“SEEING A SYSTEM”
When working with more than one person, a therapist or coach can be flooded with information. This leaves us with many choices: What to focus on? How to intervene?
In this development day we will use Gestalt principles to help us see how two people interact. We will hone your observation skills so that you can better see what’s happening. We will help you decide how to intervene based on what you see.
The day is directly relevant to those working with couples or groups. However, if you only work with individuals, you will gain insight that will help you and your clients navigate relationships.
Facilitators Lucy Ball and Gaynor Sharp are steeped in a Gestalt approach to working with systems. We give credit to the Gestalt International Study Center, Boston, MA, USA for the foundations on which we have built this development day. Whatever your modality, we hope to provide a welcoming and rich experience, offer useful tools and generate insights that you can integrate into your practice. Please join us!
COURSE CONTENT INCLUDES
1. The therapist’s stance when working with a system of two or more clients.
2. How to see process (how people interact) over content (what people say).
3. Separating phenomena from interpretation.
4. What we call ‘good’ and what we call ‘bad’ interacting?
5. Giving feedback to a client system about their process.
FACILITATORS
LUCY BALL
Lucy is a counsellor at Somerset Counselling Centre. She teaches at the Gestalt International Study Center. She is also an organisational consultant, coach and coach supervisor.
GAYNOR SHARP
Gaynor is a Gestalt therapist based in Edinburgh working with couples and individuals. She trained at the Edinburgh Gestalt Institute. Gaynor also coaches work dyads, teams and leaders in organisations.
