Previous workshops

EGI taster evening

January 25th, 2018

If you are not familiar with gestalt as currently practised or are new to EGI, our taster evenings provide an opportunity to meet EGI staff, find out about our programme and experience the gestalt approach to counselling, psychotherapy and training.

Voice, Power and Presence with Susan Gregory

October 21st, 2017October 22nd, 2017

A two day workshop with Susan Gregory. Susan is a gestalt therapist in New York City and was formerly a principal artist with the New York City Opera. She will bring her depth understanding of voice in this experiential two day workshop. This workshop  is open to trainee and qualified psychotherapists from any modality. Location: Edinburgh Gestalt Institute Dates: 21st – […]

Two day introduction to gestalt 2017

September 2nd, 2017September 3rd, 2017

This course runs twice in the year. We will explore key gestalt perspectives on human distress, healing, growth and change.

Playing: possibility, transformation and the unexpected with Kirsteen Greenholm

August 26th, 2017August 27th, 2017

In this mainly experiential workshop we will build a supportive environment for exploring and extending our abilities to play. This will include exploring our relational and developmental histories around play, working/playing with a wide range of creative approaches and materials, and developing supports for yielding and mobilising into playfulness with adult clients.

Gestalt psychotherapy training 2017-21: route to GPTI Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy and UKCP registration.

July 31st, 2017

This is a four-year part-time course with theoretical and experiential components, which prepares you for qualification and accreditation as a gestalt psychotherapist. Each year comprises seven or eight weekends training, plus a residential.

One day introduction to gestalt

June 3rd, 2017

This course runs twice in the year. We will explore key gestalt perspectives on human distress, healing, growth and change.

Evening conversation series - Theo Dijkman and Graham Colbourne

June 1st, 2017

In this third year of our popular evening conversation series, we will be exploring the relationship between spirituality and psychotherapy. Where is the common ground? Where do the paths diverge? Are there places where psychotherapy can’t or shouldn’t go? Are there paths which psychotherapy is best placed to lead on?

Free taster evening

May 15th, 2017

If you are not familiar with gestalt as currently practised or are new to EGI, our taster evenings provide an opportunity to meet EGI staff, find out about our programme and experience the gestalt approach to counselling, psychotherapy and training.

Existentialism: dilemmas and delights with Graham Colbourne

March 17th, 2017

Graham will facilitate an extended philosophical and practical exploration of the human condition and the implications of existentialism for therapeutic practice. He will include an overview of european existential thinking, and will draw on pertinent aspects of the mystical traditions within Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam.

Evening conversation series - John MacFadyen and Kirsteen Greenholm

March 9th, 2017

In this third year of our popular evening conversation series, we will be exploring the relationship between spirituality and psychotherapy. Where is the common ground? Where do the paths diverge? Are there places where psychotherapy can’t or shouldn’t go? Are there paths which psychotherapy is best placed to lead on?

Free taster evening

March 6th, 2017

If you are not familiar with gestalt as currently practised or are new to EGI, our taster evenings provide an opportunity
to meet EGI staff, find out about our programme and experience the gestalt approach to counselling, psychotherapy and training.

A dialogue with diagnosis: a field-theoretical approach to emotional understanding with Laurence Hegan

February 11th, 2017

In this experiential and practical workshop, participants will be given opportunities to focus on meaning-making in more complex ways than merely as a ‘knowing clinician’ labelling phenomena into diagnostic categories. Rather, emphasis will be placed on focussing on the aesthetics of each relational situation to find a deeper emotional understanding guided loosely by our diagnostic knowledge.

Free taster evening

November 24th, 2016

If you are not familiar with gestalt as currently practised or are new to EGI, our taster evenings provide an opportunity
to meet EGI staff, find out about our programme and experience the gestalt approach to counselling, psychotherapy and training.

Advanced therapy group with Graham Colbourne

November 18th, 2016

This exciting, new, ongoing advanced gestalt therapy group (up to 12 people) will meet four times a year for three days, and will benefit people with substantial experience of personal therapy in any modality. It will be of interest to people who wish to deepen their exploration by working in areas which may have been elusive or difficult, drawing on group energy, support and challenge.

Evening conversation series 2016-17

November 3rd, 2016

In this third year of our popular evening conversation series, we will be exploring the relationship between spirituality and
psychotherapy. Where is the common ground? Where do the paths diverge? Are there places where psychotherapy can’t
or shouldn’t go?

Evening conversation series - Wendy Robertson Fyfe and Mary Turner

November 3rd, 2016

In this third year of our popular evening conversation series, we will be exploring the relationship between spirituality and psychotherapy. Where is the common ground? Where do the paths diverge? Are there places where psychotherapy can’t or shouldn’t go? Are there paths which psychotherapy is best placed to lead on?

Free taster evening

September 26th, 2016

If you are not familiar with gestalt as currently practised or are new to EGI, our taster evenings provide an opportunity to meet EGI staff, find out about our programme and experience the gestalt approach to counselling, psychotherapy and training.

Frank-M. Staemmler Trainers and supervisors workshop: Creativity and Techniques in Gestalt Therapy

September 15th, 2016

In this workshop, senior practitioners will have a space to examine their understanding of techniques and creativity in gestalt psychotherapy with a relational approach emphasised as a means of making experimentation more sophisticated.

Frank-M. Staemmler Practitioners workshop: Radical relating

September 12th, 2016

This will be an experiential workshop, supporting therapists to learn and consolidate relational embodied ways of being with and understanding their clients, with Frank also presenting theoretical concepts drawn from his rich knowledge and skills base.

Introduction to gestalt

September 10th, 2016

This course runs twice in the year. We will explore key gestalt perspectives on human distress, healing, growth and change.

Accreditation preparation

September 3rd, 2016

This group provides intensive ongoing support to gestalt practitioners at all stages of the journey towards professional accreditation, e.g. with UKCP (GPTI/AHPP), BACP, GATLA or COSCA. It is a small group with two facilitators.

Power and connection

August 27th, 2016

Kirsteen Greenholm has a background as a practitioner and manager in the addictions and mental health fields, in both the voluntary and statutory sectors.

Free taster evening

July 7th, 2016

If you are not familiar with gestalt as currently practised or are new to EGI, our taster evenings provide an opportunity to meet some of the EGI staff, find out about our programme and experience the gestalt approach to counselling and psychotherapy.

Evening conversation series - Nirved Wilson and Graham Colbourne

June 2nd, 2016

Open to all, this second series of conversations builds on the success of last year’s events in furthering intermodality dialogue. We will explore different understandings, theories and experiences of love in the psychotherapeutic relationship.

Fortnightly therapy group

May 31st, 2016

This group is a regular space to explore life themes and learn more about ‘how I relate to others and the wider world’.

Sex and the therapeutic relationship

May 7th, 2016

In this workshop we will begin to address the barriers which many therapists have about speaking sexually with clients. This difficulty reflects a cultural norm present in many psychotherapy organisations and trainings.

Free taster evening

April 14th, 2016

If you are not familiar with gestalt as currently practised or are new to EGI, our taster evenings provide an opportunity to meet some of the EGI staff, find out about our programme and experience the gestalt approach to counselling and psychotherapy.

Grace unfolding: supporting our capacity to flow with life’s unfolding

April 2nd, 2016

Emotional resistance is our capacity to adapt to adversity and disturbances, and be able to let go of old structures of thinking and behaving that may have given us a sense of stability and coherence. If we can develop the resources to respond flexibly and creatively, times of emotional turbulence can become transformational.

Accreditation preparation

March 12th, 2016

The aim is to offer ongoing support to Gestalt practitioners who are at all stages of the journey towards professional accreditation.

Evening conversation series - Jim Flowers and Kirsteen Greenholm

March 10th, 2016

Open to all, this second series of conversations builds on the success of last year’s events in furthering intermodality dialogue. We will explore different understandings, theories and experiences of love in the psychotherapeutic relationship. How do we give and receive love in psychotherapy?