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SUMMARY:WINTER SPECIAL EVENT – Encountering Artificial Intelligence – Exploring a Phenomenology of Embodied Experience
DESCRIPTION:On October 30\, 2023\, the White House announced an executive order on global AI safety. \nIt is increasingly clear how a profound journey toward a new civilization is emerging\, different from the one in which we were born. AI isn’t just coming\, or coming fast. It is here. Even if we don’t access it\, or like it. And it is not so much our accessing AI\, but how it is accessing us. Within our daily lives. \nHow do we experience this as Gestalt therapists? How might AI impact Gestalt therapy communities all over the world? \nThis special event will: \n\nExplore a phenomenology of embodied experience in relation to AI;\nConsider how to integrate Gestalt theory into clinical practice within a situated world of AI;\nIdentify new developments in AI and how we may understand these in terms of field emergence;\nExplore whether as Gestalt therapists we may creatively interact with AI;\nAsk “Can AI be ethical?” and “Can an AI landscape be relational and field-emergent?”\n\nHow do we want to participate in the unfolding of this new lifeworld? And who are we becoming right now\, as Gestalt therapists in this changing landscape? \nBiographies: \nMaciej Lukaszewicz is a fourth-year student at Wielkopolska Szkoła Psychoterapii Gestalt (WSPG) in Poznań\, Poland. He has been in clinical practice with clients since 2021. \nFor the last 15 years\, he has been working in culture and art management\, including for Robert Wilson at his Watermill Center\, in New York\, from 2012 to 2015. \nMaciej graduated with an MA in theology and philosophy from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland and a MSc in European policy and management from Birkbeck College\, University of London\, UK. \nIn so-called free time\, he leads a theater group and directs performances or spends hours staring at miniatures in medieval manuscripts. \n——— \nClaire Spiller is the current secretary of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. She is also a UKCP registered and accredited Gestalt psychotherapist\, and a clinical supervisor approved by the Metanoia Institute\, London. \nShe is also a graduate of the Online Therapy Institute and the Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy program at the Center for Somatic Studies. In addition\, she has published an article entitled “A Year of the Pandemic: Existential themes for psychotherapists” in Existential Analysis\, 2021\, Vol. 32.\, No. 2\, and is working on a paper on phenomenology in Gestalt therapy. \nClaire has been working clinically online since 2016\, and has a background in writing\, designing\, and delivering a range of clinical training courses locally and nationally in the UK\, teaching and assessing qualified and trainee therapists on working with survivors of traumatic experiences. \nShe is also on the faculty of the “Working with the Complexities of Trauma” certificate program of Therapy and Counselling\, which has been accredited by the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists\, offers international online training\, and was named the best UK professional therapy training service of 2023 in Wales. \nClaire has a private practice in South Wales\, UK\, working remotely and in person.
URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/winter-special-event-encountering-artificial-intelligence-exploring-a-phenomenology-of-embodied-experience/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Reading Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
DESCRIPTION:Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality by Perls\, Hefferline\, and Goodman (PHG) is a complicated historical document holding the richness of the novel thinking of its time and\, importantly\, the genius of its authors. PHG now 70 years forward is widely recognized as Gestalt therapy’s founding text. Since the first coherent presentation in 1951\, practitioners have been evaluating\, clarifying\, redefining\, and expanding upon the details of its theory and practice. It has been read\, cited\, criticized\, and acclaimed. It has provided fertile ground for questioning ideas\, learning\, and impetus for new theory and practice. \nThis presentation will discuss PHG as a comprehensive presentation of Gestalt therapy theory and practice. I will explore its value as a formative text for new and experienced practitioners\, provide a brief sampling of its ideas\, share my experience reading PHG line by line in an experiential group\, and discuss aesthetic and hermeneutic perspectives and critical comments. The presentation will involve didactic and experiment segments. \nBiography: \nPerry Klepner\, LCSW\, has been a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and Kingston\, NY\, since 1977. He has been an instructor at several Gestalt institutes and provides training\, supervision\, and individual\, couples\, and group therapy. He trained with Laura Perls\, Isadore From\, and Richard Kitzler at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy\, where he is a past president (1993–95) and a full member\, fellow\, and instructor. He has authored articles and led workshops on Gestalt therapy at numerous conferences in the U.S. and abroad.
URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/reading-gestalt-therapy-excitement-and-growth-in-the-human-personality/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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SUMMARY:Gender Fluidity: A Modern Revolution in Today’s World
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Lee Zevy \nDescription: \nWe are currently experiencing a confusing destabilizing revolution of all aspects of sexuality and gender as evolving heterosexual and LGBTQI+ definitions\, meanings\, identities\, categories\, and behavior undergo dramatic changes. Although in many ways\, these changes are occurring worldwide\, each country and culture is determining how it integrates or tries to inhibit what is happening. \n\nIn many ways\, this process harkens back to other clinical revolutions\, like the advent of psychoanalysis and when Gestalt therapy and the other experiential therapies changed the relationality of the therapeutic environment. \n\nFor clinicians\, gender fluidity can be a confusing array of categories\, identifiers\, and meanings that have to be negotiated with each client. \n\nDuring this presentation\, I’ll ground the current evolution of gender fluidity historically and then focus on the ways it affects the field clinically. Exercises in breakout groups will allow participants to experience\, play with\, and discuss their relation to this unfolding process. Then we will re-form into the whole group to continue discussion and uncover emerging themes. \nBiography: \nLee Zevy is one of the founders of Identity House\, a walk-in peer counseling and psychotherapy community mental health center for the LGBTQI+ community in New York City\, which began in 1971. After completing her training at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy\, where she is now a fellow\, she became the clinical director of Identity House for many years and still does supervising and training there. In addition to becoming president of NYIGT twice\, she teaches\, supervises\, writes\, and publishes on the theory and practice of Gestalt therapy. Her current interest is how the fluidity of gender and sexuality today is moving to change the discourse of society around these topics.
URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/gender-fluidity-a-modern-revolution-in-todays-world/
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SUMMARY:The Zen of Gestalt Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Olivier Winghart \nDescription: \nAutumn brings us a special time for contemplating impermanence\, and so I’m pleased to offer my presentation about Zen and Gestalt therapy this month. I plan to take up: \n\nThe importance of Zen and Taoism for the Gestalt therapy pioneers.\nThe parallels between Zen practice and Gestalt therapy practice for a therapist.\nA closer look at a few relevant sources (F. Perls\, J. Enright\, D. Price\, M. Epstein).\nInterpersonal meditation for individual therapy and couples therapy.\nThe differences in intention and perspective between Zen Buddhism and Gestalt therapy (including spiritual awakening\, the concept of self\, and the most precious gift to give a human being).\nInspiration from this quote: “Listening to the ongoing process\, and getting out of the way.”\n\nWe shall also explore the topic experientially in small groups. \nBiography: \nOlivier has been an associate member of the Institute since 2015 or 2016\, thanks to a suggestion by the late Sean Gaffney and practical help from Susan Gregory. \nHe has a diploma in engineering from École Centrale Paris\, and two Master of Science degrees – one in computer science (from UT Austin\, USA)\, and one in Gestalt psychotherapy (from the University of Derby\, UK). \nOlivier’s first career was in computer science and artificial intelligence\, and in the early 2000s\, he started to train in Gestalt therapy. He has maintained a private practice since 2008\, first in Stockholm\, Sweden\, then in Lyon\, France (individual and couples therapy). He also has translated six books related to Gestalt therapy from English into French. \nRegarding the topic of the presentation\, Olivier has maintained a regular Zen practice since 1987 and was ordained as a novice priest in 2020 in the Japanese Soto Zen School.
URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/the-zen-of-gestalt-therapy/
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