Personal Growth and Development Groups offer the opportunity for you to experience what happens in a Gestalt therapy group.
It’s a safe, supportive space in which you can explore personal issues alongside other people who also want to understand themselves better.
All groups take place in person at our Centre in Camden NW1, London and run in two different formats.
Our 2-day Weekend Group is an ideal introduction to Gestalt methods for anyone.
We also run a longer, 10-week Group for people who want to explore in more depth.
Who is it for?
Attendance at these groups is an excellent precursor to training in counselling or psychotherapy for participants who wish to further their knowledge and experience before deciding to embark on an intensive training.
People working in education, therapeutic settings, community developments, organisational work or any profession involving a high level of interaction may well find such a group useful on both a personal and professional level.
The longer 10-week format often attracts people who are thinking of using Gestalt counselling or therapy for personal reasons or considering training as a practitioner themselves. All formats are attended by a diverse range of people for a wide range of reasons making for lively and stimulating groups.
You can request a bibliography at the end of the course should you wish to continue your exploration.
Gestalt Group Work – what is it?
A gestalt group offers its members the opportunity to explore personal issues with the support and participation of people also interested in understanding themselves and the vicissitudes of their lives.
By participating in gestalt group work you may find opportunities to:
- foster your capacity to be imaginative.
- develop a greater awareness of how you relate to yourself and others, including opportunity to explore identity processes.
- discover the patterns you have developed for dealing with your life and decide whether these strategies have outlived their usefulness.
- work with what are sometimes experienced as ‘difficult’ emotions, anger, fear, vulnerability etc.
- learn ways of giving and receiving clear comments about yourself and others through understanding of your own process.
- the regular meeting over time with the same group of people enhances the possibility of personal development and understanding.
What is Gestalt?
Gestalt theory is concerned with the whole person, encouraging a balance between body, feeling, intellect and imagination. It is a relational approach.
The gestalt approach in psychotherapy understands people as being inextricably linked with their environments, both affected by and affecting the context in which a person lives.
Here and now, experiments, creativity, imagination, fragmentation, and integration are concepts linked with the theory and practice of gestalt.
Gestalt sessions are typically lively, creative, interactive and experimental – and always focused on the Here and Now.
Fees
Weekend Group: £120 self-funded / £130 sponsored
Weekly Group: £350 self-funded / £400 sponsored
Group facilitators
Both the facilitators of this group are senior trainee psychotherapists completing their professional training in Gestalt Psychotherapy to gain UKCP registration.
The group is part of their assessed work and is supervised by a senior faculty member, including direct observation of their work on two occasions.