Five Year Training Program

The Gestalt Training Program consists of five years of part-time study on evenings and weekends. The program is scheduled between the months of September and April, followed by a five-day residential workshop in a country setting early in May for Year Two and Three, and in June for Year One and Years Four.
The Five Year Training Program takes place inside a committed and supportive group that remains together through the five years.  The first year forms the foundation for the Gestalt Phenomenological Approach in which students apply their personal life experiences to here and now experiential applications of theory.  Year Two builds on this self awareness with others, to restore awareness and curiosity of the “unknown other”, a major step in development of a Gestalt therapist.  Years Three, Four and Five, focus on professional development with Year Three developing skills of sitting in the therapist’s chair, Year Four in which students begin to see clients as supervised student therapists and Year Five in which students begin to build their practice and prepare for becoming a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) at graduation.
The Gestalt Institute of Toronto’s training programs continue to be committed to experiential and experimental learning within group process, an approach that has been our trademark since 1973. Real change is possible in a diverse group coming together to support each other and the process. We are committed to shared agreements to speak the language of responsibility, to the principle that self-acceptance leads to greater acceptance of the other, to a willingness to make mistakes in the presence of others and to the awareness that we are each an implicit part of everything that occurs in our shared reality and therefore any change in pattern of one person affects the entire group.

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