Membership
 MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
 

How to become an Individual Member and get the EAGT Certificate of Gestalt Therapy.
 

 

If you are a European Gestalt Psychotherapist and want to become a Member of the EAGT, please read first the EAGT Training Standards, the Statutes, and the Code of Ethics.

 

  Introduction and/or explanation of our memberships:

 

-         Full Members may be:

  1. European National and Professional Associations, which meet the EAGT training standards and code of ethics.
  2. Institutes, which meet the EAGT training standards and code of ethics and work in the field of training or clinical applications of Gestalt therapy.
  3. Individuals who meet the EAGT training standards.

 

-         Associate Members may be:

  1. Individuals who have started training in Gestalt therapy in Institutes, which are ordinary members of the EAGT.

  2. Every training institute, which commits itself to reaching EAGT training standards and is in the process of fulfilling the requirements of the EAGT in its training curriculum.

  3. Every National Association for Gestalt therapy, which commits itself to reaching EAGT training standards and Code of Ethics and is in process of fulfilling the requirements of the EAGT.

 

-         Subscriber Members may be:

Those who support the Association regularly in financial terms, above the ordinary membership contribution.

 

-         Cooperative Membership may be

held by Institutions and Associations who feel themselves to be connected to the professional, health policy and pedagogical aims of the EAGT.

 

-         Honorary Membership may be

awarded upon the proposal of the Executive Committee at the Meeting of Members to such persons or Institutes who have served the objects of the Association in a particular manner or who have made an outstanding contribution in the field of Gestalt therapy.

 

-         Gestalt Practitioner in Organisations (GPO) may be:

A  grandparent is a GPO :

-          Without a formal training in GPO.

-          At least five year of practise as GPO.

A candidate for awarding a certificate is invited for a peer group meeting and is asked to write and present a CV and a professional log. The log describes the candidate’s work in or with organisation using the Gestalt principles.

During the peer group meeting:

-          The practitioner expresses her/him self as what is important in her/his praxis.

-          Next gets support from the peers, what is well developed.

-          Next gets challenged by the peers around what was presented.

-           The practitioner then expresses experiences so far.

-          The peers formulate a decision for accreditation based on the CV/log and the peer meeting.

Appointments:

1.       Applicants pay for the procedure the EAGT € 50,=;

2.       The applicant pays the travel (lowest) costs for the peers;

3.       Two peer is a minimum;

4.       One peer from the country, one from another country;

5.       Peer groups are installed and must be affirmed by the EAGT;

6.       The whole peer-group meeting takes about one hour per applicant.

The peer group advices the EAGT to award the applicant, where after the EAGT can award a certificate for GPO.

 

  Steps to take to become an Individual member?

-         Download the electronic PDF file (or Word file) and fill in all the topics;

-         Add, if necessary, copies of what we ask for;

-         Make a copy of the application form;

-         Send application form to:

EAGT Office

c/o Marga Berends

Noorderdiep 304

9521 BL Nieuw Buinen

The Netherlands

-         Your application form will be processed by our secretary – Ester Neumanová

 

 

  Steps to take to become an Organisational member?

A          Training Institutes (TI):

The TI asks for accreditation by sending the documentation and answers to the questionnaire (download PDF file or Word file) to the EAGT-office in 4 copies.

EAGT Office

c/o Marga Berends

Noorderdiep 304

9521 BL Nieuw Buinen

The Netherlands

From there they will be forwarded to the Chair of the Extended Board and to the 2 members of the Visiting Committee. All written information must be in English.

 

If an Institute at the same times wants to be accredited by EAP it sends 2 copies to EAGT and 3 copies of the documents to the secretary of EAP. They will forward one to each visitor named by the TAC (Training Accreditation Committee of EAP)

 

B          National Organisation for Gestalt Therapy (NOGT) and other National and /or Professional Organisation:

A NOGT / National Organisation / Professional Organisation that wants to be accredited by the EAGT sends a request (download PDF file or Word file) for accreditation to the EAGT-office in 2 copies:

EAGT Office

c/o Marga Berends

Noorderdiep 304

9521 BL Nieuw Buinen

The Netherlands

 

  Why become an Individual or Organisational member of EAGT?

As an individual member you are probably not protected by a Code of Ethics and/or Complaints procedure. If you become a member of EAGT you and your clients are protected by our Code of Ethics and Complaints procedure.

 

But also our Certificate could be a reason to become a member because our certificate is a certificate with a quality label. We actively award our Full members with our own certificate in Gestalt Therapy. In this way EAGT can protect and support the integrity of Gestalt Therapy and that of the wider profession of psychotherapy across Europe.

 

EAGT exists to preserve the integrity of the method, i.e., gestalt therapy. This is best done on a wider European level than just the national, because we can learn from other gestalt perspectives through personal contact and through working together within EAGT. This allows a greater depth of collegiality and friendship with our gestalt community across differing cultures and perspectives. 

Already the EAGT has played a crucial role in developing more research with new research teachings setting up in a number of countries and through EAGT supporting a new European wide research journal, due out this autumn.

 

As an organisational member there are as well benefits for becoming a member. After you have been accredited your Institute turns out good, fine and recognized Gestalt therapists.

For all organisations go as well that you are supported by our code of ethics and complaint procedure. But you can also allow for our assistance for making a code of ethics and/or complaint procedure for your own organisation.

 

Our Certificate could also be a good reason to become a member because our certificate is a certificate with a quality label. We actively award our accredited Institutes with our own certificate in Gestalt Therapy. In this way EAGT can protect and support the integrity of Gestalt Therapy and that of the wider profession of psychotherapy across Europe.

 

Let’s not forgot to think of benefits as: vocational supportive, broadening horizon, but also political recognition and identification.

 

Why doubting to become an individual or organisational member? Why hesitate?

 

Join us - as many before you did! You, as a member, have the right to vote, use your vote and become a member. Download the application form, fill it in and send it per email or regular mail to the EAGT-office today!

  

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