Happy new year, everyone! We want to thank our members for all their support in 2025. We look forward to seeing what 2026 brings! #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #GestaltPractitioner #UKAGP #NewYear

Dr. Lynne Jacobs and Annie Stopford explore how Gestalt and contemporary psychoanalysis could be integrated, challenging the idea that the two approaches are incompatible. gestalttherapy.org/wp-content/u... #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #Psychoanalysis #IntegrativeTherapy

Our lived experiences expand the pool we draw to meet the world with greater depth and flexibility. What experiences have most shaped your practice? #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #GestaltPractitioner #HumanisticTherapy #Therapy #UKAGP

📢 Workshop: Exploring Shame and Guilt 📅 Saturday 7th March 10am to 5pm 📍 Stokes Croft, Bristol A 1-day workshop that will sensitively support an exploration of shame and guilt. www.ukagp.org.uk/events/explo... #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #GestaltWorkshop #TherapyWorkshop #CPD

📢 Gestalt Conference Shanghai 2027 – save the date! 📅 15 April - 18 April 2027 📍Shanghai, China The theme is ‘The Tao of Gestalt’. For more info on the featured speakers, workshops and travel, follow the link: www.ukagp.org.uk/events/gesta... #Gestalt #Conference #Shanghai #Tao

How do you approach this principle in your practice? #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #GestaltPractitioner

📚 Preface to Awareness, Dialogue and Process by Yontef If you’re interested in Gestalt, Yontef’s preface to 'Awareness, Dialogue and Process' provides an accessible introduction to the theory and its relational roots. gestalttherapy.org/wp-content/u... #Gestalt #GestaltAuthors #GestaltTherapy

Which Gestalt principles or interventions do you find most effective when working with fear in your practice? #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #GestaltPsychology #GestaltPractitioner #TherapistsofBlueSky #Thoughtoftheday

LAST CALL for submissions to our newsletter!✉️ We would love to hear from those who attended our 1 day conference ‘Neurodiversity and Gestalt.’ To share your experience please email [email protected] #Gestalt #UKAGP #Newsletter #Neurodiversity #Conference

If you’re curious about Gestalt but aren’t sure where to start, “Gestalt Therapy” by Yontef and Jacobs offers an accessible and thorough introduction to the modality, introducing the core terms, principles and theory. gestalttherapy.org/wp-content/u... #Gestalt #Therapy #GestaltTherapy

📢 Relational Living Body Psychotherapy Training Weekends 📅 9-11 Jan & 20-22nd Feb 📍 Online 2 online training weekends with Julianne Appel-Opper that will focus how living bodies speak in their bodily rhythms. www.ukagp.org.uk/events/relat... #Gestalt #GestaltTraining #GestaltTherapy #Therapy

You can now find resources from our UKAGP Residential Conference on our website, which had the theme ‘Neurodiversity and Gestalt - Creative Relating’. www.ukagp.org.uk/residential-... #Gestalt #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergence #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounseling #GestaltPractitioner

Gestalt practitioners use creative and experiential approaches to engage a person’s curiosity in, and awareness of, self. How do you approach this in your practice? You can read more about Gestalt on our website: www.ukagp.org.uk/gestalt #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltPractitioner #Awareness

'What Doesn’t Make Figure' by Paulina Gjetnes A poetic piece exploring neurodivergent contact and GT’s neurotypical bias through the lens of ADHD experience for our Spring Newsletter. www.ukagp.org.uk/spring-2025-... #Gestalt #Neurodiversity #ADHD #Therapy #GestaltTherapy #Poetry #Poem

✉️ Newsletter: Call for submissions! 🗓️ Deadline: 24th November We would love to hear from those who attended our one-day conference ‘Neurodiversity and Gestalt.’ To share your experience please email [email protected] #Gestalt #Newsletter #Neurodiversity #TherapistsofBlueSky

Watch Humans of Gestalt in conversation with Nathaniel Mjema, who talks about how he ‘tumbled onto Gestalt’ and the impact it's had on his life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM3F... humansofgestalt.com #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #HumansofGestalt #GestaltCounselling #Therapy #Counselor

In this episode of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, they begin by exploring the four pillars of Gestalt therapy. What do you consider to be the four pillars? Has your answer changed as your practice develops? www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNGl... #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounseling #Therapy

