Gestalt Session Videos
Watch 20 complete Gestalt session videos
Gestalt Therapy demonstration: Letting go of being in charge...let me carry your weight
Taking off...having a little day dream...into the body...awareness to the way you hold your mouth...following the tension trail...what would you be worried about..worry as second nature...what can go wrong...useful as an event organiser...context of parents as worriers...styles of worry..left in charge of siblings..biting the lip...
Gestalt Therapy demonstration: A natural empath; vibrating with joy
Gestalt therapy demonstration session with Steve Vinay Gunther. Living with a natural capacity for empathy. A dream about her sister, taking on her burdens. Being in the server role as an assistant. Vibrating with joy. Traumatic exclusion. A volcano of joy.
Gestalt Therapy demonstration: I and Thou - touching pain and anger.
Gestalt therapy demonstration session with Steve Vinay Gunther. Forced to play softball by father, sadness and anger...going to be free for the rest of my life...joy and peace...the open door. Space to express anger, unfinished business with father. Touching pain in the face. Deep connection.
Gestalt Therapy demonstration: Serafina - wings of an angel
Gestalt therapy demonstration session with Steve Vinay Gunther. Serafina: the angel of compassion. The struggle of the angels in human form. Living the human existence...walking between two worlds. Being wrapped in fear....transformed to lightness and freedom - the wings of the angel opening up.
Gestalt Therapy demonstration: Gizelle - marriage after 50
Gestalt therapy demonstration session with Steve Vinay Gunther. Exploring difference, contact, Black and White culture. Turning 50, finding autonomy in the marriage, the dynamics of relationship in mid life. Exploration and challenge.
Gestalt Therapy demonstration: Permission to feel
Gestalt therapy with Steve Vinay Gunther. Learning from divorce. Sole parenting. Dealing with being upset and provoked. Making space for the feeling self. The line between feelings as a parent, and where that becomes a burden for our children. Overwhelming sadness and anger. Egg laying breathing.
Gestalt Therapy demonstration: Barbed Wire Tattoo
Gestalt therapy demonstration session with Steve Vinay Gunther. Exploring the nature of restriction.
Gestalt Therapy demonstration: Dealing with a metal spider
Gestalt therapy demonstration session with Steve Vinay Gunther. Being in transition, being without a base. Dealing with uncertainty. Slowing down, stepping back from action.
Metal spider on the chest...disconnection, rigidity...social conditioning/man in the suit vs naked man on the back of a horse...taking the tie off. Role playing...caught in the structures of the city..vs the freedom of the rider..masculine and feminine energies...
Gestalt Therapy demonstration: Interactive group
Gestalt therapy demonstration with Steve Vinay Gunther. Group process, here and now focus. Always bringing the conversation back to the interpersonal, converting longing into the active dynamic of the opportunities of the present. Mother daughter dynamics - the daughter I never had, compared to mother son dynamics. Brother sister dynamics.
Gestalt Therapy Demonstration: The creative power of a woman
This woman is a psychiatrist, who became disillusioned about being a cog in a system which didn't make sense. So she went to India to find herself. This session is a part of that process: finding herself as a woman, getting in touch with her core creative power, touching on her fears about not being able to give birth; exploring how she can integrate her medical, relational and spiritual interests.
Gestalt Therapy Demonstration: The creative power of a woman
This woman is a psychiatrist, who became disillusioned about being a cog in a system which didn't make sense. So she went to India to find herself. This session is a part of that process: finding herself as a woman, getting in touch with her core creative power, touching on her fears about not being able to give birth; exploring how she can integrate her medical, relational and spiritual interests.
Gestalt Therapy Demonstration: China to Colombia, the death of a baby, the death of a relationship
Who are you? What do you do? You are an engineer, but you are not working? Why? People peppered her with these questions after she returned to Colombia. From Colombia to China to Colombia.
Gestalt Therapy Demonstration: A sincere spiritual fellow
An artist, a teacher, an art therapist, a spiritual seeker. This young man is trying to find his way. Whats most important to him is his spirituality, so thats what we look at. I give honest feedback to him about his prosletysing, and some homework at the end. Its a long process, with a lot of detail at the start which we dont follow up.
Gestalt Therapy demonstration: Lost and Late: Selena, Anxiety and the Dance of Mutual Reassurance
Gestalt therapy with Steve Vinay Gunther; exploring hidden anxiety, recurring 'lost' dreams, a father's internalised judgement about lateness, over-attunement to others, therapist transparency, and a playful hand-mirroring experiment
• First-session nerves and gold buttons: arriving in the room
• Names and where they come from: Selena and Vinay
• A recurring dream of being lost on the way to an appointment
• Anxiety she doesn't feel in her body, and the fear of keeping others waiting
• Her father's strictness about time, now carried inside
• The therapist's own ease with being lost
• Becoming the policeman in the dream: authority without confidence
• Biting her lip: noticing anxiety in the here and now
• Mutual reassurance, and being met without being a burden
• Tears, softness and a different experience of an older man
• Hand puppets and mirroring: following, leading and dancing
• Group feedback on the session
Selena opens the day's demonstrations by bringing a recurring dream: she is lost on the way to an appointment, asking for directions from a policeman who does not really know the way. The dream reveals an anxiety she hardly notices in her body: a deep worry about being late and making others wait, rooted in her father's strictness about time and now carried as her own inner judge. Vinay responds first with his own experience, telling her he gets lost easily and is quite at home with it, and invites her to speak as the policeman in her dream. When he notices her biting her lip, the session moves into the present, where they discover a mutual pattern of reassuring each other. Vinay tells her that he can receive her feelings and vulnerability as a bonus rather than a burden, and Selena is moved to tears by being seen and met with softness. The session closes with a playful hand-puppet experiment in which she moves from following to leading, and discovers that she can dance after all.
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