EAGT

Today EAGT exists 25 years:

congratulations!!!

The Società Italiana Psicoterapia Gestalt (SIPG), the Italian NOGT (the National Organization for Gestalt Therapy), has been accredited by EAGT.

Jelena Zeleskov Djoric, chair of NOGTs is handing over the NOGT certificate and congratulating the Italian representative Michele Cannavo for the successful re-registration of the Italian NOGT SIPG

The european writers support conference:

In these last years, other scientifically activities have been added. The European Writers Support Conference with the aim of supporting and promoting writing in Europe, where often the multitude of languages are an obstacle to the circulation of developments in theory and practice. EAGT organizers aim for participants who want support in writing. We hereby think of students, practitioners, researchers and editors of journals but colleagues who already publish are also welcome.

Fundraising

You can help us to help the Human Rights & Social Responsibility (HR&SR) committee, by donating.

Your financial contribution will allow us to realize the below mentioned projects of the HR&SR committee.

For this project we need about € 23.000,-.

Your donation is very much appreciated! http://eagt.org/collectebus.htm

Project with Peace Brigades International.

Peace Brigades International (PBI) is an international grassroots NGO that has promoted non-violence and protected human rights. The main focus of PBI is international accompaniment, for protecting human rights defenders threatened with violence because of their work, but also peace education. PBI sends international volunteers to areas of conflict, providing protective accompaniment to human rights defenders threatened by political violence, and also facilitate other peace-building initiatives. Currently PBI has volunteers in Columbia, Guatemala, Indonesian, Mexico and Guatemala ( www.peacebrigades.org ).

PBI and HR&SR Committee of the EAGT exchanged the objectives and working fields of both organisations and the services needed for PBI. PBI has developed minimum standards for providing emotional support for volunteers in the different phases of voluntary work: preparation, field work and reintegration in their own situation. EAGT and her members want to offer this emotional support in various directions.

a. Buddy training ex volunteers.

After two year field work ex volunteers have much experience in dealing with unsafe, stress and traumatic situations. They can play an important role for new volunteers in the briefing, field work and debriefing phase of the voluntary work. HR&SR Committee will develop a buddy training for ex volunteers. Basis communication skills, dealing with emotions and basic principles of counselling will be trained by EAGT Gestalt therapists. It is planned to carry out a first pilot of two day training in Switzerland in June 2010.

b. Professional emotional support.

PBI needs a network of professional volunteers that make themselves available and be willing to be contacted either e-mail or telephone while a volunteer is on a team or after they have left the team, for up to ten sessions. Currently HR&SR Committee makes a list of certificated Gestalt therapist who is willing to make themselves available. It is planned to make the list available at the beginning of 2010.

c. Team coaching in the field.

PBI volunteers work and live in the field for 24 hours a day in a team with less privacy and under stress and unsafe circumstances. External support from a professional in the mental health field is urgent in some projects of PBI (Nepal) were PBI cannot provide this. HR&SR resolved to send experienced Gestalt therapist into the field to give this support to volunteers. It is planned to bring 2 Gestalt therapists into the field in 2010 and 2011

Call for Presentations

The 28th Annual Conference of

The International Association for the Study of Dreams

Rolduc Conference Centre

Kerkrade, The Nederlands

June, 24-28 2011

The Venue: The conference will be held at the former monastery of Rolduc, Kerkrade, near the boundary of the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. It may be accessed by the airports of Düsseldorf (Germany), Amsterdam and Eindhoven (the Netherlands) or Brussels (Belgium) as well as highway networks and railway infrastructure from all three countries.

Submission Themes: High quality proposals are invited, particularly those that explore the conference theme, Dreams and Cultural Diversity. We request that submissions fall into one of the following tracks: Research & Theory; Arts & Humanities; Culture, Anthropology & History; Education; Religion, Spirituality & Philosophy; Clinical Approaches; Dreamwork Practices; Extraordinary, PSI and Lucid Dreams; and Conference Theme. While the conference is in the Netherlands there are two special themes within the conference theme track: one of them specifically Dutch and the other specifically European. A special session is dedicated to the famous Dutch psychiatrist, poet, lucid dreamer, and author on dreams Frederik van Eeden. A second theme emphasizes the visions on dreams in the philosophical tradition of Europe.

Submission Categories include: Paper Presentations; Symposia; Panels; Workshops; Special Events or Major Presentations; Morning Dream Groups; Hot-off-the-Press and Poster Papers

Deadline for submissions is 30 November 2010

(except for Hot off the Press and Poster Sessions which is 1 March 2011)

All Submissions Must be Made Online. For Instructions and the Online Form go to www.asdreams.org/2011

For all questions regarding submissions write to submissions2011@asdreams.org

The International Association for the Study of Dreams

1672 University Avenue, Berkeley CA 94703, 1-209-724-0889, office@asdreams.org

Social, political and cultural relationships as therapy’s grounds

A Gestalt Therapy Session

Scientific Direction and Secretary

Human Rights and Social Responsibility Committee of EAGT

Patronaged by the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) and by the European Inter University-Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC)

20/23 October 2011

Casa Caburlotto, Santa Croce 316/318

Venice

The European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT) was founded in 1985, with the aim of gathering European individual Gestalt therapists, Training Institutes and National Associations, of promoting Gestalt therapy in Europe, combining and exchanging knowledge and resources, fostering a high professional standard for Gestalt therapy and encouraging research. Today over 600 members (institutional and individual) from more than 20 European Nations are already part of the association. EAGT is an EWAO; which means an European Wide Accrediting Organization and as such a member of EAP (European Association for Psychotherapy).

