East Coast Gestalt

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The Course

East Coast Gestalt offers a fully accredited Graduate Diploma of Gestalt Therapy

The Course Structure

The course is designed as a four year program, currently structured at 1,100 hours of face-to-face teaching. Sessions are conducted approximately monthly to allow people needing to travel from a distance to attend. 

Students are encouraged to take a self-directed learning approach thereby allowing them to approach the course at their own pace and engage preferred learning styles. Study groups are structured by students throughout the four years, providing a forum to extend learning and build mutual support in the study process.

A variety of educators are brought in to each year's program to expose participants to a range of styles of Gestalt practice.

The course is structured with each year focussed on achieving a particular level: while some students may elect to complete all four years of the program, others may find the first or second year sufficient for their purposes. Each training year has requirements for the Graduate Diploma

In the first year students are introduced to the core principles of the Gestalt discipline through an integrative approach of Theory, Skills and Practice. There is a component of written work and a book of readings is supplied; the main focus is on establishing an initial experiential familiarity with the basics of Gestalt. 

In second year, the course builds on the basics of the first year but emphasises the application of the principles to working with people.

By third year students are engaging in intensive supervised Gestalt work, and the fourth year hones those skills to a high level of competence

Successful completion will lead to the issuing of a Graduate Diploma of Gestalt Therapy. 

For a more detailed look at the course structure, click here

Aims

The Gestalt Therapy Training Program aims at:

  • Providing students with supported experiences to assist their personal development and extend their self awareness.
  • Providing the student with the fundamental knowledge and understanding of the theoretical base of Gestalt therapy. This knowledge will support the development of personal awareness and group awareness throughout the whole term of study.
  • Promoting and strengthening the students' skills, personal qualities and competencies that are relevant to becoming a Gestalt therapist in a wide range of practice contexts.
  • Promoting an appreciation and support of professional practice that is responsive, creative, ethical and innovative.

 

Educational Standards

  • The program represents an investment of money as well as the time and personal effort required to succeed. Thus students can reasonably expect certain standards in the course and in the way they are treated as fee paying students..
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  • The Challenge

  • The course is akin to a journey. The work is always challenging, inviting people to stretch themselves, work through unfinished business, take responsibility for their lives, get in touch with messy feelings, and generally go through a process of transformation..
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  • Ethical Practice

  • The East Coast Gestalt Institute has developed processes and policies for the conduct of ethical research and aheres strictly to them in all research and study activites
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  • Course Philosophy

  • The course seeks to develop a sense of personal agency and unique style, married with skills and knowledge.
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  • Assessment

  • The approach to assessment is holistic, integrated, and involves an on-going process of self-reflection, peer observation and trainer/ supervisor assessment..
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Further Information

The training process is interactive and experientially based. The exploration and articulation of the trainees' subjective experience is valued and utilized in the learning. The program uses a competency based learning model and the curriculum is designed to teach the core personal, theoretical and practice competencies associated with practitioners of the Gestalt approach. This journey is of trainer and trainee together on path of learning and discovery, with mutual respect.

Both teachers and students are challenged and supported to experiment in their learning process. The training program is designed and taught with an awareness and respect for diversity in areas such as culture, race, gender, generation and sexual preference.

 

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