Gestalt Associates, Inc.

100 Outerbelt Street Columbus, Ohio 43213 phone: 614.751.5393 fax: 614.751.5394

The first year of the program introduces the participant to the models of psychotherapy taught at this Gestalt Institute. The program format is designed in weekend sessions.

The first year explores:

Developing self-awareness

Understanding the therapy process over time

Developing a connection/learning about contact

Understanding how to use the strength of your personality as a psychotherapist

Identifying and working with resistance

Conceptualization of the introject-project system

Beliefs about self and self-esteem

The second year of the training continues to be experiential, including demonstration and practice. In both the first and second year, every session includes a demonstration, teaching, as well as an opportunity to practice, which we call a practicum.

Additionally, we explore the use of this model with a variety of clients that come to therapy: neurotic, characterologic, borderline, fragmented, etc.

Learning About Self

We also incorporate the Learning About Self experience into the second year program, which allows you to begin to use this particular method with a volunteer client. This experience is designed so you are not only working with the people in your group as a practicum, you are also working regularly with a client to integrate the use of this model.

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The third year is designed to deepen the trainees’ experience, knowledge and confidence. The leaders present evolving models of Gestalt therapy and treatment through a client-centered training approach. This approach translates into the trainees having the opportunity to observe the leaders and work directly with the clients at the Institute. This creates an experience for the trainee to integrate the skills acquired in the first two years. The trainee may also explore their personal work through case presentations. The exception is Child/Adolescent training, in which the work is done with each other and in demonstration rather than directly with children.

The Institute offers 3 advanced training programs: ADVANCED INDIVIDUAL THERAPY TRAINING: Exploring the Self, Deepening Skills and Knowledge; GESTALT PLAY THERAPY: The Oaklander Model; and ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS OF PEOPLE CONSULTING ADVANCED TRAINING: Learning Higher Order Consulting and Organizational Development Skills. Each third year trainee is required to choose one of the areas currently offered. The advanced training is also open to alumni to renew skills.

This program will be held in four sessions:
Fridays 6 pm - 9 pm and Saturdays 9 am - 3 pm.

Dates:
Friday, Oct. 3, and Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008
Friday, Dec 19, and Saturday, Dec 20, 2008
Friday, Feb. 6, and Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009
Friday, Apr. 17, and Saturday, Apr. 18, 2009

Fees:

Track	1st Year	2nd Year	3rd Year
Therapy	$3,400	$3,400	$1,600
Organizational Consulting	$3,400	$3,400	$1,600
Organizational Consulting/Therapy	$3,400	$3,400	$2,880
Gestalt Play Therapy	$3,400	$3,400	TBD

The training
The purpose of this hands-on client focused advanced seminar is to help the practitioners deepen their experience and knowledge of individual therapy with many different types of clients. This training is organized around actual experience with clients and, in most sessions, the participants will have an opportunity to interview a client in a small group format or observe the training facilitator interview the client and then process the interview.

In addition to the experiential and training components, the evolving models for the treatment of individual therapy that are being used at the Gestalt Institute of Central Ohio and in many other places around the world will be presented, reflecting the MOST up-to-date thinking from the clinical point of view.

Besides having the opportunity to practice with clients and to observe the facilitator working with clients, participants will also have an opportunity bring their own cases and actual clients to the seminar group and explore their personal work through self report. The focus of this training is to deepen the skill set of individual practitioners, supporting them to develop a whole new level of sophistication, confidence, knowledge, understanding, and style in their work with individual clients.

Topics to be covered will include:

Using the present moment experience to make accurate diagnosis
The importance of contact skills in individual therapy
Assessing contact skills and using them as a framework for engagement
Assessing the self in the clinical interview and using it to draw a deeper conceptual picture
Developing themes that the client will stay with and work with over time
The complexities of the neurotic self
The interrelationship between character and neurosis
The models of borderline, fragmented and psychotic diagnosis and treatment including similarities and differences
Exploring how your countertransferential feelings are a part of the individual design, including self specific messages
Integrating the gains, materials presented, and new knowledge to become a more successful individual therapist
Developing your personal creativity and style as a therapist
Learning to think on your own feet, shift foci, and move with the moment
Using yourself in grading intensity
Other issues defined and asked for by the group!

In addition to the individual therapy training the group will also explore the process of marital therapy. If the advanced group chooses, the trainer will go on and explore marital therapy in subsequent years. If the group chooses to go forward beyond the third advanced year, it will undertake marital work based upon:

The basic process of marital therapy
The stages of change
Using contact skills in marital therapy
Exploring the core issues
The Gestalt philosophy of marital change
Being the best partner you can be
Building on the positives
No blame, no criticism
Working on giving
What are the core issues
Owning themes
Process of change over time

As the number of spaces is limited, individuals are encouraged to apply early to secure a place.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING

This program will be held in four sessions:
Thursdays 6 pm - 9 pm and Fridays 9 am - 3 pm.