As practitioners, we are guaranteed to encounter difference. How do you navigate expressing a positive interest in differences in your practice? #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #GestaltPractitioner #Difference #TherapistsofBlueSky

✉️ Newsletter: Call for submissions! 🗓️ Deadline: 24th November We would love to hear from those who attended our one-day conference ‘Neurodiversity and Gestalt.’ To share your experience please email [email protected] #Gestalt #Newsletter #Neurodiversity #TherapistsofBlueSky

In this conversation from Humans of Gestalt, Anthony Turi and Aleksandra Vancevska discuss many topics, including polarities, difference and Gestalt in the wider world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET-b... #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #GestaltTherapist #GestaltCounsellor

Deniz Csernoklavek’s poem ‘Still I'm a Bit Magnificent’, featured in our Spring Newsletter, is a reflection on making sense in a nonlinear, relational way, embracing difference, awkwardness and a quieter kind of magnificence. www.ukagp.org.uk/spring-2025-... #Gestalt #Neurodiversity #Creativity

Creativity is a central pillar of Gestalt therapy. How do you get creative in your practice? #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselling #Therapy #Counselling #Creativity #TherapistsofBlueSky #BlueSkyTherapists

📢 EAGT Conference 📅 October 22nd- 25th 2026 📍 Dubrovnik, Croatia   Save the date! We’ll update this link when we have new info, and when tickets go on sale!   www.ukagp.org.uk/events/eagt-... #Gestalt #EuropeanGestaltists #GestaltTherapists #GestaltPractitioners #GestaltTherapy

On The Thinking Mind Podcast, Gestalt Psychotherapist Sarah Paul discusses the history and principles of Gestalt therapy, her own approach to her practice and some of the challenges of training as a therapist. Watch below! #Gestalt #Psychotherapy #TherapistsBlueSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGTk...

‘It is one of our greatest existential needs – to be deeply understood by another human being.’ - R. Hycner & L. Jacobs How has this need emerged in your practice? #Gestalt #RelationalTherapy #GestaltTherapy #Psychotherapy #Counselling #TherapistsofBlueSky #GestaltTherapist #GestaltCounselling

📢 AGM and Residential Conference 2026 📅 July 30th – August 2nd 2026 📍 Glastonbury, UK Save the date! www.ukagp.org.uk/agm-and-resi... #Gestalt #AGM #Conference #therapistsofbluesky #GestaltTherapy #GestaltPractitioner #therapistsconnect

“Phenomenological investigation demonstrates that, once our sedimented outlook is ‘opened up’, numerous perceptual possibilities become available which can be repeatedly turned to for experiential verification” - E. Spinelli #ErnestoSpinelli #existentialpsychotherapy

In her article for our Spring Newsletter theme ‘Neurodiversity & Gestalt – Creative Relating’, Gaie Houston considers how we use language in Gestalt, in our practices and with each other. www.ukagp.org.uk/spring-2025-... #Gestalt #Language #Neurodiversity #Creativity #TherapistsonBlueSky

The Gestalt Prayer, by Fritz Perls. “Gestalt Therapy Verbatim”, 1969. #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #Psychotherapy #Therapy

The Gestalt Prayer, by Fritz Perls. “Gestalt Therapy Verbatim”, 1969. #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #Psychotherapy #Therapy

A few of our committee members met this weekend to reflect on our recent conferences, share ideas for future ones and other events, and discuss how we can continue to support our UKAGP community and each other. #Gestalt #UKAGP #GestaltTherapy #GestaltConnect #GestaltCommunity #GestaltApproach

'Gestalt therapy views the entire biopsychosocial field, including organism/environment, as important. Gestalt therapy actively uses physiological, sociological, cognitive, motivational variables. No relevant dimension is excluded in the basic theory.' - Gary Yontef #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy

📢 Certificate In Contemporary Trauma Practice: Mind, Body & Relationship: Developing Competence in Applying Neuroscience to Therapy 📅 January - October 2026 📍Oxford & online www.ukagp.org.uk/events/relat... #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounseling #GestaltTraining #GestaltCommunity #CPD

'Contact is the lifeblood of growth, means for changing oneself, and one's experience of the world.' - Erving Polster, Gestalt Therapy Integrated: Contours of Theory & Practice #Gestalt #GestaltCommunity #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCounselor #GestaltTherapist #Therapy #Psychotherapy #RelationalTherapy

