Excerpt of a speech at the conference “The Beauty of Gestalt,” in Zhejiang, China
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New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, NYS Society of Clinical Social Work
Attorney-at-Law, New York State (no longer in practice)
Masters in Social Work, New York University
Juris Doctor, New York University
Training and supervision as a gestalt therapist with Laura Perls, Isadore From, Richard Kitzler, and Patrick Kelley, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy
Phenomenology and hermeneutic seminars with Donna Orange
EAGT Accredited Supervisor
Fellow, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy
Member, Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy
Full Member, Supervisor, European Association for Gestalt Therapy
Member, Society for Existential and Phenomenological Philosophy
Co-founder of the International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field-Emergent Self and Therapy (IG-FEST.org)
President, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, 2023-
Conference Planning Committee of the AAGT/EAGT Conference, 2016
Steering Committee, Psychology and the Other Conference, 2015 – present
President, Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, 2008 – 2010
Vice-President, Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, 2006 – 2008
President (two terms), New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, 2001 – 2005
Clinical Director, Identity House, New York, 1982 – 1983
Independent Trainer
Adjunct Faculty:
- Center for Somatic Studies, New York, NY
- Gestalt Associates of New York
- The Gestalt Center of New York
Visiting Faculty:
Editor-in-chief, Studies in Gestalt Therapy: Dialogical Bridges
Associate Editor, Gestalt Review
Book Review Co-editor and English Language editor, Quaderni di Gestalt
Senior Consulting Editor, Ravenswood Press
Member, Scientific Board, Gestalt Therapy Book Series, Istituto di Gestalt
“An Historical Overview of Resistance, Transference, Countertransference and Existential Issues in Transference, Countertransference, and Resistance, ” and “Historical Overview,” Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, New York, Fall, 2016, Spring, 2017, Fall, 2022
“Existential Psychotherapy,” The Gestalt Center, New York, October, 2016
“Resistance, Transference, Countertransference: Existential Perspective,” and “Resistance, Transference, and Countertransference: Phenomenological Perspective,” Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, New York, Fall and Spring, 2014
Presentation, “The fractured World: The Gestalt of the Situated Self”, Feb, 2023, NYIGT
Faculty, Institute Residential, Institut für Integrative Gestalttherapie (IGW), St Arboghast, Austria, 2022.
Plenary Speaker, Third International Gestalt Conference, Nanjing, China, 2021.
Lecturer, Minsk Gestalt Institute Conference, 2021.
Plenary Speaker, IV Interdisciplinary Congress of Gestalt Psychotherapy, “Love and the Human Condition,” Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2021.
Plenary Speaker, First Conference, International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field-Emergent Self, 2021.
Presenter Instituto Internationale di Psicopatologia e Psicoterapia della Gestalt, 2021.
Lecturer, Ukraine Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Art, 2020.
Presenter. Conference on Coronavirus, Istituto Di Gestalt HCC, Syracuse, Italy, 2020.
Visiting Faculty, Conference and Dialogue, Gestalt Therapy Institute of Malta, 2020.
Presenter, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, 2020.
Lecture, “Skulls and Skeletons: the Dead and the Living as Support for Contacting,” Nov 17, 2019, NYC. See the full lecture here.
Lecture and Workshop, “Skulls and Skeletons: the dead and the living as support for contact,” Instituto Humanista de Psicoterapia Gestalt, Coyoacán, Mexico, Oct 24 to 27, 2019
I Formación Internacional en Terapia Gestalt y Terapia Gestalt Relacional – Centro Gestáltico de Perú – Lima (Peru), 2017
“An Introduction to Gestalt therapy,” lecture/presentation as guest faculty, Wagner College, New York City, Oct 2016
“Sequence of Contacting and Self,” A Weekend Workshop at the Summer University for the Valencia, Spain, Gestalt Therapy Institutes, San Jorge, Spain, July 2015
“Contact,” Featured International Faculty, Four Day Residential Gestalt Therapy Institute, Institut Français de Gestalt-Thérapie & Institut Belge de Gestalt-Thérapie, Angers, France, July 2015
“An Introduction to Gestalt therapy,” lecture/presentation as guest faculty, Wagner College, New York City, Oct 2011
“Relational Gestalt Therapy,” two day workshops, Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, Sept 2011
“The New York Institute Model of Gestalt Therapy,” two day workshop, Istituto di Gesalt, HCC, Siracusa, Italy, July 2006
2019
Workshop, “Out of the Night Before Being: the Other and Creative Non-Indifference,” EAGT Conference, Budapest, Hungary, Sep 2019
2016
Plenary Panel, “The Aesthetic of the Emerging Other: beauty, responsibility and evil at the contact-boundary,” Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT)/European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT) Joint Conference, “The Aesthetic of Otherness: meeting at the other in a sensitized world,” Taormina, Italy
Panel, “The Aesthetic of the Emerging other: beauty, responsibility and evil at the contact-boundary,” AAGT/EAGT Joint Conference, “The Aesthetic of Otherness: meeting at the other in a sensitized world”, Taormina, Italy
Workshop, “The Relational Function of Self: the Human and Non-human Other” AAGT/EAGT Joint Conference, “The Aesthetic of Otherness: meeting at the other in a sensitized world”, Taormina, Italy
Read more about the AAGT/EAGT Conference (including papers and pictures).
2015
Presentation, “Contacting the Other: the clinical phenomenology of gestalt therapy,” The Psychology and the Other Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2014
Workshop, “The Naked Individual: Homelessness and the relational self,” AAGT Bi-Annual Conference, Asilomar, California
2013
Panel, “Gestalt Therapy: a panel,” The Psychology and the Other Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Invited Presentation, “The Person in Gestalt therapy,” AAGT Conference, Puebla, Mexico
2010
Panel (moderator), “Field of ‘Field’”, AAGT, Philadephia, Pennsylvania
“Chasing Rainbows: Ethics in gestalt therapy, external ethics, foundational ethics,” AAGT, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Talking in the House of the Other,” EAGT, Berlin, Germany
2009
Plenary presenter, “Chasing Rainbows,” XI International Gestalt Therapy Congress, Madrid, Spain
2008
Keynote speaker, “When,” AAGT Conference, Manchester, UK
Workshop, “The intentionality of Contact,” AAGT Conference, Manchester, UK
Keynote, “New Feet Was Asked to Fill Other’s Shoes,” AAGT Conference, Manchester, UK
“Panel of Presidents,” AAGT Conference, Manchester, UK
2007
“The Openness of Contact,” EAGT, Athens, Greece
Workshop, “Self: Structure and Function – alive and well,” AAGT, Vancouver, BC
Keynote, “The Aesthetics of Commitment,” Laura Perls Centennial Conference, Munich, Germany
Plenary speaker, “Self: an introduction,” NYIGT conference. “Shall I Compare Thee,” NY, NY
2005
Plenary Speaker, Congresso IX, Naples, Italy
2004
“Self functioning and the temporality of contacting,” AAGT Conference, Sarasota, Florida
Keynote, “President’s Welcome,” NYIGT 50th Anniversary Conference, NY, NY
2003
Panels and workshops, EAGT Conference, Prague, Czech Republic