In partnership with the Pierre Janet Centre of the University of Lorraine.

By proposing a model of change based on the use of the therapist’s resonances within the therapeutic relationship, contemporary Gestalt therapy opens up a new paradigm. It is at the forefront of putting the therapist’s person at the service of patients’ change processes. It is thus in line with the most recent results of psychotherapy research which show that the person of the therapist is the most relevant variable in the effectiveness of a therapy.

Alternating theory and practice, this training (from level 1) will introduce the trainee to the understanding of contemporary Gestalt therapy and begin to use elements of it in their clinic.
With level 2 she will be able to engage in the in-depth training offered by IDeT and its modules "At the heart of the clinic".

The level 1 module does not require any pre-requisites to be attended.
Entry to the level 2 module requires the completion of level 1.

AIMS

• To situate Gestalt therapy within the modalities of psychotherapy
• To understand the specificities of Gestalt therapy
• To understand the essential principles and concepts of Gestalt therapy
• Understand and adopt the basics of the proposed posture
• To develop one’s own emotional and bodily awareness

PROGRAM Level 1 - 3 Days Training

Context

 An optimistic vision of Man and a brief history of Gestalt therapy within the humanist movement
 Its main intellectual roots: psychoanalysis, phenomenology, gestalt-psychology

Fundamentals

 Principle of inseparable organism-environment unity opening to the contemporary field theory in Gestalt therapy
 Current lived experience and work in the here and now

Developing the therapist’s skills

 Focus on emotional experience
 Awareness, consciousness and the place of the unconscious
 Experimentation in Gestalt therapy

PROGRAM Level 2 - 3 Days Training

Change in Gestalt Therapy

 Purpose of therapy
 The paradoxical theory of change
 Change in the field perspective
 Non-normative view of health
 Focus on the present (and place of the past)

Developing the therapist’s skills

 The construction of the lived world
 The ’next’ and intentionality in therapy
 Contact and relational patterns
 Unfinished Gestalt

Keys for intervention

 Support: a key concept in Gestalt therapy
 The therapeutic relationship as a tool for change

In coherence with the objective of using the therapist’s resonances for the benefit of change processes for the patient, the training will make a large place for experimentation and small group practicums.

PUBLIC

Professionals practising psychotherapy (psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychopractitioners, students in Master II of clinical psychology).
Other applications from the medico-social and educational fields may be considered.

INTERVENERS

Florence BELASCO
Vincent BEJA

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Gestalt therapy trainers and supervisors approved by the EAGT (European Association for Gestalt Therapy)
Co-founders and directors of the IDeT (Institute for the Development of the Therapist).

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

• Registration is done directly at the Centre Pierre Janet
• Location: Centre Pierre Janet - Université de Lorraine - Bâtiment A - Île du Saulcy - 57000 METZ

updated 2024-03-05