We invite you once again to a workshop with Miriam Taylor - POWER, OPPRESSION, AND TRAUMA
This workshop is intended for psychotherapists/counselors and psychotherapy students in their third year or higher, with experience in conducting psychotherapy.
When a client’s trauma affects the therapist
Working with trauma can profoundly affect therapists, challenging some of our core beliefs about how we function in the world. What happens when we enter or are drawn into a client’s world of chaos, rigidity, fragility, or dissociation and lose our balance? How do we respond when a client’s experience collides with our own?
During the workshop, we will examine regulation in trauma work from the therapist’s perspective and its significance for the therapeutic process. We will explore how the client and therapist influence each other, how their experiences resonate with one another, and what feelings remain after the session.
Drawing on the fundamentals of neuroscience and trauma theory, we will examine our role in the therapeutic relationship and the possibilities for effectively working with trauma. We will pay particular attention to the body—it is within the body that we experience trauma, but it is also where we can find support. We will explore how to develop body-based resources that support a sense of safety, grounding, and psychological resilience in both the therapist and the client.
INSTRUCTOR:
Miriam Taylor is a Gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer. For over 25 years, she has specialized in working with trauma. Having completed her clinical training, her reflections on trauma now also incorporate collective trauma, issues of social justice, and climate change. Her approach is rooted in embodied practice. Her interest in how a trauma-marked relational field takes shape opens her work to an ecological perspective.
She teaches in the United Kingdom and other countries and is a member of the leadership team at Relational Change. She is the author of the books Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice (first edition: 2014; second, expanded edition: 2024) and Deepening Trauma Practice (2021), as well as peer-reviewed articles and commissioned writings. She is currently working on her third book.
ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION:
DATES: March 5–7, 2027 (Friday–Sunday)
TIME:
Friday: 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
A two-hour lunch break is scheduled for Friday and Saturday.
LOCATION:
Depending on the number of participants, the workshop will take place at one of two locations in Kraków:
– at the headquarters of the Agricultural Advisory Center (CDR), at 1 Beera Meiselsa St.,
– at the Odkrycie Center, 10/8 Ignacego Józefa Kraszewskiego St.
We will confirm the final location and notify participants a few weeks before the workshop.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: up to 26 people.
MATERIALS: Each participant will receive a set of note-taking supplies, a certificate confirming participation in the workshop
TRANSLATION: The workshop will be translated from English into Polish by Tomasz Ryłek
PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS:
* The workshop is open to individuals STARTING FROM THEIR THIRD YEAR OF TRAINING, i.e., after completing two years of psychotherapy or counseling training and having experience in conducting psychotherapy
* Completion of the registration form
* Pay a deposit and settle the remaining balance on time
PARTICIPATION FEE:
490 EUR - Payment in two installments:
First installment – deposit: 240 EUR, payable within 7 days of submitting the completed registration form. The deposit is non-refundable.
Second installment: 250 EUR, due by February 10, 2027.
You may also pay the full amount in a single payment.
Please make payments to the following account:
Szkolenia Gestalt sp. z o.o.
Bank: Pekao S.A.
Address: 123 Lea Street
30-133 Krakow, Poland
Kod SWIFT/BIC Bank Pekao: PKOPPLPW
PL69 1240 4432 1978 0011 0328 6180
Please include the participant’s first and last name and the name of the workshop in the transfer description.
If you have any questions, please contact us at: kontakt@szkoleniagestalt.pl
REGISTRATION IS ONLY ACCEPTED VIA THE FORM: https://forms.gle/GXhTVaezNEUnouZt8