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The UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners aims to represent, promote and support Gestalt Therapy in the UK.

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How do you approach this principle in your practice?

#Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #GestaltPractitioner
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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📚 Preface to Awareness, Dialogue and Process by Yontef

If you’re interested in Gestalt, Yontef’s preface to 'Awareness, Dialogue and Process' provides an accessible introduction to the theory and its relational roots.

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December 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Which Gestalt principles or interventions do you find most effective when working with fear in your practice?

#Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #GestaltPsychology #GestaltPractitioner #TherapistsofBlueSky #Thoughtoftheday
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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LAST CALL for submissions to our newsletter!✉️

We would love to hear from those who attended our 1 day conference ‘Neurodiversity and Gestalt.’

To share your experience please email socialmedia@ukagp.org.uk

#Gestalt #UKAGP #Newsletter #Neurodiversity #Conference
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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If you’re curious about Gestalt but aren’t sure where to start, “Gestalt Therapy” by Yontef and Jacobs offers an accessible and thorough introduction to the modality, introducing the core terms, principles and theory.

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November 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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📢 Relational Living Body Psychotherapy Training Weekends
📅 9-11 Jan & 20-22nd Feb
📍 Online

2 online training weekends with Julianne Appel-Opper that will focus how living bodies speak in their bodily rhythms.

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#Gestalt #GestaltTraining #GestaltTherapy #Therapy
Relational Living Body Psychotherapy — UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners
Mainly process oriented, the aim is to provide a deepening of bodily and inter-bodily processes in a small learning group of 10-18 participants. We will focus on how living bodies speak in their bodil...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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You can now find resources from our UKAGP Residential Conference on our website, which had the theme ‘Neurodiversity and Gestalt - Creative Relating’.

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#Gestalt #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergence #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounseling #GestaltPractitioner
Residential Conference 2025 Resources — UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners
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November 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Gestalt practitioners use creative and experiential approaches to engage a person’s curiosity in, and awareness of, self. How do you approach this in your practice?

You can read more about Gestalt on our website: www.ukagp.org.uk/gestalt

#Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltPractitioner #Awareness
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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'What Doesn’t Make Figure' by Paulina Gjetnes

A poetic piece exploring neurodivergent contact and GT’s neurotypical bias through the lens of ADHD experience for our Spring Newsletter.

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#Gestalt #Neurodiversity #ADHD #Therapy #GestaltTherapy #Poetry #Poem
Paulina Gjetnes: What Doesn’t Make Figure — UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners
They ask me what I feel. They ask again.  They ask me what I feel. They ask again.  They wait for an answer in straight lines.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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✉️ Newsletter: Call for submissions!
🗓️ Deadline: 24th November

We would love to hear from those who attended our one-day conference ‘Neurodiversity and Gestalt.’

To share your experience please email socialmedia@ukagp.org.uk

#Gestalt #Newsletter #Neurodiversity #TherapistsofBlueSky
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Watch Humans of Gestalt in conversation with Nathaniel Mjema, who talks about how he ‘tumbled onto Gestalt’ and the impact it's had on his life.

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Humans of Gestalt- Nathaniel Mjema
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November 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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In this episode of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, they begin by exploring the four pillars of Gestalt therapy.

What do you consider to be the four pillars? Has your answer changed as your practice develops?

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Episode 251 - Pillars of Gestalt Therapy – Sexual Intimacy in Therapy – PTSD and Complex PTSD
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October 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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As practitioners, we are guaranteed to encounter difference. How do you navigate expressing a positive interest in differences in your practice?

#Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #GestaltPractitioner #Difference #TherapistsofBlueSky
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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✉️ Newsletter: Call for submissions!
🗓️ Deadline: 24th November

We would love to hear from those who attended our one-day conference ‘Neurodiversity and Gestalt.’

To share your experience please email socialmedia@ukagp.org.uk

#Gestalt #Newsletter #Neurodiversity #TherapistsofBlueSky
October 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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In this conversation from Humans of Gestalt, Anthony Turi and Aleksandra Vancevska discuss many topics, including polarities, difference and Gestalt in the wider world.

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Humans of Gestalt - Anthony Turi
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October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Deniz Csernoklavek’s poem ‘Still I'm a Bit Magnificent’, featured in our Spring Newsletter, is a reflection on making sense in a nonlinear, relational way, embracing difference, awkwardness and a quieter kind of magnificence.

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#Gestalt #Neurodiversity #Creativity
Deniz Csernoklavek: Still I'm a Bit Magnificent  — UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners
Numbers? Those are for people who trust clocks. I’ve spent years arguing with time, and losing on purpose. I count in feelings. I do maths like I’m telling a story— and yes, sometimes the story ...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Creativity is a central pillar of Gestalt therapy. How do you get creative in your practice?

#Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #Therapy #Counselling #Creativity #TherapistsofBlueSky #BlueSkyTherapists
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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📢 EAGT Conference
📅 October 22nd- 25th 2026
📍 Dubrovnik, Croatia
 
Save the date! We’ll update this link when we have new info, and when tickets go on sale!
 
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#Gestalt #EuropeanGestaltists #GestaltTherapists #GestaltPractitioners #GestaltTherapy
October 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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On The Thinking Mind Podcast, Gestalt Psychotherapist Sarah Paul discusses the history and principles of Gestalt therapy, her own approach to her practice and some of the challenges of training as a therapist.

Watch below!

#Gestalt #Psychotherapy #TherapistsBlueSky

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E77 - Gestalt Psychotherapy & Training as a Therapist (with Sarah Paul)
YouTube video by The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry and Therapy
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October 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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‘It is one of our greatest existential needs – to be deeply understood by another human being.’
- R. Hycner & L. Jacobs

How has this need emerged in your practice?

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October 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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📢 AGM and Residential Conference 2026
📅 July 30th – August 2nd 2026
📍 Glastonbury, UK

Save the date!

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#Gestalt #AGM #Conference #therapistsofbluesky #GestaltTherapy #GestaltPractitioner #therapistsconnect
October 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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“Phenomenological investigation demonstrates that, once our sedimented outlook is ‘opened up’, numerous perceptual possibilities become available which can be repeatedly turned to for experiential verification” - E. Spinelli

#ErnestoSpinelli #existentialpsychotherapy
October 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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In her article for our Spring Newsletter theme ‘Neurodiversity & Gestalt – Creative Relating’, Gaie Houston considers how we use language in Gestalt, in our practices and with each other.

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#Gestalt #Language #Neurodiversity #Creativity #TherapistsonBlueSky
Gaie Houston: Short Words Are Good Too — UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners
The rumour was that the theme of our one-day conference in Bristol would be around neurodiversity, neurodivergence, communication, Gestalt and creativity. What a mouthful. It has now been advertised ...
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October 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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The Gestalt Prayer, by Fritz Perls.
“Gestalt Therapy Verbatim”, 1969.

#Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #Psychotherapy #Therapy
October 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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The Gestalt Prayer, by Fritz Perls.
“Gestalt Therapy Verbatim”, 1969.

#Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #Psychotherapy #Therapy
October 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM