Relationality and Dialogue in Gestalt Practice
A workshop for Gestalt/Humanistic/Integrative Students and Practitioners led by UKCP Registered Gestalt Psychotherapists
Chris O’Malley MSc and Matthew Lee PG Dip, BSc
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.
Saturday 26th October 2024, 9.30am - 4.30pm
Venue: Moseley Hive, Moseley, Birmingham
In the beginning is relation (Buber, 1958)
There is no self without other (Jacobs, 1992)
Martin Buber spoke of an attitude of genuinely feeling, sensing, experiencing the other person as a person, not an object or part object, and the willingness to deeply hear the other person's experience without judgement. The dialogic relationship is at the heart of gestalt therapy, but what exactly is it and how can we implement it in its various forms in clinical work?
Who is the workshop for?
Counsellors/Psychotherapists with a gestalt/integrative or other humanistic approach
Anyone who wishes to understand and develop dialogic relating as a core part of their client work
People working in a variety of settings, short and long-term work
Students who feel they need a refresher or greater understanding and experience
What is the workshop about?
The case for clients to be ‘met’ in relationship as opposed to being offered only interpretations, psychoeducation, or behavioural retraining
The ‘relational turn’ in therapy and meaning of ‘relational’
The unique place of Dialogic Relating in therapy theory; dialogic attitude, dialogic practice
The parameters of Dialogic Relating; I-Thou and I-It, Inclusion, Presence, Confirmation etc
Process vs Content in therapy
What will the workshop involve?
An emphasis on experiential learning and process
Theory-into-practice focus
Demonstrations and opportunities to practice, making dialogic relating accessible
Consideration of difference and diversity
Further Details:
Workshop Fees:
Early Bird rate: £125 / Thereafter £140
Early Bird booking closes 31st August
A CPD Attendance Certificate will be available.
For more information and/or to make a booking email: chris@gestaltbirmingham.co.uk
To ensure the best opportunities for individual and pairs/group work, the workshop will be limited to 16 places. Hot drinks will be available during the day, and the local area has many very good food outlets for lunchtime. Alternatively, you can bring your own lunch to eat indoors or in the nearby park.
Further workshops on developing Gestalt Practice will be held in Autumn ‘24 and Spring ‘25. Please look out for flyers.
Chris O’Malley UKCP Registered Gestalt Psychotherapist/Supervisor, BACP Accredited Counsellor MSc (Gestalt Psychotherapy), BA (Hons) Cert. Supervision, Dip Couns, SM (GPTI), PGCE, ATCL
Chris is Secretary to the Board of Gestalt Publishing Limited and Assistant Editor with the British Gestalt Journal. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Newman University. Chris has many years teaching experience and has also worked in counselling services in the NHS, HE and police sectors. He has been published in professional journals and has run workshops at national and international conferences.
Matthew Lee UKCP Registered Gestalt Psychotherapist, NCPS Accredited Counsellor, PG Advanced Diploma (Gestalt Psychotherapy), BSc (Hons), Cert. Couns.
Matt is currently in private practice in Birmingham alongside his role as a student counsellor at Aston University. He has extensive experience within the field of counselling and therapy, which includes supporting people affected by cancer and in delivering gestalt workshops at Coventry University.