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Robert Lee is a faculty member of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. His research on couples and shame led him to an understanding of the hidden dynamics of intimacy. He applies his intersubjective, developmental constructivist insights to working with couples, families, adolescents, ethics, self process and chronic illness. His article, Gestalt and Shame: The Foundation for a Clearer Understanding of Field Dynamics , won the 1995 Nevis Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Gestalt Therapy Theory. He is co-editor of The Voice of Shame: Silence and Connection in Psychotherapy , and is currently working on another book, A Field Perspective on Ethics . |
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Carola Krusche trained originally in contemporary dance education and performance. She then became a certified yoga teacher and educator in the USA. Subsequently she has completed training in Body Mind Centring with Linda Hartley, author of Wisdom of the Body Moving. She has taught this modality for the last 10 years, 4 of them in Australia.. |
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Zjamal Xanitha is a choreographer, performer, teacher, Gestalt therapist, and ritualist. She has over 27 years experience in group facilitation and community process leadership. Teaching worldwide, her work has explored movement, personal development, creative guidance, and spiritual education from an earth honouring perspective. She graduated from the Amsterdam College of the Arts and for seven years she was on the faculty of the School for New Dance Development in Holland. She later taught in the Philosophy and Religion Department of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Zjmal has a private practice and continues to explore the integration of mind, body and spirit clients . |
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Kerry Shipman comes to Gestalt Therapy from a rich and varied background. He holds a Bachelor of Theology degree and a Masters degree in Education. His passion to bring awareness to the different ways we learn was born out of his own struggle within a social and cultural field that was unsympathetic to his particular style of learning. He has a strong commitment to his spirituality, which emerged from, and is nurtured by the Western mystical tradition. His practice as a therapist is imbued with his theological insights and his commitment to evoking the fullness of humanity in all his clients . |
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Liz Bentley has been a nurse, teacher, group leader and Gestalt therapist. She has recently moved to Australia from the UK, where she trained with Malcolm Parlett and Marianne Fry at Gestalt South West. As well as working as a psychotherapist in private practise for 15 years, she has also worked in the Mental Health System as a member of a multidisciplinary team. A significant focus of her professional development for the last ten years has been with the Pacific Gestalt Institute of Los Angeles where she has trained with Lynne Jacobs and Gary Yontef in the development of contemporary Relational Gestalt Therapy theory and practise . |
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Masa Momotake is the most active gestalt practitioner in Japan. He was originally trained by Paula Bottome from the San Francisco Institute in the 1970s and has gone on to found training groups all over the country. His training groups have graduated two new generations of gestalt practitioners in Japan. A founding member of Gestalt Network Japan, he organized the first national gestalt meeting last year with over forty teachers attending and a key note speech by French gestaltist Serge Ginger from Paris (EPG). |
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Dr Janice Gerard is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, practicing in Los Angeles. She is Past-President of The Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles. Janice has led workshops and training groups, and has presented at many international conferences on Gestalt therapy and transpersonal psychology. She specializes in Gestalt Dreamwork and the integration of meditation and spiritual practice into Gestalt psychotherapy. |
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Dr. Peter Nelson ~ his original scientific work was in neuropsychology, involving studies of the human brain and the process of consciousness. Through the application of an original statistical modelling technique he went on to study how people experience reality, with particular emphasis on religious and altered state experiences. He also trained as a counselling psychologist after completing a training existential psychoanalysis in New York. Subsequently he studied with Paul Goodman and then Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt Therapy. Currently, he works as a research consultant to businesses, educational institutions and government departments and as a counselling psychologist and corporate coach. He calls himself a psycho-phenomenologist, and combines deep scientific and philosophical insights with a personal talent for clear perception of others. |