The purpose of the Human Rights & Social Responsibility Committee (HR&SR) of EAGT is to explore the interface between Gestalt psychotherapy and the socio-political context, with specific reference to the advancement of human rights. Chair: Guus Klaren

Session fees will contribute to realize projects of Human Rights and Social Responsibility Committee

Program:

Friday, October, 21st, 2011

9.00 Opening Session - Greetings and Introduction

Peter Schulthess, EAGT President

Guus Klaren, Chair of HR&SR Committee

Fabrizio Marrella

Associate Professor of International Law, Venezia, EMA Programme Director

Michela Gecele, HR&SR Committee

10.30 Vincenzo Pace

Full Professor of Sociology, Padova

Liaisons and Community: a sociological diagnosis through the comparison of Pentecostal churches in four continents

Process Group

Giovanni Salonia

Psychologist, Gestalt psychotherapist, Director of the Istituto di Gestalt H.C.C. Kairos

Historical evolution of psychotherapy / Psychotherapy and social context

Process Group

13.00/ 16.30 Lunch and after-lunch (see social events)

Peter Schulthess

Political and social roots of Gestalt therapy / Psychotherapy as a political act

Process Group

Gianni Francesetti

Psychiatrist, Gestalt psychotherapist and trainer (Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy and Istituto di Gestalt HCC Kairos)

Diagnosis and psychopathology in Gestalt therapy: problems and possible solutions

Process Group

Saturday, October, 22nd, 2011

9.00 Francesco Remotti

Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Torino

Anthropopoiesis in different cultural contexts: making men and women through relationships

Process Group

Massimo Raveri

Full Professor in East Asian Religions, Venezia

Ways to self-knowledge and to liberation: Buddhist Tradition and psychotherapy in Japan

Process Group

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb

Psychologist, Gestalt psychotherapist, Director of the Istituto di Gestalt H.C.C. Italy

Teaching Gestalt Therapy nowadays

Process Group

13.00/16.30 Lunch and after-lunch (see social events)

Guy Haarscher

Full professor of moral, political and legal philosophy (Université Libre de Bruxelles – EMA)

Human Rights and Human Laws

Process Group

Michela Gecele

Psychiatrist, Gestalt psychotherapist and trainer (Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy and Istituto di Gestalt HCC Kairos)

Cultural expression of mental, relational and social suffering / Living in intercultural societies

Process Group

Sunday, October, 23rd, 2011

9.00 Translating Experiences

Ken Evans

Challenging oppressive practice in psychotherapy education

Nurith Levi

Chairperson of the Israeli Association of Gestalt Therapy

Coping with conflicts and war

Ivana Vidakovic

Clinical Psychologist and Gestalt Psychotherapist

After war and conflicts

Guus Klaren

The value of differences in international cooperation

Process Group

Lunch

Panel Towards assimilation: including social, political and (inter)cultural matters in training programmes. Peter Schulthess, Guus Klaren, Nurith Levi, Ivana Vidakovic, Michela Gecele, Group Leaders, and All Participants

SOCIAL EVENTS (minimum of 10 participants)

Thursday, October, 20th, 2011

13.30 Visit to the Armenian Museum on San Lazzaro

Fee: 10 euro

18.30 Welcome Cocktail

Caburlotto – Venice

Friday, October, 21st, 2011

14.30 Visit across Venice's Grand Canal by Gondola Ferry

Fee: 1 euro

Saturday, October, 22nd, 2011

14.30 Visit to Ca’ Rezzonico - Museum of 18th century art

Fee: 7 euro

20.30 Social dinner

Social dinner fee: 20 euro

Participants will be divided in small groups, gathering after each lecture (Process Group). The aim of Process Group is to discuss and chew any item, giving final suggestion about including social, political and (inter)cultural matters in European training programs.

Participants:

European Gestalt trainers and psychotherapists. Gestalt practitioners in organizations.

Language: English

Aims: Participants will acquire awareness, knowledge and instruments concerning social, political and cultural items, and the ways to cope with them, both in therapy and in trainings. Participants will take part in building up proposals for the inclusion of social, political and cultural items in European Gestalt Training Programs

Costs:

Before December, 31st, 2010: 300 euro

Before March, 31st, 2011: 350 euro

Before June, 30th, 2011: 380 euro

After June, 30th, 2011 420 euro

(board and lodging excluded)

Accommodation:

Some rooms are available in Casa Caburlotto (www.sangiuseppecaburlotto.com, Tel. +39 041710877, Fax +39 041710875, e-mail caburlotto.casaperferie@virgilio.it)

Information on different categories of accomodation in the area where the training will take place will be provided.

Information: www.eagt.org, eagtoffice@planet.nl, mgecele@hotmail.com

3rd Three-Countries- Conference dedicated to Paul Goodman in Vienna

November 11-13, 2011

Anarchie-Poesie-Therapie

Paul Goodman zum 100. Geburtstag http://www.paulgoodmantagung.org/

Vom 11. bis 13.11. 2011 findet in Wien

die gemeinsame Tagung von DVG, SVG, OEVG und FSIG im ÖAGG statt. (D-A-CH-Dreiländertagung)

Die Beiträge gliedern sich in die vier Themenbereiche:

Politik - Pädagogik - Therapie – Kunst

EAGT (European Association for Gestalt Therapy) www.eagt.org

The office is run by Marga Berends (office manager)

You can contact her for information regarding all mentioned items in the menu bar.