PROGRAM

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Diagnostics & Methods

Digital based work

Practice

Theory Contribution

Training related research

Young Practitioners

SCTS
Program Overview PDF
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FRIDAY 09/02/2022

8.00 A.M.

CHECK IN

9.00 A.M.

OPENING

9.30 – 11.00 A.M.

KEYNOTE 1
The Humanistic Aspects of Effective Psychotherapy

11.00 – 11.30 A.M.

COFFEE BREAK

11.30 A.M. – 1.00 P.M.

Lecture 27 – NEW
Co-created Motivation: Exploring reasons for clients’ …

PANEL 5
Honouring & Integrating Diversity– in Gestalt Research, Development & Innovation practice – Grounded Studies & Critical assessment – from Ireland, South Africa, Sweden and the Caribbean

WORKSHOP 2
Teaching research inside Gestalt therapy training: a practical method

WORKSHOP 4
Writing about clients, a personal venture?

SCTS (part 1)
Evidencing GT: Presentation of the Single Case Time Series Methodology

Presentation 7 – NEW
Measuring theefficacy of Gestalt tehrapy to treat depression in people with dementia

PANEL 1 – CANCELLED
Does a field based psychopathology need research?

1.00 – 2.15 P.M.

LUNCH (+ NETWORKING)
Short Power-Point and Video-Presentations

2.15 – 3.15 P.M.

LECTURE 1 – SCTS Part 2
Two risks and a third way: What Research for GT?

MINI-LECTURE 1
Gestalt work in digital transformation: A survey from Germany 2020

LECTURE 24
Evidence Based Gestalt Therapy: Impact of the Practice of Gestalt Therapy on the Quality of Life of Patients with Ordinary Difficulties for Contact

LECTURE 20
CHAP with a twist

MINI-LECTURE 4
Beyond effectiveness research: On using “what is there” – now

LECTURE 19
Study of the relationship between Defense Mechanisms and Psychologic Traits

MINI-LECTURE 3 – CANCELLED
Examples of the phenomenological existential methodology application

3.15 – 3.30 P.M.

COFFEE BREAK

3.30 – 4.15 P.M.

PRESENTATION 1
The EAGT Research DataBase & Research Platform – Presentation

POSTER 2
Aesthetic relational knowledge (ARK). Construction and validation of a scale for Gestalt therapist

POSTER 3
Psychopathology in Gestalt-Therapists Practice

PRESENTATION 2
Supporting the Future of Research in the Training Programs

POSTER 5
The impact of personal and professional experience during gestalt psychotherapy training on the styles of contacting

POSTER 6 – NEW
Support systems, empathy and relational field

PRESENTATION 6 – CANCELLED
Validity and Reliability of the Unfinished Business Scale

NETWORKING

4.15 – 4.30 P.M.

COFFEE BREAK

4.30 – 6.00 P.M.

KEYNOTE 2
How to identify Gestalt interventions on tape recorded session

SATURDAY 9/03/2022

9.00 – 10.30 A.M.

KEYNOTE 3
Research and Practice in Gestalt Therapy: Promoting the dialogue

10.30 – 11.00 P.M.

COFFEE BREAK

11.00 A.M. – 12.00 P.M.

SCTS (part 3)
Results from a SCTS project with patients suffering from anxiety

MINI-LECTURE 5
Anger as the foundation of panic attacks. New research perspective in gestalt psychotherapy

MINI-LECTURE 6
A Gestalt oriented Psychodiagnostic test developed with Machine Learning algorithm

MINI-LECTURE 7
Gestalt therapists’ and trainees’ experience in research approach within Gestalt therapy – Croatian perspective

LECTURE 3
Evinotes – an online based platform for connecting gestalt practitioners and researchers

LECTURE 4
Practice and Method of Ethics

MINI-LECTURE 11
The suffering of subjective difficulties in young people and their impact on the construction of the psycho- pathological diagnosis

LECTURE 26 – CANCELLED
Supervision group as a way of comprehension of Gestalt therapeutic community

12.15 – 1.15 P.M.

LECTURE 5
Case formulation in Gestalt therapy: a grounded theory

LECTURE 21
The experience of anxiety in gestalt therapists and performance in clinical practice: A look from the creative adjustment

LECTURE 7
The social function of the self – gestalt therapeutic perspectives of theory development and empirical research

LECTURE 8
Online supervision: A new ground for Gestalt therapists

LECTURE 9
Panic Disorder and Affective Neurosciences: an empirical research

PRESENTATION 4
An example of raising research awareness at students with no training in psychology at a GT training institute

MINI-LECTURE 12
The ‘new now’ in gestalt therapy training

Workshop 13 – CANCELLED
Research of Movement: Exploration of moving and being moved in a cocreated embodied field.

