Enroll in any or all of 34 Units
- Teaching videos (subtitled in 30 languages)
- Curated course readings
- Comprehensive quiz of learning
- Completion certificate for CE points
Courses
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$5.00 – $15.00
15. Art and Creative Media
Art is a powerful medium in therapy, and the Experiment in Gestalt is ideally suited to its utilisation. We explore a variety of practical ways to apply creative process, support transformation and explore awareness, instead of offering interpretatio
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$10.00 – $40.00
16. Style, Authenticity and Unvirtues
Existential notions of authenticity underpin Gestalt principles & practices. We are not trying to change people; rather help them become more fully themselves. Recognising and owning ones own ‘style’ - healthy & shadow - is inherent to this process.
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$10.00 – $50.00
17. Managing a Unit of Work
The Unit of Work is a practical application of the Awareness Cycle in terms of a therapeutic session. The four distinct phases provide an orienting guide to the therapist in terms of managing the process, in any time slot, from start to completion.
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$20.00 – $100.00
18. Somatics
Gestalt is fundamentally a Somatic Psychotherapy. We work directly with the body using movement, touch, awareness, breathing and grounding. We convert words to body experience, and visa versa. We explore over and underbounding, streaming and postural
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$7.00 – $40.00
19. Shame
Shame underpins many of the emotions people feel and express; however it’s often hidden. We explore a ‘shame-sensitive practice’; the tension between expectations of responsiblity and agency; what is required of the therapist; and the poles of belong
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$25.00 – $140.00
20. Psychopathology
Gestalt emerges from the humanistic tradition of therapy - a growth-oriented view of human development and actualisation. How does an holistic therapy address mental conditions which severely limit people’s capacity for embodiment or relationship?
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$7.00 – $40.00
21. Groupwork
Gestalt is ideallly suited to working with groups. Interactive Groups operate through the Here & Now, I & Thou orientation of Gestalt. We explore the phenomenology and psychology of group process, and apply a Relational orientation at 3 levels of a g
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$15.00 – $90.00
22. Couples and Family Work
We take a tour through Marital & Family Therapy, looking at conjunctions with the four pillars. We examine a specifically Gestalt approach: process oriented, boundaried, using limited interventions plus experiments, support and integration.
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$5.00 – $20.00
23. Suicide
Suicide is a difficult subject to address in therapy, and we look at it with a Gestalt perspective, starting with the personhood, experience, and values of the therapist.
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$15.00 – $80.00
24. Sexuality
We view this complex topic through a Gestalt lens, starting with Field context, addressing the experience and personhood of the therapist, and the place of the Erotic. Awareness of sexual feelings is considered valid to address in the therapeutic dia
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$20.00 – $120.00
25. Attachment and Developmental Approaches
Gestalt does not have a developmental theory; any foray into a person’s Field is brought into the Here & Now. We examine a range of developmental orientations, attachment theory, other therapeutic modalities and their interface with Relational Gestal
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$20.00 – $110.00
26. Character and Personality Systems
Although Gestalt is process-oriented, there is a widespread interest in systems of classification - which can become limiting, diminishing and reductionist. We look at the interface of personality systems, temperament, using a phenomenological approa
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$15.00 – $90.00
27. Historical Influences
Gestalt Therapy is a synthesis of many sources. Here we explore the people, systems of thought, and historical context, ranging through Existentialism, The Grotesque, the Cooperative Anarchism of Kropotkin, and the General Semantics of Korzybski.
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$30.00 – $175.00
28. Ethics and Clinical Practice
We examine core ethical theories, the Situational Ethics which Gestalt draws on, and the difference between Emic and Etic perspectives. We challenge orthodoxies and look at how complexity can be incorporated without compromising the interests of a cl
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$25.00 – $135.00
29. The Transpersonal
Gestalt is a-theoretical in its phenomenological base, focusing on Being-With-What-Is, in a Zen awareness style and using Wu Wei - the Creative Void - as a Taoist therapy style. We explore a range of Transpersonal approaches and their relevance to Ge
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$20.00 – $115.00
30. Work with Trauma and Abuse
The Gestalt approach to trauma underpins many current modalities. We look at working with sexual assault and violence in terms of both clients’ trauma, and clients as perpetrators. We explore a range of orientations including Narrative and Systemic.
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$15.00 – $80.00
31. Working with Children
We take the core Gestalt principles and practices, and apply them to the population of children as clients. We explore a range of techniques and approaches that are very suited to the Gestalt lens, and we look at specific Gestalt ways to work with ch
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$10.00 – $65.00
32. Gestalt and Organisations
The Gestalt approach is highly suited to Organisation Development and Consulting. Gestalt books include Authentic Management, and Neurotic Organisations. We explore these concepts and approaches, applying the 4 pillars to working with business settin
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$35.00 – $185.00
33. Gestalt and The Larger Ecology
Therapy has come under fire as being too focused on the individual and not enough on larger systems. Here we address bigger contexts - community, politics, social change; how therapists can utilise Gestalt approaches to transform the wider Field.
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$20.00 – $100.00
34. Working with Addictions
Addictions are complex and difficult to work with in therapy. We look at a range of approaches to understanding and working with addictions, applications of Field Theory, and explore an explicitly Gestalt model which is correlated with the Awareness