with Ruella Frank, Lynne Jacobs, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Miriam Taylor
April 9, 2025 – November 19, 2025
The program consists of 6 seminars, 3 hours each for a total of 18 hours
For those who cannot attend a seminar online, a video recording will be provided
For any psychotherapy approach, supervision is a fundamental process, a learning environment and a necessary support for clinical practice. It is a means to better understand clinical cases, to reflect on the therapeutic situation and relationship, to orient oneself in the therapeutic process. In addition, it increases awareness about the fields created by therapist and client and by supervisor and supervisee, and provides support from belonging to the professional community in order to be able to offer the best possible practice for clients.
Although there are various Gestalt therapy studies about supervision, this topic needs further development to apply the humanistic concept of therapist/client relationship, and provide practical guidelines for supervisors to pursue the aim of Gestalt therapy supervision.
The 2025 Gestalt Therapy in Action Series will explore on an epistemological positioning of Gestalt therapy supervision, basing on four relevant well known Gestalt therapists, international trainers and writers, Ruella Frank, Lynne Jacobs, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Miriam Taylor. All presenters will offer their specific relational perspective on Gestalt therapy supervision and will provide practical cues for Gestalt therapy Supervisors.
Each seminar will be chaired by Stefania Benini.
The Series will provide a theoretical and experiential introduction and, at the same time, an in-depth exploration of this clinical practice, definitely not a training to become supervisor. It will include theoretical presentations, supervisions, and experiential work in small groups. Participants, from all over the world, will enjoy an international context.
Trainers
Ruella Frank
PhD, Founder and director of the Center for Somatic Studies,
faculty at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, adjunct faculty at Gestalt Institute of Toronto, and guest faculty at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy. Ruella teaches throughout the United States, Europe, Eurasia, Mexico, South
America and Canada. She is author of Body of Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy, (2001, GestaltPress, available in 4 languages), co-author of The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development and Psychotherapeutic Change (2010, Routledge Press, available in 3 languages), and author of The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy (2022, Routledge Press, available in five languages). Her video Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, is available in three languages.
www.somaticstudies.com
Lynne Jacobs
Ph.D., Both a gestalt therapist and a psychoanalyst, she is a co-founder of PGI. She is also a training and supervising analyst of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) in Los Angeles. Lynne Jacobs teaches at ICP, and teaches gestalt therapists locally, nationally, and internationally. She has published numerous articles in both realms, and her most recent work is Relational Approaches in Gestalt Therapy (co-edited with Rich Hycner). Lynne Jacobs has a private practice in West Los Angeles.
Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
Psychotherapist and researcher, international trainer, Director of the Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy (Syracuse, Palermo and Milan). In her clinical work, she has hermeneutically developed the principles of Gestalt therapy into a field-oriented, phenomenological and aesthetic approach. Her book The Now-for-Next in Psychotherapy is available in 11 languages. With Pietro Cavaleri, she has recently edited the book Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field Oriented Approach, published by Routledge in the Gestalt Therapy Book Series. She received the Lifelong Achievement Award from the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy – AAGT (Toronto, Canada, August 2018).
Miriam Taylor
UKCP registered Gestalt psychotherapist (non-clinical), supervisor and trainer. Having retired from clinical practice in which she specialised in trauma for over twenty five years, Miriam now includes aspects of collective trauma, social justice issues and climate change in her thinking on trauma. Based in embodied practice, her interest is in the formation of the traumatised relational field, leading to an ecological perspective. She teaches in the UK and internationally, and is on the Leadership Team of Relational Change. Publications include “Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice” (2014); “Deepening Trauma Practice” (2021), and several peer reviewed and invited articles.
Program
The program consists of 6 seminars, 3 hours each for a total of 18 hours.
Seminar 1
Gestalt therapy supervision in a field perspective: a situational approach to avoid shame
Trainer: Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
April 9, 2025
16.00 – 19.00 (Rome, Berlin, Paris UTC + 2); 10.00 AM – 1.00 PM (New York UTC – 4)
Seminar 2
Supervision of bodily relationality in psychotherapy
Trainer: Ruella Frank
May 21, 2025
16.00 – 19.00 (Rome, Berlin, Paris UTC + 2); 10.00 AM – 1.00 PM (New York UTC – 4)
Seminar 3
The aesthetic relational knowing and parallel processes in supervision
Trainer: Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
June 18, 2025
16.00 – 19.00 (Rome, Berlin, Paris UTC + 2); 10.00 AM – 1.00 PM (New York UTC – 4)
Seminar 4
Supervisory relationship when trauma is in the field
Trainer: Miriam Taylor
September 17, 2025
16.00 – 19.00 (Rome, Berlin, Paris UTC + 2); 10.00 AM – 1.00 PM (New York UTC – 4)
Seminar 5
Power and vulnerability in the supervisory relationship
Trainer: Lynne Jacobs
October 15, 2025
16.00 – 19.00 (Rome, Berlin, Paris UTC + 2); 10.00 AM – 1.00 PM (New York UTC – 4)
Seminar 6
Supporting the beauty of supervisory relationship
Trainer: Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
November 19, 2025
16.00 – 19.00 (Rome, Berlin, Paris UTC + 1); 10.00 AM – 1.00 PM (New York UTC – 5)
Language
English
Participants
Previous training in Gestalt therapy and a minimum of clinical experience is required.
Certificate
A certificate of attendance will be provided to psychotherapists who will attend the full program live or recorded.
Video recording
To those who will not attend a seminar, a video recording will be provided.
Information
Please contact us at [email protected]
Registration
Before March 20, 2025
The total cost for the whole course is 480 Euro
After March 20, 2025
The total cost for the whole course is 520 Euro
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You will receive a link 4 hours before each seminar. Participants will be able to see the speaker and the slides via pc/tablet/smartphone. You can activate your webcam or microphone using the Zoom platform.
It is possible to interact to ask questions using chat or microphone.