European Association for Gestalt Therapy

GPO IN ORGANIZATIONS

EAGT works with a draft set of standards and a grand parenting procedure. Currently we are working on it to make definite standards and develop a application form for GPO’s.

 

The EAGT is working with a draft set of standards and these draft standards remain a ‘work in progress’ to be used as a ‘guideline’ for Training Institutes who want to develop a 4 year programme.

In the meantime, and to acknowledge the experience and expertise that already exists in the field, the EAGT is working and formulating a grand parenting procedure. In this procedure a practitioner needs:

- to write a professional log,

- to write a paper to describe how Gestalt principles are used in organisations,

- to defend these writings in a peer group, with external verification.

 

The first grand parenting peer group meeting was held in London, June 2006 as a pilot project and the result was presented on the AGM in Krakow, September 2006.

 

During a peer group meeting:

- Each practitioner expresses her/himself as to what was important in her/his praxis.

- The peers then discussed, and the person listened, what they felt was well developed in the candidates praxis.

- The peers then challenged what was the ‘growing edges’ in their praxis.

- The practitioner then expressed her/his experience of the peer review and the peers came to a decision about whether to support accreditation.

- This decision was based on the peer review and the practitioners log, curriculum vitae and paper on the application of gestalt theory in organisations

 

A grand parent is thus a GPO :

- Without a formal training in GPO.

- Who has at least five years of practice as GPO.

 

Individuals wanting to go through the grand parenting procedure should establish a peer group in their country (normally a minimum of 2 and maximum of 4) and inform the Chair of GPO. The Chair of GPO who will arrange for two external persons to be present, normally one from inside the peer groups country and one from outside.

 

Applicants pay EAGT 50 euro each for the procedure and certification . The applicant pays the travel (lowest) costs for the two external persons. The peer must be agreed by EAGT.

 

The whole peer-group meeting takes about one hour per applicant. One of the external persons informs the office of EAGT of the outcome and whether to award an EAGT certificate to the applicant.

 

Click here for a list of our GPO members per country.

 

 

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