This course will focus on learning to attend to ourselves and our client’s somatic processes through kinesthetic awareness, and using this as orientation and guidance in developing a diagnosis of relational field. We will address the historical evolution of somatic awareness in treatment and focus on practical application of somatic awareness in our Gestalt tradition, including the concepts of kinesthesia, kinesthetic resonance, and diagnosing by the aesthetic criteria.   The course will consist of 15 hours of lecture and experiential work plus a short reflection paper for people in the PA program taking this course as part of their ongoing training.  

• $450

• 15 Hours

• Instructor: Jennifer Griesbach, LCSW-R

Gestalt therapy has always emphasized the experience of the present moment. This focus has served to heighten our awareness of the immediacy of living our lives, and of contact with what is. Presence is the basis for all forms of presentness. This seminar will include didactic and experiential explorations of both presentness and presence, and will address clinical applications and implications of this expansion of the Gestalt approach.

• $300

• 10 Hours

• Instructor: Alan Cohen, LCSW, LP

• Weekend workshop: Saturday & Sunday, 10am-4pm

• November 7-8, 2026

• Location: In-person at GAP

• Semester: Fall 2026

This course will address family issues, dynamics and treatment from a Gestalt Psychoanalytic perspective, interweaving ideas derived from Family Systems theory. We will look at the history of the development of Family Therapy, various schools of thought, emphasizing gestalt, psychoanalytic and systems thinking and modes of treatment. We will study tapes and use role play as well as supervision of actual cases to explore various treatment interventions based on solid theoretical formulations. This course requires participants to complete Level I of GAP training before registering.

• $450

• 15 Hours

• Instructor: Jordan Dann, LP, CIRT, SEP

This course will explore the evolution of the concepts of Transference, Countertransference, and Resistance through the lens of the four dominant schools of psychoanalysis: Drive Theory, Ego Psychology, Object Relations, and Self Psychology. We will discuss how each school approached transference, countertransference, and resistance, and compare and contrast these approaches to Gestalt therapy’s existential, relational stance in psychotherapy. The course will use practicum sessions and instructor demonstration to support trainees in recognizing course concepts as they emerge in sessions. For optimal learning, students are encouraged to have completed reading the five assigned texts before the first course meeting. However, lectures will be organized such that trainees may participate fully even if the readings are incomplete. This course requires participants to complete Level I of GAP training before registering.

• $450

• 15 Hours

• Instructor: Jack Worthy, LMHC-D and Todd Senzon, LP-D