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detail of 12 day introductory certificate of gestalt
Gestalt foundation • 6 days #2
Day 1
Group introductions
The establishment of personal context, intent, capacity, and aims
Sharing of personal and professional transformation goals
Introduction to the Gestalt framework
• The meaning of Gestalt as a concept
• The historical context of the development of Gestalt
• The 4 pillars of Gestalt
• The correlation of Gestalt and Eastern approaches - Taoism and Zen
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
The power of the present
The use of awareness as a psychological tool
Awareness as grounded in body and sensory experience
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
The use of awareness as a key to transformative change
The relationship between blocks to awareness and unfinished business
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Closing meditation
Kiirtan and silent meditation sitting.
Day 2
Opening meditation
Kiirtan and silent sitting.
Check in
- Leftovers from yesterday
- Reflections
- Feelings evoked
- Questions raised
The ingredients of authentic relationship
The basic dynamics of contact: meeting in difference.
The connection between contact and awareness
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Application to participants' transformation
Dyadic work on authentic contact
The significance of boundaries in communication
What happens at the contact boundary
Ways to achieve clarity in contact
Distinguishing feelings from thoughts
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Dyadic work on the contact boundary
How to initiate repair when connection is broken
The issue of responsibility
The significance of language as a tool for contact
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Application to participants' transformation goals
Dyadic work on the language of responsibility
The nature of I-thou relating
I thou and I it
Vertical relating as power, horizontal relating as mutuality
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Application to participants' transformation goals
Dyadic work on the I-thou
Summary
Identifying core learning themes for the day
Questions or reflections
Statements of feeling
Closing meditation
Kiirtan and silent sitting.
Day 3
Opening meditation
Kiirtan and silent sitting.
Check in
- Leftovers from yesterday
- Reflections
- Feelings evoked
- Questions raised
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Review
Core elements of awareness.
Core elements of authentic dialogue.
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Question
Gestalt as related to group process
Introduction to interactive group
The here and now, I and thou, as applied to group process
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Closing process
Reflection and acknowledgement of feelings and learning.
Summary
Identifying core learning themes for the day
Questions or reflections
Statements of feeling
Closing meditation
Kiirtan and silent sitting.
Day 4
Opening meditation
Kiirtan and silent sitting.
Check in
- Leftovers from yesterday
- Reflections
- Feelings evoked
- Questions raised
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
The nature of each person’s creative adjustment
• Personal style
• The context which shapes us
• The essential nature of knowing self
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Dyadic work on authentic contact
The significance of boundaries in communication
What happens at the contact boundary
Ways to achieve clarity in contact
Distinguishing feelings from thoughts
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Application to participants' transformation goals
Dyadic work on the contact boundary
Theories of change
A Taoist approach to fluidity vs stagnancy
The paradoxical theory of change
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Dyadic work on Wu Wei and change
Interactive group
Evolving awareness and authentic relating
Summary
Identifying core learning themes for the day
Questions or reflections
Statements of feeling
Closing meditation
Kiirtan and silent sitting.
Day 5
Opening meditation
Kiirtan and silent sitting.
Check in n
- Leftovers from yesterday
- Reflections
- Feelings evoked
- Questions raised
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Further features of authentic dialogue
• Present focused
• Personal and owned
• Specific rather than generalised
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Dyadic work on authentic contact
The significance of boundaries in communication
What happens at the contact boundary
Ways to achieve clarity in contact
Distinguishing feelings from thoughts
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Dyadic work on the contact boundary
Responsibility
Existential responsibility as liberating rather than burdensome
The Gestalt approach to responsibility
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Application to participants' transformation goals
Dyadic work on the language of responsibility
Interactive group
Evolving awareness and authentic relating
Summary
Identifying core learning themes for the day
Questions or reflections
Statements of feeling
Closing meditation
Kiirtan and silent sitting.
Day 6
Opening meditation
Kiirtan and silent sitting.
Check in
- Leftovers from yesterday
- Reflections
- Feelings evoked
- Questions raised
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Interactive group
Evolving awareness and authentic relating
Reflection on experiential work
Teaching points
Questions
Field Theory
Non-linear causality
Field responsibility
Moving into experiential work
Demonstration of Gestalt principles in intrapsychic and interpersonal process and facilitation.
- Feedback
- Teaching points
- Questions
Application to participants' transformation goals
Dyadic work on the language of responsibility
Summary
Identifying core learning themes for the 6 days
Questions or reflections
Statements of feeling
Closing process
Acknowledgement of experience, learning, and each other
Closing meditation
Kiirtan and silent sitting.
