Gestalt Therapy in the Light of Different Cultures
My mentors in Gestalt Therapy:
Gerald Kogan, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist/psychotherapist and a Gestalt therapist with more than 45 years of clinical, educational, community, and organizational experience. Among his teachers were Fritz and Laura Perls, Virginia Satir, and Carl Rogers. With his wife Wiltrud, he is a co-founder and co-director of Gestalt Education Network International (GENI). He also co-founded the German Association of Gestalt Therapy and the European Association of Counseling. He has been a teacher of psychotherapy in the USA, Europe, and Asia. His writings include articles and bibliographic research in Gestalt Therapy and and the books Your Body Works and God in a Red Machine.
Wiltrud Krauss-Kogan, Dipl.Paed,. HP is a licensed psychotherapist and Gestalt therapist in private practice. She has been a teacher of Gestalt Therapy in Europe and the USA for 3 decades. In addition to working with individuals, couples and groups, her background includes experience with children, abused adolescents, people wiht addictive problems, and individuals with life-threatening illnesses and trauma. She has been trained in Gestalt Therapy, Gestalt Body Process, Family Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy in the USA and Europe and is a student of various healing practices. She is a co-founder and co-director of GENI and a co-founder of the German Association of Gestalt Therapy.
My training under the Gestalt Education Network International:
2001: Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
the gestalt gang's all here
gestalt therapy training in the garden
at a restaurant
at the town fiesta
at the mountain top, overlooking a sea of clouds
at the mountain top, with the sea of clouds behind and below me
too cold to swim in the atlantic ocean
friends
2002: Dordogne, France
2004: Trivandrum, Kerala, India
visited a small remote indian island
surprised to meet an indian boy (on my left) wearing a boracay shirt
sleeping at the top bunk bed on a train
with a an indian holy man
with some cultural dancers
at newly-opened hotel with E.D. Joseph's wonderful family
a boat ride down the river in the sweltering noontime heat
gestalt therapy training under coconut trees
closing the gestalt with a group pic
2005: Sidemen, Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia
when in bali, dress up as the balinese do
fun time with kids at the market
at a mountaintop temple
the big lizard on the wall of my room creeping me out
the view outside my bedroom window
the hut i stayed in
a local shaman who told me exactly what I was sick of
gestalt group's visit to a balinese holy man
with the balinese holy man
the holy man's blessing: rice on the forehead, and leaves on the head and ears
2007: Schondorf, Germany (under the Institut fur Integrative Gestalttherapie Wurzburg)
2007: Brisbane, Australia ( under the Brisbane Gestalt Institute)
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