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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

Introduction Smell and taste gestalt in organizations online. Taste the honey. An open call.

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

TALIA BAR-YOSEPH LEVINE, DPSYCH (ISRAEL)

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Clinical psychologist, Gestalt psychotherapist, management consultant, supervisor & international trainer, co-executive director of Jerusalem gestalt institute, Member of the GB of EAGT.

VIKTORAS KETURAKIS, PHD (LITHUANIA)

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Gestalt psychotherapist, management consultant and trainer, President  of the Lithuanian Gestalt Psychotherapy Association; Co-founder and trainer in Gestalt Psychotherapy Institute “Dialogas”(Vilnius, Lithuania).

FRANS MEULMEESTER (THE NETHERLANDS)

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Organizations consultant, gestalt psychotherapist, trainer, supervisor and coach. Staff member of several Gestalt institutes. Past chair of the GPO committee, EAGT.

MICHAL LEWANDOWSKI, MA (POLAND)

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Psychologist, Gestalt consultant, coach, facilitator, supervisor, lecturer. Affiliated with the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw. Chair of the GPO Committee, EAGT. founder of the GPO School in Poland.

AGNĖ JONAITYTĖ-KARALIENĖ, MA (LITHUANIA)

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Organizational psychologist, Graduate of Gestalt Institute „Dialogas“, HR manager, mentor, EAGT certified GPO practitioner.

TATJANA GUROVA, MA (LITHUANIA)

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Program manager, consultant, trainer, Graduate of Gestalt institute “Dialogas”, EAGT certified GPO practitioner.

Sticks and Stones

FIRST YEAR:
UNDERSTANDING AND EXPERIENCING GESTALT WAY OF THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONS

January 18, 2024

INTRODUCTION

For those interested. Smell and tase gestalt in organizations. Taste the honey. An open call to everybody interested.

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

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SECOND YEAR:
INTERVENING IN ORGANIZATIONS USING GESTALT APPROACH: DILEMMAS IN ORGANIZATIONS

September 4-6, 2025

BLOCK 1: BODY EXPERIENCE IN ORGANIZATIONS

• Body awareness

• Blockages to awareness
• The concept of shame
• Variety of experience

November 6-8, 2025

BLOCK 2: PARADOXICAL THEORY OF CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS

• Contact modifications
• The paradoxical theory of change

January 22-24, 2026

BLOCK 3: DIVERSITY AND CULTURE

• The beauty and dilemmas of meeting diversity
• Culture
• Results

April 16-18,2026

BLOCK 4: EXPLORING POWER STRUCTURES AND CONFLICTS

• Contact is the appreciation of difference

• Quality of contact
• Trusting the process

June 11-13 (14), 2026

BLOCK 5: ENDINGS IN ORGANIZATION AND OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM

• Closing the experience
• The process of assimilation (owning and rejecting)
• Goodbye

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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 61603883

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