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