A Gestalt, humanistic, existential, relational, approach to suffering; An attempt to undo the constructs of the DSM
How do we hold phenomena that reflect intra-psychic and inter-personal suffering? How does this soul suffering impact contact and relational experiences? This workshop hopes to offer a frame for understanding and relating to experiences that are distressing without framing the experience as pathological. The Humanistic/Gestalt frame holds that the way we respond to our circumstances is the most creative adaptation that we have available given the limitations of self and environmental support. What if we use the constructs that Gestalt offers us as lenses through which to understand these experiences of suffering? Perhaps we can find the human in the suffering rather than the pathology of the sufferer.
In this workshop we hope to explore, through experiential and dialectical explorations, ways in which to recognize our own subjectivity and how contact with another’s subjectivity can facilitate a deepening in our understanding of the suffering we experience.
Training Details:
Date: December 19, 2020
Time: 10am - 1pm
Cost: General Attendance: $135
Associates & Students: $100
Location: Virtual - Zoom link will be sent to you
Facilitation by:
Anna Benassi LMFT, loves all things Gestalt theory, and practice and in particular phenomenology. Anna is a core faculty assistant professor at the California institute of Integral Studies and was a founding member of the Bay Area Gestalt Institute. Anna’s passions are cooking, gardening and traveling the world studying Gestalt modalities from other countries.
Gieve Patel LMFT, is a bicultural immigrant who is immersed in Gestalt/Existential inquiries of phenomenology and field theory. His intention is to promote humility, subjective understanding and experience. He believes in the power of non-hierarchical experiences, and enjoys motorcycles, legos and records.
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