Gestalt Conference for Psychology and Psychotherapy Practitioners | On-line

“Re-STARTING. Re-THINKING. Re-CONNECTING. ROOTING IN LIFE”

16, 23 March 2024

We are migrants our entire life. Our first migration is from the mother’s womb to the world, then from one place to the other, from our current role to a new one, from one person to the other and so on, non-stop during the whole of our life until the very last migration when we leave this world… And every time we migrate it is first of all about loss and then about something, somebody new, maybe interesting, and sometimes even exciting…

So, how do we experience this loss, how do we re-start, re-think, re-connect in order to stay alive, to find our interests, to get rooted in a new environment?

The focus of this conference is to consider migration first of all as a loss of “home” as a familiar place with well-established connections and meaningfulness – from many diverse perspectives: individual, collective, field, phenomenological, psychoanalytical, behavioral, social, cultural, philosophical…

We invite gestalt psychologists and psychotherapists from different places all over the world to consider the issues of migration in a wider perspective and our ways and resources for creative adaptation to a new situation and environment. We are going to talk about profession, life, feelings, experiences, situations both on an individual level as well as in a broader meaning.

Welcome to our space inspired by the need for re-connection to life!

Throughout the course of 2 Saturdays (March 16 and March 23 2024) we will explore the issues of home and homelessness:   what it’s like to be exiled from a geographic ‘home’…. to exist with a feeling of homelessness? What it is like to be met in this place of homelessness?  what is the balance between what is lost – and what is potentially to be gained. How do I meet myself, and meet others in this place? How do I see the impact of my homelessness on who comes to me for therapy, and what meaning do I make of the idea that homelessness is becoming a shared/common experience? 

Our Conference is not only the series of lectures but it is also the exploration journey towards understanding you as a therapist in relation to your client. You will learn not only from presentations but also explore your own feeling of home/less/ness.


  • The conference

    The conference


    Lodzka Szkola Gestalt in partnership with New Gestalt Voices hold International Online Conference on March 16&23 2024 for psychologists and psychotherapists throughout the whole world. The Conference was benefited by participating 22 speakers from 12 countries, participants from Ukraine, Ireland, Germany, Mexico, Canada, US, UK, Belarus, Russia, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Kazakstan, Bulgaria, Italy. The Conference…

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    Anika Wycislik-Wilson (UK)


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  • Dieter Bongers (Switzerland)

    Dieter Bongers (Switzerland)


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  • The first day of the Conference is over.

    The first day of the Conference is over.


    The first day of the Conference is over. The participants are full of resonances to the speeches, they have got the experience of togetherness as well. The figure of avoidance of pain as a key obstacle to contacting emerged. The lectures impressed by its unique and innovative perspectives on the issues of our movements from…

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  • Karolina Ślifirska and Lena Grigorieva (Poland)

    Karolina Ślifirska and Lena Grigorieva (Poland)


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  • Monika Gendek and Katarzyna Rejniak (Poland)

    Monika Gendek and Katarzyna Rejniak (Poland)


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  • John Gillespie (UK)

    John Gillespie (UK)


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  • Tara Konrad (Ukraine)

    Tara Konrad (Ukraine)


    Tara Konrad (Ukraine) speaker on Gestalt Conference for Psychology and Psychotherapy Practitioners | On-line 23th march 2024 Tara practices gestalt approach over 20 years already in all types of capacities: as a trainer, practitioner, supervisor. She got trained in different modalities but her major professional interest is work with trauma and crisis. This interest is caused by…

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  • Inna Didkovska (Ukraine)

    Inna Didkovska (Ukraine)


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  • Silvia Tosi (Italy)

    Silvia Tosi (Italy)


    Silvia Tosi (Italy) speaker on Gestalt Conference for Psychology and Psychotherapy Practitioners | On-line 16th march 2024 Welcome to our International Conference and enjoy the beauty and meaningfulness of many different views from many different perspectives on the issues of changes in our existential environment. Silvia Tosi (Italy) is one of the professionals ready to…

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  • Lynne Jacobs (USA)

    Lynne Jacobs (USA)


    Lynne Jacobs (USA) speaker on Gestalt Conference for Psychology and Psychotherapy Practitioners | On-line 23th march 2024 Welcome to join us at the Conference and you will get the opportunity to explore the issues of dignity with Lynne Jacobs (USA) – a prominent American gestalt scientist and practitioner and psychoanalyst. The issues of dignity in the times…

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  • Rafael Cortina (USA)

    Rafael Cortina (USA)


    Rafael Cortina (USA) speaker on Gestalt Conference for Psychology and Psychotherapy Practitioners | On-line 23th march 2024 We are happy to introduce you our world-known speaker and international trainer present in many countries around the world – Rafael Cortina (USA). He has conducted workshops, training courses, lectures, international conferences and supervisions, virtually and in person in Mexico, the…

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