Residential
Retreat
Right Mindfulness
IORT has an inclusive approach to integrating Western and Eastern approaches to self-awareness, spontaneity and intimacy. Our vision is to enhance training and practice in India through committed emphasis on personal awareness, supervision and ongoing education. This requires dedication to build a supportive community of counselors and therapists who are invested in expanding their own awareness and providing ethical and professional services to their clients.
This residential retreat is part of the IORT vision. It is special in its design as it incorporates the principles of Sammasati (right mindfulness) and RGT to create a safe space for participants to explore individual approaches to healing and connect with their intrapsychic world that supports this process.
This retreat is open to counselors / therapists / psychologists who are invested in personal and professional development. Other participants will be taken in for the program based on their past experiences in therapy or under special consideration.
Program Objectives
Gain awareness into experiences that hold one back from realizing full potential
Engage with each other in compassionate ways to support the community
Learn ways of ‘healing and being’ that helps in advancing emotional, physical and spiritual health
Love, rage, grieve, play and live
Training Methodology
All IORT training programs are marked by an experiential and expressive art methodology to support the development of awareness, knowledge, skills and competency. The theoretical inputs are interspersed with experiments and activities that are integral to the practice of Gestalt Therapy to facilitate learning by doing. A deep immersion in theoretical knowledge is encouraged and supported through readings, papers and books related to the content of the training. Demonstrations by faculty, live supervision and case discussions will be held to develop skills and competencies in working relationally.
Hermeneutics: A Relational View
Vision
The vision of IORT is to nurture the development of a community of relational therapists who are sensitive to the notion of being in relation to environment, self-awareness and pursuit of knowledge. The IORT residential retreat is aimed to foster this vision.
Over time our retreat has emerged into a space of group sensitivity and learning about relationality through shared sadness (did you know that the original meaning of this word was fullness/to be filled to the brim with the intensity of an experience?) and fun (this has no deeper or hidden meanings except what participants create on the go).
Structure
9.30 am – 10.30 am
Whole group setting looking at theoretical understanding, that will be focused on the theme of the retreat and relevant to relational gestalt therapy
10.30 am – 10.45 am
Tea
10.45 am -12.30 pm
Home group : Small group work with individual demonstrations with faculty to experientially learn application of relational gestalt.
12.30 pm – 2.00 pm
Lunch
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Small group practice with live supervision.
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm
Tea
4.30 pm – 6.30 pm
Home Group: group therapy
Eligibility
IORT trainees and graduates. We are opening this retreat to other mental health professionals for the first time and we welcome you to our group.
Dates
January 17th- Jan 24th, 2025.
This retreat will be of eight days duration with a full day break in between the retreat and on 24th we would wind up post breakfast.
Frame
In the theory section, the whole group will be together, the group therapy and practice will be conducted in two separate groups. This will be facilitated by Guy Pierre and Vanaja.
Certification and Credits
This retreat will be certified by IORT and the visiting faculty. IORT is the pioneer of Relational Gestalt Therapy in India. For those of you have registered for MLCU-IORT PhD Scientist-Practitioner, you can use these hours for your credits.
Fee & Registration
Fees
INR 35000/- for facilitation exclusive of GST.
Registration
Please confirm participation by end of August, 2024. This will help us finalize the external faculty from Pacific Gestalt Institute whose travel plans needs to be finalized.
The invoice for the deposit will be send out by May first week, for INR 5000/- 50% is refundable if cancelled three weeks before the program and non-refundable if cancelled post that. The venue cancellation cost will be borne by the participant. The full fee can be remitted by December 2024.
The venue and travel cost will be separate. Vatsalya, the hostess of Kolavara Heritage home, has offered us a reduced fee of INR 3000/- per night inclusive of all meals for twin sharing. You can directly pay the venue in cash.
Facilitators
Guy Pierre
Trainer, Supervisor
Guy-Pierre is a widely respected and loved, creative teacher, trainer and supervisor at gestalt and humanistic institutes in France and Mexico for many years. He has been a guest trainer at institutes in Europe, in Mexico, and at the Pacific Gestalt Institute. He is also an accomplished painter, and has been exhibited in major galleries in Mexico, as well as presenting in exhibitions in France, Argentina, England, Canada and the US. His art has also been used as cover art in various gestalt therapy magazines and books.
Vanaja Ammanath
Trainer, Supervisor
Vanaja is a relational gestalt therapist, teacher and supervisor. She has been a guest faculty as well as group therapist and has experiences in working with diverse communities that cuts across different cultures. Her book on, ‘Relational Gestalt Therapy in India: Practice with Groups’, has been published by Routledge and well received by the international community of gestalt therapists. She has been a yoga practitioner for 37 years and is dedicated to her professional and personal development through personal therapy, supervision and ongoing education.