Dialogues in days of danger: three weeks with Arye Bursztyn

Dialogues in days of danger:

embodied presence in online gestalt practice

Three weeks with Arye Bursztyn

Registration for this event is closed.

12, 19, 26 June 2025

18:30–21:30 Kyiv time

We invite you to a series of three webinars in which we will explore embodiment, presence and interaction in online gestalt practice.

Together we will discover new ways of working in difficult conditions — through movement, breath, voice, conceptual discussion, practice in small groups and demonstration sessions.

ON THIS PROGRAMME YOU WILL FIND OUT:

How to work in an embodied way when the world is unstable?
How to keep living contact online?
How to support yourself and others during war, immigration, danger and loss?
How to integrate bodily experience into the gestalt approach when a screen separates us?

PROGRAMME OF THE WEBINARS

Webinar 1 | 12 June

A shared body practice and an immersion into the theme

«What does it mean to be embodied in an online space?»

How does embodiment affect presence and contact in gestalt therapy?
Exploring our own state: how do we feel ourselves, our bodies and other people right now?
Practising breath, movement and voice to support our own embodiment.
Group exercises: how can we «touch» one another through a screen?
Discussion: which body practices can support our work online in times of pain and uncertainty?

Webinar 2 | 19 June

A demonstration client session with Arye — a chance to see live work.
Engaging with the client’s bodily processes through a screen.
Work in small groups: practising bodily presence in online dialogue.
Open space for questions and reflection.

Webinar 3 | 26 June

Supervision in the Bodymind Gestalt approach

A demonstration supervision — how embodiment can support the therapist’s process
Exploring our own experience: what do we live through in our work with clients?
How to work with your own bodily state?
Discussing the challenges of working online: how not to burn out, how to support yourself and your clients?
A closing integration of the whole experience of the series.

THE SEMINAR WILL HELP WITH:

Widening the range of experience and experiment available for working online.
New conceptual foundations for gestalt practice in crisis conditions.
Deeper contact with colleagues and support among them.

FORMAT: Online, with consecutive interpreting from English into Ukrainian.

The webinars will be recorded. The recording is only for registered participants of the webinars. The recording will not be sold separately afterwards.

WHO IT IS FOR:

Gestalt therapists

Body practitioners

Everyone working in the field of psychological support.

Registration!

Join us — to explore, to learn and to be together in difficult times!

Arye Bursztyn

GROUP LEADER

Israeli gestalt therapist in private practice, trainer and supervisor.
Full member of the EAGT since 2007.
Board member of the Israeli association of gestalt therapy.
Has taught Body-mind gestalt therapy at Tel Aviv University and on various training programmes for psychotherapists in Israel, the USA and Europe.
Works at a mental health centre founded for the survivors of the massacre at the music festival of 7 October 2023 in Israel.
Former dancer and teacher of movement at the Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv. BA with honours (1978) from Tel Aviv University in psychology, sociology and anthropology.
MA (1989) in dance from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.
Trained at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, in Israel and in Ohio, specialising in work with bodily processes.