This practical and participatory weekend workshop explores how Gestalt can be used to develop your creative expression. It’s ideal whether you want to use creative writing for personal satisfaction or professional development.
DurationFree Fall: Writing As Creative Therapy
This practical and participatory weekend workshop explores how Gestalt can be used to develop your creative expression. It’s ideal whether you want to use creative writing for personal satisfaction or professional development.
Who’s The Workshop Aimed At?
You don’t need any previous experience of creative writing or Gestalt. This two-day workshop is ideal for anyone, at any level, who wants to learn a Gestalt-based approach to creative writing.
It’s popular with people interested in using writing in a therapeutic setting, It also attracts people who want to boost their confidence in creative expression – whether for self-help or as a therapeutic tool.
What’s Covered?
It’s a predominantly practical workshop, with plenty of writing and sharing. There will also be some brief theoretical discussions to explain the rationale behind the exercises. Themes covered include:
Free Fall writing as a technique to write through writer’s block
Autobiographical writing
Projection as creative discovery
Secrets, metaphors and poetry as medicine.
Course Tutor
Angelika Wienrich is a Certificate tutor on the counselling faculty here at the Gestalt Centre as well as a guest tutor to the Diploma level. In addition to this Creative Writing as Therapy weekend, she also offers an experiential Gestalt weekend entitled Gestalt in Action.
She has been a psychotherapist since 1988 and has a background in research and higher education. She has also worked as a staff counsellor within the NHS.
She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Writing in Personal Development from Sussex University (gained in 1999) and is a member of the Playback Theatre Company.
About The Gesalt Centre
The Gestalt Centre is the UK’s focal point for the study and exploration of Gestalt therapy. Located in Camden, in the heart of London, we are a hub for inspiring learning and a meeting place for some of the leading experts in this vital field.
The Gestalt Centre was established in 1980 to provide psychotherapy training. Since then, we’ve grown to become a highly reputed provider of a broad range of Gestalt-related education. Today, we’re based between Camden Town and a redeveloped Kings Cross-St Pancras area in London.
Our part-time, high-quality range of training includes both UKCP-accredited psychotherapy and BACP-accredited counselling programmes, courses designed to meet practitioners’ CPD needs plus a variety of events for people who want use Gestalt personally or professionally.
Beyond education, we offer an accessible low-cost scheme of our own to help people find a counsellor or therapist. We also hire out meeting rooms, conference rooms, consultation rooms and training rooms at our accessible, and well-equipped Camden centre.
How We Are Run
The Gestalt Centre is a registered charity. We have a Board of Trustees and a Board of Directors. The Trustees are responsible for ensuring that the organisation carries out its purposes and for overall planning and good governance.
The Directors (executive and non-executive) make decisions about strategy, the running of the organisation and oversee the work of the Psychotherapy faculty, the Counselling faculty and the management team.
Our Approach
We’re deeply committed to Gestalt theory and practice. We strongly believe that Gestalt is a positive force for change; that it can empower people to live life to the full by improving their communication, helping them to manage conflict and developing their creativity. At the heart of the Gestalt approach is:
Respect and appreciation for individuals, diversity and difference
A belief that we are all connected
Valuing of the awareness of self and others with integrity and honesty
Through participating in our courses our aim is that you will:
Develop a much greater awareness of yourself
Increase your presence in the world
Enhance your ability to creatively influence the context you are in
Appreciate that we are always in relation to and a part of our environment.
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