Year Three
Use Of Self In Embodied Relational Practice

This year is where students learn to experiment with the safe and effective use of themselves in deep phenomenologically based dialog with one another, as well as supervised practice with students in Years One and Two. In this way students begin to experience themselves at the beginning of therapist training – applying professional ethics and boundaries to their relations with students in earlier training years, as well as with peers in their own year. As co-leaders assisting faculty, students begin to learn the meaning of process led groups and expand their creativity through workshop creation and developing skills in the Gestalt experiment.

Competencies in Year Three include:

• Integration of awareness of self in relation to professional role
• Develop safe and effective use of self in the therapeutic relationship
• Learn to bracket assumptions and become aware of bias to assume non-judgmental stance
• Maintain appropriate professional boundaries with Year One and Two students and coleaders
• Adapting the therapist’s approach within a culturally diverse group
• Demonstrate awareness of the impact of context and the presence of the therapist and the co-leader on process
• Developing effective skills in observation of self, the client and process
• Employing empathy, respect and authenticity
• Maintenance of self-care and level of health necessary for responsible therapy and group membership

Students are expected to complete:

• Oral and written assignments
• 188 hours of experiential and didactic teaching
• 100 hours of direct supervision and co-leadership within The Training Program
• Brief live therapy examinations
• Total of fifty hours of personal therapy with a Gestalt psychotherapist by the end of Year Three

Application from Year Three to Year Four is by group interview held in June of each year.

Tuition Fee

• $4500 plus residential fee
• Five-Day May Residential fee of $630 includes accommodation and all meals.

*Travel arrangements are the responsibility of the individual

 

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