STRUCTURE OF TRAINING AT MHI BASIC COURSE

First stage - 1.5 years (180 hours) - “Fundamentals of Gestalt Therapy” - introduction to the method, training in the basic concepts and principles of the Gestalt approach, personal therapeutic experience in a group, work with an individual therapist, participation in intensive training in the client position.

Second stage - 2.5 years (420 hours) - “Theory and practice of Gestalt therapy” - professional training of Gestalt therapists, ends with certification (see “Certification requirements”). Includes theoretical training, personal therapy, supervision, work in small groups, participation in intensive courses (in client and therapeutic positions), in conferences, choosing and completing a specialization (or attending a special course), as well as beginning own practice under supervision. The specialization ends with a graduation event, which is supervised by one of the leading MGI trainers. Specializations and special courses are conducted in parallel with the main basic program, and can also be taken after its completion.

The topics of the basic course include stages 1 and 2, defined in 4 large theoretical blocks: 1) introduction to theoretical and philosophical issues of Gestalt therapy, 2) methodology of practice, 3) clinical and other particular issues of Gestalt therapy, 4) supervision. The logic of placing individual topics in the training process depends on the program leader and the dynamics of the group.

After completing the 1st stage, an intermediate certificate is issued indicating the topics and hours. Those who want to continue their studies at the 2nd level submit an application to MHI or the head of the program. That. a 2nd stage group can be an association of participants from various 1st stage groups who are motivated for professional training. For a certain number of participants, education will be cross-cutting.

If the dates of the basic course and other events coincide, the participant may not pay for participation in the latter, and the event manager must ensure that the participant has the opportunity to work out his pass.

Stage 2 ends with a supervisory certification session in a group (so-called internal certification) with the invitation of an independent supervisor - a trainer who has released his own programs and (or) a therapist and in the presence of the program manager(s).

After completing the certification requirements (see “Certification Requirements”), the program participant submits a grade book and all materials (descriptions of cases with reviews, confirmation of hours of personal therapy, supervision, intensive training, accompanied by a recommendation from the program director to the training department and enrolls in open certification. Open certification conducted by the MHI certification commission, whose composition is formed for a period of one year and approved professional advice MHI. The certification commission works with a group consisting of participants different programs who prepared materials for given date. Open certification dates are indicated on the MHI website. Certification can be complete, conditional (indicating the conditions necessary for successful completion), or a retake may be recommended, i.e., repeated demonstration of the work at a different time. In some cases, in particular in cases of violation of ethical standards, re-certification may be denied.

After the commission has reviewed the materials and the student has demonstrated work on open certification, recognized as appropriate professional level, he is issued a MGI certificate for successful completion of a training program in the field of the Gestalt approach with the qualification of a Gestalt therapist.

To recognize a graduate of the program as a therapist by the professional community, an accreditation procedure is required for a certain period of time (3 years), after which the question of confirming the status of a therapist again arises.

The accreditation procedure involves:

1 - presence of a certificate of completion of the program,

3 - description of the experience of one’s own practice ( individual clients, groups, families, organizations), indicating participation in intensive courses (in which ones, and in what role), in supervisory and thematic groups, in conferences, conducting workshops, speeches, articles, etc.

4 - statement in public organization Society of Practicing Psychologists “Gestalt Approach” or to the regional representative office of the society for accreditation in the professional community as a therapist.

The third stage - 360 hours - is focused on training supervisors, teachers of Gestalt therapy, as well as an in-depth study of the theory and methodology of practice. Stage 3 programs exist at MHI currently in standard version. A separate issue of the newsletter will be devoted to their description. There are also original supervisory programs for improvement in Gestalt therapy.

TRAINING PROGRAM FOR GESTALT THERAPISTS

Basic course

Training standards are aligned with EAHT standards

MAIN THEMES:

1. Basics of Gestalt therapy. Theoretical introduction, historical roots, founders of Gestalt therapy, schools of Gestalt therapy, authors, modern Gestalt approach, literature. Basic concepts and principles of Gestalt therapy (field - organism-environment, phenomenological approach in Gestalt therapy, dialogue, awareness, figure and ground, contact, contact boundary, cycle of experience, creative adaptation).

2. Field theory in Gestalt therapy. Theory and functions of self. Dynamics self. Resistance. Loss of ego function, main types of contact interruption.

3. Creative methods in Gestalt therapy. Working with the client's internal phenomenology. The theory of paradoxical change. Working with polarities. Art therapy, work with drawings, metaphors, dreams. Languages ​​of Gestalt therapy. Modalities of contact. Therapeutic metaphors.

4. Gestalt and body-oriented approach. Alienation and awakening of physicality. Dynamics of bodily experiences in personal history.

5. Philosophy of the Gestalt approach and methodology of practice. Psychotherapeutic worldview and psychotherapeutic thinking. Therapeutic position and professional self-awareness of the Gestalt therapist. The therapeutic relationship, transference and countertransference. Basic strategies for working as a Gestalt therapist. Work at the contact boundary. Process analysis of a therapeutic session.

6. Theories of development. Child development. Gestalt therapy with children and parents. Family Gestalt therapy.

7. Crisis and trauma.

8. Gestalt therapy in clinical practice. Health and illness. Principles of clinical diagnosis in Gestalt therapy. Dynamic concept of personality in Gestalt therapy. Analysis of early disorders. Strategies of a Gestalt therapist in working with endogenous disorders, borderline disorders, addictions, neuroses and psychosomatic disorders.

9. Gestalt approach to working with groups. Field phenomena in group dynamics. Gestalt and systems approach. Working with pairs and small systems. Therapeutic community. Organizational gestalt consulting.

10. Principles and applications of ethics.

The listed topics reflect the content of the training and do not correspond to the list of thematic sessions. The logic and focus of the presentation is determined by the program director and depends on the dynamics and composition of the specific group.

The program includes 20 sessions - 14 thematic, 2 therapeutic and 4 supervisory.

CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

1. Theoretical training - 700-810 hours (1+2 levels), including

14 thematic sessions - 420 hours

Specialization or special course of your choice - 120-180 hours

(in the absence of specializations in certain regions, they can be replaced by proprietary thematic seminars)

Lecture courses in the absence of them in basic education (psychiatry for psychologists and teachers, theories of personality and psychological theories development for doctors) - 60 hours

Theoretical training at intensive courses (hours of lectures and classes in study groups by level) −100-150 hours.

2. Personal therapy - 240 hours, includes a minimum of 60 hours of individual therapy (at least 50 hours of work with one therapist is recommended, possibly with two, but not at the same time, hours of intensive therapy are also taken into account), 60 hours of group therapy sessions included in the program , intensive process groups - 20 hours, small therapeutic groups parallel to the program - 100 hours.

3. Supervision - 150 hours, including 120 hours of group supervision included in the program and 30 hours of individual supervision (intensive supervision, regular correspondence dynamic supervision of work with real clients when preparing cases (it is recommended to apply for supervision once every 4-5 meetings with the client), individual face-to-face supervision in small groups for 3-4 years of study - with an invited external supervisor).

4. The workshop includes 400 hours, including: (A) 200 hours of work in small groups - “troikas”. Of these, 50 hours are practical training in 1-2 years of study and 150 hours under supervision in 3-4 years of study. The Troika meets every 1-2 weeks and invites a supervisor to every fifth meeting. (B) 200 hours of advisory and therapeutic work with clients, families, groups, organizations, as well as the use of the Gestalt approach in the practice of their professional activities during training at the second stage, its brief description.

5. Writing a written work on the clinical and theoretical application of Gestalt therapy in one’s professional practice - a description of 3 cases of long-term work, one of them with regular correspondence supervision.

6. Having a diploma higher education in psychology or related field.

7. Participation in at least two intensive sessions (preferably three), in the client’s position and in the therapist’s position. Client intensive (one) can be replaced by a shuttle. Participation in at least one, preferably two conferences in the field of the Gestalt approach, at least 50 hours of exposure to the theory and practice of Gestalt through lectures, workshops, participation in round tables, etc.

9. Demonstration of work at the certification session completing the program in the presence of an invited independent supervisor.

10. If a program participant is not certified, a corresponding entry is made in his account book. Re-certification is possible after 1 year.

MHI FINAL STANDARDS - February 2007.

1) 700-810 hours of theory and methodology

2) 240 hours of personal therapy

3) 150 hours of supervision

4) 400 hours of practical work

5) 50 hours of conference time

Total: 1540 - 1650 hours.

EAHT training standards - minimum 1450 hours

1) 600 hours of theory and methodology

2) 250 hours of personal therapy

3) 150 hours of supervision

4) 400 hours of clinical practice

5) 50 hours according to personal preference.

