8.5-9.9.2020, 7 Wednesdays 6:30-8:30p (PST)

LIMIT 12 PEOPLE

Join this group for a chance to build your community of support during these ever-changing times. We will meet on zoom from our own homes and offices.

**This is not a CE course. I would like this to be a group of people who share a similar interest in Gestalt values and techniques to explore our experience and facilitate connection. Please email me if you need more of a sense of what this group may be about. The group will likely include a mixture of therapists, social workers, and other healing practitioners as well!! If your job or role in your community is one that holds space for others, this may be a supportive group for you!

General information:

This series is not for CEU’s but rather to support each other during these ever-changing times. We will meet via zoom video conference once a week. We will begin each meeting with a meditation and check-in. We will then collaborate to develop any agenda or structure that we would like the remainder of the time to look like, or we will leave it open for open-process time (or a combination of the two). Please be able to commit to at least six out of seven groups. Please “zoom-in” from a place that ensures everyone’s confidentiality. This will be a collegial support group, meaning the information we share will remain confidential, however relationships that are created or continued are not bound to the group. In fact, I hope it will be an opportunity to expand your community of support on a long-term basis.

Goals:

To support each other without judgement, analysis, advice, or interpretation.

To practice basic (simple but not always easy) Gestalt values to improve presence, contact, and attunement to each other and to our clients.

To provide a ‘constant’ in a rapidly changing situation.

To expand our understanding of Gestalt-based theories and practices.

To expand our personal and professional community of support.

To include a diverse group of healing professionals.

Schedule

(6:15pm; technology figuring-out)

6:30pm Meditation and check in

Checkin’s include- What am I noticing now? What do I need others to know about me so that I can be more present here and now? What am I hoping to cover or address this evening before we finish?

6:45pm (roughly) We will spend a moment gathering any potential supportive agenda items.

7:00pm (roughly) The rest of the time may include dyads, discussions, open-seat work, dreamwork, Gestalt based case consultation, or other creative expression and dialogue

8:15pm Check-out and let me know if there’s anything in the way of information or structure I can provide by the next meeting