Presented by various faculty

If you're interested in learning more about our training programs and intensives for mental health professionals, this introductory class is for you.  We'll answer your questions about Gestalt therapy and our training program. 

In this class you will:

Sunday, October 2, 2011, 4-6:30 pm

Sunday, October 9, 2011,  4-6:30 pm

The class is free, but reservations are required. 

Email gestalt@gestaltnyc.org or call (212) 387-9429.

Francesca Baslow, MA, LCAT
Astrid Schmidt, LCSW
    

Therapeutic process can be rich and healing when we slow down and come into ourselves in different way. . .when we move out of our heads and the historical stories we tell ourselves of who we are and what we are capable of.  Our stories replay in our minds constantly and we find ourselves looking to the environment to make these stories true.  We attach onto clues that validate our experience of the past, and we get stuck without possibility of being in our lives differently.  So how do we make change really happen when these patterns seem relentless?  Join us in learning and be supported to become present with ourselves and drop down into our experience, our bodies, our breath, our feelings and ultimately our fuller selves.

Saturday, October 15, 2011
10am-3pm
$50
5 CEU’s

Marla Silverman, Ph.D.
   

Using a Gestalt approach, this workshop will help you understand: 1) your role as a couples therapist, 2) how to view the system each couple creates, 3) how to work with the couple as a system rather than individually focused therapy, 4) how to balance your interventions so that each person feels seen, heard and respected, and 5) how to enjoy the richness of couples work. This is both a didactic and experiential workshop. We will experience couples work through role-play and practice interventions. Bring a sense of curiosity and play.

This course will be given twice:

Saturday, October 29, 2011 
11am-2pm

Saturday, May 12, 2012
11am-2pm
 
$50 
3 CEU’s

Lee Zevy, LCSW  
 

Like Gestalt Therapy, mindfulness in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy works to increase awareness of sensory and emotional/physical experience.  Developed by Marcia Lenahan to teach emotional regulation to borderline patients, DBT mindfulness and modules can be very effectively used in individual, couples and group psychotherapy to help individuals regulate other intense emotional states like depression, anxiety, and anger control. In addition, since DBT works to integrate emotion/cognition, therapists can help clients achieve greater balance in individuals who function predominantly from an intellectual, logical basis or a dominating emotional intensity.

Saturday, November 5, 2011 
11am-4pm 
$100 
5 CEU’s

Alan Schwartz, Ph.D., LCSW

It's been almost a century since Reich gave birth to the idea that trapped human energy, armor, growing out of specific conditioning processes of our early years, prohibits us from being present and true protagonists of our lives.  This, along with Otto Rank ("the here and now") and psychoanalysis formed the early roots of gestalt therapy. Using the Gestalt concept of experiment, we will investigate stratified elements of our bodies, which morph into "feelings of emotions" and translated into how we experience the world in the here and now. This workshop will include understanding and deconstructing character (body) armor and experimenting as these elements arise.  Appropriate didactic concepts will be covered

Saturday, December 3, 2011
9am-4pm 
$100 
7 CEU’s

Gail Feinstein, LCSW, LMT

In this workshop, participants will learn to deepen their connection with themselves, others and their environment.  They will also learn how to cultivate a sense of relatedness and how to shift from inhibiting to inhabiting their bodies. In the practice of relational engagement, we move beyond perceiving and sensing somatically to perceiving and sensing relationally.  We come to another person empathically attuned, fully engaged and sensing into our openness to the otherness.  A simple activity becomes a mindful practice of relational engagement that invites an embodied presence.  Breathing becomes a relating, a co-creating; a collaborative, reciprocal experiencing. In the spirit of the feminine, this work weaves the values of relatedness back into the world, creating a field of profound relatedness and deepening connection to our common humanity and responsibility to the global field.

Saturday, December 10, 2011
10am-5pm 
$100 
7 CEU’s

We will spend the weekend in a beautiful, rural setting, focusing on experiencing gestalt therapy as clients.  Participants meet several times in small groups where they get to experience and observe live therapy, with Gestalt Center faculty working as therapists.  After each session, faculty and students discuss the session in terms of the theory they’ve been studying, the techniques used by the therapist and the overall movement of the session.  Large-group mini-lectures are also part of the training.  Guests have the opportunity to work as client with faculty therapists, if desired.

This training retreat is for mental health/ human service professionals, and is particularly helpful for those considering entrance into our postgraduate training program, by exposing them to the aliveness of the Gestalt method and to our training community.