The educational standards of MHI exceed the standards of the EAGT in terms of hours of theory and methodology (by taking into account intensive training hours).

EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR THE FINAL CERTIFICATION SESSION IN GESTALT THERAPY UNDER THE MGI PROGRAM:

1. Certification is the final part of the Gestalt Therapy training assessment. In addition, the final assessment includes the assessment of the program manager, assessment written works(case descriptions and essays).

2. During the certification session, the

A) therapist behavior during a simulated session that can be directly observed

B) the therapist's reasoning during the discussion after the simulated session.

Both components have equal importance for the final grade.

3. Criteria by which the certification session is not counted, since the listed phenomena indicate a loss of therapeutic position:

A) the therapist ignores the client’s phenomenology;

B) the therapist uses the client to relieve his tension;

C) the therapist is unable to discuss his or her work.

4. Criteria by which a session is counted as a Gestalt session, since these listed phenomena indicate support for the client’s awareness and creative adaptation:

While working, the therapist:

A) is attentive and sensitive to the client’s phenomenology here and now;

B) maintains the integrity of the client’s experience, works with figure/ground dynamics;

C) maintains a dialogical relationship with the client;

D) correlates his actions with the sequence of the cycle of experience.

During the discussion, the therapist:

E) can use Gestalt theory to diagnose the client;

E) can describe his choices and strategies from the perspective of Gestalt therapy.

Results of the certification session - the session is counted unconditionally, conditionally and not counted. Certifiers can only base their decision on what they saw and heard, not on what they thought might have happened.

Application:

Decoding the criteria.

Ignores the client's phenomenology, for example:

Does not pay attention to age, health, family and social situation, emotional condition, cultural and educational characteristics,

Refers to imaginary or hypothetical events and phenomena.

Uses the client to relieve his tension, for example:

Blames the client for his worries

Demands admiration and recognition

Seduces client sexually

Humiliates and offends the client to assert his position

Unable to discuss your work, for example:

Justifies himself, defends himself, accuses the commission,

Falls into passion, stupor, dementia

Cannot explain his elections and interventions

Explanation of criteria for positive assessment:

Attentive to phenomenology here and now, for example:

Pays attention to various manifestations (voice, breathing, gaze, posture, interruptions...)

Flexibly changes his behavior and his manifestations depending on the client’s manifestations

Works with figure/ground dynamics, for example:

Supports the development of the figure, asks questions, suggests strengthening and developing the figure

Supports background research, explores context, situation, field here and now, refers to metaphors and images.

Maintains integrity, for example:

Addresses the client's self,

Addresses the integration of different aspects of experience

Supports dialogic relationships, for example:

Marks boundaries between client and therapist (I think so, don’t you?)

Shows interested doubt and revises hypotheses

Recognizes the presence own position and shows concern for the client’s experiences (when you say, I...)

Assumes and maintains the client's affect by the therapist's presence and expressions

Correlates its interventions with the dynamics of contact;

Uses Gestalt diagnostics, for example:

Relates observed phenomenology to interruptions of contact or figure/ground dynamics or the cycle of experience or to the process of awareness or theory of the self. (it was a projection because...) ,

Can substantiate the therapeutic hypothesis from the point of view of Gestalt theory (perhaps the client turned to the personality function because he avoided anxiety...)

Describes his choices from the point of view of Gestalt theory, for example:

I asked a question, paused, shared my opinion in order to: - support the figure, contact, awareness, ego function, etc.

Stop projection, increase resistance...

“Improvement in Gestalt Therapy” standards for third-stage programs

The meaning, goals and objectives of the third stage

The program is addressed to practicing Gestalt therapists with basic education in the field of Gestalt therapy (see relevant standards).

The goal of the program is to create a space for the formation of a professional community, where a balance is important between the professional growth of participants and the opportunity to recognize, recognize and support each other on a collegial basis. The program is built on the principles of collegiality and shared responsibility, both between participants and between participants and managers of each specific project. This is realized when drawing up a training contract, through reference to the group context, the topic of relationships and professional ethics. Completion of the second stage is the basis for collegial relations.

The main goal of the program is: the formation of professional thinking as a single professional basis, where a variety of professional manifestations are integrated (theoretical, therapeutic, supervisory, etc.). Professional thinking makes it possible to apply one’s experience in different fields, as well as the ability to maintain three contexts in work: - individual, group and thematic; - awareness personal philosophy practices behind life path and the unique personal situation of the therapist; - formation of professional identity; as well as the integration of their views into a holistic professional worldview.

