You are cordially invited to a specialized Gestalt workshop – Graham Colbourne: Embodied relational process vs. creative experimentation!
The specialized workshop is dedicated to:
- Certified Gestalt psychotherapists and trainers
- Certified psychotherapists and trainers of Schools of Psychotherapy of other modalities
Specialized Gestalt workshop – Graham Colbourne about the event:
“I am very interested in experiments that are real, direct and related to the lived encounter between therapist and client, and connect to what is important in the client’s existence/life and relationships.
The classic “two chairs” experiment is usually very different from this – it refers to the client’s internal division and even a kind of imagined role-playing with another person: in this way, the important field and relational context of the client’s choices, adjustments and developmental interventions and absences can be overlooked.
In the worst case scenario, the client is isolated, feeling responsible for changing his experience or demanding change from the therapist.
In this workshop, I will present ways of working in which dialogue and experimentation are closely intertwined, and experimentation is based on mutual exploration of relationships.
The focus on relationships emphasizes/recognizes trauma and developmental crisis, as well as the possibility of healing through the experience of a new and different relationship.
Relational themes will inevitably include power, rejection, betrayal, kindness, cooperation, shared awareness and understanding, body resonances, respect and closeness/withdrawal.“ Specialized Gestalt Workshop – Graham Colbourne – About the trainer: Experienced psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer at the Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute (GPTI).
Graduated in Clinical Supervision from Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute and also completed Studies in Gestalt Psychotherapy and Postgraduate Studies in Youth and Community Work. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry. He is a therapist affiliated with UKCP. For many years he was a coach in Birmingham, York and Scotland. Co-director of York Psychotherapy Training Centre and and Edinburgh Gestalt Center. Trainer of supervisors in England and Scotland. He supervises trainees and accredited therapists from various modalities in individual and group settings. As a therapist, he provides individual and group therapy, as well as short- and long-term couples therapy. He was an examiner at GPTI and GITA and chairman of GPTI’s Ethics Committee and also a member of the Ethics Committee. GPTI training standards.