Events


Deborah Plummer, Ph.D: two workshops for trainers on antiracist practice
Sep
12
to 13 Sep

Deborah Plummer, Ph.D: two workshops for trainers on antiracist practice

UKAGP presents two workshops for trainers on antiracist practice, with psychologist, consultant and Gestalt practitioner Deborah Plummer, Ph.D

The seminars are for experienced and less experienced trainers of Gestalt therapy, counselling or coaching as well as those who want to train to become trainers.

We’re offering a £50 discount on combined attendance at both workshops, 7 hours of CPD for £100.

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Setting Up in Private Practice
Sep
12

Setting Up in Private Practice

Setting Up in Private Practice: Group Training for Counsellors and Psychotherapists.

If there is one thing that we feel is often missed in psychotherapy and counselling training, it’s a focus on therapy as a business.

Course Dates: 12th September, 26th September, 10th October, 24th October, 7th November, 21 November 2024

Course Time/Location: 6pm-9pm Online

Cost: £300 UKAGP Members / £375 Non-Members

Trainers: Dr Adam Kincel and Hannah Turner

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Gaie Houston: The Enormity of Now
Sep
28

Gaie Houston: The Enormity of Now

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.

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Couples Training - A Gestalt Approach
Oct
4
to 2 Dec

Couples Training - A Gestalt Approach

There are more and more couples reaching out for therapy and seemingly not enough couples therapists to take them on. Dr Visnes developed a Gestalt therapy framework through her PHD work at Metanoia and is now bringing her training to the UK which we are hosting at our practice in Shoreditch London, beginning of October 2024.

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Gillian Downie and Dawn Gwilt: Secure Attachment and the Archetype of Mother Bear
Nov
2

Gillian Downie and Dawn Gwilt: Secure Attachment and the Archetype of Mother Bear

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.

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Julianne Appel-Opper: Relational Living Body Psychotherapy
Nov
22
to 12 Jan

Julianne Appel-Opper: Relational Living Body Psychotherapy

These two weekends are mainly process oriented and the aim is to provide an introduction to bodily and interbodily processes in a small learning group of 12-20 participants. We will focus on how living bodies speak in their bodily rhythms: breathing, moving, and embodied traumatic gestalten. We will explore own embodiment, the cocreated embodied field between therapist and client and how to work within the body-to-body-communication, developing embodied nterventions and experiment.

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Climate change in the consulting room
Nov
17
to 18 Nov

Climate change in the consulting room

This 2-day seminar is relevant for anyone who wants to reflect on the impact the climate crisis has on the human psyche and how in turn the human psyche impacts on the state of the world. How might our theory and practice need to adapt in order to become more porous to the world?

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Marianne Fry Lecture 2023
Sep
23

Marianne Fry Lecture 2023

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.

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Women and Gestalt Gathering
Sep
17
to 20 Sep

Women and Gestalt Gathering

Announcing the very first Women and Gestalt Gathering!

It will be held at the time of the Autumn Equinox and on the second day of the moon cycle in the beautiful country of Ireland. The Gathering reflects and honors the rhythms of the sacred landscape around us in Ennistymon, County Clare, and calls upon women to open more deeply to the sacred landscape and rhythms within.

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GPTI Residential Conference
Sep
15
to 17 Sep

GPTI Residential Conference

Why GSRD?

The GPTI community started an open dialogue last year on the theme of Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) and agreed that this would be continued and expanded at the residential conference. In responding to this, GPTI wanted to offer the opportunity to explore our understanding and felt a sense of our experience, and the ways we resonate (or don’t) within our wider situations.

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A Day of Connection
Jul
1
to 7 Jul

A Day of Connection

Our annual conference, including AGM, will be a one-day event taking place at Holiday Inn Bloomsbury in London on 1st July 2023.

Our conference provides a day for connection across our Gestalt community, for members and non-members of the UK Association of Gestalt Practitioners. If you are passionate about Gestalt and want a day of connection then come and join us. If you are curious about Gestalt and not yet part of the community come and join us.

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