All this requires the therapist to develop the ability to realize and analyze the practice on various levels- philosophical, methodological, theoretical and practical-technological.

To solve the tasks it is necessary:

mastering the theoretical core of Gestalt therapy,

training in supervision as the basis of the professional culture of the community,

group work skills,

mastery of the broad context of life of social groups and professional communities.

A graduate of the third stage program must have the following skills:

Diagnostics, choice of therapeutic strategy, analysis of therapeutic relationships in the field context (social, cultural, group, etc.).

Mastery of individual and group forms of work and the ability to choose a work strategy taking into account the client’s situation.

Build relationships and act in various professional roles (therapist, supervisor, group leader, teacher, colleague, etc.).

Creating and maintaining long-term therapeutic relationships with clients;

Providing skilled supervision, taking into account the context and level of training of the therapist, as well as his ability to assimilate experience.

Public presentation of your work - therapist, supervisor, trainer, therapeutic group leader, etc.

The goals and objectives of each third-stage project are determined by the specific composition of the participants and the form of their agreement with the program leaders. These goals and objectives may be more focused on the development of therapeutic skills, supervision practices, and the training of group therapists leading various training programs.

Participants in the third stage project can strive to master all of the listed forms of training, or they can improve their skills in specific areas.

In the professional community we observe three processes: educational, therapeutic and collegial. The third stage program allows you to integrate these processes into a professional psychotherapeutic worldview, which manifests itself in the participant’s specific position in the life of the community.

Main themes:

Gestalt therapy theory ( historical context creation and development of Gestalt therapy, main schools and directions of Gestalt therapy, basic concepts of Gestalt therapy, place of Gestalt therapy in relation to other directions, literature).

Supervision ( theoretical basis supervision, various schools of supervision, types, forms, models, levels of supervision, supervision in various professional contexts).

Group work ( various shapes- therapeutic, supervisory, educational, thematic, social groups, communities).

Clinical aspects of Gestalt therapy and supervision.

Ethics of professional relations.

Form of the program

The composition of the third-level presenters is approved by the professional council “MHI program” in agreement with the regional trade council.

The program is conducted by a team of 3 or 4 permanent trainers.

This model, presented in space, forms a figure consisting of an infinite number of points in the participants’ search for a possible identity, creating the prospect of a multidimensional vision of reality. This model greatly reduces the risk of splitting that is present when leading a group in pairs, as well as the risk of participants copying the leader’s style when leading a program alone.

The work takes place in large and small groups in a supervisory and therapeutic format. Small groups are created according to the number of leaders, with a permanent leader of the therapeutic group and rotating leaders of the supervisory group.

Large group tasks:

Mastering the theory (lectures, thematic seminars, presentations, essays, reports).

Awareness of the dynamic processes of community life in the formation of collegial relationships, professional and ethical.

Supervision (training different forms supervision, practice supervision, group supervision).

Lectures and thematic seminars are conducted by both program leaders and its participants.

The task of a small supervisory group- development of professional skills in therapy and supervision.

The task of a small therapeutic group- therapy for participants.

Independent tasks individual work participants:

implementation individual project his professional development in the community;

preparation of presentations, reports and lectures demonstrating theoretical orientation in the Gestalt approach;

continuation of therapy and supervision throughout the program;

carrying out professional practice during the project;

organizing your own supervision practice and receiving supervision for supervision, therapeutic work and group work;

work in small groups of “fives” throughout the entire training process and in between training sessions to develop supervision skills, supervision on supervision and support of long-term therapeutic relationships in fixed “therapist-client” pairs. In the "fives" they master experience in both the form of dynamic supervision (with the same supervisor) and the form of supervisory consulting (with different supervisors). In the course of work, hours of personal therapy received from a certified Gestalt therapist in the top five are taken into account.

Conditions and forms of certification:

Availability of a Gestalt therapist certificate;

Completion of the main course of the third stage program: 430-480 academic hours (12-14 training sessions). Minimum Required hours for 3-4 years, depending on the frequency of sessions per year and the form of classes for 3 or 4 days, is 420 hours. The recommended number of hours is 480 hours, including the certification session. The program includes lectures - at least 36 hours, seminars - at least 72 hours, group supervision - at least 90 hours, small group therapy - 72 hours. Leaders, in consultation with the group and taking into account the specific context, can return to the contact to clarify it.

