BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20280312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20281105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270516T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270516T153000 DTSTAMP:20260823T165151Z CREATED:20260812T183150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T165151Z UID:5195-1810471500-1810481400@newyorkgestalt.org SUMMARY:Connecting in the Street: Boosting Social Bounds With Gestalt Therapy DESCRIPTION:Register\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Register here\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sunday\, May 16\, 2027 - Connecting in the Street: Boosting Social Bounds With Gestalt Therapy Please 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 * \n am location event?\n \n \n How did you find out about this event? *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 Please note the new 12:45 p.m. start time.\n \n \n \n \n \n Presenter: Séverine Bourguignon \nDescription: \nIn this presentation\, I will introduce Les Écouteurs de rues (Street Listeners)\, a French social innovative initiative founded in 2019. It is simple but powerful. Once a month\, for two hours\, volunteer therapists set up chairs in the public space of a very popular suburb of Paris and offer free\, informal listening sessions to passersby. Branches of the association also exist in three other cities of France. \nThe project was created to break down barriers to mental health care and to make mental health support accessible. Instead of requiring appointments or payment\, it brings support directly into the street\, making it easier for people to talk about personal or emotional difficulties in a safe\, accessible way. \nBeyond individual support and active listening\, the association promotes social connection and collective well-being\, encouraging people to speak and reconnect in an increasingly isolated society. Volunteer therapists also guide people toward appropriate services if further help is needed or asked for\, or can be identified. \nLes Écouteurs de rues aims to transform public space into a place of dialogue\, making mental health care more visible\, inclusive\, and human. The street becomes a common and sharing space and not only a place to be solicited or to hustle. It exposes therapists as ordinary people and de-dramatizes therapy\, making it simple and warmhearted but nonetheless serious and efficient. \nThe purpose is also to explore new models of care and mental health\, to get the habit of horizontalized relationships in health care\, and to build easy gateways toward services and institutions by randomly meeting people and informing them about available services and possibilities. \nWe will explore: \n\nHow the association was born and how it works.\nWhat is the ethical framework? How do we create safety outdoors? What are the limits?\nHow do we share intimacy outdoors? How do we encourage people who are total strangers to indulge themselves in the public space?\nHow are a certain number of Gestalt concepts addressed within the listenings illustrated with a few clinical examples of listening? For instance: social field\, patterns of contacting\, awareness\, contact boundary\, the between\, presence\, attunement and self-disclosure\, dialogue and language\, here and now\, creative adjustment\, co-creation\, horizontalism in the relationship\, excitement\, intentionality and reaching out\, experimentation (field work)\, resonance and field.\nPolitical involvement\, promoting humanism. Why are Gestalt therapists responding so readily and seeming perfectly suited to this exercise?\n\nBiography: \nSéverine Bourguignon is the founder and president of Les Écouteurs de rues (Street Listeners)\, an association offering free outdoor psychological listenings. \nShe works with individuals and groups in Paris as a Gestalt therapist\, supervises groups of social workers\, and trains people in active listening for the French Institute of the North (EGN). \nAs a former visual artist\, she also trains therapists with the use of artistic mediation in therapy and has created a deck of cards about regulation modes. \nShe is the author of Gestalt articles in the French journal Revue Gestalt\, the latest about Winnicott’s use of squiggle in Gestalt therapy. URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/connecting-in-the-street-boosting-social-bounds-with-gestalt-therapy/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newyorkgestalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/270516_Bourguignon_Connecting_in_the_street.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270604T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270604T173000 DTSTAMP:20260822T212152Z CREATED:20260821T201457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T212152Z UID:5364-1812103200-1812130200@newyorkgestalt.org SUMMARY:75th Anniversary Conference - Day 1 DESCRIPTION:Please join us!\n \nSee details here: 75thanniversaryconference.nyigt.org URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/75th-anniversary-conference-1/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newyorkgestalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/nyigt_75ann_conference_bkgnd.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270605T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270605T173000 DTSTAMP:20260822T211835Z CREATED:20260821T202714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T211835Z UID:5379-1812189600-1812216600@newyorkgestalt.org SUMMARY:75th Anniversary Conference - Day 2 DESCRIPTION:Please join us!\n \nSee details here: 75thanniversaryconference.nyigt.org URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/75th-anniversary-conference-day-2/ CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newyorkgestalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/nyigt_75ann_conference_bkgnd.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270613T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270613T150000 DTSTAMP:20260823T154833Z CREATED:20260821T165214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T154833Z UID:5337-1812888000-1812898800@newyorkgestalt.org SUMMARY:2026-2027 Membership Meeting #3 DESCRIPTION:The meeting will start at 12 noon and end at 3 p.m. Please note the extra hour. 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