Students:
Regular Fee 1/2 price for your first workshop.
Students:
Regular Fee 1/2 price for your first workshop.
For a general description of the workshops we offer and philosophies we employ, click here.
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10:00am - 5:00pm Saturday
433 Metairie Road, Ste. 113, Metairie, LA 70005
$125 each day prepaid or $150 at the door. $200 prepaid for both days.
You must pre-register online or by phone by the Friday before the Saturday workshop.
VISA/MasterCard accepted online using PayPal or over the phone by calling 1.800.786.1065.
Our workshops combine Gestalt with The Psychogenetic System™ Model of Pre-Marital, Couple, Family & Parenting Coaching, Forgiveness, Self-acceptance, Self-esteem, Intimacy, NLP, Codependency, Addiction, Body Work, Dreamwork, Psychodrama, Grief, Meditation, and the popular Money Game workshop. All events are open to everyone for personal work and to counselors for personal work and/or professional training.
Each workshop teaches and demonstrates a particular modality that is compatible with Gestalt and offers the therapist the variety of approaches necessary to work with a variety of clients and issues. The general public can learn these same skills to use in their own relationships.
Gestalt Therapy is one of the humanistic psychologies that began in the 1940s. Developed by Fritz and Laura Perls, a psychiatrist and a psychologist from Germany, who founded the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. Fritz studied with Sigmund Freud. Gestalt is best described in Fritz’s books, EGO HUNGER AND AGRESSION, GESTALT THERAPY VERBATIM, and THE GESTALT APPROACH/EYEWITNESS TO THERAPY.
The approach helps clients understand their feelings, both physically with body language and emotionally and also their dreams. It is the therapy of choice in the addiction community since it gains direct access into the unconscious.
Transactional Analysis, or TA as is it often called, is the humanistic psychology approach developed by pyschiatrist Eric Berne, MD, and described in his bestseller, GAMES PEOPLE PLAY. Transactional analysis therapists focus on identifying three basic EGO STATES - CHILD, ADULT and PARENT, which are similar to the psychoanalytic categories of ID, EGO and SUPEREGO.
Clients are encouraged to identify which of these three ego states are directing their interactional transactions, both intrapsychically and interactionally. Thomas Gordon’s book, I’M OK, YOU’RE OK also popularized the TA Model as did Claude Steiner’s, SCRIPTS PEOPLE LIVE BY.
Redecision Therapy is the combination of Gestalt and Transactional Analysis that was developed by psychiatrist, Bob Goulding, and his wife, Mary Goulding, a social worker, in the 1970s. The approach focuses on identifying early childhood decisions that are still operating unconsciously in the client and producing ineffective results in the client’s adult life now.
Clients are invited to role-play their early experiences and “re-decide,” thus updating their Individual Scripts.
The Psychogenetics System is a transgenerational approach to re-imprinting individual, couple and parenting scripts developed by Anne Teachworth and described in her book, WHY WE PICK THE MATES WE DO. Originally developed for working with couples, it is a combination of Gestalt, TA, Redecision and NLP.
Psychogenetics begins with a 10 question family-of-origin Psychogenetic Profile which quickly locates the hidden behavorial “landmines” introjected from their parents’ Inner Couple Imprint. Clients then role-play their parents’ interactions once "as it was" and then “once as they wanted their parents to be,” thereby imprinting a new corrective emotional experience into the their behavorial stress reactions.
Psychodrama was developed by Jacob Moreno, a student of Sigmund Freud. This group therapy approach requires the client to chose members of the group to re-enact a past and/or traumatic situation to give the client an opportunity to release long repressed or suppressed feelings to the stand-ins for other people in the client’s life then or now. The re-enactment allows the client to get closure by expressing withheld feeling or by creating an alternate ending.
Neurolinguistic Programming was developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder after studying the interventions of Gestalt’s developer, Fritz Perls, and a family therapist, Virginia Satir. NLP, as it is often called, is the subjective study of a client’s internal mind/body/behavorial cues and responses.
Milton Erickson, MD, a psychiatrist and hypnotist, was also studied and his narrative and memory changing inductions have set the standard for therapeutic hypnosis. Over 100 books have been written about NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis since it’s introduction in the early 1970s with the first books on the subject, THE STRUCTURE OF MAGIC, VOLS. I AND II, and FROGS INTO PRINCES.
Yes, since they comprise the bulk of clinical approaches developed after Abraham Maslow introduced his ground-breaking work, THE HEIRARCHY OF NEEDS, which identified the five levels of human needs: Survival, Security, Social Belonging, Self-Esteem, Self-Actualization, and their primary function in human emotional, mental and behavoiral actions and interactions.
A combination of all three. Experiential and didactic in the workshops with written workshop, book and video/DVD reports for those who want the training hours or CEUs.
Workshop usually begin at 10am with an in house group lunch from 1pm to 2pm, and continue to 5pm. Two short breaks are included so that the CEU credit time is 5 1/2 hours each workshop.
Click here to e-mail Anne Teachworth at ateachw@aol.com or call 1.800.GESTALT
