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Short Workshops
Metanoia Institute,
13 North Common Road,
Ealing, London, W5 2QB London.
Body and Character: Structure as a Field Phenomena9th/10th February 2009 The interpersonal field of our clients is shaped by their existing character structures. But these structures are not isolated traits but rather field phenomena that emerge in a physical/relational context. In our everyday practice, we frequently experience clients behaving in these patterns that seem persistent and unchanging. The immergence of persistent figures and needs is based upon the field co-created by our clients and the surrounding field, including our own character.
In this workshop we will explore the relationship between body character structures and the practice of Gestalt Therapy. Participants will learn a Gestalt view of body and character, focusing on treatment approaches and use of self by the therapist. The interplay between our clients’ and our own structures will be explored. The workshop structure will be discussion, theory based and experiential. Participants should be prepared to engage in discussion and experiment with your own structure.
Michael Graig Clemmens Ph.D is a psychologist and trainer based in Pittsburgh, PA. He teaches gestalt therapy and body oriented approaches to therapy as a member of the faculty of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and at the Esalen Institute and Metanoia Institute in London. He is the author of Getting beyond Sobriety published in Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory and Practice and by Analytic Press andCulture and Body published in Bridges (Sage Publication). Costs
This workshop is charged at £200 for Metanoia Members and £240 for Non-Members.Associate Membership is open to BACP Accredited Counsellors, UKCP Registered Psychotherapists and BPS Chartered Psychologists, sponsored by two existing senior Members.
For further information about Associate Membership please email Kate Fromant or call her on 020 8832 3078 .
To download a Leaflet and/or Workshop Application Form, please click below -
THE POWER OF THE PRESENT MOMENT
We know about our subjective experience and aliveness only in the present moment.
In this workshop we will focus on sharpening your therapeutic practice by attending to this simple yet profound truth. We will explore the implications for phenomenological, relational meeting through experiential exercises, therapeutic practice and theoretical discussion covering areas such as the nature of change, co-created relationship and the intersubjective field.
Led by Lynda Osborne and Caro Kelly
DATES
From 4pm on Thursday 23rd July 2009 to 3pm Monday 27 July 2009,
Alresford, Hampshire, UK.
Costs: £580
Details from lynda@osborneuk.co.uk
Also at: http://tinyurl.com/b62pln
 To book any of the following courses at The Gestalt Centre contact Centre Manager, Jacqueline Wearn:
Supervisors Practicum Certificate led by Gaie Houston
Next training: to be announced
Time: 10am-5pm on all 9 days
Fee: to be announced This course is open to experienced counsellors and therapists. Both those who are just beginning to be supervisors, and those of considerable experience, have found the course enhancing. The core of the programme is a supervision practicum. The aim is to empower everyone present, so that there is enjoyed shared learning: co-operation rather than a competitive ethos. This certificate is awarded on completion of the course and two case studies. One of these demonstrates the proper use of supervision as a supervisee. The other shows the writer's ability to be of use as a supervisor. Those not wishing to complete the written work will receive a Certificate of Attendance. Based on practice, the course will focus on - - the art of being a supervisee
- clinical assessment of clients
- ethics and ethical dilemmas and the supervisor's responsibilities
- the supervisor in relation to agencies
- practice in the three major aspects of supervision described in Supervision and Counselling (Houston 1996)
- creating each participants own model of supervision in the light of current literature and practice.
Plain Speaking and Therapy (2-day workshop)
Led by Gaie Houston
Next training: 17th & 18th October 2008
Time: 10am-5pm on both days
Fee: £275
Using simple direct language usually makes for good communication. It is also easier said than done. This workshop aims to help therapists hone their skills in using less words. Economy of effort often makes for warmer and more effective therapy, and that is what this workshop is meant to bring about.
The aim is a largely experiential, lively and happy workshop, to help people extend their range and fluency of therapeutic response.
Working largely from examples brought by participants, of occasions or interventions they want to learn from. Gaie will demonstrate as well as theorise.This workshop is open to all and is not directed only at Gestalt practitioners.
