With gestalt therapy, Perls and Goodman made the revolutionary proposal to embed the practice of psychotherapy in a field perspective. A Babylonian discussion and controversy among Gestalt therapists is still, 70 years after, in full swing about the meaning of ‘field’. Certainly the concept of situation, highlighted in recent years, has made it possible to better differentiate between the field as a lived experience (in a phenomenological stance), and the field as a life-space (in the continuity of Lewin’s work). The oscillation between these two conceptions generated a lot of confusion, which undoubtedly slowed down the radicalization of a theoretical and clinical development based on concept of contact.

This program aims to advance in the theoretical and practical understanding of the field paradigm used in psychotherapy. To this end, Institut Français de Gestalt-thérapie is launching the project of this update by inviting three eminent gestalt-therapists : Maya van Zelst, Gianni Francesetti and Jean-Marie Robine. These three trainers have worked hard for many years to arouse particular attention to the concepts of field and situation and thus to invite us to move the practice out of its individualistic limits and into a relational perspective. Each of them has followed a different path and reached specific orientations that they propose to confront between them and with the participants, both experientially and in the theoretical-clinical level as well.

The situation will consist of 3 seminars followed by a symposium :

• 2021, January 22-23-24th : Jean-Marie Robine & Maya van Zelst

• 2021, March, 19-20-21st : Maya van Zelst & Gianni Francesetti

• 2021, June, 04-05-06th : Gianni Francesetti & Jean-Marie Robine

Symposium : 2021, October 11-12-13
The symposium will complement the seminars with a theoretical-clinical reflection on a practice rooted in the perspective of field. To the viewpoints of Maya van Zelst, Gianni Francesetti, Jean -Marie Robine and seminar participants, will be joined those by Dan Bloom from the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Giuseppe Civitarese, Italian psycho -analyst who will enrich the dialogue with their interpellations and contributions. This common reflection will be supported by sequences filmed during the seminars.

Language
The 3 seminars will be held in English.
The symposium will be held in English with translation into French.

Recording
Seminars will be videotaped and used during the further symposium – and then - for didactical research.

Place
All seminars and the conference will take place at FIAP, 30 rue Cabanis, Paris 14°.

Possibility of accommodation on site.

Participants
Gestalt-therapists, supervisors and trainers

Registration
Seminars + symposium : 2050 € (payable in 4 instalments)
Each seminar, separately : 630 €S
Symposium : 300 €
Priority is given to participants who register for the whole cycle.

As far as places are available, participants on the waiting list could be included in the seminars.

The seminars will be limited to 35 participants and the conference to 190 people.

Information - Registration

Institut Français de Gestalt-thérapie
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F. 33240 St Romain la Virvée

email : ifgt.france@gmail.com
website: www.gestalt-ifgt.com
phone: +335 57 58 29 70