This training group introduces clinicians to the basics of Person-Centered Therapy, Focusing, and Gestalt Therapy. The training will explore both the theory and practice of these humanistic and neo-humanistic approaches.
Topics Include:
- Basic Empathy
- Empathic Exploration
- The Focusing Attitude
- The Felt Sense
- Clearing a Space
- Depth of Experiencing / Client Vocal Patterns
- Contact and Awareness
- The Contact Boundary, the Contact Cycle, and Interruptions to the Contact Boundary
- The Gestalt Experiment
- Gestalt Chair Work
Readings will be assigned, and meetings will include didactic lecture, video demonstration, discussion, and experiential exercises.
Participants will have the opportunity to observe, receive, perform, and discuss each of the interventions under study. Members bring the interventions back to their practices, and bring their questions back to the group. In this fashion, over the course of the Winter and Spring, members will gradually integrate the fundamentals of humanistic/experiential therapy into their personal therapeutic repertoire.
When: This course will begin in January, 2021. Meetings will be held once a week, and will last 2.5 hours. Details to follow.
Where: Online, via Zoom.
Trainer: Tom Kubasik, LCPC
For more information, call Tom Kubasik, LCPC: (207) 699-4979