to navigate the complex system and environment he works in, in order to get these projects move closer towards implementation.
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Workshop/discussion
language
English

The fascinating playground of alive human social systems for Gestalt intervening in organisations
2024-10-29 09:00 - 11:00
Jochen Lohmeier
Abstract
Drawing from my international working experience in societal development, my session offers a unique blend of Gestalt and human social systems theory. We all know: our here & now environments influence our multiple perceptions, they impact our emotionally based decisions. We are different as professionals, compared to playing with children or friends, or to having sex. Social and societal systems have their own dynamics that influence organizations. What we often do not know is how to address the complexity of the systems which we attach to and consult with. We will look at widespread, dearly held, but false assumptions regarding OD consulting, at different types of human social systems and respective intervention strategies, and at serious & humble OD consulting strategies from the edge of system boundaries. The session has a range of explorative experiences and gets the more exciting the more diversity we have among participants.
Presenter Bio
Having started off with a PhD in Economics (1981), I now bring over 50 years of experience in teaching, planning, research, leadership coaching, and organizational development, with approaches of Gestalt psychology and emotional intelligence. My Gestalt certifications are in supervision and coaching from the Gestalt Education Institute in Berlin (1995), the Cleveland Gestalt Institute in organisation development (1997), and the Gestalt International Study Centre (2003-9). I managed 2 consulting firms (1990 till today), and consulted to over 40 development projects in more than 25 countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. As an executive and as freelance consultant, my expertise spans strategic planning, organizational analysis, team development, and conflict resolution. Since Corona, I have been slowly transitioning toward retirement, and offer “grand-parenting” to younger generations of colleagues.

Sensory Awareness
2024-10-27 10:00 - 11:30
Judyth Weaver
Seattle, USA
Abstract
In 1947 in a letter, Fritz Perls wrote to his wife about working with Charlotte Selver: “Finally I found for what I have been looking for all over the years and what I did not find at any other school. Now this corroborates and underpins my entire theory.” He also wrote: “Here is the method which not only accomplishes what I was striving after by concentration exercises, but which is subtle and in contract to stress…” This work eventually named “Sensory Awareness” by Selver is what has influenced so many in fields of psychotherapy, movement, arts, etc. This session will be a classical Sensory Awareness class wherein participants are encouraged to sense and feel their experiences and also have time to speak and share if they want.
Presenter Bio
Judyth O. Weaver is a multifaceted teacher and counselor, incorporating extensive training in diverse areas. She holds a Ph.D. in Reichian Psychology. Judyth is the creator and founding chair of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Ph.D. Program in Somatic Psychology. She taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco, CA) for 25 years and at other graduate schools in the S.F. Bay area as well as being founding faculty at Naropa Institute, now Naropa University, (Boulder, CO) in the 1970’s, creating it’s T’ai Chi Ch’uan program.Judyth studied Gestalt Therapy starting in the late 1960’s with Fritz Perls at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. She later studied at the Gestalt Therapy Institute in San Francisco, California and with other senior Gestalt Therapists.
judythweaver.com
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Workshop/experiential
language
English

Neurodivergência Nao são doenças, são superpoderes!
2024-10-26 07:00 - 09:00
Guillermo Leone
Buenos aires, Argentina
Abstract
Pessoas Altamente Sensiveis, TDAH, Espectro Autista: olhar para os seus talentos ao invés dos déficits.
Presenter Bio
Guillermo Leone, Argentino, nacido en 1961, psicólogo clínico formado en Gestalt (AGBA) en Constelaciones Familiares (CLCF) pensamiento complejo y profesor de post grado en diversos institutos de Gestalt en Argentina (AGBA, IGec, Gestalt Sur, CGSI; en Perú, en Brasil: IGSP, IPGF, CeG-SC, y otros y en España. Autor de numerosas publicaciones en Argentina y el Exterior. Publicó dos libros: “El oculto equilibrio de las cosas” (2016) y “La trama colectiva” (2022) Trabaja y forma profesionales en un enfoque innovador al que llama “Psicopatología de campo transgeneracional”. Como modos de descentrar el síntoma del individuo y de leerlo como respuestas adaptativas del contexto. Asimismo viene desarrollando estudios sobre la alta sensibilidad el TEA, TDAH, y las neurodivergencias en general, considerándolas expresiones de la evolución que son rechazadas por amenazar el status-quo.
https://www.guillermoleone.com

