NEW VIRTUAL OFFERING: Intro to Gestalt in Organizations: Principles, Practice, Pragmatics
Join this highly experiential, professional and personal learning journey with internationally recognized Gestalt teachers and practitioners (downloadable flyer)
with Lisa Koss, Mary Ann Rainey & Jonno Hanafin
This introductory course builds on seminal research and theories of groups, organisations and social change of Gestalt social psychologist Kurt Lewin, principles and strategies of working with individuals and small social systems from Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls and his colleagues, and perspectives of Edwin Nevis and other founders of the Cleveland approach to Gestalt practice in organisations.
Dates:
Friday, 2-6 November 2020 virtual program Monday through Friday
14:00 18:30 CET each day
08:00 – 12:30 ET each day
Registration/Information
Request a registration form from info@gestaltodintro.com
Cost
1800 Euros
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Who Should Attend
External and internal organizational consultants, trainers, and human resources professionals, coaches and supervisors, executives, leaders, managers and administrators, and community and social activists who seek to learn more about working with large social systems from a Gestalt perspective
Course Format
The course will consist of brief lectures, experiential exercises, skill practice, case study and analysis, journaling, reading and application. Delegates will work in multiple configurations: individually, pairs, groups, total community and plenary.
Course Content
- Four streams of theory and practice: Gestalt; Organization Development; Leadership; Diversity, Inclusion, Social Justice
- Foundational theories: Experiential Learning Theory, Systems Theory, Paradoxical Theory of Change and the Gestalt stance of working with resistance
- Primary models: Cycle of Experience, Unit of Work, Four Roles of the Gestalt Intervener, RSVP Fundamentals of Leadership
- Use-of-self and personal presence
- Intervening at Multiple levels of system: individual; interpersonal; group; large complex social systems
- Gestalt stance on coaching; conflict management and building trusted partner relationships; working with groups and teams; and intervening in large complex social systems
- Pragmatics, benefits and dilemmas of working from a Gestalt perspective