Experiment in Gestalt Therapy: Specialization for Practicing Psychologists

A specialization program for practicing psychologists.

The course is designed for Gestalt therapists, Gestalt practitioners, and psychotherapists from other therapeutic approaches.

The program enables practicing psychologists to deepen and enrich the theoretical foundations of experimentation in Gestalt therapy, explore different classifications of experiments, and understand their role within the therapeutic process. The course focuses on developing the psychotherapist’s creative resources and expanding their range of interventions.

You will learn:

• how experiment is connected to dialogue and the contact cycle;

• how to use Van Baalen’s phase model to structure experimental work.

Tools and Practical Work

During the course, you will gain specific tools for working with each type of contact interruption through experimentation. This includes targeted experiments for working with introjects, retroflection, projection, deflection, confluence, desensitization, and egotism.

Each type of contact interruption requires a specific approach, and you will learn how to select appropriate experimental interventions.

You will also learn how experimentation is integrated into the context of the therapeutic relationship and how to apply a dialogical perspective during experiments. This will help you avoid technical difficulties and maintain contact with the client throughout the process.

The program consists of 5 three-day training modules (120 hours).

First seminar — February 20–22, 2026

• The concept of experiment in Gestalt therapy and classifications of experiments

• Experiment and dialogue

• Phases of the experiment according to Van Baalen

• Experiment and the contact cycle

• Experiments in working with introjects

Second seminar — May 8–10, 2026

• Experiments in working with retroflection: body metaphors, bodily amplification, drawing, etc.

• Experiments in working with bodily symptoms

• Possibilities of using experiments in work with egotism

Third seminar — October 2–4, 2026

• Experiments in working with desensitization and confluence (associations and metaphors, imagination and visualization)

• Working with regression and childhood developmental deficits

Fourth seminar — November 27–29, 2026

• Working with projection and deflection through experimentation

• Experiments and therapeutic relationships

Fifth seminar — January 22–24, 2027

• Supervision and integration of acquired skills

• Additional questions related to experimentation

• Program completion

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate.

Fee:
The total course fee is €1,350, with an option to pay in installments over 12 months (from February to January of the following year).
The full prepayment fee is €1,200 (equivalent in GEL).

Seminars are held from Friday to Sunday.
Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM.
The number of participants is limited.

Program leader:
Evgenii Riaboi (Ukraine) — Master of Psychology, Gestalt therapist, holder of the European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP, EAP), full member of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT), lecturer and academic supervisor of the “Gestalt Therapy” program at the Ukrainian branch of Sigmund Freud University.
Author of the book Clinical Gestalt Therapy, published in Ukrainian in 2023 and in English in the USA in 2025.
He has 17 years of professional experience in individual and group psychotherapy and 11 years of teaching Gestalt therapy.

For inquiries, please message us privately or call: +995 555 330 177