language
Portughese

Cultural Resonance: Essence of Georgian Dance through the Gestalt Perspective.
2024-10-25 09:00 - 10:30
Sophia Sisauri
Tbilisi, Georgia
Abstract
Discussing: in what ways can be my fear contributing to my courage? Talking about shame of being left alone with another
Presenter Bio
I am Sophia and I dance. Usually I am occupied with an aware thinking process in which I internalize experiences and make connections with different phenomenas. These extreme of mine helped me find places from where I invent useful practices for my existence and if successful I usually share it with others. I study gestalt psychotherapy and it has been a life changing experience so far. I am on my third year of studies and I recently started supervised therapeutic practices. On going projects are: Gestalt therapeutic group for eating difficulties (co facilitator) Spontaneous movement dance class (facilitator) Professor assistant and SANGU university, Therapeutic group tutor for 1st year gestalt students (GNGI) Now that gestalt welcomes new perspectives in to the practice I felt free to send my initiative, offering you to gather some ideas from our colleagues on a matter of “games that people play”.
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Presentation (Discussing: in what ways can be my fear contributing to my courage? Talking about shame of being left alone with another)
language
English

Gestalt Art Therapy: Contributions to the practice of Gestalt therapists
2024-10-24 17:00 - 19:00
SELMA CIORNAI
In this opportunity I will present the phenomenological and existential foundations of Gestalt Art Therapy, illustrating how they can be applied in experiments suggested by Gestalt therapists, with regard to the way of processing the visual and symbolic language of our clients. I will also address its relationship with the theory of the self, and will bring examples.
Presenter Bio
SELMA CIORNAI . Gestalt therapist graduated in 1980 from the San Francisco Gestalt Institute (USA), Doctor in Clinical Psychology. from Saybrook Institute USA, Master of Arts in Art Therapy from California State University and Bachelor of Arts in Humanities: Sociology, Anthropology and Creative Arts from the University of Haifa, Israel. A pioneer of the Gestalt Approach in Art Therapy in Brazil, she is the coordinator of a training program in Gestalt Art Therapy in SP and has been a teacher of Gestalt therapy trainings in several institutes in Brazil since 1984. An invited professional in countries in Latin America and Europe, she is the author of books and texts published in national and international journals on Gestalt therapy and Art Therapy such as The Gestalt Journal, Gestalt Review etc., having recently contributed with 2 chapters to “The Willey Handbook of Art Therapy”. Invited presentor at several conferences in Brazil, USA and Latin American , in 1999 she represented Latin America at the Congress “Voices from 3 Continents” of the AAGT (Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy).
language
Brasil- English

Being Present 2
2024-10-23 10:00 - 11:30
Tine Van Wijk
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Abstract
Presence is not Charisma. Charisma is a figure competing with another figure, while Presence is ground, asking to be written on’ Joseph Zinker in Sketches In this workshop we experience being in the now by listening to the silence, to our inner voices and to spoken words . We will focus on how we feel, on what we are aware of, and how it is to be part of this group. The moment a group comes together all kind of things happen in the undercurrent. The question is what will be expressed? What we think, what we feel , what we long for, what we are afraid of what we find irritating? We will become aware by letting our hands write the words that want to be written. and share by focusing on how we feel and how we sound while reading our written words out loud. When we are present our breathing is deep, full, even. Our sense of time is slow and measured. Our bodily self is heavily grounded. Presence is the acquired state of awe in the face of an infinitely complex and wondrous universe.
Presenter Bio
In 1988 I started Gestalt Center De Walvis/The Whale in Amsterdam, where I am born in 1936, just before WWII. Being a war child is the main ground for becoming a therapist. For more than 40 years I have been leading ongoing therapy-, writting- and training groups. I was a member of the Dutch EAGT and still am of the IAAGT and the NYIGT. I had the privilege to work more than twenty times in Russia and Ukraine.I went to Gestalt conferences in the UK, USA, Canada, Mexico. In 2005 I initiated and cocreated a Regional AAGT conference in Amsterdam. I published 3 books in Dutch and one in English: Gestalt Process Writing to C. By practising Gestalt I am opening more and more my creativity by drawing, painting, writing poems and sounding the words I have written.
https://www.tinevanwijk.nl
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Creative workshop
language
English