Dates:
Thursday, Oct. 2, and Friday, Oct. 3, 2008
Thursday, Dec 18, and Friday, Dec 19, 2008
Thursday, Feb. 5, and Friday, Feb. 6, 2009
Thursday, Apr. 16, and Friday, Apr.17, 2009

Fees:

Track	1st Year	2nd Year	3rd Year
Therapy	$3,400	$3,400	$1,600
Organizational Consulting	$3,400	$3,400	$1,600
Organizational Consulting/Therapy	$3,400	$3,400	$2,880
Gestalt Play Therapy	$3,400	$3,400	TBD

The training
The purpose of this advanced training is to help the participant learn, understand, and to begin to apply the Gestalt/Business of People (BOP) approach used by consultants around the world. The training will provide an opportunity for participants to learn and understand through:

didactic presentations
demonstrations by faculty
opportunities to use BOP skills with other trainees and outside organizational volunteers
first-hand experiences with executives brought into the training program as volunteers
practice using the models and skills with business groups brought into the training as volunteers
practice with organizations who are currently participating in high-impact Business of People consulting

The training group led by Norman Shub will work together to form a collaborative learning community, learning from each other, from outside volunteers as well as the faculty. This shared learning experience is designed to create a safe, respectful environment for the learner to risk and really open to the learning process.

The goal of the training is to teach the participant how to use BOP/Gestalt skills in the organizational change process!

All participants (except those with special permission of the instructor), will have completed the basic two year Gestalt training and understand foundational Gestalt concepts. Building on this base, the consulting class will meet to explore this approach to consulting and organizational change. Attendance at all group sessions is mandatory. In addition, participants will meet in small groups to deal with specific skill issues during the mornings on Fridays.

What you need to do to participate
Participants will be required to look deeply at themselves, their own skills, looking at how they use themselves in contact, how they impact others, and how to begin to use themselves in the most powerful way in being a change agent to help stimulate growth in individuals, groups, and organizations.

To the greatest extent possible, participants will be required to work in actual situations to challenge themselves to really develop their skills. It is the goal of this advanced training to truly help everyone who is a part of the class develop the overarching framework for BOP consultation, thoroughly understand organizational change, use yourself as an effective change agent, and learn the other models that make up the BOP framework for business and organization consulting.

This will be an exciting, challenging, and stimulating program for those individuals who would like to learn higher order consulting skills and processes. Participants will have the opportunity to continue their advanced training, if the class desires, beyond this advanced year.

During this training you will:

Learn an overarching framework for organizational development, change, transformation, and how all business processes - personal, organizational, and group - fit into this BOP/Gestalt framework
Learn the essentials of the transformational leadership process and how to teach leaders and executive groups this essential skill.
Learn to acquire, teach, and develop additional BOP skills:
Understand how change works and how leadership core understands, facilitates, and supports the process of change over time.
Learn how to work with CEOs, senior executives, senior leaders and managers, and all parts of the organization to facilitate their individual growth and maximize their potential.
Understand a coherent framework for business and organizational consulting and how you can use yourself to make the highest impact for individual, group, and organizational change.

Who should apply?
CPA's, MBA's, business leaders, organizational consultants, HR professionals, trainers, psychotherapists, in-house and external consultants, social workers, psychologists, counselors and other mental heath professionals who have leadership training responsibilities, facilitators, and others interested in using BOP/Gestalt skills in their business life.

As the number of spaces is limited, individuals are encouraged to apply early to secure a place.

This program will be held in five sessions:
Fridays 9 am - 4 pm and Saturdays 9 am - 1 pm.

Dates and Fees TBD

Included are two 2-hour group supervision sessions

This training will be a small group and promises to be a special opportunity for clinicians interested in Gestalt Play Therapy to work together to learn this challenging modality. There will be a limit of 10 participants for this program so register early.

Each year professional development and personal growth workshops are offered. Our hope is to enrich the lives of clinicians as well as provide continuing education to deepen your skills.

Recently, we have expanded our community-based programs to educate and provide the opportunity for people to experience positive change. Specifically, Parenting From Your Heart: Building Successful Families is a program for anyone involved in the growth and life of a child. This program teaches how to be, in the moment, with children in new and different ways. The program also incorporates the Voice of the Child as a special way to articulate the child’s perspective into each of three weekly parenting sessions.

Another community program is Heart to Heart: Learning to Love. This program, which has been featured in the Columbus Dispatch, is designed for individuals and couples seeking deeply, committed relationships. Heart to Heart: Learning to Love not only attempts to define love, but also teaches step by step, how to be loving and to let your partner love you. This four-week program focuses on investing and beginning to love, creating a committed relationship, intensifying intimacy and sustaining romance, love, and sexual closeness over a lifetime.

To Register Call 614.755.2421 or register online

Notice of Nondiscriminatory Policy
The Gestalt Institute of Central Ohio admits trainees of any race, color and national or ethnic origin to the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to trainees at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of condition in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, or other school-administered programs.

FIRST YEAR PROGRAM

SECOND YEAR PROGRAM

THIRD YEAR PROGRAMS

ADVANCED INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING

GESTALT PLAY THERAPY