Body figure in Gestalt therapy
About the course

"Body Figure in Gestalt Therapy" is a specialized program of bodywork in the Gestalt Key, where the client's and the therapist's body and their corporeality come into focus.

You will expand your methods of working with clients by drawing on eloquently spoken bodily phenomena.

After all, the most informative is "body language," not verbal language.

Every feeling is accompanied by bodily reactions (anger, sadness, shame, disgust, joy...).  Every emotion manifests bodily.

And any bodily pattern can be broken down into its components:  

  • what I think about it;
  • what I feel about it;
  • what's going on in my body and what I'm feeling. 

You will also gain practical skills in therapist-client bodily resonance.

The program is designed for: students, psychologists, psychotherapists, medical professionals, coaches who want to expand their toolkit, master the skills and techniques of working with the body in the Gestalt key, become more sensitive and use body work in their practice.

Also for anyone who wants to:

  • learn to hear and understand their body's signals;
  • re-establish the connection between body, feelings and thoughts;
  • to expand their perceptions of themselves;
  • learn to find a resource in their own body, to rely on themselves;
  • "work through" their psychological difficulties and internal conflicts;
  • gain personal client experience and group work experience.

The seminars will include theory, practical exercises, gaining personal client experience in the format of personal sessions and constant practice of working with corporeality in a Gestalt therapy session. 

Upon successful completion of the program a CERTIFICATE of the Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art MIGIS will be issued.


What will you get
  • You will learn to pay attention to and be more sensitive to your own and your client's bodily cues. 
  • You will be able to bring them to the boundary of contact and make them the subject of awareness and discussion, especially in moments of mismatch
  • between verbal and bodily messages;
  • Learn to better understand their meaning and apply them in psychotherapeutic work;
  • Learn to use body resources for more successful therapeutic work and self-understanding.
List of seminars
Seminar 1. The body. Resources of corporeality.
25.11.2022 - 27.11.2022
Introduction to body therapy. Features of psychotherapeutic session when working with the body. Corporeality in the psychotherapeutic process. The therapeutic skill of reading the bodily structure. The therapeutic power of touch. Practical work with the body.
Velykozhon Olga
Seminar 2. Bodily presence.
19.01.2024 - 21.01.2024
Seminar 3. Bodily symptoms. Tension in the body.
29.03.2024 - 31.03.2024
Seminar 4. The bodily nature of the contact cycle and contact modalities.
17.05.2024 - 19.05.2024
Seminar 5. Basic principles of metaphorical work with the body. Classification and diagnosis of basic personality skills, forms of manifestation of disorders.
Seminar 6. Work with body image.
Seminar 7. Supervision workshop.
How do we teach
Format
Offline in the Dnipro office
Number of seminars
7 three-day seminars
Periodicity
once every two months
Hour of the event
Friday from 14:00 to 18:00, Saturday, Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00, Kyiv time
Trainer:
Velykozhon Olga
Velykozhon Olga
Velykozhon Olga

Psychologist, Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Supervisor, Group Therapist, Accredited Leading trainer of MIGIS, Leading thematic trainer in body-oriented therapy, Specializes in working with psychosomatics, Uses body-oriented therapy, Uses art therapy in her work.

Trainer of the training programs for Gestalt therapists of the 1st and 2nd stages, trainer of the specialized programs "Body Figure in Gestalt", "Art in Gestalt Therapy", "Money Way of Thinking". Year after year I improve in my profession.

Frequently asked Questions
What is a specialised program?

A specialised program is training that:

  1. Deepens knowledge in a specific field (for example: trauma work, body therapy, child psychotherapy, supervision, crisis states, etc.),

  2. Adds practical skills for working with particular cases,

  3. Is often part of a professional development path or an extension of the main therapeutic education.

The volume of a Specialised Program is no less than 120 academic hours.

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