Interpersonal Development

2025-2026 Information Nights

Learn more about our training program and the workshops we offer through meeting like-minded people in lively Gestalt experiential explorations of yourself and others. An essential prerequisite for those interested in applying to the Five Year Training Program in Gestalt Psychotherapy.

Embodying Support: Exploring Presence in Therapeutic Practice

This workshop is tailored to therapists and therapists-in-training who are eager to move beyond the traditional “doing to” approach & embrace a more connected, unknowing “being with” freshness to their therapeutic work through movement and play.

Existential Songwriting: Being & Knowing Through Gestalt & Song

In this workshop you will use songwriting as a tool to speak aloud the self, and complete both the movement of how we reach to be known, and also how we can truly know each other.

Relating To The Erotic Self: A Gestalt Approach

The erotic encompasses our aliveness as human beings, our deepest “hell yesses” to pleasure, and our ability to be present to the uniqueness and individuality of our embodied relational experiences. This two day workshop will provide gentle support for unpacking blocks relating to the erotic/sexual self.

Process This!

To be part of a Gestalt therapy group is to engage with your courage and your desire to know yourself through your ability to be heard and seen by others.

Hear & Now: Deep Listening and The Relational Soundscape

In this Gestalt experiential workshop, participants will explore the practice of deep listening through voice, sound-making, and engagement with the surrounding soundscape. You will explore voice and sound not only as expressive tools, but as channels for connection with self, other, and environment.

The Wild Wisdom of Bodily Illness & Symptoms: Disease As a Trickster & an Ally

In this workshop we approach bodily symptoms & illness as a potential doorway to gain deeper self-awareness and healing. Symptoms are the language of the body offering a message that can be helpful in leading to a path of personal transformation and healing. Through movement, visualization and role play we will play...

The 2nd Biennial Conference – Gestalt As A Bridge in a Divisive World

A Day of Connection and Inquiry for Graduates, Students & Friends of The Gestalt Institute of Toronto

Really Meet Each Other

In this workshop prepare to “really meet others.” You will learn to listen to the intentionality of the other through the “how” not the “what” of communication. A great first experience of how we train in Gestalt.