If I give you my last piece of hope; what’s left for me?
About self compassion and self care as the ground for our work.
The workshop is designed for experienced therapists, psychologists, counselors, and trainers working within humanistic approaches.
About self compassion and self care as the ground for our work.
If I give you my last piece of hope; what’s left for me?
Barcelona
February 12–14
The workshop is designed for experienced therapists, psychologists, counselors, and trainers
working within humanistic approaches.
working within humanistic approaches.
Dear colleagues,
We are inviting you to Frans Meulmeester’s seminar in February, and I would like to share
a little about why we are so keen to make it happen.
The participation conditions follow below.
The main reason is that we are deeply impressed by the way Frans is able to hold and love a group, even when faced with the most difficult and seemingly hopeless stories. Frans knows how to create an environment within a group where respect, acceptance and freedom coexist, and where new hopes and sources
of support can be found. Through supporting and accepting.
We have seen many trainers and masters, and actually are quite demanding group participants, so we know for sure that such masterful work is not easy to find. We suppose Frans’s skill and experience also play a part.
In any case, we really want to share the opportunity to experience this together.
The seminar will take place in Barcelona on February 12–14.
What could be a better excuse to spend Valentine’s Day together?
a little about why we are so keen to make it happen.
The participation conditions follow below.
The main reason is that we are deeply impressed by the way Frans is able to hold and love a group, even when faced with the most difficult and seemingly hopeless stories. Frans knows how to create an environment within a group where respect, acceptance and freedom coexist, and where new hopes and sources
of support can be found. Through supporting and accepting.
We have seen many trainers and masters, and actually are quite demanding group participants, so we know for sure that such masterful work is not easy to find. We suppose Frans’s skill and experience also play a part.
In any case, we really want to share the opportunity to experience this together.
The seminar will take place in Barcelona on February 12–14.
What could be a better excuse to spend Valentine’s Day together?
As a therapist and counsellor, he was seeing clients in his private practice, and he has worked for about 25 years in a counselling centre for clients with cancer. In this work he has learned a lot about the balance of staying with the suffering and sometimes hopelessness of the client and his own self care and self compassion.
Also today, he is involved in many situations where people are suffering from the impact of wars, natural disasters, poverty and other trauma’s. He is a registered member of the EAGT as therapist, GPO and supervisor and as an European Certified Psychotherapist of the EAP.
Also today, he is involved in many situations where people are suffering from the impact of wars, natural disasters, poverty and other trauma’s. He is a registered member of the EAGT as therapist, GPO and supervisor and as an European Certified Psychotherapist of the EAP.
He was a staff member of the former MultidiMens Gestalt Institute in Belgium and was involved as a staff member to help building up gestalt institutes, like the Bulgarian Gestalt Institute in Bulgaria, the Caucasian Institute for Gestalt therapy and Family therapy in Georgia, the Gestalt Institute Nepal in Nepal and now also the Gestalt institute in Armenia. Next to that he was a faculty member or guest trainer in many other Gestalt institutes.
About Workshop
If I give you my last piece of hope; what’s left for me?
About self compassion and self care as the ground for our work.
12-14 February
Barcelona
Clients come to us with the hope that we can help them to feel better or to be more able to deal with stress and fear or other problems.
And of course, we as therapists would love to help them achieve that goal, but more and more we all are overwhelmed by what is happening in the world: the wars, the violence, the climate change, the oppression and as a result of that all, the loss of
hope for a better future. This can make our work extra complicated, but it does not have to mean impossible! It depends a lot on what we do expect from ourselves and how we take care of ourselves.
hope for a better future. This can make our work extra complicated, but it does not have to mean impossible! It depends a lot on what we do expect from ourselves and how we take care of ourselves.
How can we support clients if maybe we also lost our hope and perspectives?
In such situations it becomes extra important that we take good care of ourselves: that we have realistic expectations on what we can offer and not offer and that we find ways to support and nourish ourselves.
Feelings helpless most of the times comes from having to high expectations: we are not God!
And still we have a lot to offer: Our presence and compassion. Presence and compassion starts with being in touch with our own needs and emotions and with having self-compassion.
In this workshop, we will explore the challenges that we are facing as Gestalt therapists, counsellors and coaches and we will explore the ways that we can support ourselves. We will explore our inspirations, dreams, possibilities and our boundaries.
It will be an experiential workshop, where we can practice self care and self compassion and discover new ways to recharge our battery. It will be a mixture of getting new inspiration, sharing experiencing and practicing in small groups or couples how we can be a support for each other and our clients, without losing ourselves.
In such situations it becomes extra important that we take good care of ourselves: that we have realistic expectations on what we can offer and not offer and that we find ways to support and nourish ourselves.
Feelings helpless most of the times comes from having to high expectations: we are not God!
And still we have a lot to offer: Our presence and compassion. Presence and compassion starts with being in touch with our own needs and emotions and with having self-compassion.
In this workshop, we will explore the challenges that we are facing as Gestalt therapists, counsellors and coaches and we will explore the ways that we can support ourselves. We will explore our inspirations, dreams, possibilities and our boundaries.
It will be an experiential workshop, where we can practice self care and self compassion and discover new ways to recharge our battery. It will be a mixture of getting new inspiration, sharing experiencing and practicing in small groups or couples how we can be a support for each other and our clients, without losing ourselves.
To reserve your place, please send a private message
or contact us by email:
or contact us by email:
€350 for registrations completed before November 30
€400 after December 1
€400 after December 1
The number of places is limited. You can learn more about Frans and his professional background through the links provided below this post.
