The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
Areas of Training
Course Description
Relational Field and Development - Shame in the Therapeutic Dialogue (SDI)
March 3-5, 2011
Thursday 6:00pm-9:00pm; Friday 9:00am-6:00pm; Saturday 9:00am-6:00pm
Description
This is the second offering in the workshop series entitled "Structure, Dialogue and Improvisation: Developing Excellence in Psychotherapeutic Practice."
This workshop will explore the role of Gestalt Models of development in Psychotherapy with adults and how developmental models are relevant to Gestalt's phenomenological framework. The focus will include how our experience is constituted by the relational field both developmentally and in the therapy relationship. We will gain an understanding of shame as intersubjectively generated, maintained and potentially mitigated in therapy. We will contextualize shame, understand it as a relational phenomenon, and increase our sensitivity to its presence. The conditions for the development of dignity will be explored.
Format
The workshop will include lecture, discussion, experiential exercises, and practice labs.
Fees
Tuition: $360 per workshop
(Full time students $100.00 - call to register)
Faculty
Daniel Jones, PhD Bio
Marlene Moss Blumenthal, PhD Bio
Mark McConville, PhD Bio