Friday, January 6, 2012, 6 pm, through
Sunday, January 8, 2 pm
12 CEU's

For more information, or to register, email gestalt@gestaltnyc.org, or call (212) 387-9429.

Nancy Adlman, LCSW
Elizabeth Lyngholm, MA

Both Gestalt and Shamanism deal with present centered awareness and consciousness on a visceral and organismic level to facilitate healing and to encourage the emergence of what is – spontaneously unfolding thoughts, feelings, memories, archetypal energies, etc., In this workshop participants will encounter ways in which the tools and teachings of ancient and indigenous cultures can blend with the theories and techniques of Gestalt therapy to connect with their personal power.

Saturday, February 4, 2012
11am-3pm
$65
4 CEU’s

Kathryn Grooms, LCSW-R

Using a Gestalt perspective, this workshop will provide a forum to bring awareness to all parts of you that need consideration in the formation of your psychotherapy practice.  We will create a space for each individual to define the emotional, spiritual, physical and financial needs to be satisfied by their practice. Through lecture and didactic exercises, I will provide guidance and support in the areas of setting fees, scheduling, administrative forms, working with insurance companies, record keeping, marketing, and more. I will share examples of how I have supported myself to develop a successful practice, as I define it, as well as, what I have found to be challenging. 

Saturday, March 3, 2012
12am-5pm
$75
5 CEU's

Rosary Immordino, LP

The research is clear: the most effective form of therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a combination of medication and cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT.  But you’ll probably be surprised to learn that every Gestalt therapist has skills that actually work to enhance CBT.  In this course you’ll learn to use the 7-step process developed by noted OCD expert, Fred Penzel, to diagnose and treat OCD, using CBT.  You’ll also learn how to use the Gestalt skills of awareness, present-centeredness, exaggeration, and attention to body to increase the effectiveness of CBT for treatment of OCD.  Real case histories will be presented. 

Sunday, March 11
10am-5pm
$80
5 CEU's

Joseph Barbuto, M.D.

This workshop will provide a description of the general use of psychotropic medications for anxiety and mood disorders in the context of psychotherapy. We will also discuss when medication is appropriate for use. Participants will obtain a greater awareness of biological approaches in order to relieve symptoms and thus support the patient to be more amenable to psychotherapy.

Saturday, March 17, 2012
10 am-1 pm
$50
3 CEU's

Michael Brennan, LCSW

The old adage “Laughter is the best medicine,” has survived the test of time, and in present day holds significant weight when coupled with scientific research.  There is significant data that supports the validity of laughter as a therapeutic tool, as well as a cathartic process.  Laughter can help to reduce stress, decrease anxiety, and yes, even assist in helping to fight off disease.  This workshop will teach you how to use laughter as a therapeutic tool to help clients achieve a more authentic sense of self.

Saturday, April 21, 2012
12am-3pm
$60

Steve Vinay Gunther

This workshop will address questions such as: what is spirituality?  How does it relate practically and theoretically to psychotherapy?  Where are the choice points between each approach?  How does spirituality help the practice of therapy? How does therapy help the practice of spiritualty?  These topics will be explored through 3 lenses: principles, practices, experiences, using an experiential group format. We will also explore the topic of religious wounding, and demonstrate how to work with it, using a Gestalt approach.  You will take away with you: a useful & elegant model for examining spirituality & therapy, an increased insight into the place of spirituality in your personal and work life, greater clarity about your own belief systems, support for your own understanding of spiritual experience, inspiration and practical means to ground your spirituality in action, a variety of ways that therapy can incorporate the spiritual, an increased understanding of the differences and similarities between therapy and spirituality, and some healing of your own emotional blocks to spiritual growth.

Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6
10am-5pm
$220 
12 CEU’s

We will spend a four-day weekend in a beautiful, rural setting, learning how to apply Gestalt skills to working with what emerges in the therapeutic encounter.  Our summer intensive focuses on experiencing gestalt psychotherapy as a practitioner.  Students meet in small practicum groups multiple times over the weekend.  In these groups they take the therapist and client roles with each other, practicing live therapy under the direct supervision of a faculty member.  After each session, faculty and students engage in a lively discussion in which they examine the session in terms of gestalt theory and technique.  Guests will have opportunities to work as client with faculty, if desired. 

This training retreat is for mental health/human service professionals, and is particularly helpful for those considering entrance into our postgraduate training program, by exposing them to the aliveness of the Gestalt method and to our training community.

Friday, July 27, 2012, noon through
Monday, July 30, 2012, 2:00pm
20.25 CEU's

For more information, or to register, email gestalt@gestaltnyc.org, or call (212) 387-9429.