The Irish Gestalt Centre is dedicated to providing professional training in Gestalt Therapy in a learning community. To this end all our courses are residential.

The centre has two training programmes for persons wishing to become Gestalt Therapists or who are interested in using Gestalt Awareness in their own lives and in their working environment. The Irish Gestalt Centre also offers a one year Personal Development and Growth Programme through Gestalt, which is a pre requisite for those wishing to train as Gestalt Psychotherapists.

Gestalt Psychotherapy was developed by Fritz Perls who moved from the psycho analytical school of psychotherapy into developing a humanistic and experiential form of therapy based on Existential philosophy where a person taking responsibility for him/herself moves from dependency towards independence and wholeness.

Gestalt Therapy aims to find wholeness and integration through awareness in the ‘here and now ‘. It focuses in the present on HOW the individual blocks expression and spontaneity and explores ways of releasing trapped energy which is both liberating and exciting.

Gestalt therapy continues to develop as part of the humanistic and integrative movement in psychotherapy. A Gestalt group involves a creative encounter between people. It enables individuals to obtain greater awareness of their power and potential as well as their blocks and to experience richer contact in relationships.