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Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb Evolution of Society and Psychotherapy

Our Institute Director, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, will deliver a Keynote speech at the 10^th International Gestalt Australia and New Zealand (GANZ) Conference, to be held on 7^th, 8^th and 9^th October 2016 at the University House in Canberra, Australia. She will be addressing the theme of Diversity, Difference and Dialogue. Conference participants will discuss the challenge of responding to difference: choosing whether to accept, reject, fight or engage with it to create something new. At the very heart of gestalt methodology is a key to engaging with difference: existential dialogue. Dialogical process supports change, potentially moving from conflict and aggression to a mutual acknowledgement of differing needs to create a new configuration. More information on www.ganzconference2016.wordpress.com.

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb will be co-facilitating a two-day workshop on “Aesthetic Relational Knowledge in Diagnosis and Psychopathology” in Melbourne, Australia, on 4^th and 5^th October 2016. The seminar will focus on the issue of dealing with diagnosis and treatment from a gestalt (phenomenological) point of view.

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Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb will be presenting at a workshop on “A Relational Approach To Working With Personality Disorders” in Sydney, Australia, on 30th September 2016. The workshop will contextualise the increase of personality disorders in clinical practice with social changes and developments. It will provide relational tools to diagnose and work with these forms of suffering. The Gestalt therapy perspective of personality disorders will be presented, based on phenomenological and aesthetic epistemologies. Borderline and narcissistic personality organisation will be described, with specific consideration to the client’s intentionality for contact in the moment-to-moment flow of the therapeutic session. Relational tools to diagnose the suffering of these clients, and support the “beauty” concealed in their suffering will be provided. Concepts of field, contact boundary, aesthetic relational knowledge and physiological support will be covered. The workshop will be hosted by Gestalt Therapy Sydney (www.gestalttherapysydney.com).