Fundamentals of Gestalt Theory
Next workshop: 18th October 2008
Time: 10am-5pm
Fee: £65
This is a one day course for anyone wishing to find out about the Gestalt approach - whether contemplating training in Gestalt counselling or psychotherapy, or wanting to integrate some Gestalt concepts into their current ways of working with people.
The day introduces an overview of Gestalt and its fundamental principles, and provides an opportunity to explore the theory and practise of some basic concepts.
Free Fall
Writing as Creative Therapy
Next course: 18th January & 7th February 2009
Time: 10.30am to 6pm
Fee: £158
This 2 day workshop is for participants who would like to learn a Gestalt based approach to creative writing. It is also for those who are interested in using writing in a therapeutic way or setting. The themes covered will include Free Fall writing as a technique to write through "writer's block"; autobiographical writing; projection as creative discovery, secrets, metaphors & poetry as medicine. The workshop is predominantly practical, with writing and sharing forming the main activity. There will also be some brief theoretical discussions to explain the rationale behind the exercises.
Participants do not have to have any previous experience of creative writing or Gestalt; the workshop is suitable for anyone at any level interested in exploring avenues to support their confidence in creative expression and/or learning this approach as a self help or therapeutic tool.
Gestalt Brief Therapy led by Gaie Houston
Next training: to be announced
Time: 10am to 5pm each day
Fee: tba
NHS funding is a major influence in making brief therapy the only choice in many settings. While other schools already have schemes for brief intervention, the humanistic approaches have shown less clarity about how to adapt to the discipline of very short episodes of therapy.
This course sets out to make clear a Gestalt framework for this work, helping the therapist and the person seeking help to do the most that can be done within narrow time constraints.
A Gestalt Approach to Working with Children
Next training: to be announced
Time:
Fee:
The Course
This course is for participants seeking to develop their understanding of the issues and processes involved in working therapeutically with children.
It is also for those interested in finding ways of exploring their own playfulness.
There will be a mixture of didactic input, practical and experiential work in small groups. You will be working “hands on” with art materials, so please bring suitable clothing.
Topics covered will include:
- Brief review of attachment theory and developmental models
- The field of the child: contemporary Gestalt approaches (Oaklander, McConville, Wheeler)
- Language and furniture: adapting therapy for younger clients
- Introduction to some creative arts modalities used in child therapy, including drawing/painting, working with clay, music making, sand-tray (demonstration), puppetry
- Case vignettes/video illustrations
The workshop is open to graduates and students of Gestalt and others working in related professions. Participants may find it helpful to have some familiarity with Gestalt therapy principles and theory. A reading list is available from course tutor, Jon Blend ( 020 8992 1982 )
Course Tutor
Jon Blend MA CQSW is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and a counsellor. He has been working with children and adolescents since 1995 as part of an NHS Family Consultation Service and in private practice in West London. Jon has trained at the Violet Oaklander Institute for Child and Adolescent Therapy (USA). He also participated in the ‘Relational Child’ conference held at Esalen in 2007. Jon is resident musician with Playback South, a community theatre group.
20% discount to Gestalt Centre students and graduates 10% discount to other students
Payment can be made by cheque to The Gestalt Centre
or credit/debit card on 020 7613 4480 .
BELFAST
Next year's Northern Gestalt Writers' Conference will take place on June 4th to 7th, 2009, in Belfast. The programme will be:
Thursday night 4th June: Meeting, dining, scheduling
Friday 5th - Saturday 6th June all day: Minimum 1 hour per person, presentation, feedback, discussion.
Sunday: Next steps, supports and deadlines.
Various social and local interest events as required.
All papers to be submitted to the convenor (in whatever form, including abstract, outline, point form) by 10th May 2009.
Register your interest early by emailing Joelle Gartner, event convenor: j_gartner@yahoo.com
The number of places is limited by the need to have sufficient time allocated to each writing project to meet the writer's need.
SHROPSHIRE
BEING HERE – THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESENCE IN THERAPY AND EVERYDAY LIFE At Oak Barn in Shropshire - 7-8th March 2009 With Juliet Denham – GPTI Training & Supervising Member Using experiential exercises, guided meditation, discussion and the immediacy of the group experience/process this two day workshop will provide an opportunity to explore the meaning, power and impact of ‘presence’ in therapy and everyday life. We will draw on theory and philosophy from Gestalt, Buber, Tolle, Buddhism and other Spiritual Traditions.
