Who are we in today’s world? What attracts us from the stunning panorama of changing possibilities and urgent concerns? And how might we align our life’s activities, work and play, ever better with our most cherished aspirations and values -- truly treasuring ourselves and our loved ones in the process? Many of us are bathed in good fortune, grateful for our circumstances, able and eager to share our abundance of good will and concern for our world. How do we enhance our human skills for sharing strengths, and nurturing capacities for integrated living?
The GISC Summer Series is an invitation to gather with fellow travelers, experience new depths of ourselves, integrate fresh perspectives, heighten awareness, cultivate capacities, reflect, re-energize our minds and bodies while sharing our spirit and humanity.
The GISC Summer Series offerings vary in length - ranging from weekend to week long workshops. The programs are designed to focus on holistic body-mind awareness and energizing practices for deep discovery to use in addressing the ever-changing situations we all face in every day life. Taught by the Center’s renowned faculty as well as guest leaders from the world of Gestalt and other areas of transformative learning, the integrative workshops are built around embodied practice, meaningful explorations and personal and social development.
The heart of Gestalt practice addresses the universal drive to make ever-fuller sense of our experiences in relationship to the complex and changing world around us. In our workshops participants are welcomed into a grounding and supportive space.
We bring an attitude of experimentation, self-recognition, embodiment, deep
responsiveness and attention to interpersonal dynamics.
We look forward to having you join us and enjoy the beautiful Sonia March Nevis and Edwin C. Nevis Meeting House in South Wellfleet, MA.
Do check out these enchanting learning opportunities, all reasonably priced!
Individual workshop and faculty descriptions follow.
Gestalt in 3 Keys
– Gordon Wheeler & Nancy Lunney-Wheeler
July 8-12, 2012
Meets mornings, 9am – 1pm and afternoon times TBA
The Gestalt approach supports change processes at the personal, interpersonal and/ or systemic level. Drawing on over four decades of work in the field, Gordon Wheeler, noted international Gestalt trainer, author and President of the Esalen Institute, and Nancy Lunney-Wheeler, MA and Senior Advisor to the Director of Programs at the Esalen Institute, will team up to take you on a journey through three different modes of Gestalt application. These include group and personal process work, personal expression through singing and systems-level exploration using Gestalt Relational Constellations. $500
Ultimate Self Care for Women: A Mini Retreat
– Susan B. Lord, MD
July 13-15, 2012
Begins Friday, 3pm; ends Sunday, 1pm
Step out of the stress of your daily life and observe who you would be without it. Susan B. Lord, MD, and mind-body-spirit medicine trainer, will be the guide for this experiential retreat which focuses on the practice of mind-body modalities for self inquiry and healing. The modalities include yoga, meditation, and a process for identifying and transforming the stressors that zap your energy. This program will enable participants to discover how awareness and mindful living can enhance resiliency, prevent and heal illness, while offering a creative, meaningful approach to living your life. $200
Vasalisa:
A Woman’s Many Ways of Knowing - Finding your Intuitive Voice
– Patricia Boswell & Deborah Stewart
July 16-18, 2012
Begins Monday, 3pm; ends Wednesday, 1pm
This workshop blends professional and personal learning to help you remember what you may have forgotten. Participants anchor new awareness while moving into the deep space of women’s wisdom. This women-only workshop will be headed by Gestalt therapist Patricia Boswell and psychotherapist Deborah Stewart. Their teachings are based on rich experiences that draw on metaphor, fairy tale, ritual, and the creation of a transitional object, a doll - based on the Russian folktale Vasalisa’s Doll. $200
The Inner World of Imagination
– Joseph Lee & Deborah Stewart
July 23-25, 2012
Begins Monday, 3pm; ends Wednesday, 1pm
The inner world of your imagination is the field where all aspects of you can meet, heal, celebrate and create. C.G. Jung pioneered the transformative use of imagination in one’s path to wholeness. Jungian psychotherapist and teacher Joseph Lee will join psychoanalyst and Gestalt therapist Deborah Stewart to lead participants in an exploration of their own imaginative world. Through the use of dreams, body sensations and spirituality attendees will be provided with insights into the creative process and discover new ways to dialogue with a deeper self. $200
