program
Further education | Courses
Gestaltsalon | Info Talks
description of our events

| Further education |

| Self-awareness | Groups |
Decision-workshop 28 - 30 November 2025
In preparation for the International Gestalt Training 2026
The decision workshop from November 28 – 30, 2025 offers the opportunity to get to know the group and leadership of the training and vice versa.
For many, the decision to embark on this intensive training process is linked to the desire to advance their own development so that they can then be a good companion to others in difficult life situations. The process in the group over 4 years brings their own issues to the fore, which can be dealt with as part of the training.
The structure of the program enables holistic learning – from self-awareness and working on one’s own issues to theoretical reflection and theory transfer and acquisition, including clinical knowledge and practice.
Together, the groups develop a supportive framework for their own professionalization that extends beyond the training period
Led by: Gabriele Blankertz
Costs: 150 €
Start of our 2nd International Gestalt Training from 12 – 15 February 2026
Registration: inkontakt@gestalt-institut.com
Location: InKontakt Gestaltinstitut Berlin, Gleimstr. 37, 10437 Berlin
Shaping my work-life
A place to explore the connection between our inner world and our professional success
This training is focused on work-related challenges that participants are facing in their daily life and experience as stressful, frustrating or are somehow holding them back. Just to name a few: 1) collaboration with stakeholders, like your team, functional partners, clients, or upper management; 2) your role and value, like organizational structure, clarity of roles, your positioning, career planning, productivity, or value creation; or 3) self-care to be able to do your job as long as you wish, such as stress-management, setting boundaries, prioritization, saying no.
Target group: Professionals with up to 5 years experience in leading people, who are curious to explore how their inner world influences their professional performance and want to improve their ability to add value at their workplace.
Organizational: The workshops will take place in a group of maximum 6 people with diverse professional backgrounds. Your commitment and regular participation is key to unlock the benefits of the process. It takes time. The sessions will take place on Mondays from 6 to 8:30 pm. No workshops on holidays. We start as soon as a group is ready for it.
The workshops will be held in English. You don’t need to be a native speaker, if you can work in English, that’s good enough
Facilitator: Dr. Cristina Hayden www.cristinahayden.com
Registration: A free of charge 30-minutes check-in is prerequisite to register for the group. Please contact me via mail@cristinahayden.com for more information.
Location: InKontakt Gestaltinstitut Berlin, Gleimstr. 37, 10437 Berlin
Summer Gestalt School Berlin 2025
Discover yourself with creativity and joy!
18. – 30.08.2025 each from 10.00 – 16.00 Uhr
The first week will be in German, the second week in English.
18.08.: Kunst als Zugang zu inneren Bewegungen. Intuitives Zeichnen als non-verbale Methode mit sich in Fühlung zu kommen. Leitung: Nicole F. Brémond
19.08.: Die Stille als Möglichkeit die Ohren nach Innen zu öffnen und mit sich selbst in Beziehung zu treten. Leitung: Birgit Schönberger
20.08.: Innere Spannungen, Konflikte, unerledigte Gestalten werden psychodramatisch nach aussen gebracht und bearbeitet. Leitung: Gabriele Blankertz
21.08.: Körperverbundenheit wird durch Wahrnehmungsübungen, Bewegung, Dialog und Resonanz in der Gruppe gestärkt. Leitung: Carola Knüppel
22.08.: Resonances are expressed in movement and dance and deepened through painting and writing. Led by Annalisa Maggiani
23.08.: In the footsteps of Perls in Berlin. Led by Christof Weber (not at the Institut, meeting at Bayrisches Viertel)
24.08.: Exploration in the Here and Now – A Day of Perception, Stillness and Movement. Led by Vera Mysak
25.08.: Inner tensions, conflicts and unresolved issues are psychodramatically brought to the surface and dealt with. Led by Gabriele Blankertz
26.08.: Silence as an opportunity to open your ears inwards and enter into a relationship with yourself. Led by Birgit Schönberger
27.08.: The voice as an important means of self-expression is brought to life through playful experimentation. Led by Simon-Jakob Drees
Kosten/Costs: 80 € je Tag/per day
Anmeldung: g.blankertz@gestalt-institut.com
Ort: InKontakt Gestaltinstitut Berlin, Gleimstraße 37, 10437 Berlin

