A Year of Monthly Meetings Exploring Difference and Dialogue
Each month our presentations will be framed by the theme“difference and dialogue.”
This theme arose from our attention to emerging concerns within our membership.
The meetings will be held at:
Sound Health Studios (Frank Bosco's)
20 West 20th Street, Suite 803,
bet 5th & 6th Aves.,
Manhattan |
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| Wed, Oct 14 |
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John Bennett - Beyond Gender Dysphoria: A Case Study of Gestalt Therapy with a Non-Gender-Dysphoric Transwoman Preparing for Sexual Reassignment Surgery. |
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| Wed, Nov 11 |
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"Conflict and Aggression in Gestalt Therapy: How Essential Are They to Our Model? An Exploration in Two Parts -- Part I: Conflict”
"A discussion and experiential exploration of "conflict." The chapter "Conflict and Self Conquest" from Gestalt Therapy by Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman will be the starting point for our discussion. Alternatives to the conflict-centered model of gestalt therapy will be considered. The discussion will be begun by several members of the institute who have been discussing this theme (Karen Humphrey, Lee Zevy, and Dan Bloom). We will all be addressing our own experiences individually and as a group in a dialogical manner throughout the evening. |
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| Wed, Dec 9 |
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Lee Zevy - Shame, Guilt, Humiliation: etc. |
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| Wed, Jan 13 |
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Business Meeting - Agenda to be announced. |
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| Sun, Feb 21 |
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Dan Bloom - "Speaking in the House of the Other: the Ethos of “Dialogical Contact.”
“Dialogue” is a common term in gestalt therapy. Many of us use it all the time.But what does it mean?
I will explore “dialogue,”” contact,” and propose “dialogical contact” as a new concept that situates “dialogue” within gestalt therapy’s theory of self and contact- —but without importing any other theories of dialogue that might carry with them implicit implications that haven’t been sufficiently examined. (Martin Buber, for example.)
Since we are all functions of the social field, we are always in the “house of the other.” This is the basis for any “third person” or “empty chair” method. “Ethos,” is the Classical Greek word for a dwelling place. I use it here to mean the achieved “place” that is the authentic ground for dialogical contact. Dialogical contact is both the condition for and created by the emergent ethos of contacting. This is the existential-phenomenological aspect of gestalt therapy.
I will explain all of this in plain language. We will all work with these concepts to see how they “play out” in our actual experience." |
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| Wed, Mar 10 |
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"Conflict and Aggression in Gestalt Therapy: How Essential Are They to Our Model?:An Exploration in Two Parts Part II: Aggression A discussion of the Part I of Frank-M Staemmeler's Aggression, Time, and Understanding: Contributions to the Evolution of Gestalt Therapy in which he critically discusses the notion of aggression in gestalt therapy from Ego, Hunger, and Aggression through our current literature. This discussion challenges our commonly accepted beliefs. Joe Aliaga, Dan Bloom, Karen Humphrey, and Lee Zevy will begin a discussion of "aggression" and Staemmeler's analysis. [Everyone is urged to obtain their own copies of Staemmeler's book (available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble) and participate in this discussion.] We will relate this discussion to our experience, as we did during our dialogue on "conflict" in November |
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| Sat, Apr 17 |
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Ken Meyer - GESTALT THERAPY & WESTERN BUDDHISM: Time for a Dialogue? |
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| Wed, May 12 |
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Susan Jurkowski - "A Year of Exploring Difference and Dialogue: A group process assessing our journey and creating new direction.” |
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| Wed, Jun 9 |
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Business Meeting - Agenda to be announced. |
