What nourishes us, soothes us, regulates us is the experience of contact. Since the beginning of our existence, we have existed in a relationship. We learn that we exist in contact with the Other. It is another person who touches us, sees us, hears us, reacts. We see ourselves, we feel ourselves in border contact. I perceive myself, through you, you perceive yourself through me. There is an exchange between us, a fluctuation, alive and feeding both of us. We need the Other to grow. Through the embodied presence we grow, we live.
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Therapeutic Training – BodyMind Gestalt Therapy and Field Theory
BodyMind Gestalt Therapy (BMGT) is a holistic body-centered approach that has its roots in the pioneering program created at the Cleveland Gestalt Institute by James Kepner and his colleagues, and later developed into its current formula by Arye Bursztyn at Tel Aviv University. From the BMGT perspective, our body is intelligent, with the capacity for self-organization and self-regulation. Experimenting in BMGT is not just a set of learned practices and established ways of doing things. Practicing BMGT increases awareness of breathing, grounding and centering, expands awareness of sensations, movements, micro gestures and body organization. All of this supports the building of contact and embodied presence. It is a well-known statement that the therapeutic relationship is healing. In Gestalt and BodyMind Gestalt therapy, the therapist builds an open, honest and inclusive dialogue through diverse and multiple forms of communication, not only verbal, but also through movement, imagination, art, attunement, empathy and his or her own embodied presence. The therapist with his whole self contains, creates and co-creates contact with the other person. The whole is immersed in the therapeutic field, recognizing that each person brings what is current and alive in him or her for the moment, simultaneously with all his or her past experience and the context in which he or she lives. We accept, contain and embrace the whole person, with everything he or she experiences. Amputating and rejecting some aspects cripples and prevents experiencing fulfillment, joy, vitality.
Therapeutic Training – BodyMind Gestalt Therapy and Field Theory – A few words from Joanna Sawicz: My name is Joanna Sawicz and I have been working with people therapeutically, psychotherapeutically and supervisionally for 20 years. I am on a constant journey of learning what creates good conditions for growing and living the quality of life you desire.
I am a Certified Gestalt Psychotherapist (European Association for Gestalt Therapy) and a personal development coach. I graduated from the 4-year School for Trainers and Psychotherapists at the Gestalt Therapy Institute in Krakow in 2015. I am also from January 2022. Certified Mindfulness Teacher by the Polish Mindfulness Institute in Warsaw. I also teach Stress Reduction Courses based on MBSR Mindfulness.
I want to invite you to a therapeutic based on BodyMind Gestalt therapy, relational mindfulness and Field Theory.