SEXUALITY IN GESTALT THERAPY- workshop for professionals
DESCRIPTION
When people come to therapy, they bring chaos. They are full of judgments, introjects, fears, devaluations, compulsive behaviors, old crystallized solutions, blocking of creativity, often abuse and trauma. We welcome this chaos. We value their solutions even if they are painful. We suspend judgment, we dignify fears, shame, even reactivity and anger. Patient arrives full of divisions and internal struggles, chaos in fact, we support contact, union, closeness.
What sometimes we as therapists do not realize is that this support for contact, proximity, being present together, is perceived as sexual attraction. Because sexuality, Eros, is exactly this, the force that unites, which experiences pleasure in closeness, in contact and which balances destructiveness, fear, confusion, allowing us to experience love.
In therapy we cannot avoid sexuality. We cannot relegate it to something that the patient must experience only externally, with others, because with the therapist it is wrong, it is out of context.
Sexuality cannot be wrong. It can be abusive, but the abuse is not a mistake, it is a crime or the consequence of an altered state of consciousness.
Crime is a choice and whoever practices it is responsible for it.
The altered state of consciousness, on the other hand, is an always present risk when there is sexuality and it is important that sexuality be named, valued, explored, that is, that we make it a necessary and inevitable phenomenon of awerness.
In this workshop we will explore the phenomenon of sexuality in therapy. We will experiment how it is possible to experience sexuality in the therapeutic context without running the risk of becoming abusers or being abused. We will see how sexuality supports the healing process. We will develop some aspects of Gestalt Sexuology by addressing the most common forms of sexual dysfunction and paraphilias.
LEADER
Mariano Pizzimenti- psychologist, Gestalt psychotherapeutist. Founder and director of the Gestalt school in Turin, former president of FISIG (Italian Federation of Gestalt Schools and Institutes). Since 1985, he has been conducting training in Gestalt Therapy and Gestalt Counseling in various regions of Italy, Germany, Scotland and Ireland. He was an assistant professor at the University of Turin. Scientific Director of Figure Emergenti magazine, author of several publications, including "Aggressiveness and Sexuality. Character/Background Relationship Between Pain and Pleasure" published by Franco Angeli in 2015. Founder and principal of the Gestalt School of Turin, teacher and tutor. Clinical classes are conducted with adults both in individual sessions and in pairs and family sessions. I am a team leader in various rehabilitation communities in Piedmont and at Scuola Holden in Turin. I am a teacher at the Gestalt Institute in Turin on a four-year training course in psychotherapy and in some national and international Gestalt institutes (France, Scotland, Ireland and Germany).
FORMAL INFORMATION
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30
VENUE: Centrum Odkrycie, 24 st. Bronisławy street, Cracow
THE WORKSHOP IS DEDICATED TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE FINISHED AT LEAST TWO YEARS OF BASIC PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING.
TRANSLATION: The workshop will be held in English with translation into Polish
DATES:
22nd-24th April 2022
HOURS:
Friday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m and
Sunday: 10 p.m.- 1 p.m.
MATERIALS: each participant will receive a certificate confirming their participation in the workshop
COSTS :
335 EUR (1350 PLN)
1st installment - 165 EUR - needs to be paid within 7 days from the moment of receiving confirmed registration email.
2nd repayment – 170 EUR needs to be paid till 31st March 2022.
Payment also can be done with one transfer.
Additionally one has to fill in the registration form (link below).
Please pay above amount to the account:
Szkolenia Gestalt sp. z o.o.
Bank: Pekao S.A.
Address: 82/21 Wielicka Street,
30-552 Krakow, Poland
Kod SWIFT/BIC Bank Pekao: PKOPPLPW
PL69 1240 4432 1978 0011 0328 6180
INFORMATION: kontakt@szkoleniagestalt.pl or +48 798447118.
REGISTRATION ONLY THROUGH THE APPLICATION FORM: