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Dan Bloom (www.dbloomlcsw.com) has published the following in 2009, as well as being the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Studies in Gestalt Therapy: Dialogical Bridges. Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, a full member of the NYGT, and Frank-M Staemmler are the other editors. This journal is completing its third year of publication:
"Let’s Go Round Again: Cycle of Experience or Sequence of Contact” Gestalt Review vol 13 (1)
“The Emergence of Foundational Gestalt Therapy within a Teaching/Learning Community: the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, in Community, Psychotherapy and Life Focus, edited by Brian O’Neill
“The Phenomenological Method,” with Todd Burley, that was published in the Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy, edited by Phil Brownell.
Foreword to Eccentric Genius, An Anthology of the Writings of Richard Kitzler.
He also was an invited presenter in Jone at that the IXth International Gestalt Therapy Conference, Madrid. Spain. He was an invited plenary presenter, offering “Chasing Rainbows: Ethics in Gestalt Therapy – external ethics, foundational ethics -- and the 'rainbow', emergent ethos.”
I will consider “ethics” within gestalt therapy. “Ethics” for this purpose will be defined as the values or rules of conduct guiding therapy. I will describe “external ethics” and “foundational ethics” in clinical practice. I will propose that “emergent ethos” is “disclosed” with the proper balance of those two ethics within the session. Emergent ethos is the “domicile” for “dialogical contact,” the heart of the gestalt therapy process—and the essence of “relational” gestalt therapy. I will then re-evaluate the sequence of contact in this light. The self/world field as a supplement to the organism/environment field will help clarify these concepts. I will show this with concrete clinical examples.
Philip Brownell was named Series Editor for The World of Contemporary Gestalt Therapy, a series of books focused on gestalt therapy, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The first in that series was actually published in 2008. It was Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy, Philip Brownell (ed.), and is currently being translated for publication in French, Spanish, Czech, Korean, and Chinese. The second will be Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now, Dan Bloom and Christine Stevens (eds.), which will cover the 10th biennial conference of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, to be held June 1-6, 2010. Subsequent volumes will follow (queries and/or proposals for suggested volumes in this series can be sent to Phil directly philbrownell@logic.bm).
Phil also authored a new book, Gestalt Therapy, A Guide to Contemporary Practice, currently in press, to be published by Springer Publishing, and it will be available at the AAGT conference; in addition, his proposal to Springer for a second book, Paradoxical Recovery: A Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Addiction and Self-Medicating Behaviors, was accepted and will also go into production.
During 2009 Phil had several chapters in books accepted for publication as well. He wrote about the eCommunity of Gstalt-L, spirituality in gestalt therapy, and in the genre of the psychology of religion he wrote about the applicability of gestalt therapy theory to such issues as religious community, intentional spirituality, healing, faith, and miracles. His proposal for Contact, Faith, and Impasse: A Theistic Spirituality for Gestalt Therapy is now being considered by acquisition editors at Eerdmans Publishing.
Phil also contributed a chapter on gestalt therapy for the Professional Counselor's Desk Reference, and his reviewed article, "Executive Functions: A Neuropsychological Perspective on Self-Regulation," was published by Gestalt Review.
In addition, Phil and the Gestalt Training Institute of Bermuda have partnered with John Leary-Joyce and the Academy of Executive Coaching (UK) to bring an accredited (by the International Coaching Federation) program of gestalt-based coach training to Bermuda. At the AAGT conference in June 2009, Phil will chair an invited panel discussion with Christine Stevens of the UK and Wen Chun Cho of Taiwan, discussing research, the evidence-based movement, and the regulation of gestalt therapy.
Seán Gaffney’s 2009 contributions:
Publications:
The Cycle Re-cycled. Gestalt Review, Volume 13.1. Cape Cod, MA. GISC Press. With two commentaries and a response.
A Journey Through Mourning. InnerSense – A Journal of Spiritual Life, Volume 2.1. Wollongong, Australia. Ravenwood Press. With two commentaries.
Steps towards a Practice of Gestalt with Groups. Gestalt Journal, Australia and New Zealand, Volume 5.1. Sydney, Australia. GANZ.
