Friday, June 20, 2025

from 14:00 Admission
14:30 Welcome and opening of the conference – Gabriele Blankertz
15:30 Lecture 1: Dr. Mouta Barakat – “What it’s like to be a psychotherapist in a politically oppressed society in a dictatorship”
18:00 Exhibition opening – Female artists from Syria in Gestalt training

Saturday, June 21, 2025

from 10:00 Admission
11:00 Lecture 2: Dr. Stefan Blankertz – “Why war – a Gestalt perspective”
11:00 Lecture 3: Dr. Lidia Chylewska-Barakat – “20 years of working with refugee trauma”

14:00 Workshop 1: Gabriele Blankertz + Rawaa Alsamman: Transcultural dialog group (German, Arabic, English)
14:00 Workshop 2: Birgit Schönberger: Meeting ourselves and others from our inner center
16:00 Workshop 3: Ben Graham /Alex Neumann: Topdog/Underdog – Dynamic
16:00 Workshop 4: Svenja Hollweg/Christof: Being in resonance together – listening into the space in between – What is NOW?

18:00 Closing – Conclusion

Sunday: June 22, 2025

10:00 Workshop 5: Praktische Einführung in Kunsttherapie – „Von der Peripherie zum Kern – den ZwischenRaum verbinden“. Nicole F. Brémond.
13.00 – 14.30 Finissage – the artists are on site, you can talk to them and buy pictures.
15.00 Closing

Lectures are held in German and English and are available as texts in the other language.

Costs: 120 € (reduced 90 €)

Registration: inkontakt@gestalt-institut.com,

Location: Praxis für Gestalttherapie, Gleimstr. 37, 10437 Berlin