| Awareness | Art | Meditation |
Mindfulness stressreduction
Mindfulness and Gestalt with Vera Mysak in Ukrainian/Russian/German
Mindfulness and Gestalt with Vera Mysak
Ukrainian/Russian/German
Thursdays from 11.00 – 13.00
Vera comes from sunny Odessa in the Ukraine. She is a psychologist, Gestalt therapist and mindfulness teacher. She has lived in Berlin since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and is in the process of rebuilding her life here. Sometimes this is difficult for her, sometimes she is full of joy, sometimes she doesn’t know what to do. But what she feels very clearly is that she loves her life and accepts everything that happens in it. She has learned to find stability, to enjoy happy moments and she wants to pass on what she has acquired to others.
Through mindfulness exercises, we learn to slow down, become more aware of the present moment and appreciate it as what is available to each of us.
The courses offer a supportive framework to
meditate together and understand what meditation is and what it is not
learn to deal better with difficult experiences
stop the flow of negative thoughts and learn how and why it is important to stay in the “here and now”
learn to make conscious decisions instead of living on “autopilot”
find a way to be kinder to others and to yourself.
Dates: weekly from 4 participants
Cost: €20 per appointment (discount possible for refugees)
Registration: inkontakt@gestalt-institut.com,
Location: InKontakt Gestalt Institute Berlin, Gleimstraße 37, 10437 Berlin

| Socially engaged Gestalt |
Shaping change trough dialog
for gestalt couselling work
The training offers participants a framework for learning and development processes that enable them to deal responsibly with personal and social challenges and to manage conflicts appropriately. In this training course, we will work on conflicts in the context of family, partnership, growing up and society in a relationship-oriented way. An understanding of inner-psychological, interpersonal and social dynamics will be conveyed. Both internal and external areas of conflict are examined and dealt with. We work with experience-oriented methods of self-management and dealing with conflicts, tying in with inner values and working out their motivational power. Building on this, participants develop personal goals and strategies to achieve them.
Gestalt therapy background knowledge is imparted and implemented methodically and experimentally. The basics for working with people in social professions are taught in 10 workshops.
The training will be held in Arabic.
Introductory date: 29.03.2025
flight and identity
for gestalt couselling work
With the further training course “Flight and Identity”, we offer Arabic-speaking employees of social organisations/institutions with their own flight/migration experience a structured framework for a targeted examination of the question of how flight affects the identity of refugees. The participants contribute their own experiences, which are jointly reflected upon on the basis of the Gestalt approach and made usable for counselling work in various social fields. The focus is on dialogue-based work and creative methods.
Circle of Peace
Dialogue group for Arab women
Women find a safe place here where they can
find peace and understanding conversation partners
get support for coping with everyday problems
Experience strength and encouragement in exchange with other women
Learn coping strategies for dealing with the consequences of trauma.
Support for own goals and plans.
Body work, yoga, etc. contribute to mental stabilization.
The group sessions are supplemented by individual discussions as needed.
Time: Monday from 18:00 – 20:30.
Individual preliminary talks and, if necessary, further individual talks are offered.
Costs: The offer is free of charge for the women! (The offer is currently supported by a grant from the Senate for 5 months).
Direction: Rawaa Alsamman, counselor, Gestalt therapist i.t.
Location: InKontakt Gestaltinstitut Berlin, Gleimstraße 37, 10437 Berlin
Registration: inkontakt@gestalt-institut.com

| Anniversary conference | 10 years of INKONTAKT

June 20 – 22, 2025
Interspaces for encounters –
Bridging differences
Lectures are held in German and English and are available as texts in the other language.
program
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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
14:00 Workshop 2: Birgit Schönberger: Meeting ourselves from our inner center
16:00 Workshop 3: Ben Graham /Alex Neumann: Topdog/Underdog – Dynamic
16:00 Workshop 4: Svenja Hollweg: Being in resonance together – listening into the space in between – what is now?
19:00 Party with live music – swing and Latin – you can dance!
Sunday: June 22, 2025
10:00 Practical introduction to art therapy – “From the periphery to the core – connecting the space in between”. Nicole F. Brémond.
13.00 – 14.30 Finissage – the artists are on site, you can talk to them and buy pictures.
15.00 Closing
Costs: 120 € (reduced 90 €)
Registration: inkontakt@gestalt-institut.com,
Location: Praxis für Gestalttherapie, Gleimstr. 37, 10437 Berlin

| Info talks |
We offer individual information meetings live or remotely.
Here you have the opportunity to ask questions in personal contact about our training offers, courses, workshops, etc. and to clarify whether a particular offer is right for you.
Please register briefly by e-mail. We look forward to meeting you!
Location: InKontakt Gestaltinstitut Berlin, Gleimstraße 37, 10437 Berlin, Germany.
Registration: inkontakt@gestalt-institut.com