Free Support Group: “Toward Life – Not Just Around Loss”. – pro bono community project. Join us for the second season of a free support group led by certified Gestalt psychotherapists.
This year we are continuing and expanding the formula and themes of the support group that was formed as part of our community project. From our experience, we have learned that a loss well experienced can become a driving force for a deeper life and experiencing what it brings.
Hence, this school year we will talk about the gains and losses associated with different moments in our lives. We want to look at our experience of the cyclical nature of life, its successive stages from birth to death, and the challenges and gifts they bring. Each meeting will focus on a different topic, but there will also be plenty of room for sharing what is currently alive in us. Sample topics include:
- midlife crisis,
- empty nest stage,
- Aging/dying parents.
We are open to your topic suggestions, which we will gather at the first meeting. We will then set a plan for a whole year of weaving together what is alive and authentic in our humanity.
First meeting: Wednesday, September 3, 2025 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
“Toward life – Not just around loss” – goals:
If:
- You feel that you are trapped in a loop of difficult and incomprehensible emotions
- Your choices and decisions are fraught with tension that you keep losing something
- You don’t know how to experience the joy of what is, because you feel sad that something is not there and it seems “abnormal” to you
- When you lose something you are left with a feeling of hurt and not knowing how to survive that loss
- Don’t know how to accept and survive with the impossible in life
- Feeling lonely/alone and unable to find your way to balance and peace of mind
- You want to better understand how to create relationships and events with the awareness of the hardship of the irreversible and inevitable present in them
At the support group you will have the opportunity:
- Examine your current losses and how you are experiencing them
- Maybe you can answer some of the questions that have been bothering you about what loss is in life
- You will also have the opportunity to expand your abilities and skills to experience it
- You will also have the opportunity to be in a group and experience the support of others. You will feel that you are not alone.
Free Support Group: “Towards life – Not only around loss“. – meeting schedule
- The live meetings will start on 03.09.2025, while the next meetings will be held on the first Wednesday of each month, i.e.:
- October 1, 2025
- November 5, 2025
- December 3, 2025
- January 7, 2026
- February 4, 2026
- March 4, 2026
- April 1, 2026
- May 6, 2026
- June 10, 2026 (exception)
- All meetings are scheduled from 18:00 to 20:00.
- Meeting place: New headquarters of the Lodz Gestalt School, ul. Sienkiewicza 22, Lodz
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More information and an application form are available on the event website.