The Gestalt Center invites you to gain a deeper understanding of Gestalt therapy and its many applications by taking our workshops.  Our expert and diverse practitioners offer workshops and short courses in the areas of personal growth, mental health, and therapy practice. The short course "Introduction to Gestalt" is particularly useful for those considering entering the three-year post-graduate training program.

Continuing Education credits (CEU's) toward National Association of Social Worker (NASW) credentials and CASAC certification through the New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) are now available for most of our workshops, as noted below.

Pre-registration is required.

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* "MHP" in the chart below means Mental Health Practitioner

TITLE/PRESENTER/DESCRIPTION	DATE/TIME	OPEN TO*	CEU's	COST
INTRODUCTION TO GESTALT Faculty Obtain a beginning understanding of both Gestalt theory and practice.  There will be a live demonstration of a Gestalt therapy session and information about our three-year post-graduate training program.                    RSVP REQUIRED	SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13 3-6 PM   TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22 7-9 PM   TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17 7-9 PM   SATURDAY DECEMBER 5 2-5 PM	ALL	-	FREE
ARE YOU READY FOR CHANGE? Daniel Tisman, LMSW This free ongoing Gestalt evening is open to both therapists and those interested in finding out more about Gestalt therapy as a client. There will be a brief lecture followed by a demonstration showing Gestalt therapy in action.                                                  RSVP REQUIRED	MONDAY   OCTOBER 19 OR NOVEMBER 16   6:00 PM - 7:30 PM	ALL	-	$15.00   Monday October 19 November 16 Option 3
GESTALT THERAPY WITH COUPLES 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.	SATURDAY    OCTOBER 3   11:00 - 2:00 PM	MHP	3	$50.00
Gestalt group Therapy: An experiential & didactic overview Bud Feder, Ph. D This workshop will include a review of the history of Gestalt group therapy (GGT), as well as a group experience in which all will participate.  Within a Gestalt framework, we will review the work, group dynamics, terms and principles. A second Gestalt group therapy approach will also be offered, and the two approaches will be compared and contrasted. Time permitting; participants will have the opportunity to lead a group or to bring up group therapy cases for supervision.	SATURDAY   OCTOBER 17 10:00 AM - 4 PM	ALL	4	$50.00
GESTALT THERAPY AND SHAMANISM: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE AND CONSCIOUS LIVING  Nancy Dakota Adlman, LCSW Elizabeth Lyngholm, MA Both Gestalt and Shamanism deal with present centered awareness and consciousness on a visceral and oganismic 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   OCTOBER 24 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM	ALL	4	$65.00
INTEGRATING GESTALT DREAMWORK WITH CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH Helen Kramer, LP This workshop will teach how using Gestalt dream work can reveal ineffective patterns that have been hardwired into the brain, and how to identify issues that may be functioning below an individual’s "radar.” We will combine information from dreams with therapeutic techniques to help individuals transform these patterns.  This workshop will teach material from Helen Kramer’s book, Liberating the Adult Within, how to override the biological reflex that causes the brain to misread stress as danger therefore triggering the primitive, fight or flight response. Helen integrates cutting edge brain research to understand how emotions are formed and how they can be transformed.	SATURDAY   NOVEMBER 14 11:00 AM - 5 PM	ALL	5	$50.00
Expressive Gestalt Therapy: Non-Verbal Expressions Marilyn Kurzyna, LCSW This workshop is designed for practitioners to explore and experiment with different techniques and materials that are non-threatening and non-verbal to use in the treatment of traumatized and blocked clients. We will focus on how these types of clients make contact with the environment. The brushstroke of paint on a canvas, the beat of a drum, and the step in a dance are silent expressions of feeling. Words are not always necessary. This is an experiential workshop. Participants should be prepared to get messy and please wear or bring old clothes.	SATURDAY   NOVEMBER 21 10:00 AM - 5 PM	MHP	6	$70.00
Mind/Body Healing Therapies: An IntegratION OF Contemporary Gestalt, Eriksonian and Mindfulness Based approaches Ron Alexander, Ph. D. We will explore by starting with mindfulness meditation and then moving more deeply into looking at both our style of how we work and our internal issues by utilizing Gestalt-Mind/Body therapies. This workshop includes direct experience with clinical demonstrations by the trainer, some theory and the teaching of a wide range of modalities and clinical skills to support practitioners to become more creative and resourceful when treating trauma, pain, mood and somatic disorders. The areas covered in this workshop include handling psychotherapeutic resistance and attachment issues; the neurobiology of trauma and healing; Buddhist psychological approaches (antidote remedies) for effecting positive changes in mind, mood and happiness; and developing an integral approach to the therapeutic process.	SUNDAY   DECEMBER 6 9:30 AM 5:00 PM	MHP	6	$60.00
CREATING EXPERIMENTS OUT OF PROCESS: DEEPENING PSYCHOTHERAPY Lee Zevy, LCSW Through the use of dialogue, experiential exercises and therapeutic practice, workshop participants will discover how to allow their spontaneous creative impulses to form and organize meaningful therapeutic experiments that allow for greater insight. This will demonstrate how experiments arising more immediately out of the process of individual or group therapy, have the power to deepen work as they bring to greater awareness the multifaceted experience of the individual in the environment field. Elements of Gestalt theory such as contact, functions of the self, and figure/ground will be integrated into the knowledge presented and experience of the workshop.	SATURDAY   DECEMBER 12 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM	ALL	4	$50.00

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