Susan Gregory (www.GestaltSing.com) has had her chapter “You must sing to be found...” published in Healing with Art and Soul, Cambridge Scholars’ Press. She presented her workshop Voice Use and Social Process at the IXth International Gestalt Therapy Conference in Madrid, Spain, where she was also an invited panelist in a discussion of Emotions and How We Work With Them. Preceding the Madrid conference, Susan taught in Belfast, Ireland for the Gestalt Institute of Northern Ireland, as well as for the Singing Teachers’ Association of Northern Ireland, and for a social work organization based in the community there.
Mark Magerman recently co-edited, along with Martin Leahy, a special edition of the International Gestalt Journal focused on Gestalt Coaching. They had also authored an article within this edition.
Peter Philippson was involved as Senior Trainer for GITA, the Gestalt training institute in Slovenia, in the first three Diploma examinations, which were all passed very well.
Dan Bloom (www.dbloomlcsw.com) projects the following publication for 2010:
"The Phenomenological Method of Gestalt Therapy: Revisiting Husserl to Discover the ‘Essence' of Gestalt Therapy” Gestalt Review, in press
Foreword to Phil Brownell’s Gestalt Therapy:Guidebook for Mental Health Professionals, in press
“Sensing Animals/Knowing Persons” will appear in a forthcoming book on advanced gestalt therapy edited by Tali Levine Bar-Yoseph
He will also co-edit with Christine Steven "Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now", based on AAGT's 2010 conference.
He is a invited contributor to forthcoming book on gestalt therapy psychopathology edited hy Gianni Francesetti.
His planned presentations for 2010 are:
AAGT Biennial Conference, “Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now,"Philadelphia, Pa.June 2010.
Invited Presenter, Panel Leader, “The Field of ‘Field’ “
Workshop Presenter, “Chasing Rainbows: In Search of the Emergent Ethics of Contact — updated!”
10th EAGT Conference, ‘Lost in Transformation: Changing Identities in a Changing World", Berlin, Germany, September 2010
Workshop Presenter, “Speaking in the House of the Other: the Ethos of Dialogical Contact.”
Panel Co-leader, “Jews in Pre-World War II Berlin: a remarkable creative-adjustment”
Panel Member, “Gestalt Therapy and Psychopathology”
Dan's training and teaching in NYC for 2009/2010:
"Learning Gestalt Therapy Theory 'By the Book' in the 'Traditional Way' — studying Gestalt Therapy by Perls,
Hefferline, and Goodman”: A Monthly Workshop in the Theory and Practice of Contemporary Gestalt Therapy
“Existential Transference,” course at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy.
Bud Feder of Montclair,NJ will be providing a growth/training group weekend for the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco in Feb, 2010. Bud is offering a seminar/workshop in March for the Norwegian Gestalt Assn in Oslo and a 5-day workshop held at a conference center on beautiful Lake Constanz [Die Bodensee] on interactive gestalt group therapy for the Wuerzburg Institute of Germany.
Seán Gaffney’s recent contributions:
January 23, awarded a Ph.D at the University of Derby, England for his submission entitled “On Borders and Boundaries: Gestalt at Work in the World”. This submission will be published in my Collected Papers (see below).
Publications In Press:
A Neo-Lewinian Approach to Working with Groups. Advances in Gestalt Therapy Theory. Talia Levine bar Yoseph, Editor. Routledge, London, England.
A Proposal for a Gestalt Group Model. Under review and revision.
No Writer is an Island. Gestalt Review.
Gestalt in Education. British Gestalt Journal.
Collected Papers, Volume 1 & 2. Metairie, LA. Gestalt Institute Press.
Susan Gregory (www.GestaltSing.com) will present Voice Use and Social Process at the AAGT conference in Philadelphia in June as well as at the 10th EAGT conference in Berlin in September. Also in September, she returns to Belfast to teach for the Gestalt Institute of Northern Ireland and for the Northern Ireland Singing Teachers' Associaton. Earlier in the spring, she will present workshops for the music teachers’ division of the New York City Board of Education and for HEAL, a wellness organization located in Chelsea. Susan continues to teach Practicing, bi-weekly classes for beginning psychotherapists.
Alan Schwartz of Connecticut will enter his 38th year as an Esalen Group leader with his 5-day workshop, March 14-20, 2010. The title is "The Profound Simplicity of Being Present: A Gestalt Workshop."
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