Mid-January our community of alumni and students of Year Four and Five hosted the co-editor of the texts that inspired the paradigm shift to contemporary Gestalt. Poet, phenomenologist, creator of the language that speaks of what we do to the body and the heart, Gianni led a seminar on Panic Attacks and a seminar on […]
John Cleese assures us on his YouTube video that creativity is not something you do, it is a way of being. As Gestalt therapists we are gifted with a vocation that invites us at our best to be relaxed and open and available to play. (Our worst being when we get bound by our introjects […]
Did you ever wonder why we become so dramatic when we are sharing our feelings? What we do with our emotions has a lot to do with the degree to which we failed to receive support or acknowledgment of our suffering. It is paradoxical that the bigger the drama the less we are able to feel our own suffering and the more our ability to be comforted by others is diminished.
My former colleague JoAnne Greenham used to say that some of us were born with a clown in their head. In this way we recognize one another — one of us puts on a rubber clown nose in the middle of an argument and the other stops arguing to guffaw.
One of the values of our training at the GIT is a sense of humour, and this seems to be a rare commodity – bestowed by genes and circumstance on some and forbidden to others.