Gestalt in Practice – Family Therapy Training 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 with Prof. Giovanni Salonia 🇵🇱🤝🇮🇹

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What does a psychotherapist from Mentalii do in the last days of summer vacation? 🌞📚 She learns! ✨

In the final three days of August, Patrycja Balicka took part in a workshop on Family Therapy in Gestalt Psychotherapy, led by the renowned Prof. Giovanni Salonia 🇮🇹 from the Gestalt Kairos Institute. Patrycja has been developing her skills at the Kairos Institute for many years, drawing on the rich experience of this respected center 🌿.Three Polish-Italian days 🇵🇱🤝🇮🇹 were filled with a wealth of experience and knowledge 💡. Participants also had the opportunity to observe Giovanni Salonia working with families 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦. The workshop addressed, among others, the following topics:• GESTALT FAMILY THERAPY MODEL 🌀 – the model emphasizes the importance of awareness of the quality of contact, stemming from the functions of the Self, and in particular from the function of the Family Self. The interventions aim to open both a relational perspective (from symptom to relationship) and an evolutionary perspective (as the next phase of the evolutionary cycle of the model).• RELATIONAL COMMUNICATION STYLES AND MODEL 💬 – contemporary psychotherapy faces new challenges due to social and cultural changes 🌍. Over the past twenty years, people have been confronted with the need to live in equal relationships ❤️🤲 – true equality in intimate contexts such as couples or families, as well as in social life, work, and friendships. A necessary but not yet fully achieved task is to “relearn” the grammar of intimacy and social communication.• FUNCTIONS OF PERSONALITY: Theory of Development 🧠 – a reinterpretation of Freud’s theory of evolution in the context of the relationality of the body.• FAMILY FUNCTIONING STYLES 👪 – and the characteristic interruptions in family contacts.