📣 We’re now on Instagram! If you're an Instagram user, feel free to give us a follow for the latest UKAGP news on: www.instagram.com/_ukagp/ #Instagram #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCommunity #GestaltTherapist #GestaltCounselor

📢 Training: Relational Living Body Psychotherapy 📅 9-11th Jan and 20-22nd Feb, 2026 📍 Online Julianne Appel-Opper offers new ways of working in a relational and field-oriented way. www.ukagp.org.uk/events/relat... #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #Psychotherapy #Therapy #Training #TherapyTraining

'We make contact with our world through our senses at what we refer to in gestalt as the contact boundary – where ‘I’ ends and ‘other’ begins. It is in this between that self forms.' - Dave Mann #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #Psychotherapy #GestaltCommunity #Thoughtoftheday #Therapy

📢 1 Day Workshop Exploring Shame and Guilt 📅 October 11th 📍 The Practice Rooms, Exeter For more details or to book: www.ukagp.org.uk/events/one-d... #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCommunity #Psychotherapy #TherapyWorkshop #Workshop

'Even in the deepest retreat, there is a vague restlessness of the soul yearning for a genuine meeting with others.' - Richard Hycner How does this land with you today? #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #DialogicalPsychotherapy #Therapy #Psychotherapy #Thoughtoftheday

erapy 📅 Seminars on September 17, October 15, November 19, 2025 📍Online For more details or to book: www.ukagp.org.uk/events/gesta... #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCommunity #GestaltSupervision #TherapySupervision

‘We are the contact we make. We exist when we contact the world.’ - Lee McLeod, ‘The Self in Gestalt Therapy Theory’ How are you making contact with your world today? #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #GestaltCommunity #Therapy #Thoughtoftheday

The 6th International Gestalt Research Conference starts today! You can still get tickets for the weekend, one day or online. Programme: www.ukagp.org.uk/2025-interna... Tickets: www.ukagp.org.uk/2025-interna... #GIRC2025 #GestaltResearch #GestaltEvidence2025 #TherapyResearch #GestaltCommunity

Come and join us to learn more about how Nicola's research can support your practice. Conference Programme: www.ukagp.org.uk/2025-interna... Buy Ticket: www.ukagp.org.uk/2025-interna... #GIRC2025 #GestaltResearch #GestaltEvidence2025 #TherapyResearch #GestaltCommunity

The 6th International Gestalt Conference is being held in Birmingham, UK this weekend! In-person and online tickets available: www.ukagp.org.uk/2025-interna... #GestaltResearch #TherapyResearch #GestaltCommunity #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #Psychotherapy #Therapy #Research

One week until the Gestalt International Research Conference! With 16.5 hours CPD on offer, this conference has something for everyone. To book: www.ukagp.org.uk/2025-interna... #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #TherapyResearch #Psychotherapy #EvidenceBasedResearch

“All real living is meeting.” ― Martin Buber How has this idea impacted or shown up in your practice? #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #IThou #Psychotherapy #Therapy #Philosophy

📢 The Diploma in Supervision 📅 Begins 16th October The Gestalt Centre Diploma in Supervision is a UKCP-recognised course designed for new and experienced supervisors. For more info, follow the link: www.ukagp.org.uk/events/the-d... #Gestalt #GestaltSupervision #TherapySupervision

Two weeks to go until the International Gestalt Research Conference! Follow the link for more info or to book: www.ukagp.org.uk/2025-interna... #GIRC2025 #GestaltResearch #GestaltEvidence2025 #TherapyResearch #GestaltCommunity #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #Psychotherapy #Therapy #Research

'There is no field per se that is perceived by one and all.' - Dave Mann, 2010 How do you help your clients increase their awareness of all the moving parts in their field, whilst keeping in mind the impact of your own? #Gestalt #GestaltTherapy #Psychotherapy #DaveMann #FieldTheory

ONLINE TICKETS! - International Gestalt Research Conference 2025 Join us this weekend, 5th-7th September! With 16.5 hours CPD on offer whether you are a practitioner, researcher or both, this conference offers something for everyone. www.ukagp.org.uk/store/p/2025... #Gestalt #GestaltResearch