Theoretical lessons

The training program for Gestalt therapists "Theory and Practice of Gestalt Therapy" (I and II stages), along with other forms of training, includes 600 hours of theory and methodology, 60 hours of which are theoretical, i.e.  lectures, classes.  Thus, attending theoretical classes is a prerequisite for certification of a Program participant.

Theoretical classes are held in blocks of 2 lectures.  At the 1st stage, theoretical classes are held once every 2 months of the academic year, at the 2nd stage - once a month of the academic year.

For students of the 1st stage, lectures are offered on the history of the emergence and development of Gestalt therapy, some basic issues (including ethical ones), and the main areas of psychotherapy. Lectures that are offered for students of the II stage: on some basic psychological concepts necessary in psychotherapy, as well as on the possibilities and specifics of psychotherapeutic work in a separate area of ​​psychological knowledge (psychosomatics, sexual disorders, traumas and crises, etc.), in work with a special category of clients  (children, families, groups, organizations), in the use of special methods of work in application to gestalt therapy (dance-movement, body, art therapy, etc.).