BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260315T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260315T150000 DTSTAMP:20260407T023328 CREATED:20250805T144632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250805T151406Z UID:4427-1773579600-1773586800@newyorkgestalt.org SUMMARY:Reclaiming Wholeness: A Compassionate/Relational Gestalt Understanding of Trauma and Addiction DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Rafael Cortina \nDescription: \nTrauma and addiction intertwine in complex ways\, fundamentally altering how individuals experience themselves\, their relationships\, and their world. Addiction is the long-term consequence of creative adjustments to painful life circumstances that provide a sense of relief by numbing emotional pain or disconnecting the individual from unbearable experiences. While these adaptations initially serve as vital coping mechanisms in a field lacking safety\, belonging\, and emotional support\, lasting healing requires more than managing symptoms. It calls for relational engagement\, embodied awareness\, and compassionate integration of past experiences within the ever-changing field of relationships and environment. \nGestalt field theory offers an understanding of these challenges. It presents a holistic\, process-oriented perspective that recognizes trauma and addiction as phenomena shaped by the entire web of human experience\, from intimate relationships to broader social systems. Rather than viewing these challenges as isolated personal failures\, this approach examines the complex interplay of interpersonal dynamics\, cultural influences\, and environmental factors. This workshop delves into practical applications of field theory\, demonstrating how shifting our therapeutic lens from individual pathology to the dynamic field can catalyze profound healing and sustainable transformation. \nFocus and Key Topics: \nThis workshop integrates Gestalt relational and field theory to help practitioners support clients moving beyond survival toward authentic connection and integration. We will explore: \nThe Field Perspective on Trauma and Addiction: \n\nTrauma and addiction as field phenomena rather than isolated disorders.\nHow social\, relational\, and cultural forces shape trauma responses and addictive patterns.\nUnderstanding interpersonal and environmental supports/barriers to healing within a client’s lived experience.\n\nCreative Adjustments and Addiction: \n\nAddiction as a functional creative adjustment rather than a pathology.\nHow trauma influences fixed gestalts\, interrupting the fluid contact cycle.\nStrategies to support organic transformation by expanding awareness and choice.\n\nBiography: \nRafael Cortina is a licensed marriage and family therapist in the state of California; he is also a master addiction counselor\, a certified clinical trauma professional\, and a certified Gestalt therapist. As a bilingual therapist (English-Spanish)\, he has worked in Mexico and the United States\, and has more than 20 years of experience working with individuals\, couples\, families\, and groups. He holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology and another in business administration with an emphasis on marketing. Rafael is currently an adjunct faculty member at National University and the acting president of IAAGT.  URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/reclaiming-wholeness-a-compassionate-relational-gestalt-understanding-of-trauma-and-addiction/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newyorkgestalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/reclaiming_wholeness.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260322T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260322T150000 DTSTAMP:20260407T023328 CREATED:20260313T152355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T163636Z UID:4895-1774184400-1774191600@newyorkgestalt.org SUMMARY:SPECIAL EVENT: Trump Wages War DESCRIPTION:Description: \nWhat now. Iran? \nWe’ve been gathering since Trump’s election to share and process our thoughts and feelings about the new world order. \nHow has the latest – and frightening – plot twist impacted us as human beings and as therapists? \nIn these confusing times\, you’ve got a community. \nPlease join us on Sunday\, March 22. \nFacilitated by Yaël Lewin. URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/special-event-trump-wages-war/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newyorkgestalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/trump_wages_war_032226.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T150000 DTSTAMP:20260407T023328 CREATED:20250805T150906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T135438Z UID:4433-1775998800-1776006000@newyorkgestalt.org SUMMARY:Gestalt as an Art DESCRIPTION:Register\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Register here\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sunday\, April 12\, 2026 - Gestalt as an ArtPlease enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastEmail *I am a *NYIGT MemberGuestMy location *How did you find out about this event? * \n interests am event?