NETWORKING

1.15 – 2.30 P.M.

LUNCH
Short Power-Point and Video-Presentations and Networking

2.30 – 4.00 P.M.

PANEL 2
About the Future of Gestalt: Therapy, Research, and Beyond.

WORKSHOP 5
Research laboratory: Impulses for young researchers

WORKSHOP 6
Experiencing Oneself in Time and Space during Gestalt Therapy

Youtube Presentation
Humans of Gestalt: An experiment in Dialogue

WORKSHOP 8
Challenges in the development of research questions from Gestalt therapy theory

Presentation 8 – NEW
A Gestalt framework for couple’s therapy

NETWORKING

WORKSHOP 9 – CANCELLED
The Use of Images and Photography in Gestalt Psychotherapy. Neuroaesthetics, Mirror Neurons and Body Resonances. From Clinics to Therapeutic Intervention

4.00 – 4.30 P.M.

COFFEE BREAK

4.30 – 6.00 P.M.

KEYNOTE 4
Examples of Gestalt Therapy researches to develop our phenomenological, aesthetic and field oriented approach

SUNDAY 9/04/2022

9.00 – 10.30 A.M.

KEYNOTE 5
Becoming Research Practitioners: Developing our Research capacity as a Gestalt community

10.30 – 11.00 A.M.

COFFEE BREAK

11.00 A.M. – 12.30 P.M.

PANEL 3
Methodological challenges in researching the evidence base for Gestalt Therapy

PANEL 4 – CANCELLED
An embodied, reflexive practitioner researcher is foundational to rigorous relational, pheno- menological research

LECTURE 10 (11.00 A.M. -12.00 P.M.)
Emerging adults in Postmodernity. Lived Time, Loneliness, Autonomy and Relatedness in panic experiences

NETWORK 12.00-12.30 P.M.

LECTURE 11 (11.00-12.00 P.M.) – CANCELLED
Empirical concepts as key prerequisite for doing research: “Contact”

NETWORK

MINI-LECTURE 13 (11.00-12.00 P.M.)
Research in the Changing Worldview of a Client in Gestalt Therapy

NETWORK

Lecture 28 – NEW
Gestalt therapy and gestalt therapists during the war. Atmosphere of crisis and tranformation.

NETWORKING

Workshop 10 – Cancelled
Scope in Gestalt Therapy Research Networks

12.30 – 1.30 P.M.

LUNCH + NETWORKING
Short Power-Point and Video-Presentations

1.30 – 2.30 P.M.

LECTURE 12
Which Size? Tailoring a Suit for Gestalt. Toward a Scientific Theory of Interaction in Psychotherapy

LECTURE 13
Questionnaire to self-assess psychotherapists’ core competences: findings from an empirical study in training programs

MINI-LECTURE 15 – CANCELLED
Privilege and Barriers to Access in Continuing Education: A reflection for Gestalt Therapists

LECTURE 18
Building capacity for rigorous case-study research

MINI-LECTURE 9
Development and validation of a Gestalt Diagnosis Form (GDF)

MINI-LECTURE 14
Case Studies by Therapy Students

SCTS (part 4)
Presentation of an international framework for the development of SCTS Projects

SCTS (part 5)
Exposing different experiences with SCTS research projects

2.30 – 2.45 P.M.

COFFEE BREAK

2.45 – 3.45 P.M.

LECTURE 16
Can we be fully present when we work online? A quantitative study on clients’ and therapists’ presence in on-line vs. in-person therapy sessions

LECTURE 14
Research Report and Demonstration: Gestalt Pastoral Care

PRESENTATION OF
THE PRE-CONFERENCE RESULTS

MINI-LECTURE 10
Cognitive Decline in Depression: What Gestalt Therapy and Cognitive Trainings Can Do About It?

Film Presentation
At the boundary – Lore Perls and Gestalttherapy

MINI-Lecture 16
Isolation during pandemia—The situation of war crisis and resources of gestalt-therapy to support people to release suffering

WORKSHOP 14 – CANCELLED
Gestalt-Research as a dialogical and phenomenological process within groups of dialogue

3.45 – 4.00 P.M.

COFFEE BREAK

4.00 – 5.30 P.M.

CLOSING