Birth Patterns
2024-10-22 08:00 - 10:30
Federica Ronchi
Faenza, Italy
Abstract
I would like to host an open conversation regarding birth patterns, to explore if there are any correlations between the way we came into the World and our way to experience it. Sometimes we seem to get stuck in the same dynamics repeating themselves though life choices, career patterns, relational impasses and I would love to host such conversation with participants. Exploring together wether such correlations can bring us a message, of an ancient wound that needs healing.
Presenter Bio
I am a Gestalt Therapist from Italy, very interested in the topic of birth and motherhood. Art therapy is one of my main professional focus, taking it into groups, couple as well as individual sessions. I am passionate and curious, always willing to learn from my job and life, I consider my job a privileged window over human beings and a beautiful opportunity to meet other souls unveiled.
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Process group (open conversation) Does the process of coming into the World correlate with our process of experiencing the World itself?
language
English

Everything, Everywhere, Every Moment
2024-10-20 10:00 - 11:30
Jennifer Bury
Abstract
Life is an ongoing shared adventure which gives us the opportunity to receive and respond to a shower of sensory information from moment to moment. This workshop focuses on fostering our kinesthesia through movement experiments designed to increase our awareness of how we co-create our experience. When we attend to the aesthetics of our experience we rediscover ourselves as vital beings, engaged in an ongoing dialogue with others, and as an integral part of a dynamic world. Just as our lived sensory experience guides us, experiencing our own choices in contrast to the choices of others, expands our repertoire of how to be with our clients, with each other, and how to respond as part of a dynamic world. In a time of discord and alienation, the recognition of this ongoing dialogue offers a shift from feelings of isolation from each other and fear for ourselves and our planet, to a sense of being an active participant, caring for each other and our world
Presenter Bio
Jennifer Bury is a movement therapist in private practice for 40 years, based in San Francisco, presenting workshops within the Gestalt community throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Jennifer is a certified trainer and supervisor in Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™, and teaches at universities, medical facilities, and leads Gestalt and somatic training groups, both online and in-person. Her background includes studies in pre-med, neurology, kinesiology, various forms of dance, and numerous somatic methods. Her practice includes military veterans, professional dancers, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and spans from assisting infants first orienting to life, to guiding people through their dying process.
https://jenniferbury.com
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Workshop / Interactive movement-based
language
English

Funny things happen: Humour and therapy
2024-10-18 08:00 - 09:30
Heather Anne Keyes
Durango, Mexico
Abstract
Discuss and play with some of the theories and principles of Humour as we find them in therapy- from “my client sent me a meme” to a deep exploration of the comedy/tragedy bond in our narratives, feel free to stop taking therapy so seriously for a moment- seriously!
Presenter Bio
Heather Anne Keyes is an outside-most-boxes feminist neuroqueer Gestalt Psychotherapist practicing almost entirely online from Mexico with adults, training groups and therapists around the world. She is the founder of the Humans of Gestalt project. Her areas of special interest include neurodivergence (especially giftedness and 2E), intercultural identities and competencies, non-traditional relationship structures (ENM/CNM/Poly and kink practices), humour, anti-opression work and decolonizing psychotherapy.
www.heatherannekeyes.com

Non verbal organismic needs.
2024-10-12 10:00 - 11:00
Abstract
I would like to share with you some major steps for high anxious patients with obsessional thoughts based on therapeutical facts :
Experiencing the here and now as a unified experience when words are mostly expressed without a unified emotional sense.
Dealing with the unknown field of inner choice through a progressive awareness of a functional response-ability that helps to counterbalance interrogations and accusations of others.
Developing the connection with organismic needs as an attractive unknown field , where sensorimotor well being can become essential to recuperate a unified present .

