New article by Peter:
‘Artificial Intelligence’ poses the question: what is consciousness, what is therapy?
Go to Online Writings
New Event: Peer discussion on self of a NEURODIVERSE therapeutic field/situation
Wednesday 4th June 13.00 – 16.00 UK time.
New Event: Book Club with Brian McMinn
Thursday 26th June at 6 – 8am UK time.
First meeting of an ongoing group.
Further information about both of these at Events
New Videos by Peter: The ‘Active Principle’ in Gestalt Therapy and Webinar on Eating Disorders for Polish Therapists
At Videos/Audio.
Important resubscribing information
If you have cancelled your annual PayPal subscription, or not been able to keep up your payments, you can now resubscribe and reactivate your membership at Membership Renewal.
New External Event
Training for supervisors with Jan Roubal, Gianni Francesetti, Michela Gecele and Stana Dudova
Information at External events
Working with Couples: Peer Group with Jutta Pieper
This peer group is opening to a few more members. Information at https://ig-fest.org/ig-fest-events/working-with-couples-with-jutta-pieper/
Event with Peter Philippson
Group, Self and Choice
Link to video at Videos/Audio
How do we resonate with art? Theory discussion with Kamila Bialy
May 18th 1pm-3pm UK time
See https://ig-fest.org/ig-fest-events/how-do-we-resonate-with-art-theory-discussion-with-kamila-bialy/
The video of this event is now online at Videos/Audio
Fifth Symposium the Ukrainian and European Psychotherapy Alliance
Friday 14th June.
See External events
IAAGT Conference Veracruz
See External events
New Webinar videos
Polarities and Creative Indifference with Sarah Gorzelsky
What Kind of Field? with Peter Philippson
Available at Videos/Audio
New external conference
“Re-STARTING. Re-THINKING. Re-CONNECTING. ROOTING IN LIFE”
See External events
There are some new articles on the website
See Online writings
TV interview with Peter before his workshop in Niš, Serbia.
See further details at Video/audio
New book by Peter
The ‘Active Principle’ in Gestalt Therapy and Other Essays.
I have often been asked: ‘Are you going to write another book?’. And I have always said ‘No’, because I am very wary of self-plagiarism, and felt that all I had to say at book length has been said in my previous books, particularly ‘Self in Relation’ (Philippson, 2001) and ‘The Emergent Self’ (Philippson, 2009).
And yet… my ideas, while still recognisable from my previous writings, have been maturing and changing emphasis through my thinking, reading, therapy, supervision and training work. The extended essay on the Active Principle in Gestalt Therapy is a description of an approach that honours the radical understanding of self inherent in Gestalt Therapy. The accompanying essays expand the themes of the Active Principle essay into specific areas of philosophy and practice, including Field Theory, the nature of truth, sexuality and time.
Now available on Amazon.
To book, go to Events
New articles by Peter
Four Lectures for the Kyiv Gestalt University in Time of War (to be published in the British Gestalt Journal 31.2) and The ‘Active Principle’ in Gestalt Therapy are online at Online writings
IpsiG Online Conference November 4/5 2022
This has now taken place, and many of our members attended. We will provide space for discussion (see above).
For information, go to External events
See message from Claire Spiller at External events.
Emerging Self in a Changing World
This conference took place on 1st June, with around 170 participants from Brazil to Australia, with plenary presentations by the founders, and 6 workshops by our members.
Links to the six plenary presentations are now available to members at Conference Presentations.
New video: Autonomy and Affiliation in a cultural context: Peter’s Lecture at IGWien conference “INSIDE-OUTSIDE” Affiliation in a pluralistic society“. Available to members at Videos/Audio.
Bulletin Board
This is now active and all members are able to post. See Bulletin Board and IG-LIST Discussion Group for information.
There are now new threads to continue the discussions from the conference. Please use them and add your own!
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In the past years, there has been a renewed interest in understanding Gestalt Therapy from the perspective of field-emergent Self, which is informed by the early texts from Fritz Perls and Paul Goodman.
IG-FEST is an international study group of Gestaltists who want to develop the kind of work that we as a founding group have been writing about and teaching, through online links of various sorts – webinars, peer supervision groups and practica, supervision days, discussion between trainers and therapists in different countries, online workshops, sharing writings and videos. Members are invited as collaborators, not as trainees, and will be showing what you are doing with what we have been teaching. The group will be actively multicultural, diverse and accessible to people with less time and income.
The resources pages will only be available to those who have taken up membership on the Join Us / Contact tab.
IG-FEST events (mostly free to members) can be viewed and signed up for on the Events tab.
Other offered events are posted on the Offered events menu item. Please look at these, people have been making offers!
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Latest
Peter has posted new videos at Videos/Audio: his lecture and the discussion at the IG-FEST event ‘Gestalt Therapy as Clinical Husserlian Phenomenology‘, and a conference presentation and therapy demonstration from the conference of the Pogodin Academy, Ukraine. Also a new article about Confluence and Self at Online writings.
Please sign up for our Newsletter. This is not the same as the discussion list. The discussion list is only available for members to join, read and post, while the Newsletter list is open to all, but only to receive information.
Other events are happening. Peter, Julianne and our member Anne Pettit have given events. Keep looking at the events tab. And consider offering an event!
There are some new videos (including translations into Russian) and translations of articles on the site. More will follow!
We have news from colleagues in Belarus including members of IG-FEST, who have been protesting against government repression. See the video in News.