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Introductory (Prerequisite) Workshops

 

Gestalt Experience Workshop: An Introduction to Gestalt

Prerequisite for the GTP training program

If you are seeking growth and transformation in your personal and/or professional life, we invite you to begin, continue, or renew your relationship with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (GIC) by participating in this personal development and professional growth weekend. Working with a diverse participant population, faculty from GIC team up to demonstrate experiential Gestalt concepts and methods and facilitate personal growth in a group format. Through active engagement with the Gestalt process in a supportive learning environment, this workshop nurtures the important work of awareness and self-discovery, fosters expanded choices for making conscious change possible, encourages you to be fully present in the moment, and allows you to safely experiment with new behavior. Participants are supported and encouraged both to engage in their own personal growth and to be part of the personal growth of others. This workshop satisfies the Introductory Gestalt Workshop prerequisite for the GTP training program. References will be requested of all participants.

Workshop hours: 16.5

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Working with the Body

Prerequisite for the Advanced Training Program Working with Physical Process

This workshop is for therapists interested in the basic principles, techniques, and approaches to body-oriented work in therapy. Participants will develop fundamental skills and perceptions for using body-focused work in their practices. Emphasis is on learning to see body patterns, body and experience, the Cycle of Experience and body phenomena, and using breathing in therapy.

Workshop hours: 14

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BEI Introductory Workshop

Prerequisite for Executive & Organization Development

Completing an Introductory workshop is a prerequisite for attending the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Organization & System Development Program, Becoming An Effective Organizational Intervener (BEI). This three-day workshop provides an opportunity to experience the "gestalt" approach through learning basic concepts and applying them through structured exercises. Unique to our approach is that each workshop is a balance of direct teaching and immediate application.

We will complete an orientation of the "gestalt" approach via learning about the cycle of experience, unit of work, use of self as an instrument of change, and levels of systems as choice points for interventions as a means to introduce you to our programs. Each day will end in a ~2 hour learning lab where we will apply the concepts in real time as a way to close the day. All three days run from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.

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Foundations of Gestalt Coaching Workshop

Prerequisite for Coaching Certification

Over the last forty years, members of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland have been creating organization development and coaching theory from the fields of Gestalt Psychology and Gestalt therapy. Steeped in phenomenology and existentialism, holism, field theory, and systems theory, the Gestalt approach to OD and coaching has evolved into a present-centered, awareness building, high impact form of intervention. Besides the unique approach towards making interventions, it has a particular bent in its core assumptions that has led to the development of the Gestalt "consulting stance" and the "unit of work". This workshop reveals the gestalt coaching stance and the application of the unit of work within coaching. It lays the foundation of Gestalt theory by teaching the core concepts of the paradoxical theory of change, the cycle of experience, contact, unit of work, presence, levels of system, and much more.

Foundations of Gestalt Coaching Workshop is a five day workshop. Each of the five days will be a fast moving mix of theory and practice, where small lectures are provided and then participants immediately begin to practice the concepts. On average, the workshops will be 40% theory development and 60% theory use.

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Introduction to Gestalt
Organizational Development Workshop

Prerequisite for the Conflict, Confrontation & Negotiation Program

This introductory workshop is a prerequisite for attending the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland's Executive & Organization Development Program titled Conflict, Confrontation, & Negotiation (CCN).

This intensive three-day workshop provides an opportunity to experience the "gestalt" approach through learning basic concepts and applying them through structured exercises. Unique to our approach is that each workshop is a balance of direct teaching and immediate application.

We will complete an orientation of the "gestalt" approach to organizational development by applying the cycle of experience, unit of work, use of self as an instrument of change, and levels of systems as a means to introduce you to our program. Each day will end in a 2 hour learning lab where we will apply the concepts in real time as a way to close the day. All three days run from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Prerequisite Waiver: If you are a graduate of a Gestalt Institute of Cleveland organizational program---OSD, BBI, or BEI---in the last five years, then this workshop is waived as a prerequisite to attending the Conflict, Confrontation, & Negotiation program.

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