Working with Gestalt Weekend

Course Summary

Fritz Perls believed that people are not made up of separate components, i.e. mind, body and soul but rather are human beings that function as a whole. In doing so, one defines who one is (sense of self) by choice of responses to environmental interactions (boundaries). During this workshop we will look at the Wholeness of a person and the rupture that may have accrued in someone's life and how by using Gestalt techniques we look to resolve unresolved issues.

The course will cover Wholeness and Integration; Self Awareness which leads to Self Regulation; Energy and Blocks to Energy; Growth Disorders; Gestalt Experiments; Use of Language; and Unfinished Business.

Carol will also help you work with Dreams using Gestalt techniques.

The most important goal of Gestalt Therapy is that Gestalt Therapists do not aim to change their clients. The therapist’s role is to assist clients in developing their own self-awareness of how they are in the present moment. This will therefore allow them to rectify issues affecting their life.

 A focus of developing awareness is that of clients’ awareness of their own realities. Therapists work with clients to ‘own’ their own statements – “I get so angry” or “I feel it is his fault”.*