 Hello it's Bob Cook here and I'm the founder and clinical director of the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy which was founded in 1987 and this video is particularly about people interested in Gestalt psychotherapy and I've got Carmen Burke here hello hi there Bob who's a Gestalt therapist who works out and has a practice from the Institute as well as that she's a trainer and teacher for many years in the principles of Gestalt psychotherapy and she runs I think it's two or three times a year workshop which usually is one day but it's sometimes been two days and is titled a Taster of Gestalt Psychotherapy so that's a really interesting course so I thought I'd do a short video so she can talk about what she does for your interest so Carmen over to you thank you Bob and the course the one day workshop is a Taster in Gestalt therapy and it's for people who are interested in the principles of Gestalt and to just give people I mean it is a Taster that's all you can do in one day however we will be looking at the various principles that the better known principles for example we'll look at the Gestalt cycle of awareness and the days made up of both therapy segments and of experiential periods as well because Gestalt you know is an holistic therapy so therefore we'll be looking at different aspects as far as cognitive thinking, behavioural, body work and we'll be touching on different things and then later in the afternoon I do a very short piece however it is different because no one else works with dreams the same way as Gestalt therapist works with dreams so we do a dream workshop for one section of the day as well yeah so I when a Taster in transaction analysis I mean also when the 101 course in transaction analysis and that course goes over the principles of transaction analysis just like your course goes over the principles of Gestalt and it's also prerequisite for people to go on to TA psychotherapy training so if I've got this right please tell me it's that this one day or maybe sometimes today workshop is very much open to everybody but it'd be specifically of interest I think for people want to go on to Gestalt psychotherapy training but it also sounds like it's for people who might want to use Gestalt in their practice already as counselors and actually people don't know anything about Gestalt whatsoever and I've always wanted to ask this question do you also sort of encourage your own clients to go on this type of course so they have some understanding of the Gestalt thinking behind the work you do with them that's a really good question and I haven't had any clients who whilst they've been in therapy with me actually attend one of the workshops however I have had clients who at a later time I might come back might come back that's it oh ah that's why you did that exactly yeah yeah yeah and it's the case of I knew it worked and I didn't even a theory behind it yeah yeah yeah yeah and it gives practitioners and just people in the world a certain way of looking at how they are in there in the world you know in Gestalt we talk about a way of being choices that we make be those choices within our awareness or out of our awareness yeah so it puts the it's a different lens okay so anybody who's interested in going on this course you'll see the dates are just above this video in the workshop section of this site thank you very much that's really interested then again I always think I must come on these courses but thank you very much thank you Bob thank you for watching yeah bye bye