This eight-week group therapy course offers a transformative journey using Gestalt therapy to help participants heal from past relational wounds and build healthier, more authentic connections. Grounded in the principles of Gestalt therapy, the course focuses on fostering self-awareness, personal responsibility, and the healing of unresolved emotional experiences that continue to shape current relationships.
Gestalt therapy emphasizes being present in the moment, which allows participants to identify how past relational patterns, conflicts, and unfinished emotional business show up in their current lives. The course provides a safe, supportive space for individuals to explore these unresolved issues, bringing them into awareness and working through them so they no longer control or limit their ability to engage in healthy, fulfilling relationships.
By delving into past relationships—whether family, romantic, or friendships—participants will gain insight into how these experiences have influenced their behaviors, fears, and expectations in current connections. Through experiential exercises, group dialogue, and targeted Gestalt techniques like the “empty chair” method, participants will have the opportunity to engage with and transform the emotions tied to old wounds, fostering healing and reconciliation within themselves and their relationships.
This course is designed not only for those seeking to heal from past hurts but also for those who wish to strengthen their interpersonal skills and engage in relationships with greater emotional clarity, presence, and authenticity.
Key Focus Areas:
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Healing Unfinished Business: Participants will confront and work through unresolved issues from the past—whether with parents, partners, or other significant figures—that continue to impact their present relationships. This process helps release old emotional patterns and makes space for new ways of engaging with others.
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Emotional Reconciliation: By re-examining past interactions, participants can gain clarity and emotional closure, transforming old grief, anger, or regret into a deeper understanding of self and other. The therapeutic process allows for emotional healing, so past wounds no longer dictate current relationship dynamics.
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Building Authentic Connections: With the weight of past emotional baggage lightened, participants will develop more authentic, open, and empathetic ways of relating to others. The course teaches participants how to communicate their needs, set boundaries, and engage from a place of emotional honesty and vulnerability.
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Transforming Relational Patterns: Through experiential exercises like role-playing, participants will recognize recurring patterns in their relationships, identify what might be holding them back, and begin practicing new, healthier ways of relating. By focusing on the present moment and taking responsibility for their actions, participants can break free from old habits that limit connection and joy.
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Cultivating Self-Compassion and Healing: The course encourages deep self-reflection and self-acceptance, helping participants heal from self-blame or shame that may have been shaped by past relational experiences. By learning to embrace their full humanity, individuals can experience more fulfilling connections with others.
Outcome:
Participants will leave the course with a renewed sense of self-awareness, emotional healing, and practical tools for creating and maintaining healthier, more authentic relationships. They will have confronted and healed from old emotional wounds, gained insight into their relational patterns, and learned how to engage in the present with openness, clarity, and confidence.