
"WHAT IS NOT COMPLETED IS REPEATED" Perls
HOW TO WORK WITH "UNFINISHED BUSINESS" /TRAUMAS
WITH THE FIELD SUPPORT METHOD
How to work with unfinished gestalts/ trauma in your gestalt therapy practice? This is a online continuing education for fully trained gestalt therapists. The learning method is experiential, process learning where you learn through experiencing working with your own unfinished gestalts.
The course provides 88 hours of approved guidance category B and 15 hours of approved guidance PFO category A.
New international group (max 22 people) Starts in December 2026. Eight sessions over two days in one year. All sessions are DIGITAL on Zoom. The course runs on weekdays: Tuesday and Wednesday. Three days are set aside in between for pure guidance in your own practice, PFO category A. It is also possible to get individual follow-up as needed.
A typical session will look like this: Every day we start with awareness experiments and a little body focus. Then there is a theory part before we start working with unfinished gestalts with the field support method in the group. We don't stress and have space for 3 - 4 people get their gestalt process every day . . .
You decide whether you want to work or not, during the eight moduls.
Beeing field support for others or observe is important and you learn a lot by participating or observing the work of others. Everything is voluntary and the main focus is to work with your own unfinished gestalts, so that "the field becomes more open to working on this together with your clients". Those who are starting now are CLASS V and I see and have seen the development of those who have taken the first four classes. Impressive to see what they have invested in themselves ((:
After completing the course series, you will receive a certificate of participation with the topics we have covered and the number of PFO (professional academic update) hours category B and A you have participated in. This is the NGF (Norwegian Gestalt Therapy Association's) professional update according to EAGT's requirements for membership. NGF members are members of EAGT through their membership in NGF, when they maintain the requirements for membership in the association.
During the course, you will receive my working document, a 100-page PDF where the academic foundation is described. You will also have access to videos that are made along the way.
A VERY warm welcome to you; when you sign up!
“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” . . .
By James A. Garfield
This is a truth with modifications. It is not enough, to only feel miserable. You will have to face difficult questions and new information that may change how you see yourself and where you come from. You also have to feel your body, feel your feelings and to go deeper into pain and sorrows. Ex; that you was not wanted/ acknowledge as a infant/ child. And you have to be willing to admit that I have unfinished gestalts, unfinished business, that I am also traumatized. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that those of us who want to be “helpers” also are the ones who “need to take another look at myself and my life”! This is a good start!
Gestalt therapy, as Perls conceived it, sought to restore our lost innocence; so this ”continuing education” can be one step on the path to just that...
DATES AND CONTENT
INTERNATIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION/ Trauma School: 2026/ 27 on ZOOM
How to work with unfinished gestalts in a gestalt theoretical perspective - with the FIELD SUPPORT METHOD
TOTAL 8 MODULS:
MODUL I: WHAT IS AN UNFINISHED GESTALT, AND HOW TO WORK WITH the FIELD SUPPORT METHOD
Tuesday the 8.th and Wednesday the 9.th of December 2026
MODUL II: IDENTITY AND THE THEORY OF SELF
Tuesday the 19.th and Wednesday the 20.th of January 2027
MODUL III: TRIGGERS AND DYNAMICS
Tuesday the 02.th and Wednesday the 03.th of March 2027
MODUL IV: CONTACT/ contactforms in an unfinished gestalt perspective
Tuesday the 27.th and Wednesday the 28.th of April 2027
MODUL V: How unfinished gestalt/ ”UNFINISHED buisiness” can be trans generational
Tuesday the 08.th and Wednesday the 09.th of June 2027
MODUL VI: FIGURE; GROUND; THE phenomena
Tuesday the 24.th and Wednesday the 25.th of August 2027
MODUL VII: THE ”FIELD SUPPORT MARKERS”
Tuesday the 05.th and Wednesday the 06.th of October 2027
MODUL VIII: repetition and THE WAY FORWARD . . .
Tuesday the 07.th and Wednesday the 08.th of December 2027
All days start at 09:00 - 16:00 (lunch 13:00-14:00)
PRICE:
Euro 2200
(The invoice can be divided into
two: Euro 1100 or quarterly: Euro 550.
For questions or registration contact:
ELISABETH HELENE SÆTHER
M: +47 930 24 400
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
. . . By Jung
The ultimate goal for Jung was to become your "true self".
In gestalt we do not think this way, maybe growing your sense of a self can be a stepping stone to be aware of "who I become in relation to you".
This quote encourages us to take the journey to authenticity. It will be challenging and also deeply rewarding.

"My soul whispers its distress, and when I don't hear,
my mind cries, and when I don't listen,
my body screams" . . . unknown