The Chill Project by AHN is a mindfulness informed, school based behavioral health program for schools. We provide multi-tiered services in the school settings to 30 schools surrounding the greater Pittsburgh area. This summer we are providing a variety of training opportunities, both in-person and virtually, to team members to support their professional growth.

Gestalt Therapy Training – July 25th, 26th and 27th, 2023

AGENDA

Session 1: 7/25

What is Gestalt Therapy?

Existential-Humanist Therapy /Client Centered

Therapist-client relationship / I and Thou

Self-awareness

Responsibility and Freedom

Figure and background / Gestalt

Cycle of Contact

Sensation

Mobilization of Energy

Contact

Awareness

Integration

Withdraw

Session 2: 7/26

Styles of Contact

Introjection

Projection

Deflection

Retroflection

Confluence

Desensitization

Session 3: 7/27

Metaphors

The use of metaphors in the clinic

Dreams

The analysis of Dreams in a Gestalt Therapeutic Approach

Self-Actualization and Experiments

Humans as self-regulating organisms