The GIT’s Newsletter is back! Since our beginnings in 1973, the GIT has worked to create a community and resource for Gestaltists in Toronto/Canada. The newsletter has been an integral part of this community for decades and we are very excited to be bringing it back from it’s slumber. The Spring/Summer 2025 Edition will be […]
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.
