UKAGP Events
Events by UKAGP members
Beyond Pain as Invitation
Are you a therapist or mental health practitioner looking to deepen your work with clients experiencing chronic pain and illness? Or are you a practitioner navigating your own journey with chronic pain, fatigue, or illness? This immersive two-day workshop offers a relational, body-centered approach that embraces both professional and personal experiences of long-term suffering.
Gestalt Walk & Talk
The workshop will include theory and experiential exercises, utilising all the available senses plus imagination, working individually and in pairs/small groups. The facilities at the Botanical Gardens will support a fluid use of both indoor and outdoor space – reflecting zones of awareness, and the relational qualities of the contact boundary between Self and Other.
Advanced Couples Training
Couple therapy is the most complex and vulnerable of the therapeutic situations due to the presence of the significant other. In the first module we work with the therapeutic relationship: What it demands in couple therapy and how it is different from individual therapy. From the beginning the training is highly experiential and practice-near, combining theory with therapeutic
explorations.
Relational Living Body Psychotherapy
Mainly process oriented, the aim is to provide a deepening of bodily and inter-bodily processes in a small learning group of 10-18 participants. We will focus on how living bodies speak in their bodily rhythms: breathing, moving, and embodied traumatic gestalten. We will explore own embodiment, the correlated embodied field between therapist and client and how to work within body-to-body-communication.
EAGT Conference Croatia
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EAGT Conference - October 22nd- 25th 2026
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Exploring Shame
The goal of this workshop is to gain a deeper understanding of the breadth and impact of shame, and how it can become chronic and integrated into the body as an emotion to avoid.
Creating Dialogue With The Deceased
This workshop can support clients with guilt and shame around miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion and other fixed Gestalts.
Gestalt Network Scotland, CPD Workshop - Working with Dreams
This workshop will take a transpersonal approach to dreamwork and offer an invitation to experience our interconnectedness with others and the greater whole, as an alternative to the sense of separation and isolation that is so much the human experience. Over the two days there will be opportunities to develop confidence and skills in bringing this approach to your work with clients.
Weekend Workshop with Ed Fellows and Liz Beauchamp
This workshop will offer a chance to experiment with how we can learn about specific themes in supervision through awareness of our embodied experience. We hope that the themes will emerge from the group, and we will bring our own experiences of the inter-connected nature of embodiment, including shame and trauma in supervision.
Supervision Group
To enable trainee psychotherapists to practice in a facilitated group to build competence and confidence in live supervision. The weekend will particularly support trainees who are looking to complete their training in the near future and who wish to gain confidence prior to their Viva.
Couples Training - A Gestalt Approach
There are more and more couples reaching out for therapy and seemingly not enough couples therapists to take them on. Dr Visnes developed a Gestalt therapy framework through her PHD work at Metanoia and is now bringing her training to the UK which we are hosting at our practice in Shoreditch London, beginning of October 2024.
UKAGP 2024 Residential
Our 2024 UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners residential conference will be held at Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa from 14th to 16th June 2024.
Climate change in the consulting room
This 2-day seminar is relevant for anyone who wants to reflect on the impact the climate crisis has on the human psyche and how in turn the human psyche impacts on the state of the world. How might our theory and practice need to adapt in order to become more porous to the world?
Marianne Fry Lecture 2023
2020 was a watershed year in the fight for racial equality across the global north. The death, nay murder, of George Floyd in America led to the re-recognition of just how poorly persons of colour were seen and treated.
Dwight writes: This experience filtered into the world of counselling and psychotherapy and it was at this stage that, as a practitioner myself, I recognised that I had become adapted within a white supremacist framework in order to survive accordingly. Based on the ideas presented in my new book The Psychology of Supremacy, this talk will look at how and why these adaptations exist and occur and what it means for the racialised other to exist within white environments.
Women and Gestalt Gathering
Announcing the very first Women and Gestalt Gathering!
It will be held at the time of the Autumn Equinox and on the second day of the moon cycle in the beautiful country of Ireland. The Gathering reflects and honors the rhythms of the sacred landscape around us in Ennistymon, County Clare, and calls upon women to open more deeply to the sacred landscape and rhythms within.
GPTI Residential Conference
Why GSRD?
The GPTI community started an open dialogue last year on the theme of Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) and agreed that this would be continued and expanded at the residential conference. In responding to this, GPTI wanted to offer the opportunity to explore our understanding and felt a sense of our experience, and the ways we resonate (or don’t) within our wider situations.
The Challenges of Racism in Psychotherapeutic Training
Online course for Gestalt trainers and workshop leaders to develop their understanding and skills in addressing the teaching and learning process associated with racism.
A Day of Connection
Our annual conference, including AGM, will be a one-day event taking place at Holiday Inn Bloomsbury in London on 1st July 2023.
Our conference provides a day for connection across our Gestalt community, for members and non-members of the UK Association of Gestalt Practitioners. If you are passionate about Gestalt and want a day of connection then come and join us. If you are curious about Gestalt and not yet part of the community come and join us.