4 year education program of Gestalt Therapy

1. 4 year education program of Gestalt Therapy 2012 -2016

2. 4 year education program of Gestalt Therapy • Education program is developed by experts of European Association of Gestalt Therapy; • They will conduct trainings; • Suggested education program fulfills all criteria's of training standards of EAGT

3. Core team of trainers Accredited trainers of European association of Gestalt Therapy • Ester Neumanová-Program coordinator /Trainer (Prague) • Ernst Knijff-Program coordinator /Trainer (Belgium) • Frans Meulmaaster-Trainer (Holland) • Greet Cassiers-Trainer (Belgium) • Marian Chrasta-Trainer (Prague)

4. Education program of Gestalt Therapy • The structure and content of the program is a combination of methodology, theory and supervision • Working languages-Russian, English • Each block consist of 5 days training. 1 working day-8 hours. 1 training -40 hours

5. Education program of Gestalt Therapy • The program (structure and content) for the training is the mixture of the program in IVGT (Czech Republic) and MultidiMens (Holland/Belgium); • Because of practical reasons program is organized in training blocks of five days each; • Working in this way makes program quite intensive, and save costs on travel for trainers and students.

6. Structure and topics of first education year of program First education year consist from 5 trainings (blocks) at the end of the first year students have accomplished: 200 hours of Gestalt methodology and theory. The topics for the first year will be: • awareness (incl. figure – ground) • phenomenology • field theory • contact (incl. contact cycle and contact mechanisms) • dialogical approach + evaluation

7. Structure of second education year of program • Second education year consist from 8 trainings (blocks) ; • 5 on Methodology and Theory; • 3 Group psychotherapy; • At the end of the second year students have accomplished: 200 hours of Gestalt methodology and theory and 120 hours in Group psychotherapy

8. Topics of second education year of program The topics of this year for Methodology and theory will focus on “How to use …..” and therefore will be: The topics for the second year will be: • Field awareness; • how to use the cycle of contact and contact mechanism in practical work; • communication skills; • creativity in dialogue; • evaluation of personal process and methodology and theory.

9. Structure of third education year of program • Third education year consist from 7 trainings (blocks) ; • 5 on Methodology and Theory; • 2 Group psychotherapy; • At the end of the third year students have accomplished: 160 hours of Gestalt methodology and theory ,80 hours in Group psychotherapy and 40 hours of supervision

10. Topics of third education year of program For the third year the topics will focus on working as a therapist. Topics of third year will be: • Contacting and contracting; • Gestalt diagnostics and psychopathology; • Transference and counter transference from a Field theoretical point of view; • Developmental theories; • Evaluation by working with a client in front of the group

11. Structure and topics of forth education year of program Forth education year consist from 5 trainings (blocks) ; At the end of the fourth year students have accomplished:120 hours of Gestalt methodology and theory and 80 hours of Gestalt supervision The topics of the fourth year will focus on working as a gestalt therapist and especially on developing ones one style. Therefore the topics will be: • Group work; • Body work and sexuality; • Working with existential topics like trauma, illness, death and mourning • Live supervision; • Evaluation

12. Total of hours in comparison with requirements EAGT