Autumn 2024 Newsletter
In Stuckness and Play
2024 Conference Reflections Video
Memories and reflections from the 2024 UKAGP residential conference, compiled into a video collage.
Chair’s Report: Stuckness and Play
This newsletter is a continuation of the theme of our wonderful conference in June this year. I know how much I enjoyed all aspects of us exploring these experiences and I’m looking forward to reading what has evolved from those days together.
Val Randle: The Story of the Skatepark
“It looks like a disaster about to happen” the man sitting next to me said, and then we shared how good it was to be witnessing such a model of cooperative, democratic, creative community.
Julia Ouzia: In Stuckness and Play, reflections on Gestalt and pedagogy
A short overview of a new publication by Julia Ouzia and Estrella Sendra linking Gestalt and pedagogy.
Jon Blend: Breathe In!
A Road Less Travelled? Answering the Call to Work Dialogically With Troubled Youth.
Piotr Mierkowski: In stuckness, in play and… in ordinary things
A summer visit to Monk’s House – Leonard and Virginia Woolf's country retreat – evokes the value of noticing the small and inconsequential.
David Forrest: Stuck on the Outside
Stuckness and Play as symptoms of deliberation and spontaneity.
New Gestalt Voices: Love Edition
Anne, Helen, Liz and Dawn were curious and energised following a training module entitled "Truly, Madly, Deeply, Love through a Relational Gestalt lens". After 2 years, this journal, containing images, articles, music and poetry from across the world has been the beautiful result.
In Our Field
Upcoming events from our members and wider community – including an experiential retreat on the holy island of Lindisfarne, opportunities for supervision and group process, CPD in body psychotherapy, projective arts work with children, and much more!