The purpose of a Continuing Professional Programme (CPD) is to continue our commitment to a core aim of our organisation, which is to deliver educational and development programmes for pre-accredited and accredited psychotherapists and supervisors. As we re-visited the history of the organisation and our founders, we felt a deep resonance with their commitment to justice seeking and justice making that informed their work. Whilst this has been a part of the organisations ‘DNA’ its expression has been more background.

Now, is a time on the island of Ireland, a time that has been forming for many decades where practitioners are participating in a society that is pluralistic with an intersectionality of identifies. Many of our clients appearing in our psychotherapy rooms have experienced a sense of marginalisation whether implicit or indeed explicit. We as the Gestalt Institute of Ireland, with our commitment to forms of equity, horizontalism, embodied resonance and field-relational perspectives are well placed to offer a comprehensive programme to support therapists and supervisors to deepen their exploration of marginalisation experiences as forms of justice seeking and making in different suffering fields. Some of our core faculty and recent graduates have a deep interest in these areas with lived experience, research, publications and passion. 

We intend to create a CPD programme that is distinctive and differentiated from the plethora of offers now available on-line or in-person which have an orientation towards information provision. Our philosophical focus as witnessed in our embodied, phenomenological field centred approach of our core programmes are focused on lived experiences that are co-emerging of relationships and of a wider complex and interconnected field. Thus, our CPD programme will maintain this focus and also offer accompanying materials for digestion.