Leading and Facilitating Groups - Gestalt and Body Psychotherapy concepts in action

Leading and facilitating groups - Gestalt and Body Psychotherapy concepts in action

A CPD workshop for practitioners.

We will focus on ways of working relationally in a group setting by learning about and utilising key concepts from embodied and relational Body Psychotherapy and contemporary Gestalt Therapy. In doing this we will be exploring spectrums of identification and differences as they arise as part of the group dynamics.

We will learn about and use phenomenological inquiry, including how both Gestalt and Body Psychotherapy approach and work with habits of somatising and psychologising as ways of avoiding contact (in group settings). We will work with sub-groupings and emergent awareness from this, exploring our embodiment / resistance to embodiment we will discover our core spontaneity.

This work is about acceptance, yielding, experimenting, and exploring processes arising in the here and now – we will be experiencing ourselves as an aspect of a larger whole. This can link to understanding ourselves and our work in context of the wider eco-systemic, through embodied dialogue.

Carmen Joanne Ablack is a member of the Black, African & Asian Therapy Network (BAATN), & Leadership Group member. UKCP & EABP accredited, she is current President of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy. She teaches & supervises in the UK & Europe. Carmen is a faculty member of the Gestalt Centre in London. She works with groups, couples & other intimate relationships, individuals & organisations on equalities, diversity, inclusion, intersectionality, mental health & wellbeing. She has several articles and book chapters published on these themes.