Web site dell’EAGT:

www.eagt.org

EAGT - European Association for Gestalt Therapy

Prossima riunione degli organi dell’EAGT:

Belgrado,  10-13 settembre 2008

Training Standard Committee - Executive Board

General Board - Annual General Meeting

Nell’Annual General Meeting verrà eletto il nuovo Presidente dell’EAGT. Il candidato attuale è Peter Schulthess. Poiché Peter è il Chair del Training Standard Committee (TSC), nel caso venga eletto dovrà dimettersi da tale carica e sarà necessario eleggere un nuovo coordinatore del TSC. Il candidato proposto è Gianni Francesetti.

Pubblichiamo dall’ultima Newsletter dell’EAGT

http://www.eagt.org/pdf/EAGTNewsletter_12.pdf

Final letter from the President

Dear Colleagues,

In September this year I shall step back as President of the EAGT, since 2002. What have we all achieved over this past 6 years?

• Adoption of revised training standards compatible with those of the EAP.

• The adoption of new accreditation  regulations for training institutes.

• Proportional representation for voting at Annual general Meetings.

• Adoption of revised Codes of Ethics and Complaints Procedures. 

• Uniting the Executive Board and  Extended Board into one General Board.

• Limits on successive election to executive office.

• Location of permanent office for EAGT in the Netherlands.

• Appointment of an Office Manager.

• Detailed and comprehensive presentation of EAGT finances.

• Successful re-accreditation of EAGT with EAP

• The Creation of three Committees to extend the boundaries of EAGT beyond the clinical to embrace: – Gestalt in Organisations – Human Rights & Social responsibility – Gestalt in Education

So it is possible to see that EAGT has been a reforming organisation throughout this period and I would like to pay tribute to all past and current members of the Board.  Throughout the past 6 years they have shown great devotion and commitment to growing EAGT as a quality label, in Europe.

Much of the work of the Executive Committee is only visible at special occasions such as the Annual General Meeting or at conferences, but actually requires countless hours of work via email, board meetings, and in fulfilling the specific responsibilities

of each the officers roles, either at home on the computer or travelling across Europe.

I consider myself very fortunate to have worked with such a hardworking and committed group of people and I will miss them all. So now let us look to the future.

The EAGT conferences in Prague and Athens each attracted around 500 people. It was encouraging and reassuring to see so many young Gestalt psychotherapists participate with great enthusiasm. I hope to see you in Belgrade in September when you will elect a new President. Inside this Newsletter you will find a nomination form. I look forward to continued contact with many of you in the coming years in one capacity or another. While continuing to work in the UK, I shall be removing my professional base to France later this year, and you can contact me there through www.euroips.com.

I wish you good health and continued challenge and possibility.

With affection

Ken Evans, President EAGT

News from Italy

This is my last report as Italian representative: last December we had some changes in the SIPG (Società Italiana Psicoterapia Gestalt), our NOGT: Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb stepped down from her charge of President. I want to thank her for her passionate and huge work in building our association and in connecting it to the European and International level. Luckily she remains active in the SIPG: she has become the Italian representative in the EAGT.

The new executive committee is composed of: Gianni Francesetti (President), Paola Aparo (Vice President); Gina Merlo (Secretary); Giuseppe Iaculo (treasurer) and Maria Mione. So, after three years, I step down as Italian representative and I become President of the Italian NOGT. I hope I can continue  the work of Margherita in supporting the growth and the dialogue in our community. I wish to my colleagues in the SIPG executive committee all the best in their new positions.

This is an important year for the Italian Gestalt community: we are organising the Second Congress of the SIPG.

This Congress will take place in Turin (do you remember the last Winter Olimpic Games? They were in Turin) and will involve Gestalt psychotherapists from all Italian Institutes and Schools.

The title is: “Creativity as therapeutical identity. The art of Gestalt Therapy”.

We are organizing this event not as a series of lectures with a passive audience. We want to build a real laboratory where it is possible to dialogue and meet each other in an open and free space.

The participants will not only be psychotherapists, but also artists and people involved in political and social context. We think, indeed, that the arts and politics are foundational backgrounds of our theory and  practice. Besides panels and workshops, lectures and art expositions and exhibitions, all the participants will be involved in process groups where there is the support to chew the experience and to actively express themselves to create this common event. We are trying to promote the conditions to create a lively contact boundary from which a new figure for our Italian Gestalt Community can emerge.

Turin is a good place to welcome this congress because it is Italy’s traditional “città-laboratorio” (laboratory-city) where a lot of important artistic and political events were historically born.

This endeavour has the aim to sustain a constructive and open dialogue inside our community and with some lively parts of our society, according to the goals of EAGT.

You can visit the congress’ web site: www.getsalt.it/congressosipg

At the end, I want to heartily thank my colleagues and friends of the EAGT General Board: they welcomed and supported me and allowed me to feel at home in the EAGT.

Thank you!

Gianni Francesetti

Representative for Italy

Candidate as president of EAGT

Peter Schulthess, Lic phil I (= MSc).
16.4.1950, married, 4 children, 4 grandchildren.
Bergstrasse 92, CH-8712 Staefa, Switzerland.
peter@pschulthess.ch, www.pschulthess.ch

• Studies in Psychology, Pedagogic and Philosophy at the Zurich university. Gestalt education at the Fritz Perls Institute (Dusseldorf) in Zurich, additional trainings with L. Perls, M. & E. Polster, J. Zinker. Psychotherapist EAGT, ECP, SPV (Swiss NAO), SVG (Swiss NOGT), Honorary member of PTPG (Polish NOGT).

• Teaching for IGW in Zurich and Germany since about 20 years, since 6 years for Gestalt foundation in Greece and since several years also in other European countries.

• Practising as psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice in Zurich.

• Member of the TSC since 2001, Chair of the TSC since 2003.Member of the EC since 2003, Vice President since 2006.

• Representing EAGT in EAP since 2 years. Former president of SVG (1986-92), President of Swiss Charter for Psychotherapy since 2003.

• Author of many articles and chapters of books, Co-author and Editor of 2 books, mainly on gestalt therapy and also the regulations of the profession of psychotherapists. Mainly published in Swiss and German Journals, but also internationally in other languages: English, French, Polish.

Candidate as Chair of Training Standard Committee

Gianni Francesetti

Psychiatrist, Gestalt psychotherapist, teaches on the
Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Programs of the
Istituto di Gestalt H.C.C., Italy.

• He is in charge of the Master’s course in Gestalt Counseling at the Turin branch of the Institute.

• He is an Associate Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy.

• He is President of the SIPG (Italian Gestalt Psychotherapy Association), a member of the EAGT Training Standards Committee, and a member of the executive board of FIAP (Italian Federation of Psychotherapy Associations, the umbrella federation for EAP).

• He is on the editorial board of Quaderni di Gestalt and of Studies in Gestalt Therapy. Dialogical bridges.

• He has authored articles, chapters, and books in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy.

EAGT - European Association for Gestalt Therapy

Training Standards: news dalla Commissione

La European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT)  ha definito degli standards per le scuole europee che formano alla psicoterapia della Gestalt. Questi standards hanno lo scopo di garantire la qualità e l’omogeneità della formazione degli psicoterapeuti gestaltisti in tutta Europa.

Tutti gli istituti di formazione soci dell’EAGT devono richiedere l’accreditamento entro novembre 2007 altrimenti decade la possibilità di continuare ad essere soci dell’European Association e quindi di rilasciare un diploma di specializzazione riconosciuto dall’EAGT.

Gli studenti formati da istituti non accreditati entro fine 2007 possono diventare membri EAGT solo fino al 2008. Dopo questa data ci si potrà associare all’EAGT solo se l’istituto in cui ci si è formati ha effettuato le procedure per l’accreditamento.

Queste prevedono la verifica delle modalità formative degli istituti attraverso il confronto con i parametri dell’EAGT e attraverso l’incontro diretto fra i delegati della Commissione per i Training Standards e l’istituto stesso.

Le esperienze di incontro sono state finora ottime in quanto hanno costituito un’occasione di feedback supportivo per gli istituti che sono stati certificati.

Per chiedere l’accreditamento basta consultare le procedure pubblicate sul sito dell’EAGT (www.eagt.org) e mettersi in contatto con il Trainng Standard Committee:

Peter Schulthess (Chair): pschulthess@goldnet.ch

Gianni Francesetti: gianni.francesetti@gestalt.it