Overview
Fritz Perls, one of the founders of Gestalt and his colleagues were very interested in experiencing the present moment for what it is. However, due to growth disorders, the Gestalt term for emotional problems, we can experience the present moment as something other than what it is.
The trauma we experience in early life gets projected onto the here and now and we experience this moment as if it were a moment from the past. The unfinished business can remain with us and greatly impact on our relationships, ability to engage in life and contribute greatly to mental health problems.
Course details
Our CPD workshops are facilitated by experienced practicing specialists in their fields. We have a range of courses that are aimed at qualified counsellors who wish to develop their practice, as well as students of counselling. Each CPD course is Heartwood certified with 6 hours of CPD.
Timings: 6.00pm – 9.00pm over 2 weeks on Tuesday
Delivery method: Online Workshop. Participants will learn by a lecture format, group discussions, pair work, exploring case studies and by practicing techniques learned, in the training group.
Open to: Qualified therapists, Heartwood diploma students and students from other counselling training colleges.
Cost per day: £55 (Current Heartwood students or Heartwood Alumni receive special rate of £35 per day).
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify key concepts from Gestalt theory that explain the impact of trauma on healthy development.
- Explain the impact of unfinished business from childhood on the here and now experience of life.
- Identify interventions for use in counselling practice to help clients to work with unfinished business.
- Apply understanding of useful interventions for practice to work with clients.
- Evaluate effectiveness of Gestalt interventions used to help clients overcome trauma.
Tutor
Mark Hartshorn has designed and taught counselling and supervision courses since 2008. He has taught in private and adult education settings and set up an independent specialist counselling training organisation which he ran for 7 years until 2021. He has around 30 years of experience of working in the field of holistic therapy, counselling and wellbeing. He is author of The Connections Model, a holistic model of wellbeing and connection. He is passionate about empowering others and brings this passion into his teaching which he delivers with humour and realness.
Fees
Cost per day: £55 (Current Heartwood students or Heartwood Alumni receive special rate of £35 per day).
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