GPTI CONFERENCE AND COMMUNITY MEETING
Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity (GSRD): Beyond the Words
Saturday 15th October 9.30am – 5.00pm
Quaker’s Meeting House, Lancaster
You are invited to join the GPTI community at our first in-person conference since Autumn 2019.
We will be exploring this important theme of identity and diversity by talking - and also to get
beyond the words, to the lived and embodied experience. What does GSRD mean for:
• our clients
• therapists and supervisors
• members of the gestalt community
• GPTI as a whole
How do we use our responses to create a more inclusive organisation and clinical practice?
We wish to use this one-day conference as a beginning – a launchpad – for planning the GPTI
residential conference in autumn 2023 where themes that emerge this year can be developed
further and in more depth.
The 2022 conference will consist of a panel of volunteer members who will start the discussion of
GSRD as a lived experience, and then open up to the whole community to participate as
individuals and in groups.
There will be further workshops to follow on themes related to GSRD and other aspects of
diversity – details to be confirmed nearer to the conference. There is still space/time for you to
offer a workshop – perhaps something you have been considering for a while; experiential
activities; creative activities – please contact our administrator, Katherine Bird
(admin@GPTI.org.uk) with your ideas.
The second half of conference will include the AGM, presentations and celebrations, and
community meeting.
£60 Early Bird (before 31/7/22) £75 Full Rate
(Accredited/Friend Members/Non-Members)
£45 Early Bird (before 31/7/22) £50 Full Rate
(Trainee Members)
Schedule for the day
09.30 – 9.45 Arrive, coffee/tea
09.45 – 10.30 Fishbowl panel discussion
10.30 – 11.00 Break out groups
11.00 – 11.30 One from each group feedback (join Fishbowl)
11.30 – 11.45 Break
11.45 – 13.15 Workshops
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 14.45 AGM
14.45 – 15.30 Presentations and celebrations.
15.30 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.00 Community Meeting and Farewells.
Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity (GSRD): Beyond the Words
Saturday 15th October 9.30am – 5.00pm
Quaker’s Meeting House, Lancaster
7 CPD or Training Hours
Accredited/ Friend
Members
£60 Early Bird (before 31/7/22) £75 Full Rate
Trainee £45 Early Bird (before 31/7/22) £50 Full Rate
Please email booking form to: admin@gpti.org.uk
Or complete the online form at: https://forms.gle/rPoNLbtpiyPMCJAVA
Payment to GPTI: Sort code 30-92-13, Account no: 00931111 (please leave your
full name as reference for the payment).
Refunds will only be given if for any reason we are unable to offer you a place or if
the Conference is cancelled.