Joe Acoury
Presenter Bio
Joe Acoury is a highly experienced Gestalt Therapist and Trainer with over 30 years of practice. He holds a BA in psychology from St Joseph University in Beirut and a postgraduate degree in clinical psychology from the Lebanese University in Beirut. Joe’s early clinical work took place in various hospitals under psychiatric and psychoanalytic supervision before he established his own practice. He completed a comprehensive training program in 1990 at the Gestalt Therapy and Training Center in Los Angeles , directed by David Gorton Ph.D. He was certified as a Gestalt Therapist and trainer. Joe has since provided training in Gestalt Therapy to students and professionals from different educational levels . He is a chartered member of the International Gestalt Therapy Association and has affiliations with PPCI and OPTUM International, where he briefs and debriefs critical cases. Joe’s practice focuses on individual brief therapy and psychotherapy for individuals with depressive states, excessive mentalization. He also advises parents on raising children with learning difficulties and mood disorders. He promotes diet compliance awareness, and integrative memory adjustment for seniors. Additionally, Joe conducts group therapy sessions so to integrate challenging contexts.
language
English +all

The Effects of Gestalt Therapy in Trans and GNC(Gender Non-Confirming Mental Health)
2024-10-12 08:30 - 10:00
Parvy Palmou
Athens, Greece
Presenter Bio
As an accredited E.A.G.T Gestalt Therapist, Parvy practices privately in Athens, Greece. Over the past 15 years, they have held the position of Head of the Department of Health for Trans and Intersex Families at the Greek Transgender Support Association. In this role, Parvy provides both group and individual gestalt therapy to transgender, intersex, and non-binary individuals, as well as their families. Their extensive contributions to the field include being an international trainer, regular columnist in various newspapers, magazines, and websites, and author of several publications.Currently, Parvy is a dedicated Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bolton, where they are conducting vital research focused on trans health and well-being.
http://parvypalmou.blogspot.com/
type (workshop/ popup/ process)
Workshop
language
English

Arteterapia Gestáltica: Aportes a práctica de Gestalt terapeutas
2024-10-10 17:00 - 19:00
SELMA CIORNAI
En esta oportunidad presentaré los fundamentos fenomenológicos y existenciales de la Arteterapia Gestáltica, ilustrando cómo aplicarlos en experimentos sugeridos por los terapeutas Gestalt, en lo que respecta a la forma de procesar el lenguaje visual y simbólico de nuestros clientes. También abordaré su relación con la teoría del self, y traeré ejemplos.
Presenter Bio
SELMA CIORNAI . Terapeuta Gestalt licenciada en 1980 por el Instituto Gestalt de San Francisco (EE.UU.), Doctora en Psicología Clínica por el Instituto Saybrook de EE.UU., Master en Arteterapia por la Universidad Estatal de California y Licenciada en Humanidades: Sociología, Antropología y Artes Creativas por la Universidad de Haifa, Israel. Pionera del Enfoque Gestalt en Arteterapia en Brasil, es coordinadora de un programa de formación en Arteterapia Gestalt en SP y profesora de formaciones en terapia Gestalt en varios institutos de Brasil desde 1984. Profesional invitada en países de América Latina y Europa, es autora de libros y textos publicados en revistas nacionales e internacionales sobre terapia Gestalt y Arteterapia como The Gestalt Journal, Gestalt Review etc., habiendo contribuido recientemente con 2 capítulos para «The Willey Handbook of Art Therapy». Presentadora invitada en varias conferencias en Brasil, Estados Unidos y América Latina, en 1999 representó a América Latina en el Congreso «Voces de 3 Continentes» de la AAGT (Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy).
language
Brasil- Español

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Being Present
2024-10-09 10:00 - 11:30
