Dan Bloom, JD, LCSW

12/07/2023

The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy's December 17th monthly meeting will feature Perry Klepner's presentation, "Reading Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personalty."

Some of you may know that the Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman's book has been the core of how GT has been studied, taught, and practiced at the NYIGT.

Here is an excerpt from our announcement:

"Description:

Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality by Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman (PHG) is a complicated historical document holding the richness of the novel thinking of its time and, importantly, the genius of its authors. PHG now 70 years forward is widely recognized as Gestalt therapy’s founding text. Since the first coherent presentation in 1951, practitioners have been evaluating, clarifying, redefining, and expanding upon the details of its theory and practice. It has been read, cited, criticized, and acclaimed. It has provided fertile ground for questioning ideas, learning, and impetus for new theory and practice.
In this workshop, I will discuss PHG as a comprehensive presentation of Gestalt therapy theory and practice. I will explore its value as a formative text for new and experienced practitioners, provide a brief sampling of its ideas, share my experience reading PHG line by line in an experiential group, and discuss aesthetic and hermeneutic perspectives and critical comments. Didactic and experiment segments will be included.
Having the PHG text available during the event may be helpful for reference.

Biography:
Perry Klepner, LCSW, has been a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and Kingston, NY, since 1977. He has been an instructor at several Gestalt institutes and provides training, supervision, and individual, couples, and group therapy. He trained with Laura Perls, Isadore From, and Richard Kitzler at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, where he is a past president (1993–95) and a full member, fellow, and instructor. He has authored articles and led workshops on Gestalt therapy at numerous conferences in the U.S. and abroad."

Everyone is welcome to attend.
Please RSVP: events@nyigt.org.

Remember to regularly check our website (redesign in progress). www.newyorkgestalt.org and our FB page, https://www.facebook.com/nyigt1.

The Original Gestalt Therapy Institute, Established By Fritz And Laura Perls In 1952

07/09/2023

I will no longer be using this FaceBook page. To follow me, go to https://www.facebook.com/dan.bloom.79.

06/18/2023

I was just elected president of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. This will be my third term as president after nearly 20 years.
The institute is a multinational community with members from across the world. We are dedicated to the development of the theory/practice of gestalt therapy with awareness of our social-political and ethical context. After more than 70 years, our story continues. We continue to write it.

02/06/2023

An excellent book on the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy has just been published. I highly recommend it. If you think you already know the institute, think again... and read this book.

The History, Theory and Community of Gestalt Therapy – By Václav Mikolášek The History, Theory and Community of Gestalt Therapy Exploring the New York Institute By Václav Mikolášek ISBN: 9781032283739 Book Description This book tells the story of the community at the New York Institute for G...

11/06/2022

This is a photo of me responding to Donnel Stern's keynote at the international online conference, Field Perspective and Intervention in Psychotherapy, on November 4, 2022. Two of the co-chairs are also in the photo --- Gianni Francesetti and Michela Gecele. Stern had just addressed "Field Perspective in Relational Psychoanalysis."

09/18/2022

This is a video of an interview I gave this September. It is being used as a bonus in the course on gestalt therapy offered by the Mind Body Institute.

This is "Dan Bloom - Gestalt Course Interview - 09-2022 - mindbodytraininginstitute.com" by Dan Bloom on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the…

09/06/2022

This is a description of one of the webinars I am offering this fall.

"Introduction to Phenomenology for Gestalt Therapists

This 8-session, 90 minute webinar begins with the premise that gestalt therapy is a clinical phenomenology. To fully grasp the depth – and power – of this assumption, the webinar explores the relevance of selected major Western phenomenologiststo gestalt therapy’s clinical practice.

The webinar introduces some of the ideas of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Waldenfels to show how each is reflected in our own clinical phenomenology – a relational and field-emergent approach. Readings include original sources in phenomenology and in gestalt therapy. The webinar consistently focuses on concrete and practical clinical work.

The fee is $650.00 Each meeting is recorded for future viewing.
The webinar will start in October or November. Contact me now. Space is limited.
Contact me: dan.bloom@me.com www.danbloomnyc.com"

Individual, couple, and group psychotherapy. Clinical training and supervision.

07/02/2022

I am among the presenters at a 2-day November online conference "Field Perspective and Intervention in Psychotherapy" run by Istituto di Psicopatologica della Gestalt. The flyer is below.

12/01/2021

I was one of the keynote presenters at the Third International Gestalt Conference on November 26, 2021 in Nanjing, China.

The conference theme was, "Contact, Creativity, Growth." My lecture was "The Contact-boundary: the birthplace of contacting, the home of creativity." I was present at the conference by recording.

17,000 people watched the conference opening and a total of 30,000 people were online for the entire conference.

09/30/2021

I am organizing my 6th webinar on phenomenology and gestalt therapy. This is the general announcement:

Introduction to Phenomenology for Gestalt Therapists

This 8-session, 90-minute webinar introduces major phenomenologists who are directly relevant to our contemporary practice— Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Waldenfels.
I stress their significance to contemporary gestalt therapy — and how each is reflected in the historical developments of gestalt therapy’s approaches from the one-person to the field-emergent models.
How phenomenology applies to our actual clinical work is an essential part of this webinar. Members are encouraged to bring clinical examples into the discussion. The online seminar is both didactic and interactive.
I dedicate a section of my website for the webinar. I encourage people to post questions and to engage in discussions on its message board.
Readings are posted on a dedicated document page and are downloadable. Each meeting is recorded for future viewing.
The fee is $600 USD. Contact me at dan.bloom@me.com if you are interested. Information about me is on my website, www.danbloomnyc.com.

Individual, couple, and group psychotherapy. Clinical training and supervision.