\n \n \n What interests you about this event? *Comment or messageSubmit \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Description: \nPlease join us for a special event inspired by the late Tine van Wijk (1936–2025)\, who was supposed to share her journey of creative expression with the NYIGT community on this day. \nWe will begin with remembrances by colleagues in tribute to Tine’s accomplishments and generous artistic spirit. Then\, we will honor her wishes for this occasion by exploring our own creative process\, informed by our experiences and by Gestalt therapy. \nThe event will include opportunities for writing and drawing. Please bring paper\, a pen\, and whatever art supplies you like. \nWe welcome everyone – whether you knew Tine or not – to celebrate her life and the joy of creativity! \n \nBiography: \nTine was born in 1936 in Amsterdam and called herself a war child. After being an editor of women’s\, children’s\, and family magazines for 30 years\, she started in 1988 Gestalt Center De Walvis/The Whale. Since then\, she had been leading ongoing therapy\, writing\, and training groups. \nShe was a member of the Dutch EAGT\, of IAAGT\, and of NYIGT. She worked in Russia and Ukraine many times and presented at Gestalt conferences in the UK\, the USA\, Mexico\, and Canada. In 2005\, Tine initiated and co-created a regional AAGT conference in Amsterdam. She also published three books in Dutch and one in English\, which was translated into Russian\, Process Writing to C. \nFor Tine\, Gestalt therapy and artistic expression went hand in hand. She explained\, “By practicing Gestalt\, I am opening more and more creativity by writing\, drawing\, painting\, creating and reciting poems\, making photos and videos\, and sounding words I have written.” URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/gestalt-as-an-art/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newyorkgestalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/gestalt_as_art.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T150000 DTSTAMP:20260407T023328 CREATED:20250805T152255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250811T133313Z UID:4446-1777813200-1777820400@newyorkgestalt.org SUMMARY:From the Edges of Experience to the Center of Relationship DESCRIPTION:Register\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Register here\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sunday\, May 3\, 2026 - From the Edges of Experience to the Center of RelationshipPlease enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastEmail *I am a *NYIGT MemberGuestMy location *How did you find out about this event? *What interests you about this event? * \n this message did\n \n \n Comment or messageSubmit \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presenter: Perry Klepner \nDescription: \nGestalt therapy\, as originally presented in PHG and more recently developed\, is an extraordinary contribution to how we can understand human psychological coherence and conduct psychotherapy. This presentation will consider its holistic and phenomenal qualities by exploring the experiences of attendees as our emergent NYIGT community\, created and discovered\, emerging from our personal and collegial synergy. It will include conceptual and experiential segments and discussion to explore awareness and contact\, attending to our experience of differences and commonalities such as new/old\, local/distant\, student/teacher\, practice/theory\, author/reader\, participant/observer\, fellow/member/associate – that is\, our community and our situation.\n \nThe exploration is inspired by my long-term NYIGT membership and regard for the age-old human endeavor to conceptualize and navigate our individual\, personal\, and shared social and communal experience through the realms of our discontents\, desires\, hopes\, ambitions\, happiness\, grief\, anger\, common and eccentric interests\, successes\, etc. Additionally\, by the epidemic disturbances\, divisions\, and disharmonies of our everyday world as well as by the emphasis on individualized experience versus the unitary view of the organism/environment field or a Sanskrit phrase for universal interconnection\, “What is out there is in here\, and what is in here is out there.”\n \nAlso\, by the words of Rainer Marie Rilke:\n \nAh\, not to be cut off\,\nnot through the slightest partition\nshut out from the law of the stars.\nThe inner – what is it?\nif not the intensified sky\,\nhurled through with birds and deep\nwith the winds of homecoming.\n \nBiography: \nPerry Klepner\, LCSW\, has been a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and Kingston\, NY\, since 1977. He provides supervision and individual and couples therapy. For over three years\, starting in April 2022\, he has facilitated a support group for Ukrainian Gestalt therapists and currently is facilitating six line-by-line study groups of Gestalt Therapy by Fritz Perls\, Ralph Hefferline\, and Paul Goodman. He trained with Laura Perls\, Isadore From\, and Richard Kitzler at NYIGT\, where he is a past president (1993–95) and Fellow. He has authored articles and led workshops on Gestalt therapy at numerous conferences. URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/from-the-edges-of-experience-to-the-center-of-relationship/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newyorkgestalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/edges_of_experience.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T150000 DTSTAMP:20260407T023328 CREATED:20250806T221958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T221958Z UID:4496-1781442000-1781449200@newyorkgestalt.org SUMMARY:2025-2026 Business Meeting #3 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/2025-2026-business-meeting-3/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Business Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newyorkgestalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/biz_meeting_bkgrnd1_light.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR