Month of March 13-April 10, 2011

Work Study - Relational Gestalt Process

In order to become whole, we must engage in the ongoing process of discovering our own personal truth. This truth may cause us pain before giving us a new freedoms and expanding our world horizons. When we choose to remain content with intellectual wisdom, we deceive ourselves and limit our possibilities. As a result of painful childhood experiences, we turn toward our intellect and away from feeling. We cannot change the past. We can change ourselves. Our sense of who we are was developed in relationship. Creating new ways of being requires engaging in relationships that honor who we are and what we need.

A month of Relational Gestalt Process with Dorothy Charles will provide participants a group setting in which to develop awareness and self responsibility, as well as to create relationships that are supportive and enlivening. Identifying, articulating, and expressing emotion in relationship will be the central theme of the group. Gestalt, body awareness exercises, dyads and group process will be part of this month-long program to achieve this end.

CEUs available for MFTs and LCSWs.

For information on how to apply go to http://www.esalen.org/workshops/workstudy.html.