Gestalt Centre London

Free Fall Writing as Creative Therapy

This 2-day workshop is for participants who would like to learn a Gestalt based approach to creative writing. It is also for those who are interested in using writing in a therapeutic way or setting. The themes covered will include Free Fall writing as a technique to write through "writer's block"; autobiographical writing; projection as creative discovery, secrets, metaphors & poetry as medicine.

Fundamentals of Gestalt Theory

This is a one day course for anyone wishing to find out about the Gestalt approach - whether contemplating training in Gestalt counselling or psychotherapy, or wanting to integrate some Gestalt concepts into their current ways of working with people.

Gestalt Brief Therapy led by Gaie Houston

This course sets out to make clear a Gestalt framework for short-term work, helping the therapist and the person seeking help to do the most that can be done within narrow time constraints.

The Moving Body in Gestalt

This course is for therapists from NHS Trusts, Social Services, Schools, Voluntary Service Provision, Private Practice and people from an Arts background as well as those wishing to explore the moving body for their own development.

Plain Speaking (2-day workshop)

Using simple direct language usually makes for good communication. It is also easier said than done. This workshop aims to help therapists hone their skills in using less words. Economy of effort often makes for warmer and more effective therapy, and that is what this workshop is meant to bring about.

Understanding Motivation & How People Change Introduction to Motivational Interviewing (Two-day workshop)

The aim of this Level 1 programme is to provide an introduction to the key concepts of Motivational Interviewing.

Gestalt in Action

This weekend workshop will provide you with practical experience of the Gestalt approach to counselling.

Supervisors Training (Part One) by Jane Puddy

In this course she will prepare and foster the necessary skills participants must develop for the task of supervision. She will explore the dynamics of supervision using participants' experience either as a supervisee or a supervisor to enact and critique "live" practice.

Supervisors Training (Part Two) with Gaie Houston

This new Diploma is open to people who have already completed Gaie Houston's original 9-day Supervisors Practicum, or Jane Puddy's 4.5 day Part One or the equivalent. Those wishing to submit a substantial piece of writing about current work as a supervisor within 6 months of completing the course will qualify for a Diploma in Supervision.

Family Constellations Led by Carol Siederer

The workshop will be a safe and confidential space in which to look at unresolved issues in our lives, by exploring family dynamics and their effect on us.

A Gestalt Approach to Working with Children and Adolescents

This five-day certificate level course caters for counsellors, psychotherapists and other practitioners working with young persons within NHS Trusts, social services, schools, voluntary services and private practice. It aims to develop participants' understanding of key issues and processes involved in working therapeutically with children and adolescents. Based on contemporary Gestalt Therapy this relational approach utilises creative arts methods and play

Contact and Connection: Therapy, Children and the Creative arts

Psychotherapist and trainer Jon Blend, MA facilitates this ‘taster’ event. Jon has over fifteen years experience of working with young persons and their families, both in the NHS and in private practice. He has trained with Dr. Violet Oaklander and his writings, on children and adolescence, have featured in the British Gestalt Journal, the International Gestalt Journal and the Journal of Pastoral Care in Education.

Revisiting Phenomenology in Husserl and in Gestalt Therapy led by Sylvia Crocker

The focus will be on how we can accomplish the task set forth in the early pages of the Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman (1951 pp.11-25)--of making contact with the actual living of our clients, and how that contact brings about fundamental changes in how that living is organized and, consequently, in their behaviour.

Exploring the Same and Different: Perception of how we belong and how we do not belong, with a focus on racism

In our ethnically and culturally diverse world, it is crucial that we learn how to live and work together with dignity and respect. In this workshop we will explore how we sometimes to struggle to be curious about others whom we perceive as different to ourselves. Equally there may be some resistance to exploring those we perceive as similar ourselves.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Theory and Skills for Gestalt and Integrative Counsellors & Psychotherapists

This 4-day cognitive behaviour therapy course is designed for counsellors and psychotherapists who wish to: - learn more about the cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) theory and practice - learn basic CBT skills - integrate CBT practice into existing counselling and psychotherapy practice