Gestalt Leadership Experience Workshop - (GLEW)

As a CEO who has participated in more than two dozen Gestalt Experience Workshops; brought more than twenty-five other company founders and executives into GEWs; and used GEWs with my leadership team of ten on three separate occasions, I am telling you to run head-first into this opportunity. I use my Gestalt training every single day in the office, sometimes hourly. Rick and Kathy are masterful facilitators who taught me how to create legitimate psychological safety that makes exponential leaps possible in my own life and that of my company, our staff, and our customers. GEWs are an opportunity to unearth catalyzing pieces of your story, challenge the narratives behind your behavior, dramatically increase your capacity, and reconnect with what is most alive in you. If you commit, show up, and be present, profound transformation is impossible to avoid. 

— Corey Blake, CEO, Round Table Companies, Founder, Round Table Storytelling Academy

“As a start up company board member, angel investor, management consultant, coach, and former Silicon Valley executive, I am keenly aware of the challenges managers and leaders face in the modern fast changing business landscape. I’ve also learned that nothing is more important for leaders in responding to change than great workplace, partner, and customer relationships. My Gestalt training has taught me that becoming skillful at self, social, and situational awareness - with acceptance - improves individual effectiveness and makes for stronger teams and organizations and, with that, creative, even amazing,  responses to business, technology, and organizational changes are possible. I highly recommend GLEW to all leaders, managers, and anyone who works in a team environment.”

— Alan Brenner, Member North Coast Angel Fund, Board Member at Proformex; Thrivable; and Leasecake; and Former Sr Vice President, Sun Microsystems; and Former Sr Vice President, Blackberry

What you will learn in this virtual workshop:  

  • In this increasingly complex and sometimes chaotic world, interpersonal relationships have never been more important—or more complicated! In the Gestalt Leadership Experience Weekend, you will learn how to develop, leverage, and sustain relationships that position you and your team, organization, community, or family to cope effectively with challenges created by our ever more complex world;

  • Relating effectively with others can advance your professional career and enrich your personal life;

  • Gestalt Practices that support relating authentically and allow others the space to bring their full selves as well;

  • How to use your capacities to be self-aware, curious, and open to another's experience and viewpoint increasing the possibility for generative dialogue with teams we lead; and

  • How to communicate effectively in order to influence with integrity.

Our learning approach:

  • We invite you to participate in a GLEW and learn how a Gestalt approach can help you to build more productive and satisfying personal and professional relationships;

  • This workshop focuses on increasing your self-awareness and supporting your learning through direct, present experience and respectful exchange with others; 

  • Our skilled faculty facilitators support a space in which to explore, observe, practice, and discuss interpersonal interactions, to encourage more effective and impactful leadership; and 

  • Core elements of Gestalt methods are explained to help you to integrate your learning.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe how to develop, leverage, and sustain relationships that position you and your team, organization, community, or family to cope effectively with challenges from the environments we inhabit;

  • Discuss the ways Relating effectively with others can advance your professional career and enrich your personal life;

  • Identify Gestalt Practices that support relating authentically and while allowing others the space to bring their full selves as well;

  • Explore using your capacities to be self-aware, curious, and open to another's experience and points of view;

  • Develop the capacity to support generative dialogue with teams we lead; and

  • Discover how to communicate effectively in order to influence with integrity.

Continuing Education (CE): 11 instructional hours