|
Sponsored by
The
Association For Humanistic Psychology |
An All Day Workshop
A Revival of Timeless
Wisdom |
|
Saturday, February 20, 2010
9 AM-5 PM
Bellevue, WA Open to the
Public
7.0 Professional CEC's Available
(nurses,
social workers, licensed mental health counselors and other
licensed counseling professionals, marriage and family
counselors, massage therapists)
FEE: $95; AHP
members: $85
Students: $55 |
|
 Cyndy
Sheldon has been a pioneer and leader in the field of
Gestalt training and therapy. This experiential workshop revives
a legacy, teaching the work of legendary Fritz Perls.
Timeless understandings and
practices developed by the Gestalt Therapy founders, Fritz and
Laura Perls in the 1940s, are more relevant now than ever. We
will explore a number of these teachings, along with similar
ones taught by the Navajo, Buddhists and Eckhart Tolle. They are
particularly important now in helping us navigate these
unpredictable times.
|
|
What You Will
Learn |
 |
Brief History |
|
|
Gestalt
as a Therapy |
|
|
Gestalt As A
Way of Life
 |
inner knowing |
|
|
how to lose your mind and
come to your senses |
|
|
the paradoxical theory of
change |
|
|
acknowledging our truth |
|
|
being open to the
unexpected |
|
|
experiencing the now:
chewing and savoring |
|
|
the magic of role playing |
|
|
introjection versus
chosing |
|
|
how “thinking’ can get us
into trouble |
|
|
don’t rush to fix it;
experience it first! |
|
|
pay attention to the
obvious |
|
|
the importance of being
concrete |
|
|
the creative void |
|
|
allowing vs controlling |
|
|
and many more |
|
|
|
CYNDY SHELDON,
MSW, BCD, who studied with Gestalt founders Fritz Perls MD,
PhD, and Laura Perls PhD, as well as James Simkin PhD, was one
of the organizers of the original Gestalt Institute of San
Francisco, where she taught for 25 years. In addition she taught
for many years in Europe, as well as in Australia, Mexico and
Canada. Inspired to follow her bliss in search of a more
spiritual orientation, she worked among the Navajos for 15 years
which has deepened her appreciation of Gestalt’s timeless
understandings, some of which were upheld among indigenous
groups as well. Now in her 75th year, she is integrating these
approaches and is eager to share them with all who are curious
and interested. Currently she lives in Bellingham, Washington. |
|
|
Read article for a classic description
of Gestalt:
An Introduction by
Gary Yontef, PhD
Gestalt
Therapy, founded in the 1940s by Fritz and Laura Perls of Berlin, is
one of the major existential therapies that became part of the Human
Potential Movement in the 60 in the US, and is now a major therapeutic
approach world-wide from Russia, throughout South America, to Egypt,
Europe and Australia as well as to many more countries. Focusing on
personal growth rather than illness, this unique way of working
encourages awareness, creativity, contact and aliveness. The Gestalt
therapist uses experiential techniques such as attending to our senses
in the Here and Now, guided fantasy, role playing, body language
awareness, and numerous other methods to work through the blocks to
our wholeness. By working through our layers of personality,
education, training and socialization, we contact our aliveness and
our ability to connect with our “inner knowing”, or our essence. When
we become more in harmony with our true essence we become our best
guide, especially important during these unpredictable times.
To learn more about Gestalt Therapy news
worldwide:
www.gestalt.org/news |
|
What Others Say About
Cyndy Sheldon
|
CYNDY SHELDON has
been a pioneer and teacher in the field of Gestalt training and therapy.
As the co-founder of the original Gestalt Institute of San Francisco, she
is committed to the Gestalt way of living and working. I have known her in
several capacities and the one that stands out is her role as a mentor and
teacher for those of us who were new in the field. She is gifted and
talented!
Lucanna Grey, MA MFT, Associate Professor of Psychology and
Director of the Integral Counseling Center at the California Institute of
Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco.
|
---CYNDY SHELDON is among the pioneers
of Gestalt Therapy on the west coast of the United States. She is and has
been an engaged and talented Gestalt Therapist, teacher, trainer and an
advocate of the theory and practice of Gestalt Therapy in America and
internationally. She continues to be devoted to the applications and
attitude of Gestalt Therapy in professional practice and in everyday life.
Her work of over more than 40 years has shown her wit and her wisdom, her
joyousness and love, which continues to deepen and grow.
I am grateful for all she has done to further the development of hundreds
of students and people the practice of Gestalt Therapy. I am also
grateful that I may count Cyndy as a dear and loving friend.
Jerry Kogan PhD, co-founder and co-director of GENI (Gestalt
Educational Network International), co-founder of the German Association
of Gestalt Therapy (DVG) and the European Association of Counseling. |
|
---CYNDY
SHELDON is an unusually effective and inventive Gestalt therapist. If you
have the opportunity to work with her, don't miss it! I have been a
friend and colleague of hers for many years and always felt her to be a
superb practitioner of the Gestalt method.
Dr. Lois Brien, past member of the Cleveland Gestalt Institute and
the San Francisco Gestalt Institute, and presently Dean Emeritus, School
of Psychology, National University, San Diego, CA. |
|
Sponsored by Association For Humanistic
Psychology