Dream Workshop
– Lisa Marchiano & Deborah Stewart
July 25-27, 2012
Begins Wednesday, 3pm; ends Friday, 1pm
The ancient Babylonians used dreams to foretell the future. The ancient Greeks used dreams to heal physical illnesses. Today we use our dreams to discover our own mysteries and understand how psyche can inform our lives. Clinical social worker and Jungian analyst Lisa Marchiano, and psychoanalyst Deborah Stewart, will help workshop participants learn how to use their dreams as a means of gaining access to their own unconscious wisdom. $200
From Isolation to Intimacy: A Relational Journey
– Carol Swanson & Deborah Ullman
July 30-August 3, 2012
Meets mornings, 9am – 1pm and afternoon times TBA
Have you ever felt over-extended, unable to satisfy your commitments, yet eager to be seen in all your sincere good efforts? For many these are shameful feelings. The ways we get stuck in difficult situations often developed from a sense of isolation. Carol Swanson, LCSW, Executive Director of the Portland Gestalt Institute, and Deborah Ullman, Gestalt trainer and co-director of GestaltPress, offer a different approach. Based in contemporary evolutionary and relational Gestalt they bring experiences of connection, belonging and support to this sense of shame, transforming isolation to new possibilities for intimacy. $500
Engaged Presence: Expanding Ability for Greater Contacting with Self and World
– John Griffin
August 3-5, 2012
Begins Friday, 3pm; ends Sunday, 1pm
How do we seize the day, live in the present moment, and still handle life's
day-to-day challenges? John Griffin, international organizational consultant will provide
participants with the opportunity to become more present in their lives both personally and professionally. This unique weekend workshop will explore a variety of embodied presence practices including: meditation, Qigong, time in nature and other mind-body exercises that enhance our abilities to become more engaged and awake. $200
Introduction to Kundalini Yoga as Taught by Yogi Bhajan
– Michele Damello
August 7-8, 2012
Meets 8:30am – 5pm
Find balance in your life by uniting mind, body and spirit through the use of breath, mudra, mantra and movement. Michele Damelio, BS and certified Kundalini and Naam Yoga Therapies teacher, as well as a Harmonyum practitioner, will help guide you on how to unlock your own special gifts by connecting with the light that is already within you. Kundalini offers a pathway to becoming healthier and happier as you realize your ability to relax, renew, and co-create the life you envision. $200
Talking About Race in a Post Racial Age
– Roy Partridge & Sara Joffe
August 13-17, 2012
Meets mornings, 9 am – 1pm
This workshop is designed to help participants learn how to talk about racial topics in 21st Century America. While discussing race has long been a challenging topic for Americans-especially across racial lines-instructors Roy Partridge, Special Assistant to the President and professor of Sociology at Bowdoin College teaching race and racism, and organizational development consultant and coach, Sara Joffe, will provide participants the tools for thinking about and talking about race in light of recent social advances. Talking about Race in a Post-Racial Age offers participants the chance to enhance their ability to have meaningful conversations about race with both people of the same and different races. $250
Writer’s Workshop
– Susan Fischer
August 17-20, 2012
Begins Friday, 7:30pm, ends Monday, 1pm
Trying to finish that book or article to get published? Then the GISC Summer Series Writer’s Workshop can help. This writer-centered workshop, led by Gestalt Review Editor Susan Fischer, is designed to help writers in any genre, any experience level, at any stage in the writing process to have the opportunity to gain practical or theoretical support for their work. The workshop brings together writers to share their ideas, their work, their support, and feedback with other like-minded writers. Just bring in a work-in-progress and let’s get started. $300
Heightening Awareness: Mastering Brainwaves to Unleash the Power of the Awakened Mind
– John Griffin & George Pierson
August 24-26, 2012
Begins Friday, 3pm, ends Sunday, 1pm
This cutting-edge workshop offers tools to reduce anxiety and stress, enhance happiness and mental clarity and increase creativity. Dr. John Griffin and George Pierson will help tap into the "awakened mind" state and the power of intuition and imagination. Participants will experience a proven brainwave feedback protocol that helps make the mind clearer, sharper, quicker and more flexible than in ordinary states while allowing greater access and understanding of emotions. $200
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