Individual therapy for at least 120 hours, including the basic course.

Participation in two intensive courses during the program as a member of the supervisory group, leading process groups at intensive courses and conferences, supervision of a small group workshop (three basic courses), representing a workshop at a conference.

Presentation of an individual project at the final conference as part of the certification session; a written form of the project is required. A project is a study and description of what has already been done and is being done for at least a year in duration, presented among colleagues, reflecting the identity of the participant, his place in the professional community, individual development path, professional thinking and personal philosophy.

Essay submission and participation in round table on the topic of supervision as part of the final conference.

The decision on certification is made by the group.

Moscow Gestalt Institute

Start: November 2nd 2018

Who can participate in the program?

No special preparation is required to participate in the program. There is no need to take entrance exams. In order to enroll in the group, it is enough to go through a half-hour interview with the presenters.

We accept everyone into the program. After completing the program, participants have the opportunity to undergo certification from the Moscow Gestalt Institute and receive a diploma as a Gestalt therapist. The MGI diploma complies with EAGT (European Association for Gestalt Therapy) standards and is recognized professional communities Russia and Europe.

What is the Moscow Gestalt Institute?

The Moscow Gestalt Institute is the first in Russia and the largest to date educational institution engaged in professional training of Gestalt therapists.

An organization with a 20-year history, branches and regional offices throughout Russia, actively participating in European and American conferences on Gestalt therapy.

How is the training going?

The first year of study is a therapeutic gestalt group + lectures on the theory of gestalt therapy. At this stage, participants become acquainted with Gestalt therapy through their own experience, receive personal therapy in a group, and decide on their psychological problems, get acquainted with the basic concepts of the Gestalt approach.

Second and third year of study. Participants begin working with each other as therapists in the group and receive supervision from the program facilitators. The topics of the lectures are devoted to professional issues psychotherapeutic work.

What is your study schedule?

The entire program consists of 24 lessons. Each lesson lasts 30 academic hours. Friday - from 17.00 to 21.00, Saturday and Sunday from 11.00 to 19.00.

Classes are held once every month and a half, that is, 5-6 classes a year.

If during the course of training you realize that you want to become a professional Gestalt therapist and decide to prepare for certification, then a number of additional training activities will be added to the main three-day program - personal therapy, supervision, specialization, small therapeutic group, participation in conferences, etc. . For admission to certification A diploma of higher education in psychology is required.

How much does it cost?

Payment is made for each lesson. That is, once every month and a half you pay 9,000 rubles.

Personal therapy, supervision, specialization, small therapeutic group, participation in conferences, etc. — paid separately and depends on the therapist, supervisor, etc. you choose.

What documents will I receive?

At the beginning of your studies, having concluded an agreement, you receive a student “account book”, where you enter all the training hours you have received. At the end of the first year of study, you can, if you wish, receive a certificate of completion of the “first stage” of study indicating the topics and hours. Upon successful certification, you will receive a diploma as a Gestalt therapist. This is a diploma from the Moscow Gestalt Institute program. This diploma is recognized by all professional communities of Gestalt therapists in Russia and Europe.

How does the training work in the program (we answer questions):

Class dates:

(dates of classes 2nd and 3rd school year will be determined in May 2019 and can be agreed upon with the group members)

“Fundamentals of Gestalt Therapy” – first stage (1 year):

Personal therapeutic experience in a group, familiarization with the method, training in the basic concepts and principles of the Gestalt approach, work with an individual therapist, participation in intensive training in the client position.

1. Basics of Gestalt therapy. Theoretical introduction, historical roots, founders of Gestalt therapy, schools of Gestalt therapy, authors, modern Gestalt approach, literature
2. Basic concepts and principles of Gestalt therapy (field - organism-environment, phenomenological approach in Gestalt therapy, dialogue, awareness, figure and ground, contact, contact boundary, cycle of experience, creative adaptation)
3. Field theory in Gestalt therapy. Theory and functions of self. Dynamics self. Resistance
4. Loss of ego function, main types of contact interruption
5. Working with the client's internal phenomenology. The theory of paradoxical change. Working with Polarities
6. Creative methods in Gestalt therapy. Art therapy, work with drawings, metaphors, dreams. Languages ​​of Gestalt therapy. Modalities of contact. Therapeutic metaphors
7. Gestalt and the body-oriented approach. Alienation and awakening of physicality. Dynamics of bodily experiences in personal history

After completing the first stage, participants receive an MGI certificate (EAGT standard) for participation in the training program for Gestalt therapists “Fundamentals of Gestalt Therapy,” indicating the topics and number of hours.

