With focus on flight/migration/trauma

Psychological and social problems are often resulting from a lack of good contact and nurturing relationships. This is particularly true for the situation of people who have experienced flight and migration with often traumatising events. In this training we focus specifically on the experiences of refugees and migrants and their reorientation in Germany.

Gestalt therapy devotes its attention to these disorders and examines the interpersonal events that have become dysfunctional and cause suffering. The therapeutic relationship is seen as an essential factor of healing. In this relational space, the self-healing powers are activated by stimulating the client’s conscious awareness of feelings, sensations, behaviors, and attitudes, and by inviting to experiment with new possibilities. The goal of Gestalt therapy is to help people achieve the ability to establish contact and relationship skills, self-determination and responsibility, and to strengthen their self.

This process can also be seen as an aesthetic one – beauty expresses an inner coherence with what is felt as a deep personal truth that has an effect beyond the moment of experience. We usually consider things that we have experienced both sensually and coherently to be touching, liberating, meaningful and strengthening. Therefore, in our workshops we offer learning through sensual experience in creative processes of self-exploration and engagement with others.

In this training we will cooperate with Dr. Mouta Barakat, psychologist and Gestalt therapist and Lydia Barakat, psychologist and trauma therapist. 

Please contact us for a noncommittal information meeting. We will gladly send you the detailed program.

This continuing education combines

• Personal development and professional qualification
• Self-experience and sound theoretical knowledge
• Dialogical attitude and variety of methods
• meditation practice and social engagement
• Group process and individual work
• Joy of experimentation and many years of therapeutic experience
• Innovation and consistency

The program includes

• Intensive therapeutic processes in a group setting
• Individual assistance during the entire learning process
• Profound theoretical and practical transfer of knowledge
• Diverse learning experiences and inspiration from a variety of trainers
• Self-organized learning in small groups and on instructor-less weekends
• Convenient practice opportunities and live supervision
• Development of a meditative practice and its application in various fields of work
• Development of diagnostic competence
• Support in the development of individual professional goals and their implementation

You bring with you

• Enjoy working with people
• Willingness to engage in intensive processes of your own
• Openness to other participants and learning together in a group
• Interest in combining theory and practice

For whom is the training is suitable

People who work with people and who

• are active in social or psychosocial fields of work
• Psychologists, alternative practitioners, doctors, occupational therapists, body therapists
• Psychotherapists of other schools
• Teachers, educators, social workers
• Supervisors, trainers and coaches
• Organizational consultants

…who would like to better develop their own potential in their work with people.

Structure and organization of the training

• The training is designed for 4 years extra-occupational
• It takes place in a fixed group of approx. 8 – 12 participants.
• Annually, there are 5 weekend seminars (Thu 18:00 – Sun 13:00) and
• 1 intensive week (5 days) in Berlin, as well as
• A 6-day summer camp in or around Berlin.
• The self-organized units are coordinated together
• We give recommendations for teaching therapists and support the search for suitable teaching therapists elsewhere
• In the annual one-on-one meetings with the training director, we reflect on our own development process.

If you are interested, take a look and apply

• You will be invited to an information interview
• You will participate in at least one pre-workshops
• You apply with a detailed curriculum vitae and a description of your motivation for the training.
• We will conduct a personal clarification interview to help you decide on the training.

The trainers

Gabriele Blankertz, Dr. Stefan Blankertz, Nicole F. Brémond, Simon Jakob Drees, Dr. Alessio Zambon, Birgit Schönberger;

Guest-trainer: Dr. Mouta Barakat and Lydia Barakat

You have questions?

For non-binding info talks, please contact: Gabriele Blankertz

Application: inkontakt@Gestalt-institut.com

Telephone: 030-470 159 52 or mobil: 0163-1910426