1-5 MAGGIO - INTERNATIONAL GESTALT TRAINING / Fullness, emptiness and intimacy

With 

• G. Paolo Quattrini - Gestalt Psychotherapist, scientific director IGF (Gestalt Institute of Florence) 
• Valentina Barlacchi - Gestalt psychotherapist, theater and voice therapist (Gestalt Institute of Florence, Azioni e Contaminazioni) 
• Pierluca Santoro - Gestalt psychotherapist, photo-video therapist (Gestalt Institute of Florence, Azioni e Contaminazioni) 
• Shobha Arturi - Gestalt psychotherapist, meditation, dance and body awareness (Florence Gestalt Institute, Azioni e Contaminazioni) 
• Michele Galgani - Gestalt psychotherapist and Psy-Clown

The residential workshop offers the opportunity of an experiential and theoretical Gestalt training based on a phenomenological-existential approach. Through Theater and other expressive languages techniques, it will be possible to make individual and group experiences on creativity as an art of daily life. The I-You communication, which is the base of the relationship with the other, inner or external, can become a true “folie a deux” instead of a reciprocal intimate meeting. The workshop will make it possible to grasp the difference between expressed and acted emotions and their effects on the quality of relationships. When I-You listen to themselves, intimacy embraces differences making them creative and makes possible the existence of emptiness and fullness as a fertile space where to grasp “the invisible” of the other with eyes of curiosity and good will.

Presentation by Paolo Quattrini 

Psicologo-Psicoterapeuta Direttore scientifico Istituto Gestalt Firenze

In the Gestalt approach, theater has an ethical meaning, that is the search for an experience that has a value, and so has life. Theather allows the explorer to create a language, in this case a behavioural language, without the limits of a communication which sticks to the formal level and does not include creativity. It is a behavioural exploration which does not search any truth (the right, normal, appropriate behaviour) but rather the fluidity of reality. In this way we can see a wide variety of shapes that anyone can use to build significant behavioural sentences that also have ethical and aesthetic meaning. As far as communication is concerned, being creative means taking the risk to say something new. It may seem difficult, but it is not. When you create something, it does not necessarily mean that this draws the attention of many others, except the person and the listener. It is important that the person who invents is actually interested in the experience that she is living. This is a process where people can invent together, say and act new things, that is play. Creativity is like playing, and to play does not mean only to change the outside world, but also to change ourselves, as you cannot invent and stay the same as before.

To whom

The event is addressed to psychologists, social workers, counsellors, artists and anyone interested in personal awareness and development at personal and professional level.

Overnight accomodation and meals

• Room with two/three beds with shared bathroom: 25 € per night with breakfast and bath and bed linen included.
• Single room with private bathroom: 35 € with breakfast and bath and bed linen included.
• Lunch or supper: 10 € Lunch+supper: 20 €

Fee of the workshop

The workshop is free for participants coming from abroad

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