(5) The program’s structure and sections

The program is structured in 7 sections, each one of which has to do with one meeting. These sections are not autonomous topics. They all link between them as theory and practice. They are interdependent, forming the program’s material, and whatever may be offered to the participant by this project.

However, each section covers a specific area and topic, having its own design and goal.

On the other hand, one fundamental characteristic of this program is that it relies much on the personal responsibility of the participants, so it is flexible and adaptable to the whole group of the participants and to their directly emerging needs.

So:

(a) No matter each section’s design, the group and the conductor may interwind and reshape these sections accordingly.

(b) It is useless and impossible to describe in advance and in details each section’s contents.

Keeping in mind that they all have to do with different aspects of the Gestalt therapy linked with different aspects of the PSP approach, the 7 sections are entitled:

1. “The phenomenological field theory and the existential dialogue as cornerstones of Gestalt therapy".

2. "The art of relating, the contact process, the cyclic and holistic form of experience".

3. "The basic PSP principles as an embodied theory".

4. "The microstructure of human experience: its implicit and explicit aspects in PSP".

5. “Awareness, the Self as a process, body image, and bodily sense”.

6. “The organismic, relational and improvisational aspects of life”.

7. “Self-regulation and the human encounter”

(6) The group of the participants - (part a): the whole group and its possible two sub-groups

Till the end of September 2012 the group is scheduled to be formed with the perspective of functioning as a closed (fixed) group, with a limited number of participants.

If by this period the candidate participants are not enough to form a closed group, the program will be adjusted to include also participants that take part occasionally.

So, in such a case, the whole group of the program will consist of two sub-groups:

... One (fixed) with the participants who commit for the whole length of the program.

... One (occasional) with the participants who may join randomly some meetings. This sub-group may also include participants who were making part of the fixed group, but for one or another reason shifted to this sub-group (see what follows in “6”).

(7) The group of the participants - (part b): about the possible occasional sub-group

A participant of this sub-group, has to keep in mind that:

... It is his/her own responsibility of getting aligne to the program’s phase and to the level that is at that moment the fixed group.

... He /she will have to participate in the group’s dynamic process with her/his identity as a visitor.

... She/he will take part in demonstrations and practice only if this is decided and accepted by the whole group.

... His/her certificate of attendance will not be for the whole program but only and exactly on what he/she followed.

... She/he will may join the fixed group after having lost only the first meeting, or, in very special cases, after the whole group’s decision.

(8) Certificates

At the end of the program the participants will receive certificates of attendance (a) by the Institute and (b) also by the “PSP-studio” (the framework founded by the conductor).

In these certificates there will be mentioned the hours, the nature and the length of the program (an occasional participant’s certificate will mention in details what section of the program has been followed).

The “PSP-studio” may provide any kind of recommendation that will be possibly needed by a participant in the future.

(9) The participation and the program process

... As the participants are going to form a fixed group, it is necessary that all candidates have to fill up a brief and indicative questionnaire regarding their motivation, expectations, constraints and obstacles, background in education and growth, education and professional life, availability, commitment readiness concerning their participation to the program process, etc.

... As it is mentioned above, all the meetings are interconnected. So the participant has to follow all of them. In case that he/she looses more than one, she/he automatically shifts in the occasional sub-group.

... The program is of a limited and few number of meetings linked between them in multiple ways, including education (theory), training (practice), as well interaction. So, the participant has to assimilate the work that each time is done from meeting to meeting. Otherwise:

(a) it will be useless for him/her to follow the oncoming meetings, and

(b) impossible to support the group process (and, equally, to be supported himself by this process).

... In the beginning of each meeting there will be some time dedicated:

(a) in summarizing the previous meeting material, and

(b) in becoming aware of the level of the group’s integrating capacity. And, the range of such a capacity is of course very wide and adaptable to the group’s reality.