Examples of Curriculum Christine Price Gestalt Awareness Practice
Part 1: GAP as Meditation: The Fundamentals of Awareness
• Good in the Beginning: Motivation • GAP as Art, Sport and Spiritual Practice • Basic Practice • Continuum of Awareness • Contact: The Development of the Witness • Working with Dreams Part One: Entering and Dialog • The Practice of Presence: as Initiator; as Reflector; as Witness • GAP and Buddhism: Tonglen, Maitri and the Four Immeasurables
Part 2: GAP as Bodywork: The Body, the Senses and Perception
• Noticing and Supporting Sensation • The Four Expressions: Breathing, Sounding, Moving and Speaking • Working with Stimulation: Discharging and Containing • Perceiving the Outer Realm: Sensing and Our Environment • Facing, Feeling and Grounding • The Use of Touch in Gestalt Awareness Practice • The Basics, Again
Part 3: GAP as Psychology: The Past, the Future and the Now
• The Past: Message and Program from our Personal History • The Present: the Filter of Unfinished Business • The Future: Exploring New Possibilities • Befriending "What Is" • Working with Dreams Part Two: Ownership • The Basics, Yet Again
Part 4: GAP as Shamanism: Trust Process, Follow Process, Get Out of the Way
• Working with Dreams Part Three: Opening to the Unknown • Trust, Trust, and More Trust • Being the Village Idiot as Initiator and Reflector • I Am That / Becoming Everything • Exploring our Relationship to Dying and Death • The Basics, One More Time
Part 5: The GAP Congregation: Life as Spiritual Community Practice
• GAP as Personal Practice • GAP as Peer Practice • The Limits of GAP • Good at the End: Dedication • The Basics, At Last • And Whatever Else Arises….
www.tribalground.com 831-272-4363 [email protected] Examples of Curriculum Dorothy Charles Relational Gestalt Practice
Early Days of Gestalt at Esalen: Fritz Perls
Dick Price’s Legacy: The shift from Hot Seat to Open Seat Work
Christine Price: Gestalt Practice and Buddhist Teachings
Values in Gestalt
Goals in Gestalt
Figure/ Ground
Communication Guidelines and Gestalt Language
Boundaries
How to Use a Group: Group Process
Gestalt Process: A Post Cartesian World View Affect Longings Safety/Danger Unconscious Organizing Principles
Developmental Process: The Emerging Self
Attachment Theory
Experiencing and Expressing Emotion: The Signal Value of Feelings
Developing an Emotional Vocabulary
Shame
Trauma
The Four Corners of Contact
Barriers to Contact
Working With Conflict
Drama Triangle vs. Self-Responsibility
Family Sculptures
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