WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION This workshop presents the holistic BodyMind Gestalt approach in a practical way, which is body-oriented and supports embodied presence. Our body is intelligent, has the ability to self-organize and adapt, and the experience of the body influences how we perceive ourselves, our relationships, and our work. Our physicality shapes our reality: how we influence the world and are influenced by it. In this workshop, we will explore how being in contact with the body increases our presence and effectiveness in personal development and professional practice. Experimenting in BodyMind Gestalt is not just a set of learned practices and established ways of acting. For enlivened contact that affects the body awareness of our clients, we need to bring our own embodied presence into the relationship and support the emergence of an embodied field between us. In such an embodied field, some of the socio-cultural divisions between body and mind can be healed. During the classes, there will be an opportunity to experience yourself in the body and movement in various forms, such as movement warm-ups, breathwork, bodywork through touch, dance, contact improvisation, and voice, and perhaps also through other creative practices: writing and drawing. An important part of the workshop will also be relational experiments focused on the body, which enable the creation and support of an embodied field between us. We will play a lot, interact, practice together, and participate in therapeutic sessions in subgroups. There will also be theoretical presentations and time to discuss possible therapeutic applications and create personal/professional meanings from our experiences. The workshop is intended for PRACTICING graduates and advanced students of psychotherapy schools (3rd-4th year of training), counseling, coaching, somatic-movement education of various approaches, who are interested in deepening individual clinical work with the aspect of embodiment in the BodyMind Gestalt approach. Workshop program includes, among others: - basic concepts, attitudes, and practices of the BodyMind Gestalt approach - specific ways to support embodied presence through breathing, grounding, centering, and sensory body scanning - supporting sensations and developing the language of the senses - creating awareness experiments from the "toolbox" of the BodyMind Gestalt approach - expressive work with content and topics that emerge in the here-and-now session FACILITATOR Arye Bursztyn is a BodyMind Gestalt therapist in private practice, trainer, and supervisor. Since 1989, he has been a movement teacher at the Seminar Kibbutzim Teachers’ College in Tel Aviv for dancers and theater actors. He was a professional dancer and choreographer. He has performed, taught, and created internationally in the field of contemporary and improvised dance, physical theater, and contact improvisation. He has also trained in martial arts, yoga, various forms of bodywork, energy and breath therapies. He holds a B.A. (1978) in Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology from Tel Aviv University. He obtained an M.F.A. (1989) in Dance from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. He completed training at the Gestalt Institute in Cleveland, in Israel and Ohio, specializing in physical process work (1997). He has been a full member of EAGT (European Association for Gestalt Therapy) since 2007. Board member of the Israeli Association for Gestalt Therapy. He has taught the BodyMind Gestalt method at Tel Aviv University as well as in various training programs for psychotherapists in Israel, the USA, and Europe. 📅 Date: 22-25.01.2026 🕒 Schedule: - Thursday: 9:00-13:00 and 15:00-18:00 - Friday: 9:00-13:00 and 15:00-18:00 - Saturday: 9:00-13:00 and 15:00-18:00 - Sunday: 9:00-14:00 A total of 35 teaching hours. 📍 Venue: Krakow Choreographic Center, al. Jana Pawła II 232, 31-913 Kraków 📝 Registration: Link to the registration form: https://forms.gle/pDNBakL3mZY5KYoQ9 💰 Regular price: 3600 PLN 10% discount: 3240 PLN - for participants of previous Arye workshops, participants of workshops (from the "Movement to Con/tact" series - Jacek) and ("Body_movement" - Alicja) as well as supervisees of Jacek and Alicja. 1st installment - 1300 PLN (non-refundable deposit) - payable within 7 days of receiving an email from the Organizers confirming registration. Payment guarantees reservation of a place in the workshop. 2nd installment - remaining amount - payable by 09.01.2026. Please pay after 01.01.2026 The workshop will be conducted in English with translation into Polish. If you have any questions, please contact the organizers: Alicja Gruszka-Nowak and Jacek Panster: gestaltwarsztaty@gmail.com photo: Beatrycze Bem
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