“Theory and practice of Gestalt therapy” (2nd and 3rd year):

Professional training of Gestalt therapists ends with certification. Includes theoretical training, personal therapy, supervision, work in small groups, participation in intensive courses (in client and therapeutic positions), in conferences, choosing and completing a specialization (or attending a special course), as well as starting your own practice under supervision.

1. Philosophy of the Gestalt approach and methodology of practice. Psychotherapeutic worldview and psychotherapeutic thinking. Therapeutic position and professional self-awareness of the Gestalt therapist.
2. The therapeutic relationship, transference and countertransference. Basic strategies for working as a Gestalt therapist. Work at the contact boundary. Process analysis of a therapeutic session
3. Development theories. Child development. Gestalt therapy with children and parents. Family Gestalt Therapy
4. Crisis and trauma
5. Gestalt therapy in clinical practice. Health and illness. Principles of clinical diagnosis in Gestalt therapy
6. Dynamic concept of personality in Gestalt therapy. Analysis of early violations
7. Strategies of a Gestalt therapist in working with endogenous disorders, borderline disorders, addictions, neuroses and psychosomatic disorders
8. Gestalt approach to working with groups. Field phenomena in group dynamics. Gestalt and systems approach. Working with pairs and small systems. Therapeutic community. Organizational Gestalt Consulting
9. Principles and Applications of Ethics

After successful certification, you receive a certificate from the Moscow Gestalt Institute program, which meets and exceeds the standards of EAGT (European Association of Gestalt Therapy) and can become a member of the Gestalt Approach (Society of Practicing Psychologists "Gestalt Approach").

Presenters:

Psychologist, certified Gestalt therapist and associate trainer of the Moscow Gestalt Institute, member of the Gestalt Approach. Specialization: “Gestalt approach to working with children, adolescents, couples and families”, experience psychological practice 14 years

+7903 724 65 11, [email protected]

Psychologist, certified Gestalt therapist and supervisor of the Moscow Gestalt Institute, member of the Gestalt Approach, 14 years of experience in psychological practice

+7903 712 10 06, [email protected]

Program Manager:

Kedrova Natalya

Supervisor, certified Gestalt therapist, EAGT certificate, member of prof. MGI Council, head of the specialization “Gestalt approach to working with children, adolescents, couples and families”

Registration in the program:

7903 724 65 11; [email protected]— Evgeniya

7903 712 10 06, [email protected]— Fedor

What is Gestalt therapy? (60 min)

A certified psychologist who has graduated from a special educational institution and begins to apply his knowledge in practice is required to know and competently use such a method as Gestalt therapy. Gestalt is not the name of some German scientist or psychologist, but the concept of integrity, personality, image, if translated from German language. The goal of this method of psychotherapy is a person’s awareness of his integrity as an individual, the ability to recognize and accept the characteristics of his individuality. Thus, Gestalt therapy training extremely useful for a practicing psychologist.

Basic provisions of the direction of Gestalt therapy

The main position of Gestalt therapy is the ability to achieve that same balance within oneself, which leads to a balance of perception between oneself and the environment. The client needs such therapy if he is in an existential crisis, that is, if his needs are not being met in his current lifestyle. Thus, there appear psychological disorders. At the subconscious level, a person is psychologically traumatized due to the fact that the balance of his perception of himself as an individual is disturbed. To eliminate such traumas in Gestalt therapy, the main method is to find contact, namely with the environment, changing the perception of the environment through hearing, vision, and smell.

Through psychological experiments, the psychotherapist creates situations to enhance the client's awareness of himself, here and now, on an emotional, physical and spiritual level. The concept of awareness is used first. Very often there are patients who cannot find themselves in life and do not see any goal for themselves. The result is emotional stress, nervous breakdown, and a state of constant depression. Proper use Gestalt therapy allows you to very quickly achieve the goal set for the client. A psychologist can determine the direction a person needs and help him understand his role in life. People also get rid of negative perceptions of the environment, realizing that there is more good than bad. Figuratively speaking, in addition to harmful exhausts and gases, there is also fresh air, birds, seas and oceans.

