Personal Development

The Words Between: Writing A Space for Yourself

Most of our daily interactions now happen through screens—texting, WhatsApp, FaceTime, and social media. Within these spaces, we often find ourselves wanting connection, and just as often pulling away from it. In this one day seminar, we will explore the movement between desire and disconnection as it unfolds in our online interactions—across romantic relationships, family, friendships, and work. Rather than focusing on changing our habits, we will notice how we reach out, hesitate, misread, withdraw, or remain silent—and what happens within us in those moments. Through simple experiments and group interaction, participants will be invited to track their own rhythm of coming toward and pulling away, and discover what becomes visible when we stay with the process without trying to fix it.

Date: Tuesday Evenings | April 6, 13 & 20, 2026
Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Fee: Early Bird (Until March 16, 2027): $130.00 | Regular (after March 16, 2027): $160.00

Instructor

Claudia Manley, RP (Qualifying), Alumni

Claudia B. Manley is a Gestalt psychotherapist in private practice. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, and before training as a psychotherapist at the GIT, she taught creative writing at the university level. Helping writers find their voice and create pieces that allow others to resonate with their experience has been priority for her for over 20 years. Claudia continues to publish her own writing and is a member of the art collective Shake-n-Make.

Laura Commisso, RP (Qualifying) | Alumni

Laura is a Gestalt psychotherapist in private practice. She holds a BA in Professional Writing and has long been drawn to the ways writing helps us slow down and make meaning of our lived experience. She is particularly interested in the in-between spaces, where words have not quite formed, where the body often knows before the mind, and where something new can emerge.

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