GESTALT APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONS
From controlling people to balancing the forces in organizations
Bridging theory and practice of Gestalt approaches to organizations
Training program objectives
✓ learn to learn as gestalt practitioner
✓ develop one’s self reflection capability in relation to organizations‘ internal and external dialogue
✓ develop ability to understand and intervene problematic situations in an organization
✓ develop your skills in relating to organizational questions, challenges and complexities
✓ develop your leadership
Our two year program is focused on developing abilities to ‘read an organization’, stay with what is and intervene. Competence is developed by introducing main ideas, practicing skills and reflecting/developing inner readiness.
COURSE OVERVIEW
First year - Understanding and experiencing gestalt way of thinking in organizations
Second year - Intervening in organizations using gestalt approach: dilemmas in organizations
Goals of the first year:
· Applying knowledge of the Gestalt principles to organizations
· Understanding of and being with group processes
· Learning to ‘read’, be present and influence teams is the core of working with organizations
· Learning to explore the multiple aspects of cultures in organizations
· Recognizing styles of contact and relating in organizations
· Recognizing is the bridge between theory and practice
· Developing the attitude of dialogical leadership
Goals of the second year:
· Addressing the dilemma of being vs doing; process vs results
· Working with the qualities and distortions of power and conflicts
· Being more holistic by including body, feeling and mind in our approaches to organizations
· Getting in touch with the issues and dilemmas of diversity and culture
· Learning to address assimilation and ending in organizations
ABOUT THE TRAINERS TEAM
FIRST YEAR:
UNDERSTANDING AND EXPERIENCING GESTALT WAY OF THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONS
January 18, 2024
INTRODUCTION
For those without Gestalt background - introductory course about Gestalt principles and basic practice.
February 1-3, 2024
May 9-11, 2024
BLOCK 1&2: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GESTALT APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONS
• Gestalt philosophy of being
• Contact and Organismic self Regulation
• Field theory
• Phenomenology
• Dialogue
September 12-14, 2024
BLOCK 3: GROUP DYNAMICS IN ORGANIZATION
• Group theory and practice
• Belonging dilemma
• Influencing dilemma
• Productivity dilemma
• The phenomenon of shame
• To see and be seen in the team
November 7-9, 2024
BLOCK 4: PHENOMENOLOGICAL INQUIRY IN ORGANIZATIONS
• Phenomenological observation
• Coexisting through dialogue
• Assumption, awareness to difference
• Context and field
February 6-8, 2025
BLOCK 5: CONTACT MECHANISMS WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS
• Process of contact
• Contact styles and interruptions
• OSR (organismic self regulation)
May 8-10, 2025
BLOCK 6: DIALOGIC LEADERSHIP
• ‘I – thou –and I - It relationship’
• Presence in leading
• Strategic and intimate way of relating
SECOND YEAR:
INTERVENING IN ORGANIZATIONS USING GESTALT APPROACH: DILEMMAS IN ORGANIZATIONS
To be announced later
BLOCK 1: PARADOXICAL THEORY OF CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS
• Contact modifications
• The paradoxical theory of change
To be announced later
BLOCK 2: EXPLORING POWER STRUCTURES AND CONFLICTS
• Contact is the appreciation of difference
• Quality of contact
• Trusting the process
To be announced later
BLOCK 3: BODY EXPERIENCE IN ORGANIZATIONS
• Body awareness
• Blockages to awareness
• The concept of shame
• Variety of experience
To be announced later
BLOCK 4: DIVERSITY AND CULTURE
• The beauty and dilemmas of meeting diversity
• Culture
• Results
To be announced later
BLOCK 5: ENDINGS IN ORGANIZATION AND OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM
• Closing the experience
• The process of assimilation (owning and rejecting)
• Goodbye
REQUIREMENTS
Our two year program is focused on developing abilities to ‘read an organization’, stay with what is and intervene.
Competence is developed by introducing main ideas, practicing skills and reflecting/developing inner readiness.
✓ Regardless of the depth of the knowledge of Gestalt, we invite people who are dedicated to development and learning, specifically their ability to intervene with organizations - via coaching, team building, leadership development or everyday operations
✓ For those new to gestalt theory, we require to complete 3 days introduction into main concepts of gestalt theory
✓ Experience in working with organizations either or both from within the system or as the consultant from outside is welcome
CONTACT US
If you are HR professional or manager in an organization, psychotherapist or organizational consultant - please contact us to discus the benefits and requirement of 2 year study program.
+370 61484669
