Gestalt Pastoral Care Training Opportunities

Foundational Training (2 years)
Begins Fall 2009
This is the initial course for Gestalt Pastoral Care training and a prerequisite for two other courses. Cost for GPC training years 1-2 is $3000.

Advanced Practicum (1 year)
Begins Fall 2008
Prerequisite: Gestalt Pastoral Care Foundational Training
Cost for GPC training year 3 will be $1500. Register early to ensure a place.

Advanced Class (Year A & B- 2 years)
Begins Fall 2008
Prerequisite: Gestalt Pastoral Care Foundational and Advanced Practicum Training
Cost for GPC training years 4 and 5 will be $1600 for each year. Register early to ensure a place.

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The next foundational training groups will start in the fall of 2009 at Dingmans Ferry, PA. Below you will find the class schedule for this two-year program.

Description
Pastors and others in healing ministry deal with broken, hurting people every day. Often we don't know how to help. We refer people to other professionals when perhaps we ourselves might be the ones who could best offer what people need. This training program will focus on:

  • Helping us reclaim our unique contribution as pastors and people of faith: the role of worship and ritual in the healing process, the therapeutic value of confession and forgiveness, the function of shepherding people to allow God to heal their pain, the practice of laying on of hands.

  • Theoretical background and practical skills.

  • A model of healing ministry which is both theologically and psychologically responsible

Dates/Times
All classes begin at noon on Wednesday, and end at noon on Saturday
at Dingmans Ferry, PA (80 miles W. of NYC, 20 miles N. of Stroudsburg)

  • Sept 30 - Oct 3, 2009
  • Dec. 9 - 12, 2009
  • March 10 - 13, 2010
  • May 5 - 8, 2010
  • Sept. 15-18, 2010
Teachers: Tilda Norberg and Rhoda Glick

For Further Information
Contact Tilda Norberg (718-273-4941 / tilda@gestaltpastoralcare.com)

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Description
There will be two new practicums beginning in the fall of 2008. One practicum will be held in Dingman's Ferry, PA, and the other one will be in Slippery Rock, PA. Open only to graduates of the GPC Foundational Course, these classes have a new format that involves much less travel and more opportunity to experience GPC in a slower, more contemplative way.

Meeting just three times in one year, four days at a time, participants will practice GPC with each other under supervision. There will be opportunity for expanding your own awareness of process, deepening your work with bodies, practicing dreamwork, creating personal liturgies, and learning some ways to be creative with experiments.

Dates/Times/Locations
All classes begin at noon on Wednesday, and end at noon on Saturday
at Dingmans Ferry, PA (80 miles W. of NYC, 20 miles N. of Stroudsburg)

  • November 19-22, 2008
  • March 18-21, 2009
  • May 13-16, 2009
Teachers: Tilda Norberg and Rhoda Glick

Slippery Rock, PA (50 miles N. of Pittsburgh)
  • November 12-15, 2008
  • March 11-14, 2009
  • May 6-9, 2009
Teachers: Tilda Norberg and Sara Goold
Assistant teachers: Betty Voigt and Linda Thomas

Cost/Registration
The cost is $1500; deposit is $300. Checks should be made to "GPCEA". We expect these classes to fill quickly so call first to make sure there is room before sending your deposit. We will then hold your place for a few days until your check arrives.

Send registrations for DINGMANS FERRY to-
Tilda Norberg, 78 Clinton Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301.

Send registrations for SLIPPERY ROCK to-
Sara Goold, 9 Bushy Ridge Road, Westport. CT 06880 .

Questions? Contact Sara (203-919-1734 / sara@gestaltpastoralcare.com) or Tilda (718-273-4941 / tilda@gestaltpastoralcare.com ) or Rhoda Glick at 717-669-2454 / rhoda@gestaltpastoralcare.com).

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Description
In addition to the practicums, there will be an advanced class. PREREQUISITE: The Advanced Class can only be taken by those who have completed BOTH the 2-year foundational (basic) course AND the advanced practicum.

In this class participants go deeper into theory and practice. They will broaden their understanding of how to, when to and why apply the principles of Gestalt Pastoral Care. Themes to be explored include:

    The healing relationship in Gestalt Pastoral Care
  • Awareness and contact
  • Interruptions to contact
  • Shame as impasse and wound
    Embodiment in Gestalt Pastoral Care
  • Touch and bodywork/laying on of hands and prayer
  • Bodily nature of experience
    When the way is long and difficult
  • Core wounds and interpersonal difficulties

Dates/Times
This class is taught in a two-year cycle (Year A and B). It does not matter which year of the cycle you take first. Year B will be offered in 2008-2009. All sessions are 1:00 pm on Thursday through 3:00 pm on Saturday. The dates for the 2008-2009 class are:

  • October 23-25
  • January 8-10
  • March 26-28
  • April 30-May 2
  • Snow date: January 29-31

Location/Cost/Class Size
Location: A spacious house in northwestern Connecticut (Goshen). There are hiking trails and a lake nearby.
Tuition: $1600 per year - includes room, board, and instruction.
Class size: limited to eight participants.

Registration/Contact Information
Please contact Sara Goold (203-227-3312 / sara@gestaltpastoralcare.com) for more detailed information and to register. A class packet will be provided upon registration and a $300 deposit made out to "GPCEA".