Seminars and Workshops
Alongside its four-year main training program, the Gestalt Institute of Yerevan (GIY) regularly organizes seminars and experiential workshops based on the Gestalt approach.
These are led both by the Institute’s core trainers and invited international faculty members.
The seminars are open to Gestalt therapists, Gestalt students, and psychotherapists from other modalities who wish to deepen their practice or discover Gestalt perspectives.
They offer participants the opportunity to gain theoretical insights, experiential learning, and creative exploration in a professional and supportive environment.
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Recent and Featured Workshops
1. Working with Dreams in Gestalt Therapy
An experiential exploration of dreams as living experiences in the here and now. Participants learn how to approach dreams not as symbols to interpret, but as doorways to awareness, embodiment, and unfinished experiences.
Trainer: Marina Serobyan
2. The Therapist’s Intuition: Aesthetic Relational Knowledge
A seminar on the aesthetic and relational dimensions of intuition in psychotherapy. Through theory and practice, participants explore how the therapist’s both embodied empathy and resonance can guide the therapist’s presence and sensitivity in the co-created field.
Trainer: Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
3. The Clown’s Metaphor in Psychotherapy: The Power of the Red Nose (Experiential Workshop)
A joyful and deeply human workshop where humor, vulnerability, and creativity meet. Participants are invited to explore the healing potential of the “inner clown” and the wisdom of playfulness in therapy.
Trainers: Frans Meulmeester & Marina Serobyan
4. Working with Depression and the Depressive Experience in Gestalt Therapy
This workshop focuses on the phenomenology of depressive experience and its relational dynamics. Participants learn how to meet depression not as pathology, but as an expression of human suffering within the field.
Trainer: Marina Serobyan
5. Working with Narcissistic Experiences in Gestalt Therapy
A deep dive into the understanding of narcissism within the Gestalt relational paradigm. The workshop explores the vulnerability behind narcissistic structures and offers creative ways to restore contact and vitality.
Trainer: Giovanni Turra
6. The Therapist’s Helplessness
An advanced seminar addressing one of the most sensitive and often avoided topics in psychotherapy. Participants reflect on moments of therapeutic impasse, exploring helplessness as a meaningful phenomenon in the shared field between therapist and client.
Trainer: Jan Roubal