Gestalt Workshop: On the phenomenology of ADHD and other cases of neurodiversity. The workshop will focus on the phenomenology of ADHD from a humanistic-experiential therapy perspective.
WE WILL DEAL WITH HOW A PERSON WITH ADHD ENTERS THE WORLD OF THE NEUROTYPICAL AND HOW THIS WORLD RESPONDS TO HIM OR HER
- We will be in a field where the brain grasps everything and sometimes nothing. Where chaos meets hyperfocus. And we’ll wonder how to find a figure in it.
- We will study the symptoms in terms of possibilities and limitations, and maybe we can get to the source of the suffering.
- We will talk about diagnosis, the formal one and the phenomenological one. ️
- We will look at the breaks in the Zinker cycle and how Self theory fits here.
- We will also address trauma. We will explore together if and how it affects the formation of ADHD symptoms. Is it a source or a consequence, and how can this be addressed in therapy.
Issues to be addressed during the event:
- ADHD: disease, disorder or neurobiological phenomenon?
- When the mesocortical pathway doesn’t work
- Four dimensions of ADHD and factors that amplify symptoms
- Nozological diagnosis (including problems with differential diagnosis) vs. phenomenological diagnosis
- What about the paradoxical theory of change?
- Meeting in a field of extremes
- Short expiration dates and ADHD relationships
- How can a dopamine hostage take care of his needs?
- Imposter syndrome
- ADHD and trauma
- Strategies and techniques to stabilize the nervous system
- What is possible to change and what is not and why?
- ADHD biographies and cases
Gestalt Workshop: On the phenomenon of ADHD and other cases of neurodiversity – Presenter:
Aleksandra Nowak-Gruca, PhD. Certified Gestalt therapist, professor and researcher currently working on mind research and neurodiscrimination issues, EMDR and Biofeedback therapist, mediator, business trainer. Folk painter and writer.