Five Year Training Program
| OverviewThe Gestalt Training Program consists of five years of part-time study on evenings and weekends. The program is scheduled between the months of September and April, followed by a five-day residential workshop in a country setting early in May for Year One, Two and Three, and in June for Year Four and the One-Year Training for Professionals group. The first two years of The Five Year Training Program may be taken for intensive personal growth for students not intending to go forward into the Professional Development Training of Year Three, Four and Five, which are geared to becoming a Registered Psychotherapist. Years One and Two, or equivalent, are prerequisite training for entrance to Year Three through Five. The Gestalt Institute of Toronto’s training programs continue to be committed to experiential and experimental learning within group process, an approach that has been our trademark since 1973. Real change is possible in a diverse group coming together to support each other and the process. We are committed to shared agreements to speak the language of responsibility, to the principle that self-acceptance leads to greater acceptance of the other, to a willingness to make mistakes in the presence of others and to the awareness that we are each an implicit part of everything that occurs in our shared reality and therefore any change in pattern of one person affects the entire group.
One-Year Training Program for Professionals
| OverviewOne Year Training Program for Professionals For professionals seeking to deepen their experience of personal work within a training community, this is a year of didactic and experiential exploration of Gestalt therapy’s aesthetic, relational and embodied approach. The format is identical to Year One of our intensive training program, except that the weekly meetings are daytime sessions held on Friday mornings and the course is enhanced to include the supervision needs and professional sharing of participants. Gestalt therapy has been called a “right brain-left brain” approach in that practitioners are trained to move fluidly between their embodied knowing and their cognitive skills, resulting in creative interventions that are never the same in any two meetings. This keeps the therapist alive and constantly changing to meet the client. Practitioners from other disciplines can learn to bring these “Gestalt moments” into their work, leading to greater rejuvenation inside clinical practice. Participants will receive a certificate of completion of the One Year Training for Professionals Program which represents 164 continuing education hours. Successful completion of the One Year Program is considered equivalent to Year One of the Five Year Training Program. Therefore graduates of this program are eligible to apply to Year Two of the CRPO recognized Five Year Training Program.
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