Working with Gestalt Weekend | JHD Counselling

We are delighted to welcome Carol from JHD Counselling for a special weekend workshop.

Course Overview

Fritz Perls believed that people are not made up of separate components, i.e. mind, body and soul but rather are human beings that function as a whole. In doing so, one defines who one is (sense of self) by choice of responses to environmental interactions (boundaries). During this workshop, we will look at the Wholeness of a person and the rupture that may have accrued in someone’s life and how by using Gestalt techniques we look to resolve unresolved issues.

The course will cover Wholeness and Integration; Self Awareness which leads to Self Regulation; Energy and Blocks to Energy; Growth Disorders; Gestalt Experiments; Use of Language; and Unfinished Business.Carol will also help you work with Dreams using Gestalt techniques.

The most important goal of Gestalt Therapy is that Gestalt Therapists do not aim to change their clients. The therapist’s role is to assist clients in developing their own self-awareness of how they are in the present moment. This will therefore allow them to rectify issues affecting their life.

A focus of developing awareness is that of clients’ awareness of their own realities. Therapists work with clients to ‘own’ their own statements – “I get so angry” or “I feel it is his fault”.*

This workshop is worth 12 CPD hours.

* Please note the content of the weekend may produce an emotional response at times. The workshop will therefore have an ‘open door’ policy to leave the room as and when required. Please do whatever is necessary to keep yourself safe.

Course Content

Basic Gestalt theory
Overview of Gestalt skills and techniques
Emphasis on noticing and immediacy, using the body as a vehicle of communication, the unsent letter and empty chair
Pros and cons including dangers of using the approach with clients

Course Tutor

JHD founder and M.D Carol Harmston-Dean is a senior accredited therapist and brings to the weekend 13 years experience of being a counselling tutor and trainer.