Prof. Giovanni Salonia – Gestalt workshop: working with families in the Gestalt approach
The workshop will be an introduction to Gestalt family therapy incorporating Prof. Giovanni Salonia’s proprietary approach. The author will present the “dance of chairs and pronouns” model, which focuses on the embodied identity of the family, where it is important for the therapist to observe alliances, contact-building mechanisms, distance versus closeness between individual members. Giovanni Salonia will present an approach to understanding family dynamics focusing on the function of the family’s self-personality, paralleling what in structural family therapy is called intergenerational transmission, which is “the order of love written in human bodies.” During the workshop, we will learn how to observe the family bodily tissue so as to understand where stiffening occurs and where we can see the opportunity for openness and creative adjustment in finding solutions and pursuing living contact. The workshop will include a theoretical part and simulations of work with families that will demonstrate the application of the model in practice.
Prof. Giovanni Salonia – Gestalt Workshop – about the presenter:
Prof. Giovanni Salonia, supervisor, psychotherapist, professor of psychology, teaches, among others, at the Pontifical Antonianum University in Rome, professor of social psychology at LUMSA University in Palermo, scientific director at the Kairos Institute for Gestalt Therapy, and author of books on psychology, literature and Gestalt theory, who publishes in international journals, including GTK’s International Gestlat Journal.” A man influential in the development of Gestalt psychotherapy in Europe. Author of many publications, including translated into Polish “Dance of Chairs and Pronouns. Gestalt family therapy”, and “The moon is made of cheese. How Gestalt translates borderline language”