BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy - ECPv6.15.11//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:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
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
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T150000
DTSTAMP:20260411T091618
CREATED:20250804T190820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250807T140844Z
UID:4305-1759669200-1759676400@newyorkgestalt.org
SUMMARY:Chasing Rainbows: In Search of Wonder
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dan Bloom \nDescription: \nThis workshop opens the 75th-anniversary year of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. It invites us to pause – not just to reflect on our history\, but also to reawaken the very spirit that gave birth to it: the creative aesthetic of contacting\, the surprise of the always-new\, the call of wonder. \nIt feels as if Earth’s rotation has sped up. What once unfolded in its own time now rushes past us. Everything is immediate – devoid of a past\, blind to a future. Impatience overtakes us\, dulling our felt sense of the situation. The time needed to nourish curiosity and dwell in presence is overrun by urgency. \nAnd yet – we sense that wonder is possible. We know life can be more fulfilling. We yearn for it. Even when dulled to the world’s splendors\, we feel the ache of something missing. We are always chasing rainbows – glimpsing their shimmer even when they do not appear. \nContacting – the essential theme of Gestalt therapy – opens us to this shimmer\, to the surprise of the always-new. It is the process of interest and desire\, of sensing and moving\, of feeling and knowing. It is an openness to the unexpected\, to curiosity\, to the aesthetic of wonder. \nTo contact is to take time. To linger. To find the rhythm in which surprise and novelty\, wonder and growth\, can emerge. In the living-present\, we sense\, feel\, move – and are moved. Meaning takes form within the aesthetic dimension of the living-present\, lived-past\, and lived-future. \nFrom this perspective\, we will revisit foundational concepts of Gestalt therapy: the field\, the situation\, the contact boundary\, the sequence of contacting – and\, centrally\, the aesthetic of the contact event itself. \nThese themes will be explored through a combination of didactic presentation\, clinical demonstration\, and small and large group processes – each grounded in our contemporary relational practice. \nBiography: \nDan Bloom\, JD\, LCSW (www.danbloomnyc.com)\, is the president of NYIGT and a psychotherapist\, supervisor\, clinical trainer\, and writer in New York City. He studied with Laura Perls\, Isadore From\, and Richard Kitzler. Dan is guest and adjunct faculty at Gestalt therapy institutes worldwide; he has spoken and given workshops at many international conferences; and he leads webinars in Gestalt therapy and phenomenology. He is also a Fellow of NYIGT\, a past president of IAAGT\, a member of EAGT\, and a co-founder of the International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field-Emergent Self and Therapy (www.ig-fest.org). In addition\, he is an associate editor of the Gestalt Review\, a book review editor of Quaderni di Gestalt\, and a member of the Scientific Board of the Gestalt Therapy Book Series. Dan is widely published.
URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/chasing-rainbows-in-search-of-wonder/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newyorkgestalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/chasing_rainbows.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T150000
DTSTAMP:20260411T091618
CREATED:20250804T213317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250811T133237Z
UID:4347-1761483600-1761490800@newyorkgestalt.org
SUMMARY:Martin Buber’s In-Between
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Cornelia Muth \nDescription: \nIn Gestalt therapy\, Martin Buber’s dialogical principle is the guiding model for social interaction between the participants. Its central focus is the personal and intersubjective perceptual event in the present\, which makes this approach phenomenological from a theoretical and clinical perspective. \nBuber’s critical concept of the “in-between” as the meeting place of the I and the Thou is an essential place from where everything reveals itself or becomes clear to our world of experiences. The in-between is the background of contacting without which the mutuality of a healing encounter\, dialogue\, is not possible. This mutuality is at the heart of Buber’s I-Thou meeting in contrast to Emmanuel Levinas’s emphasis on non-mutuality of self-Other dialogue. \nIn this presentation\, I will develop and deepen the idea of Buber’s in-between as background in terms of dialogue in Gestalt therapy. The in-between makes the figure/ground processes of personal\, interpersonal\, and social experiences at the heart of therapeutic dialogue. It is not merely the “third” of dialogue – as background to all experience\, it is intrinsic to contacting’s emergence. \nI will also touch upon Buber’s perspective on the spirit and soul. Buber considered himself neither a real philosopher nor a scholar nor a theologian. Instead\, he saw himself as an atypical person who does not philosophize about but has faith in God’s energy. \nBiography: \nCornelia Muth is a professor of transcultural educational sciences and philosophy at the University of Social Sciences and Arts in Bielefeld\, Germany. She has been a Gestalt educator since 1995. \nHer relevant publications include In-Between!?: A dialogic-phenomenological perspective (2025) and “Buber’s Concept of the Soul” (in: A Companion to Martin Buber\, 2025).
URL:https://newyorkgestalt.org/event/bubers-in-between/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newyorkgestalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Martin-Buber-in-Psychanalysis.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR