Possible 2 year program Gestalt therapist
2025 – 2027
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First year
Focus: On becoming a therapist, therapeutic skills and topics
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Block 1
Content
Difference counselling – psychotherapy
Dimensions of needs: neurotic – existential – spiritual
Supervision
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block 2
Content
Psychopathology I
General introduction on Gestalt / Field perspective
Psychotic experience
Depressive experience
Anxiety disorders
Supervision
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block 3
Content
Psychopathology II
Mal-adaptations (Personality disorders)
Supervision
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block
Content
Transference / counter transference
sexuality in therapeutic relation
Supervision
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block 5
Content
Bio-medical aspects in relation to mental problems
(Side-)effects of medication
Consequences of brain damage
Supervision
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block 6
Content
Dealing with shame and guilt
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block 7
Content
Closure of year 1
Review and evaluation student
Student’s evaluation by practical work in front of the group
Total 32 h (4 days)
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At the end of this first year, students have accomplished: 160 hours of Gestalt methodology and theory and 64 hours of gestalt supervision.
The evaluation in block 7 will be done by having a student working with a client in front of the group (evaluation will focus on quality of awareness)
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Second year
Focus: Professional integration
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Block 1
Content
Existential topics
Formulating and working on proposals for final paper
Supervision
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block 2
Content
Body work
Body language / giving expression / words to sensations and emotions
Body work in the context of the Nepalese culture
Supervision
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block 3
Content
Supporting clients in dealing with death and grief
within the context of the Nepalese culture
And especially How to support people in dealing with suicide
Supervision
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block 4
Content
Working with couples within the Nepalese context
love marriage, arranged marriage, similar gender relations
Supervision
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block 5
Content
Gestalt within the Nepalese culture:
what works, what needs to be developed, challenges etc.
The use of Gestalt techniques and experiments within the Nepalese culture
Supervision
Total 32 h (4 days)
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Block 6
Content
Closure:
How to deal with closure in the personal life
How to deal with closure with clients
Closure of the training:
Personal review and feedback for the institute
Total 32 h (4 days)
At the end of the fourth year students have accomplished: 152 hours of Gestalt methodology and theory and 40 hours of Gestalt supervision
The evaluation will be done by having the student making a thesis in which he/she shows the integration of theory and practice and a dialogue on this thesis with one of the core trainers and an external expert.
The dialogue will be organised on two or three days following after the block 6.