Gestalt therapy training at a distance

If you understand that Gestalt therapy will help you in your practice, but you cannot or want to spend on training a large number of time and money, we want to make you happy. There is an opportunity to undergo quality Gestalt therapy training without interruption from work, study and family. To help psychologists, we offer to take a unique, effective course that can be studied remotely by ordering it from our company. The course is designed to study the basic areas of psychotherapy, including Gestalt therapy. Therefore, he can help you expand your knowledge in the field of psychology, teach you new approaches, techniques, principles practical side work of a psychotherapist. And all this - at a more than reasonable price, under the guidance of a personal trainer and at a time convenient for you. Order a distance certified course right now, because perhaps thousands of people are already waiting for your help.

Gestalt psychology (Gestalt therapy) is a form of phenomenological-existential therapy founded by Frederick (Fritz) S. Perls and Laura P. Perls. The first developments in this direction appeared in the 40s of the twentieth century. This trend achieved wide popularity in the late 60s of the twentieth century. Actually, the Institute of Humanistic Psychology in Big Sur (California) became so widely known because F. Perls worked there in last years own life. Subsequently, this direction was developed by many other researchers. Now Gestalt therapy is a direction practiced all over the world.

The foundation of Gestalt therapy is phenomenology and dialogue aimed at increasing awareness and making direct experience clearer. Explanations and interpretations are considered less reliable than what is seen and perceived directly. Gestalt therapy treats the direct experience of both therapist and client with equal respect. Differences in the perceptions and experiences of participants become material for experimentation and dialogue. The goal of clients is to become aware of WHAT they do, HOW they do it, and at the same time learn to accept and adequately evaluate themselves.

Gestalt therapy focuses more on process (what is happening) than on content (what is being discussed). Process refers to the observed development of behavior that occurs during an hour of therapy. The emphasis is on what is, rather than on what was, could have been, might have happened, should have happened. Attention is paid to processes: the patient's process, the therapist's process, and the process of interaction between them.

The Gestalt therapeutic approach allows you to successfully cope with communication problems. Based on this approach, the practice of a psychotherapeutic group can be successfully built, which, in particular, psychoanalysis does not imply. Gestalt therapy can also be successfully used in short-term therapies, such as work with shock trauma, or in work aimed at necessary changes in behavior. It can also be used when working with families. It is also expected to work with human existential problems: loneliness, freedom, death, meaning. Issues related to these issues inevitably arise in almost any psychotherapy, and the Gestalt approach contains the opportunity to work with these topics.

Gestaltherapy considers a person as a whole being, as a unity of behavior, feelings and thinking, in the process of interaction with the outside world. That is, it is not the person and the world that are considered separately, but their interaction, the direct awareness of which allows us to perceive the world more deeply and richly.

There is also a workshop in Gestalt therapy, which allows, after a little preparation, to conduct independent work, which is not provided for in other psychotherapeutic areas.

Experimentation occupies a large place in Gestalt therapy, as an opportunity to increase the level of awareness and presence, as an opportunity to test new models of behavior in problem situations, as an opportunity to actualize new resources and possibilities of human integrity.

TRAINING PROGRAM

TOPIC 1. Introduction, clarification of professional and personal motivation of participants, projective technique “presentation through an object”.

TOPIC 2. The history of the emergence of Gestalt therapy in Russia.

TOPIC 3. Gestalt therapy (GT) is one of modern trends psychotherapy. History of the method. GT is a direction of psychotherapeutic practice created in the middle of our century by F. Perls and a group that included Laura Perls, Paul Goodman and Isidore Fromm, based on the achievements of Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, existential psychology and the spiritual traditions of the East.

TOPIC 4. Historical roots of GT. Gestalt psychology. Studies of visual perception by M. Wertheimer, W. Köhler and K. Koffka - a starting point the emergence of Gestalt psychology and the holistic principle. Phenomenological method as a method of Gestalt psychology. Studies of the phenomena of figure and ground by K. Rubin. “Field Theory” by K. Levin. The effect of unfinished actions B. Zeigarnik. Basic laws and principles of Gestalt psychology (the relationship between figure and ground, holism, the dynamic field of organism - environment).

