We will explore through movement and voicework different aspects of the Mother Bear Archetype, and how these aspects relate to an experience of secure attachment. This carefully graded and paced workshop invites participants to engage in play and embodiment through the enactment of an Indigenous American (Iroquois and Penobscot tribes) story. This will be supported by improvised cello music and sounds, helping to deepen the emotional connection. Participants can be involved to whatever extent feels right to them.

This hour-long DVD presentation, hosted by Jon Blend MA Dip Child, features the pioneering expressive arts-led work of Gestalt psychotherapist Dr. Violet Oaklander in session with client Abram (12). After viewing we will discuss clinical aspects arising from the material.

A day of exploration, demystification and experience around the key concepts of relationality and the dialogic relationship. Lots of experiential opportunities to learn about yourself and to develop your client work in a workshop designed to strengthen practice.

NOW is the starting point of Gestalt.

In her lecture, Gaie will be exploring the enormity, the complexity and the frailty of this most present and exciting, this transient, magical and loaded reality.

The bombardment of information that we are subject to for much of our waking life, whether from images or words, is more like a hurricane blowing out the embers than a forming perception giving space for a glow to form, as Perls spoke of awareness.

This 20th Marianne Fry Lecture day will provide an opportunity for everyone to enjoy and even intensify their awareness of now.

In the afternoon, Gaie will facilitate an experiential exploration of issues raised in the lecture.

While I have reduced the human experience to the four core emotions and made it more accessible, it does take time and practice to develop the skills required to support people in sharing thier intimacy (In–To–Me–See) and vulnerability. This is a place where you can practice and hone your skills.

While I have reduced the human experience to the four core emotions and made it more accessible, it does take time and practice to develop the skills required to support people in sharing thier intimacy (In–To–Me–See) and vulnerability. This is a place where you can practice and hone your skills.

Anger is a healthy emotion. Most people do not know what Anger Energy is or the difference between Anger Energy and Aggression.

We need our anger energy to achieve and mobilise. It is what we do with our anger that is questionable. This will be an experiential workshop (not recorded or shared anywhere).

I am organizing a monthly Clinical Supervision meeting for qualified Gestalt, Integrative and Humanistic therapists to start in 2024.

An experiential exploration and explanation, linked to the four core emotions of four core archetypes.

An opportunity to be nourished and refreshed with new tools and insights

A full-day workshop where you can bring your client dilemmas and challenges to build on your skill set and professionalism.

An experiential exploration and explanation, linked to the four core emotions of four core archetypes.

This year-long (2024) in-person course draws inspiration from the pioneering work of Gestalt therapists Violet Oaklander and Mark McConville whose approaches put the relationship between therapist and young person at the heart of the therapeutic process.

This workshop aims to give insights into understanding such issues as sexlessness and the decreased quality of sexual wellbeing in long-term couples.

"The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's style and creatively adjust this to one's author" – Paul Goodman, 1966

This workshop will explore what happens when the author and translator are the same person: a client telling a therapist about their phenomenological reality.

2020 was a watershed year in the fight for racial equality across the global north. The death, nay murder, of George Floyd in America led to the re-recognition of just how poorly persons of colour were seen and treated.

Dwight writes: This experience filtered into the world of counselling and psychotherapy and it was at this stage that, as a practitioner myself, I recognised that I had become adapted within a white supremacist framework in order to survive accordingly. Based on the ideas presented in my new book The Psychology of Supremacy, this talk will look at how and why these adaptations exist and occur and what it means for the racialised other to exist within white environments.