Book Club with Brian McMinn

Dear IG-Fest colleagues,

The next on-line meeting of the book club will be on Thursday the 25th of September at 6am (BST), for 2 hours.

The book we will be reviewing is:

A Gestalt Therapist’s Guide Through the Depressive Field by Jan Roubal (2025)

Please join us, even if you’ve only read a portion of this book.

These are my suggestions for its operation (these can be shaped by the attendees as we go along):

Brief check-in;

Reminder of brief ground-rules (respect of book and writer, and of each others’ views – although this doesn’t mean liking all aspects of the book or agreeing with views, have your mics off unless you are speaking);

I record the meeting after check-in;

We collectively review a Gestalt therapy related publication (this can range from academically formal to heartfelt);

It is not necessary to have read the whole book, a chapter or two is sufficient. An hour is given over to this (attendees do not have to have read any of the book, although it won’t be much of a review unless at least one person has, other than me);

We then have a short break (10 mins);

In the remaining time someone or a few members share a brief insight, or mini-review, of any therapy related publication they recommend (authors very welcome to introduce and give overviews of their new publications at this point – please inform me prior to meeting);

Someone suggests a Gestalt book to review at the next meeting (can be recent publication or previously published);

Brief check-out.

The recordings are listed by date and the main book title reviewed and available to all IG-Fest members;
(Optional: I get the Zoom AI to provide a summary written review of each session – I imagine AI can easily translate this).

I’m happy to make adjustments to this format as necessary.

If you sign up or reply to me personally (b.d.mcminn@icloud.com) with your email address I will send you the Zoom link a few days before the book club.

Best wishes

Brian McMinn