TOPIC 5. Psychoanalysis - as an intellectual predecessor of GT. F. Perls's first book “Ego, Hunger and Aggression”, as an attempt to revise and expand psychoanalytic theory and method. Discrepancies between GT by F. Perls and psychoanalysis by Z. Freud (holism by F. Perls and division into hierarchical structures by Z. Freud; reliance on obvious material in GT and on suppressed material in PA; “organismic unity and self-regulation” in GT and the theory of instincts and libido in PA; existentialism and determinism; attitude to the phenomenon of “resistance”, etc.) and correspondence (“figure and ground” in F. Perls and “cathexis” in Z. Freud; “fundamental excitation” and “libido”; continuum of awareness and free associations; “consciousness” and “awareness”; “avoidance of awareness” and resistance; “unfinished situations” and obsessive repetitions; “withdrawal from the environment” and regression; projection in Perls and Freud; therapeutic relationship in F. Perls’ GT and transfer relations in Z. Freud’s PA, etc.).

TOPIC 6. The influence of the concept of the “muscular shell” of another major psychoanalyst W. Reich and his “character analysis” on F. Perls’s ideas about the relationship between the body and the psyche.

TOPIC 7. The influence of existentialism and phenomenology. The statement that "the world individual experience can only be understood from his direct description in his unique situation” - the core of the worldview in the Gestlt approach.

TOPIC 8. F. Perls and Gestalt therapy. New York group (Laura Perls, Paul Goodman, Isidore Fromm, Ralph Hefferlin, etc.).

TOPIC 9. Basic concepts and principles of Gestalt therapy. Definition of "Gestalt".

TOPIC 10. Organism and environment. The organism as a whole. Unity of experience. The environment, like the organism, exists in the form of a field, i.e. in the form of a process continuously changing in space, time and subject content, the main characteristic of which is integrity. The organism as part of a field, a context. Self-regulation and dominant need.

TOPIC 11. The concept of contact boundary. The contact boundary is a function that determines the relationship between the organism and the environment. Correspondence of contact with the environment and “leaving” it with the formation and completion of gestalt. Mobility of the border and mental health. Creative adaptation.

TOPIC 12. The “here and now” principle. The importance of direct actual experience of oneself and the environment (the current situation) at the present moment. The influence of “unfinished situations” on the formation of a neurotic way of interacting with the world. Anxiety is an energy gap, a tension between “now” and “then.”

TOPIC 13. The “how” is more important than the “why”. The emphasis of Gestalt therapy is on a person's ever-increasing awareness of his own behavior, rather than on exploring the reasons why he behaves the way he does.

TOPIC 14. Awareness. The difference between Perls's "awareness". Continuum of Awareness. Avoidance of awareness is a major factor hindering psychological growth.

TOPIC 15. Figure and background. Dynamic interaction of figures and background, determined by the hierarchy of current needs. Construction and destruction of gestalts.

TOPIC 16. The cycle of experience. The rhythm of building and destroying gestalts is the fundamental process on which therapy works. Six phases of the experience cycle.

TOPIC 17. The theory of "I" in Gestalt therapy. "I" (self) as a complex system contacts necessary for adaptation to difficult field. Self modalities: Id, Ego, and Persona. Features of the functioning of “Self” in each of these modalities. Violations of Self functions. Forms of interruption of the cycle of formation and destruction of gestalts (cycle of contact): fusion (confluence), introjection, projection, retroflexion, egotism and diflexion.

TOPIC 18. Merger as a state of “non-contact”, the absence of distinction between figure and ground and the absence of a figure. Merger as a basic phenomenon of contact with everything that is not a figure in the field at the moment.

TOPIC 19. Introjection as a genetically primitive form of individual functioning in environment. Difference between pathological and creative introjection.

TOPIC 20. Projection. The positive and negative role of the projection process.

TOPIC 21. Retroflection as a way of refusing contact with the environment and turning the function of contact onto oneself. Healthy and pathological retroflexion. The role of retroflexion in the occurrence of psychosomatic diseases. Definition of deflection and egotism.

TOPIC 22. The concept of a psychologically mature personality. Development and growth and their violation. Neurosis as a violation of the process of development and personal growth. 5 levels of neurosis: level of clichés, level of games, level of dead end, level of implosion (internal explosion), level of explosion (external explosion).

TOPIC 23. Introduction to Gestalt therapy techniques. Suppressive techniques and expressive techniques. The main method of work in GT. experiment. Providing context. Working with polarities. Techniques for working with parts of the “I”. Technique of working with identification (based on the projection mechanism). Performing roles. Bodily work. Working with fantasies and dreams.