Executive Committee

Renata Mizerska – President

She is a trained psychologist, EAGT/PTPG certified Gestalt therapist working in a private practice and at the Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Poland. Her training includes Gestalt therapy, mindfulness, self-compassion and change management. She holds two Master's degrees.

Throughout her career she has worked in diverse areas of business, health care and well-being. During her Gestalt training she strongly engaged in initiating and developing the Gestalt Meetings and since then supports the Gestalt community in Poland, actually as President both of the PTPG (Polish Association for Gestalt Therapy) and the Polish Psychotherapy Council - Federation of 17 associations.

She is passionate about delivering workshops and trainings, that make a difference to the health & well-being of people, enthusiastic about the idea of integration and application of research to therapies. She knows from her own experience that if proceed on a particular course with energy and conviction, then impossible is made possible. Since September 2015 she is a member of the EC.

Olaf Zielke – Treasurer

He is living and working in Hannover, Germany as a teacher and Gestalt therapist. Was member of the board of the German association of Gestalt therapy (DVG), German representative in the General Board of EAGT for almost 20 years. The last 9 years member of the Training Standards Committee.

He is interested in Gestalt theory and likes the roots of Gestalt therapy.

Monika Siedlak-Pęczek - Secretary

She is a trained psychologist, EAGT/PTPG certified Gestalt therapist, who works in a private practice in Warsaw, Poland. Her training includes Gestalt therapy, human resource management, coaching and personal development. She holds master’s degrees in psychology.

She has worked for the first 15 years of professional practice in the area of HR in field of sales and customer service, development and assessment of competences and mental toughness.For some time she worked in business in parallel, studied and started a psychotherapeutic practice in hospital, foundations, psychotherapy centres and finally opened her own practice.

In December 2017, she was elected Secretary General of the PTPG and since then support the Gestalt community in Poland.

She loves the idea of getting to know each other and working closely as a team. She knows from her own experience that consistency, commitment, and perseverance allow you to achieve a lot.

			David Pico Vila - NOGT officer & external relations David is a certified and accredited gestalt therapist and general health psychologist working in private practice in València, Spain. He has a PhD in Computer Science and he is a –currently part-time– associate professor in Universitat Politècnica de València. He has training and professional experience as a classical pianist and singer. He is very interested in the contemporary theoretical developments of gestalt therapy and in the therapeutic work on expression. His research and writings in gestalt therapy have dealt with different kinds of performance anxiety, the use of the voice in psychotherapy and the online practice of gestalt therapy. He has an intense activity as trainer and supervisor. He is a faculty member in Centre Gestalt València. He has put his technical expertise about web design at the service of gestalt therapy, contributing with the company Luthiers De Webs to the development of outstanding websites that make gestalt therapy resources available worldwide, such as Gestaltnet.net, currently the most important open resource in Spanish about gestalt therapy, and other websites for different international gestalt therapy and psychotherapy entities.

			Michał Lewandowski – Chair of Gestalt Practitioner in Organizations Michal combines organisational consulting, training and coaching activities with psychotherapeutic practice.Affiliated with the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw. Founder and leader of the School of Gestalt Practitioners in Organizations in Poland. "Mature and emotionally resilient individuals form effective teams. At the same time, a system such as a team or organization is able to strengthen or weaken this individual maturity and resilience, achieve synergy of individuality, or promote their collision or absence. The mechanisms behind it often determine motivation, creativity, commitment, and satisfaction of people, and as a result, development and even survival of the organization. That is why my interventions cover the individual, th team and organizational levels. It is a fascinating and inspiring process of discovering, correcting, and building together. That's what I do."

			Silvia Tosi – Chair of Training Standards Committee Silvia is a certified Psychologist and Psychotherapist. She is an accredited Gestalt Therapist and Supervisor (EAGT), and a Trainer at Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy where she teaches in Italy and abroad. Since 1998 she has been running her own practice as a Gestalt therapist treating individuals, couples and groups, working in particular with children, adolescents, and families. For more than 20 years she has been collaborating with theNational Public Health Service in Milano as psychotherapist expert in children and adolescents for the Family, Childhood and Adolescence Unit, carrying out assessments, diagnosis, clinical treatment and psychotherapy and working on a project of psychotherapeutic counselling in school settings for adolescents (in collaboration with University, Psychology department). She has authored articles and chapters in the fields of psychotherapy with children and of Research in Gestalt therapy. She has been a member of TSC for 7 years prior to chairing it. She believes in the beauty of working in group, she likes to confront, to share, to collaborate and to get in touch with colleagues from all over Europe to learn from the differences. She lives between Milano and Sicily and she works in Milano where she was born. She loves to travel and cook.