One of the main targets of this second edition of International Gestalt Training is to meet and develop a network among people from different parts of the world. There is the will to build a human koinè, involved in cultivating “value”. You have the chance to work on yourself and share with others thanks to the richness of the educational and geographical origins of the speakers who will participate in this meeting. Psychologists-psychotherapists, psychiatrists, doctors-psychotherapists, counselors, scientists, philosophers, artists, university professors, who work and teach in different fields from various parts of the world.

They will bring us their precious experience, to make these three days an open workshop from which we hope to come out with many more questions than we had at the beginning.

We will start with Paolo Quattrini, scientific director of the Gestalt Institute in Florence, the promoter of the event, addressing one of the central topics for the existence of the human being: the ongoing dialogue between the need for “belonging and participation”, an existential question at basis of the research of each enneatype and each person. We will thus access the topic of character according to the phenomenological-existential perspective which Paolo Quattrini developed in his life of human and professional research, carried out in his many writings and books on the subject.

The presence of Prof Giuseppe Vitiello, of the Physics Department “E.R. Caianiello “of the University of Salerno will show us how important it is in physics:” the role of “doubt” in the dissipative model, in the process of self-questioning and listening “

“Our great privilege of making mistakes has its roots in this making mistake. The brain is, to say it with an oxymoron, a device that makes mistakes. “(Quote from his abstract introducing his intervention).

Thanks to other speakers we will get into the many facets of the helping relationship with artistic mediation, in individual and group therapy and in Psycho-Social Support interventions in community and emergency contexts, a topic at the centre of Lucia Berdondini’s talk, Course Leader of the Distance Learning MSc Humanitarian Intervention at East London University, with Valentina F. Barlacchi, IGF Didactic director and trainer in Italy and the Middle East in humanitarian contexts, with Jorge Villalonga, psychologist-psychoterapist, director of Escuela Gestalt Bogotà in Colombia and with Alessandra Petrone, psychologist – IGF teaching psychotherapist, anthropologist, trainer in Italy and abroad who will work on character as a resource.

The contexts of social marginality and psychic distress will be addressed with experts such as Amedeo Galluppi psychiatrist-psychotherapist and Ana Costantini, pedagogist, counselor, director of the School of Counseling. They will work with storytelling and painting.

It will be important to be able to broaden our perspective of family systems and relationships, thanks to the contribution of Anna Ravenna, psychologist-psychotherapist instructor IGF-FISIG, supervisor, cofounder IGF, Fernando De Lucca, psychologist-psychotherapist, director of the Institute “Encuentro-Centro de Estudios Gestálticos del Uruguay” will take us to look at the Enneagram in connection with loving relationships. Filippo Carbonera counsellor, philosophy graduated, facilitator in Constellations will lead us into the perspective of character as a bridge between Gestalt and Constellations from a phenomenological-existential perspective.

Caterina Terzi, psychologst-psychotherapist, co-founder and vice-director of Istituto Gestalt Puglia, will talk about the love for oneself to be cultuvated in order to meet the other.

To enter the use of artistic mediators in therapy and training contexts in Italy and abroad, we will be accompanied by: Shobha Arturi doctor-psychotherapist IGF and Azioni e Contaminazioni, Pierluca Santoro psychologist- psychotherapist, art-therapist IGF and Azioni e Contaminazioni, Gianluca Taddei, psychologist, musician, gestalt music therapist and Macarena Diuana psychologist-psychotherapist, director of the Sociedad Luso-Española de Psicoterapia Gestalt (SLEPG), Gianni Capitani artist, painter, Gestalt Counselor and Trainer AICo- from Mexico. 

Thanks to Stefano Pericoli, director of Ferma-Mente and to Graciela Andaluz, director of the Canary Gestalt Institute, both doctors and Gestalt psychotherapists, we will contact the border between psychological and physical well-being. Michele Galgani, IGF psychotherapist working at the Hospice in Bitonto, author of books on laughing and dying, will lead us into the space of the end of life, while with Francesco Cattafi and Marialisa Pinori, both psychotherapists with training in Gestalt and Bionergetics we will see in what ways character comes to life in our body and how this affects our relationships.

With Sandra Salomao, psychologst-psychotherapist, director of CgT-Centro de Gestalt Terapia Rio de Janeiro, we will deal with the subjet of supervision from the point of view of character.

We will then get into a space where the Gestalt model highlights and expresses the philosophical roots of its thought with Paolo Quattrini, IGF scientific director and Francesca Cantaro, philosopher, psychotherapist, IGF teacher and NLP didactic director Bologna, who will take us to the very roots of the enneatypes’ intentions. 

Finally, we will get in touch with us as human beings and the various dimensions of life in social coexistence and intimacy with ourselves.