Cost: £170 (£155 if paid in full by 18/12/08). Price includes meals. Floor space and a mattress are available for sleeping or there is a nearby B & B. Maximum participants: 12.
MANCHESTER
Working with the Body Relationally
A Weekend Workshop with Michael Clemmens (USA)
16/17 May 2009
Cost £190, payable in advance. This is not refundable unless the workshop is cancelled or a place is unavailable.
Application To Anna Chapman at Manchester Gestalt Centre. Please enclose a cheque for £190 made out to 'Manchester Gestalt Centre' and a statement of your relevant background and training.
Further details from Manchester Gestalt Centre: 0161 257 2202 or mgc@mgc.org.uk
LONDON
BRITISH GESTALT JOURNAL LECTURE DAY NOVEMBER 22nd at the Gestalt Centre, by kind favour of the Directors.
10.30 to 3.30, buffet lunch included.
Roz Carroll on "Science and Sensibility: neuroscience and the re-organising field of psychotherapy. "
Roz will give a brief history of science and psychotherapy and talk about the meta-theories common to both - self-regulation and field > theory (considered as self-organisation)
Jon Blend: "Landmines of Provocation: Adolescence, Anger and the Abyss".
"I will briefly visit McConville's 3-stage model of adolescent development, Kurt Lewin's 'Lifespace' and explore with vignettes the role anger plays in protecting the teen psyche from overwhelm and providing impetus for separation. I will suggest for some teens the following formula applies: Impasse + Terror = an Abyss."
Send a cheque for £25 payable to British Gestalt Journal,
to
Dr Neil Harris at Roundhay, Chapel Lane, Bransgore, BH23 8BN.
DERBYSHIRE
CPD Training with Sue Parker Hall author of
‘Anger, Rage and Relationship – An Empathic Approach to Anger Management’
Friday 27th and Saturday 28th February 2009
Gillie Jenkinson, Director of Hope Valley Counselling Limited, invites you to attend a CPD training event with Sue Parker Hall, author of ‘ Anger, Rage and Relationship’ published 2008. "I attended Sue’s training in October 2008 and felt it was ground breaking, clear and easily and practically applied in any setting where people are being supported and helped, and so I decided to invite Sue to come to the elegant Maynard Hotel in the lovely Derbyshire Peak District National Park, 10 miles from the centre of Sheffield, to deliver her training." (Gillie Jenkinson) Tel: 01433 639032
RELATIONAL LIVING BODY TO LIVING BODY COMMUNICATION:A Relational Gestalt Approach to Bodywork
An evening workshop with Julianne Appel-Opper on Sunday 18.1.2009 5.30pm–9.00pm at the Birmingham Counselling & Psychotherapy Centre, 131 Pottery Road, Bearwood,Warley Woods, Birmingham
... you are invited on a journey into the Wisdom of the Living Body. During the workshop we will use exercises, experiential process and live demonstrations to experience ourselves as Living Bodies and learn to attune to other Living Bodies.
and on Sunday 18.1.2009 and Monday 19.1.2009 Julianne will offer one-hour individual sessions (Cost £50)
... as one-off body-oriented psychotherapeutic sessions or one-off body-oriented supervision sessions. The focus might be how to integrate this way of being into your work as supervisee or supervisor. Julianne Appel-Opper is a Psychological Psychotherapist, Clinical Psychologist (German Psychological Society), a UKCP registered Integrative Psychotherapist and Gestalt Psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. She is a visiting tutor and examiner at the Metanoia Institute in London. Julianne has a special interest in psychosomatic theories and approaches. In Germany she has worked in psychosomatic clinics with a wide range of patients, individually and in groups. From 1998 to 2006 she lived and worked in the U.K. Julianne now lives in Potsdam, Germany and works in Germany and abroad. Over the years Julianne has developed her own approach: 'Relational Living Body to Living Body Communication'.
To book, email julianne.ao@WEB.DE
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