Psychotherapy - GESTALT therapy [texts-videos] – Πέτρος Θεοδώρου

On the bridge over the troubled waters of any Midlife season [video - intro of a webinar]

Moreover, as we change crossing the impasse of our middle age (from about 35 to 55) and we feel our time-horizon not so endless, we start tasting the ephemeral character of all things - and of course of our own beings.

Lights and Shadows in life: reaching beyond the polarity [introducing 3 webinars]

The concept of the “Shadow” is the core of these webinars. The webinars will unfold In an overall existential “atmosphere" while the "Shadow” will be presented in connection with the widely (and often carelessly used) notion of the “inner child”.

Getting at the core of the “Share*Dots project” idea

Share*Dots project emerged as an online call to people to simply share, talking about whatever they wish to talk on a pre-defined theme

14. The violence in denying the fact of loneliness

So, by projecting a mentally unreachable past on an imaginary future that has not happened yet, we think that we somehow “know” the taste of this future. Under the effect of either of these aspects of nostalgia, we act as if we are drugged by the need for the Other. We assign to the Other,...

Back to the basics but not self-evident (1): what is psychotherapy and who is the psychotherapist

It is different to say “I am in psychotherapy” and different to say “I am thinking or reading about psychotherapy or going to lectures or watch psychological programs in TV", ignoring my physical responses, my feelings, my attitude to life and how my issues affect this attitude.

Mistakes cannot exist / Share*dots project-3 [the video]

This is a stand-alone video and at the same time is the THEME of the 3rd event in a series of online meetings under the overall title: “Share*dots project”

Back to the basics but not self-evident (2): further aspects of psychotherapy

Anything that simply works “therapeutically” in a broad sense is not psychotherapy. A good massage, artistic experience, holidays, good sex, swimming, yoga, reflexology, gymnastics can be “therapeutic” but in no way they are psychotherapy.

The relational self in times of threat and isolation, of covid-19 [full lecture]

In all times for all humans, whenever we say “me” or “I am” we immediately produce a “you” or a “you are”, like the word “cold” implies “hot”. [This lecture was the INSPIRATION for the birth of Share*Dots]

The “Motif exercise” in PSP

One of the central ideas in PSP (video in first person with subs in Greek), which is much based on the theory and philosophy of Gestalt therapy

On the unknown difficult feelings / Share*dots project-1 [the video]

This is a stand-alone video and at the same time is the THEME of the 1st event in a series of online meetings under the overall title: “Share*dots project”

Working with dreams in Gestalt therapy

This video is part of the theory accompanying a workshop on dream-work in Gestalt therapy. The workshop was in the training program of the Gestalt therapy Institute “SYNERGIA” (Skopje, Macedonia - accredited by EAGT)

An interview introducing the approach PSP (Process-Stage-Praxis)

An interview with Elena Petrova (Integrative Gestalt training Institute - St Petersburg, Russia) introducing my approach “PSP - Process Stage Praxis”

An interview introducing “Share*Dots project”

An interview with Elena Petrova (Integrative Gestalt training Institute - St Petersburg, Russia) about “Share*Dots project”

The basic form of the “MOTIF Exercise” in the PSP approach seen through Gestalt therapy principles

The "Motif Exercise" is a way to enrich awareness not only in psychotherapy, but also in other fields involving in any way process and awareness work. Especially in Gestalt therapy, this exercise can be seen as an “experiment”, able not only to enhance awareness, but also to produce significant material for further and deep therapeutic...

The “SHARING” and “MATRIX” variations of the “MOTIF exercise” in the PSP approach seen through Gestalt therapy principles

The "Motif Exercise" is not fitness, dance, or role-playing. It becomes meaningful only as a way to enrich awareness and get tuned with our experiential stream. As such a tool, it has to be used very carefully and thoughtfully. In this text we shall see two of the most significant variations of this exercise.

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