GESTALT ALIVE Fifty Years Creating, Developing, Living, Gestalt Therapy

Keynote Speakers
Richard Kitzler and Philip Lichtenberg

Thursday Evening through Sunday Midday
June 12, 13, 14, and 15, 2003

The Lighthouse
111 East 59th Street New York City

The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy emerged in 1952 from a group of psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, social activists, and other intellectuals and artists attracted to the work of Fritz and Laura Perls, and Paul Goodman.

For 50 years, the NYIGT has helped shape Gestalt therapy. Today it is an internationally recognized psychotherapeutic modality. The Institute continues to thrive with a membership committed to creating, developing, and living Gestalt therapy. This conference is a celebration of our 50th anniversary and an invitation for all to join our community.

Immerse yourself in the elaboration of Gestalt therapy as it is developing among the members of the New York Institute; explore how we in the US and Europe are building on the New York model; investigate key concepts including field, contacting, and self through didactics, experiments, demonstrations, task groups, process groups and large group interactions.

Experience the unity of theory/practice as we destructure and re-create Gestalt therapy through the here-and-now life of the conference. Enjoy yourself as we hear about the 50 year history of the NYIGT through anecdotes, reminiscences, and personal tales. Celebrate the continuing life of our teaching/learning community.

Join us at a Saturday dinner/dance honoring the 50th anniversary of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy and the publication of Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman’s seminal work, Gestalt Therapy, Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality.

Conference Schedule
Thursday evening June 12, 2003
7:00 pm		Registration
7:45 pm		Welcome “Gestalt Therapy Alive and the NYIGT,” Dan Bloom, President NYIGT and Conference Co-Chair. Co-Keynote Addresses—The Past, Present, and Future of Gestalt Therapy Philip Lichtenberg, Full Member, NYIGT and Director GTI of Philadelphia Richard Kitzler, Fellow, NYIGT
9:00 pm		Hello Cocktail Party
Friday June 13, 2003
8:30am		Late registration and continental breakfast Welcome, Gail Feinstein, Conference Co-Chair
Today will be devoted to how the New York model is developing among the diverse practitioners of the NYIGT. Among the themes we will explore will be: self as process, the developing self of the Institute, and differing approaches to contact and its interruptions. We will meet in process groups, task groups, and the conference-as-a-whole. Among this day’s presenters will be Dan Bloom, Karen Humphrey, Perry Klepner, and Lee Zevy.
Saturday June 14, 2003
8:30am		Late registration and continental breakfast Welcome, Burt Lazarin, Vice President NYIGT
On this day we will explore the extent to which the New York model is developing in Europe. Peter Philippson, UK, Jean-Marie Robine, France, Margherita Spagnuolo-Lobb, Italy, and Carmen Vazquez Bandin, Spain, will present their perspectives. We will also consider Gestalt diagnosis and aesthetic criterion for the emerging figure of the conference. We will continue to meet in process groups, task groups, and the conference-as-a-whole. Among this day’s other presenters will be Joe Lay.
7:00pm		Dinner & Dance Buffet dinner, open bar, live DJ and large dance floor in club setting on E 58th St. $95 per person
Sunday June 15, 2003
Beginning at 10:00am, we will devote this morning to the experience of the conference by remaining within our process groups and integrating our work into a new whole. The closing session will be in the conference-as-a-whole.
Registration by credit card available, please contact SCFalschunger@aol.com for details
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