Online Classes on Gestalt Therapy History and Theory will begin in Fall 2021.
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The Gestalt Therapy Training program is an opportunity for helping professions to further develop therapeutic skills and theoretical knowledge specific to Gestalt Therapy. Instruction is both didactic and experiential, and is a co-created effort offered within a supportive yet challenging arena, rich with dynamic group interactions.

Gestalt Therapy Foundational Teachings

Lesson One: Psychological Schools of Thought
Lesson Two: Historical Foundations
Lesson Three: The Structure of Growth
Lesson Four: Maturation and the Recollection of Childhood
Lesson Five: The Theory of Self
Lesson Six: Clinical Phenomenology
Lesson Seven: Creative Adjustments
Lesson Eight: Cultivating Awareness
Lesson Nine: The Paradoxical Theory of Change
Recommended Text: Gestalt Therapy, Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
and Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice

Gestalt Training Level One

Module One: Gestalt Therapy Foundational Beliefs
Module Two: Contact Styles and Resistances
Module Three: Gestalt Cycle of Experience
Module Four: Therapeutic Use of Observation
Module Five: Giving and Receiving Feedback
Module Six: Basic Gestalt Techniques
Module Seven: Therapeutic Use of Self as Instrument
Recommended Text: Gestalt Therapy: Perspectives
and Application and Gestalt Therapy: A Guide to Contemporary Practice

Gestalt Training Level Two

Module Eight: Gestalt Therapeutic Alliance
Module Nine: Gestalt Family and Systems Theory
Module Ten: Theme, Theory & Figure Development
Module Eleven: Advanced Gestalt Intervention Strategies
Module Twelve: Contact Styles and Resistances (Family/Group)
Module Thirteen: Observation Skill for Group Processes
​Recommended Text: Gestalt Therapy: Perspectives and Application and Gestalt Therapy: A Guide to Contemporary Practice
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