Gestalt = awareness. We explore the 3 Zones, Awareness Cycle, & the contributions of Gestalt Psychology through Figure / Ground. Unfinished Business = incomplete Gestalten, which naturally move towards resolution with support at interruption points.
Free Course includes: 4 core readings, 5 assignments, 50 item quiz, Completion certificate for 10 CPE points.
Course curriculum
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Video lecture on Awareness and Figure Ground - 147 mins
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Clarkson, P. (1989). The healthy cycle and its application to the counselling process. In Gestalt counselling in action (1st ed., pp. 27ΓÇô39). Sage Publications.
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Greenberg, S. L. (2002). Working with emotion. International Gestalt Journal, 25(2), 31-57.
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Cole, P. H. (1998). Affective process in psychotherapy A Gestalt therapists view. The Gestalt Journal, 21(1), 47-70.
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Miller, M. V. (2002). The aesthetics of commitment What Gestalt therapists can learn from Cezzane and Miles Davis. International Gestalt Journal, 25(1), 109-122.
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Bloom, D. (2019). From sentience to sapience- The awareness-consciousness continuum and the lifeworld. Gestalt Review, 23(1), 18-43.
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Lobb, M. S. (2018). Aesthetic relational knowledge of the field- A revised concept of awareness in Gestalt therapy and contemporary psychiatry. Gestalt Review, 22(1), 50-68.
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Staemmler, F. M. (2002). The here and now A critical analysis. British Gestalt Journal, 11(1), 21-32.
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Sherrill, R. E. (1986). Gestalt therapy and Gestalt psychology. The Gestalt Journal, 9(2), 53-66.
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Shane, P. (2003). An illegitimate child The relationship between Gestalt psychology and Gestalt therapy. International Gestalt Journal, 26(2), 23-46.
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Van Dusen, W. (1975). Invoking the actual. In J. O. Stevens (Ed.), Gestalt is (pp. 75ΓÇô86). Real People Press.
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Glinnwater, J. T. (2000). Gestalt therapy Treatment of the affective self. The Gestalt Journal, 28(2), 81-97.
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Lobb, M. S. (1992). Childbirth as re-birth of the mother A psychological model of training for childbirth by the Gestalt therapy approach. The Gestalt Journal, 25(1), 7-38.
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Bocian, B. (1998). Gestalt therapy and psychoanalysis Toward a better understanding of a figure-ground relationship. Gestalt Review, 2(3), 232-252.
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Wallen, R. (1957). Gestalt therapy and Gestalt psychology. Ohio Psychological Association Meeting, Ohio, United States.
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Root, R. W. (1996). The Gestalt cycle of experience as a theoretical framework for conceptualizing the attention deficit disorder. The Gestalt Journal, 29(2), 9-50.
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The Hoffman Institute. (2013). Feelings list.
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Crenshaw, T. L., & Crenshaw, R. T. (2016). Identifying the sequence of feelings. In M. Foreman (Ed.), Expressing feelings workbook (pp. 1ΓÇô10).
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McNeilly, R. B. (2007). Emotions in counselling. The Centre of Effective Therapy Hobart; North Hobart.
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Margery, M. Hey, listen to your emotions. Mind Journal. https---themindsjournal.com-hey-listen-emotions-.
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Crenshaw, T. L., & Crenshaw, R. T. (2016). Dealing with anger. In M. Foreman (Ed.), Expressing feelings workbook (pp. 1ΓÇô10).
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Crenshaw, T. L., & Crenshaw, R. T. (2016). Exploring the scope of feelings - Self-responsibility. In M. Foreman (Ed.), Expressing feelings workbook (pp. 1ΓÇô19)
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Waters Center for Systems Thinking. (2019). Habits of a systems thinker. httpswaterscenterst.orgwp-contentuploads201403habits-onepage-2019-cc.pdf#page=1&view=FitH
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Sherrill, R. E. (1986). Gestalt therapy and Gestalt psychology. The Gestalt Journal, 9, 53ΓÇô66.
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Clarkson, P. (2013). Gestalt cycle of organismic healthy self-regulation. In Gestalt counselling in action (pp. 22ΓÇô25). Sage Publications.
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Henle, M. (1978). Gestalt psychology and Gestalt therapy. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 14(1), 23ΓÇô32.
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Plagens, C. M. (2015). The Gestalt model of evolutionary creative process. Gestalt Review, 19(2), 144-161.
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Barlow, A. R. (1981). Gestalt-antecedent influence or historical accident. The Gestalt Journal, 4(2), 1ΓÇô11.
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Stevenson, H. (2013). Chapter two - Gestalt cycle of experience.
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About the presenter
Dr Steve Vinay Gunther
Steve Vinay Gunther has studied Gestalt therapy since 1985 and founded Gestalt institutes in Australia, South Korea, and China. Since 2000, he has been an international Gestalt trainer, teaching in Asia, Egypt, South Africa, Mexico, Colombia, and the USA.
In addition to Gestalt therapy, Steve is trained in family therapy, narrative therapy, somatic therapy, career coaching, and family constellations. He has practiced and studied meditation since 1973 and previously served as a professor of Spiritual Psychology at the Ryokan Institute in Los Angeles.
Steve pioneered relational psychology with his concept, The Unvirtues, and designed the Relational Parenting system. He is the father of five children and grandfather to four boys.