Conference Program

Welcome to our 6th International Gestalt Research Conference the premier event for cutting-edge research, experiential learning and professional networking in the Gestalt community. With 16.5 hours CPD on offer whether you are a practitioner, researcher or both, this conference offers something for everyone. Explore below for our full conference program.

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Specific workshop information below

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Specific workshop overviews and bios below

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Specific workshop overviews and bios below

Meet our Workshop Speakers

  • Presenters Vibeke Visnes & Kari Moe Jacobsen presenting at Gestalt International Research Conference 2025

    Vibeke Visnes & Kari Moe Jacobsen

    Gestalt Integrative Method for Couple Therapy and Single Case Time Series Research Project

  • Workshops Speaker Helena Gonzalez Gestalt International Research Conference 2025

    Helena Gonzalez Vallejo

    The anxiety experience in gestalt therapists and its relation in clinical practice: a look from the creative adjustment

  • Kathryn Broome

    How do counsellors make sense of the online disinhibition effect in the ‘here and now’ when using video-conferencing? An IPA Study.

  • Maria Denisenko

    Psychotherapeutic Practice in the Context of Complex Social Changes in Russia (2022-2024)

  • Otto Glanzer Gestalt International Research Conference 2025 Presenter

    Otto Glanzer, Maximilian Dewaguet, Ursula Grillmeier-Rehder, Annette Hillers-Chen and Johannes Nagler

    Single Case Time Series Analysis (SCTS) in Action (I+II)

  • Emilyn Claid

    Letting Go of Things: How the use of Gestalt tools can impact on dance theatre performance practices

  • Robert Elliott

    Research as a Growing Edge for Gestalt Therapy: Two Paths

  • Billy Desmond & Helena Kallner

    Foregrounding the Lived Body in Psychotherapy Research: A Dialogue on Qualitative Inquiry

  • Cara Robin

    Between Opaque & Open: Gestalt Practitioners Utilisation of Therapist Self-Disclosure

  • Dr Rosalba Axiak

    The Pain Within, working with adolescents engaging in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)

  • Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb

    The Aesthetic Relational Knowing of the therapist: factorial validation of the ARK-T scale adapted for the therapeutic situation

  • Enara Garcia

    Therapeutic Atmospheres

  • Laura Giordani

    The Transformative Power of Physical Contact in Individual Gestalt Psychotherapy: A Research Study

  • Julia Ouzia

    From Agency to Responsibility: Amplifying the voices of practitioners through research

  • Mairead Barry

    Gestalt Psychotherapists in the midst of personal grief encountering disenfranchised grief in their therapeutic practice.

  • Illia Mstibovskyi

    Gestalt therapist's self-use of SCTS methodology combined with qualitative analysis of sessions to improve their work with clients

  • Raphaela Kaisler

    Clients’ subjective experiences and processes in Gestalt Therapy: a mixed-methods, multiple case study in a naturalistic setting.

  • Dawn Wray & Matt James

    An exploration of the ‘Lived Experience’ of Employees within a Government Agency to understand how workplace support effects overall well-being and might mitigate the risk of male suicide: A phenomenologically oriented, reflexive thematic analysis.

  • Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Giacomo Bisonti & Mattia Romano

    The “dance” of intentional steps between therapist and client: A Gestalt therapy model to study therapeutic alliance and process of change

  • Prof. Dr. Téa Gogotishvili, Prof. Dr. Dimitri Nadirashvili

    Expert-Led Open Forum: Advancing Research in Gestalt Therapy – Prioritizing Research for the Future

  • Oleksii Vinohradov

    Presentation of the International Study on the Specifics of Gestalt Therapy Training

  • Vibeke Visnes & Kari Moe Jacobsen

    Single Case Time Series Research Project – Research Design, Methodology, and Reflexivity

  • Claire Asherson-Bartram, Rachael Kellett, Julia Roddy & Christine Stevens

    The Gestalt Practitioner Case Study Research Project; a didactic and experiential exploration.

    Hearing about it in practice, trying out the measurements, discovering how to get involved.

  • Helena Kallner

    Forming Form: Researching practical and bodily knowledge

  • Rafael Cortina

    Case study: Healing Through Connection: A Compassionate Relational Gestalt Approach to Trauma and Addiction Treatment

  • Katy Wakelin

    The use of autoethnography in psychotherapy research

  • Annette Hillers-Chen + others

    Quantifying synchrony between therapist and client – A prospect for gestalt therapy research?

  • Adam Taborsky & Roksana Taborska

    The Experiences of Counsellors-in-Training in Two Years Long Ecopsytherapy Training: Qualitative study

  • Evan Yang

    All of This Could Be but a Dream: Gestalt Therapy in an Unfixed Reality

  • Mariia Skyba

    Aesthetic Resilience and the Field of Hope: A Phenomenological Exploration of Supportive Phenomena in Times of War and Forced Displacement

Marketplace and Curiosity Cafés

Research is Structured Curiosity.  It is poking and prying with a purpose (Zora Neale Hurston 1942, Jan Roubal 2018) .

The marketplace and cafés are where we go to assimilate the conference in semi-structured space.    Places for discovery, emergence, audacity of imagination and platforms of connection.   Places where we can discuss the conference and its themes, browse market stalls, find out about projects, meet friends and strangers,  develop ideas, be heard and listened to.  There will be three sessions for this, over the conference.

We are looking for people who can be on the committee organising the cafés and marketplace.  If you would be interested in this, you would need to be able to come to meetings roughly once a month, and be able to support at the conference. Please contact:

Claire Asherson Bartram clairebartram21@gmail.com or

Anne Garrety garretya@gmail.com with your offers and suggestions.

We would like suggestions of themes for discussions.  Please send them to:  Claire Asherson Bartram or Anne Garrety at the above emails.


We look forward to seeing you in Birmingham.


Further information and general queries

contact Silvia on conference@ukagp.org.uk

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