1st Training Workshop, in person (35 hours)

Dates: Wednesday 22/1/2025, 13:00 - Sunday 26/1/2025, 13:00

Topic: “Group Supervision”

Group Supervision is a powerful learning process that through challenges, possibilities and reflections, supervisees gain knowledge and insight on their cases by interacting in a group expanding their clinical experience.

In this workshop, based on Gestalt theory by exploring both the complexities of organizational issues and the emergence of group dynamics, participants will enhance their skills and develop their working professional styles in demonstrating an effective and creative supervision.

Coordinator: Balliou Despina

Topic: “Supervision for Brief Group Gestalt Therapy”

In a constant changing field, in nowadays, short – term group gestalt therapy offers a safe ground for the development of self, personal and social responsibility. In this workshop we will explore the challenges, the possibilities and the appropriate interventions which are emerging in short – term group processes. Additionally, supervision process will focus on therapy plan and methodology, field and phenomenological exploration and paradoxical changing process.

Coordinator: Yiamarelou Yianna

Topic: “Ethical Aspects of Clinical Supervision”

Supervision is the backbone of professional practice through which the integration of theory and practice become “second nature” for the therapist.  In Gestalt therapy the supervisory process is unique in that it is defined as a “co-creation”, namely – the alliance that is gradually emerging, is the focus of observation. Hence Ethics is one of the significant elements of the relationship, which tends to reflect also on the therapeutic relationship. Ethics is a sensibility that needs to developed and nurtured. It is partly cultural-based and mainly rooted in basic Humanistic values, which call for continual examination and self-critic. It entails issues of trust, privacy and loyalty as well as honesty and modesty. Since it is such a challenging aspect of the clinical work – Ethics in supervision is forever a hot topic which responsible clinicians need to cultivate.

Coordinator: Levi Nurith

Venue: Gestalt Foundations’ offices in Thessaloniki, 109 Mitropoleos Str., 546 22, Thessaloniki.

Visit and guided tour to Vergina’s Archaeological Site (optional participation)

2nd Training Workshop, webinar (6 hours)

Date:  Saturday 26/04/2025, 10:00 – 16:00

Topic: “Supervision for professional groups and organizations”

Gestalt shows a particular interest in the field of O.D. (Organizational Development). Therefore, there is an imperative need for skilled and competent supervisors.

In this workshop, by giving emphasis in the phenomenological approach, we will focus on: the understanding of the professional and organizational environment and its specific features, the particular needs of professionals / members of organizations as well as their supervisors and the requisite skills for any supervisor supporting individual professionals and professional groups. 

Coordinator: Stamatis George

3rd Training Workshop, webinar (8 hours)

Date: Sunday 27/04/2025, 10:00 – 18:00

Topic: “Super – Vision Art”

Supervision process is an artistic co – creation between supervisor, therapist and client. In this workshop we will explore in a creative and artistic way our possibilities in the supervision field.

Coordinator: Hatzilakou Katia

4th Training Workshop, webinar (14 hours)

Dates: Saturday 28/06/2025 & Sunday 29/06/2025, 10:00 – 17:00

Topic: “Supervising a Gestalt child therapist: Transforming the symptom from medical to psychotherapeutic”

In this workshop we will work on some preliminary statements as well as cases which may serve as a point of departure for further considerations of a supervision training program for Gestalt child therapists. The workshop will include basic principles of Gestalt theory and practice serving as a ground for developing common meeting places between a Gestalt child therapist and a supervisor as well as between a Gestalt child therapist and a child/family. Will be discussed questions such as what is the reason to listen to, what are the places and times of a request, what is the history of the trauma, what words and how does the body use them to express a symptom, what toys and objects were used in the session and finally which dialogues started? All participants will learn how to be supervisee following not a strict protocol, the technics and the experiments will be malleable, the framework flexible and their invention will always be active. 

Coordinator: Orfanou Antigoni

5th Training Workshop, webinar & in person (35 hours)

Dates: Wednesday 17/09/2025 13:00 - Sunday 21/09/2025, 13:00

Webinar Workshop

Date: Wednesday 17/09/2025, 17:00-21:00

Topic: “Relational gestalt therapy as a restoration of dignity”

In Gestalt therapy we have explored lately different aspects of shame and how to become resilient to it.  The right to express, to love and to be loved, to belong and the right to choose are helping the patient to restore dignity in the therapeutic process. We will define how the relationship between patient and therapist, supervisee and supervisor, can be an important tool in the path towards dignity.

Lecturer: Tur Valverde Guy Pierre

In person Workshop

Date: Wednesday 17/09/2025, 13:00-17:00 &

Dates: Thursday 18/09/2025, 10:00 - Sunday 21/09/2025, 13:00

Topic: “Presentation of Written Comprehensive Work and Evaluation Process”