A one - year program of psychological education and personal development in the Gestalt approach. Participants prepare to participate in the training of professional psychotherapeutic skills. After the completion and an interview a candidate can apply for the second stage. The participants receive a certificate of completion of a training course. It consists of ten training modules.

Assumptions:

Gestalt stimulates to get to know and accept oneself better, teaches how to meet with the other openly, directly and closely. It enables a conscious contact with feelings and needs and creative and respectful meeting others.
This program is an offer for:

those who look for a better quality of life,

candidates for a profession of psychotherapists who at first through their own experience get to know the modality they want to practice.

The curriculum includes:

Interpersonal training (40 hours) - the objective of this session is to prepare the participants to effective learning during a one- year training with the use of personal experience and assimilation of theory based on a group process.

Workshops (4x25 hours) - their objective is to learn theoretical foundations and basic Gestalt notions and rules in psychotherapy and basis of other modalities.

Theory and practice of Transactional Analysis (25 hours) - the objective is to learn theoretical basis, diagnostic and therapeutic practice with TA.

Gestalt and bodywork (25 hours) - the objective is to learn in theory and practice the integrative approach using bodywork with Gestalt perspective.

Personal development training (50 hours) - therapeutic work in the area of emotional difficulties.

Widening the borders of a creative "I" (25 hours) - the aim is to stimulate creative and individual resources of the participants based on the theory and practice of work with client and personal work.

Summing up of the course information and experience (25 hours).

Training structure:

The training is realized in a 12-15 people workshop group and consists of 10 workshops which take place once a month.

Staff:

The workshops are conducted by experienced gestalt therapists - members of the Institute team.

Place:

The training takes place in Krakow or Myślenice.
In Krakow the Institute offers free accommodation in basic conditions. The participants can use a kitchen.

Dates:

The beginning of the next edition is planned for March 2010.

Cost:

Total cost is 8364 PLN.

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Assumptions:

An advanced course for trainers working in business. It enriches trainer's professional workshop by practical psychological skills.

The course curriculum includes the following issues:

Contact, structure and group roles, dynamics of a group process.

Self-diagnosis of possibilities and limitations of a trainer, communication barriers, non-verbal communication.

Strategy, forecasting and management.

Elements of Transactional Analysis, psychological games, conflict.

Contact - invasion - avoidance, relation trainer - group.

Supervision of individual professional difficulties, ethics of group work, evaluation of trainer's work.

Training structure:

Six twenty-hour modules - workshops and lectures.

Staff:

The workshops are conducted by certified trainers from the Institute and by Daniel Grosjean, an international consultant in the area of HR management and coaching, supervisor at the Gestalt School in Paris and CDIG in Geneva.

Place: to be determined

Dates: to be determined

Cost:

This course can be organized as a closed training for internal trainers in a company.

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Assumptions:

This course prepares to obtain a certificate of supervisor and to start cooperation with the Institute as a training supervisor.

Requirements to qualify to the training:

- certificate of a psychotherapist
- 4 years of practice as a psychotherapist after the completion of the training
- Regular supervision of psychotherapeutic practice
- Positive result of a qualification interview

The curriculum covers the following issues:

Supervision work - the difference between psychotherapy, training, supervision, types of supervision, its tasks, supervisor's responsibility areas.

Supervision contract

Transference, counter-transference and parallel process

Other aspects of supervision:

• Client (his pathology))
• Therapist (his "blind spots", counter-transference, parallel process, attitudes to supervision)
• Supervisor (proper competence and skills, his "blind spots", personal style)
• Relation supervisor - therapist (parallel process, supervision alliance, authority issues, shame related issues)
• Modality (Gestalt theory and practice)
• Context in which supervision takes place ( society, family, group, group dynamics, institution, etc.)
• Analogies and dependencies between various levels (client's life, psychotherapy and supervision)

Evaluation and self-evaluation of supervision competence

Ethics

A final evaluation includes:

Two written works

• Description of a supervision process, where an adept was supervised, showing what benefits he obtained
• Description of a supervision process, where an adept was the supervisor including comments to his work

A practical exam

• Demonstration of an actual supervision (40 minutes) conducted in front of a group and examiners with a randomly selected psychotherapist from a training group

Training structure:

Workshops with theory, methodology and practical skills. They last for about a year and consist of five workshops a 30 hours each, including a practical exam.
Individual practice as a supervisor.

Staff:

Peter Schulthess - Chairman of the Training Standards Committee of EAGT.
Katarzyna Węglorz-Makuch - supervisor at the Institute
Beata Leśniak - supervisor at the Institute
The Examination Commission is chaired by Michèle Combeau form the Institute Savoir - Psy in Paris.

Place: Gestalt Therapy Institute

Dates: 2010

Cost:

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Assumptions:

This course is addressed to psychotherapists who want to include bodywork to their methods of work with clients.
Bodywork is particularly close to the authors of the workshop who are Gestaltists, because the basic assumption of Gestalt is holism in experiencing and understanding other people. Hence we believe that body and bodily aspects are as important in psychotherapeutic work as other aspects of human existence.
Our curriculum is the result of our long experience in applying bodywork in psychotherapy and the training with Jim Kepner in the gestalt method of bodywork. To our course we invited experts who have large knowledge and experience as well as passion. in their areas of specialization.

The curriculum includes the following subjects:

Dependence between psyche - soma - health

Presentation of psychotherapeutic body - oriented approaches
(Reich, Lowen, biosynthesis, somatotherapy, Keleman)

Developmental - therapeutic workshop conducted by Jim Kepner presenting his own Gestalt bodywork method

Psychophysical development of a child (prenatal development, developmental reflexes of an infant, developmental rights, basic types of movement)

Development of body aspects of a character structure

Basics of neuropsychology

Touch in therapeutic work

Ethics in bodywork, contract

Therapeutic understanding of blocks, holding energy in body, omato- emotional diagnosis

Psychophysical functions and nourishment according to the Eastern Medicine

Basic life functions - diagnosis of disorders, therapeutic methods

• Breathing - diaphragms, rebirthing, other methods of releasing breath
• Sexuality, abuse

Therapeutic methods of bodywork

Methods promoting development, accompanying therapeutic processes - massage, meditation, relaxation, gymnastics, expression with music

Training structure:

Workshops with theory, methodology, training of practical skills and personal therapeutic work - 200 hours, 5 workshops a 40 hours each.

Place: Gestalt Therapy Institute

Date: 2010

Cost:

Total cost:

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