In case that a participant does not follow for more than 2 meetings this general group level (as it will be defined by the group itself), will automatically shift to the occasional sub-group.

... Each participant is responsible to take her/his own personal notes on the program’s theory and practice.

The material provided will be in verbal form, during the meetings. It is absolutely enough for the participant to follow the program’s evolvement, and nothing else will be asked to be integrated.

However, most of the Getalt literature is in English and there will be proposed a list of relevant recommended literature.

Moreover, the conductor’s book on the Gestalt philosophy and PSP is in English too. If the book is translated in Russian, there will be indicated the sections that are relevant to the workshop material, yet, still for the integration of this material, it is enough the verbal information during the meetings.

... The workshop is structured, yet it is going to evolve based on its own process. So, for several reasons, the participants will be asked to provide to the conductor, from time to time, very brief “diaries” and feedback on their running experience.

Such material is not optional, is part of the workshop work.

... The workshop process is completely confidential (this includes also the translator and the occasional participants). It is absolutely respecting the individual reality and the personal boundaries of each participant.

This is why all of them will guarantee by signing their participation forms, that no piece of personal information possibly emerging during the project, will be transmitted by no means anywhere and to anybody else out of the workshop.

... The program’s evolvement and structure guarantees up to a certain point the assimilation of its material. This is done by the summarizing and the group discussion in the beginning of each meeting, by the diaries, and by the feedback.

However, it will be respected and included in the project’s structure any procedure that supports further this assimilation, protecting the motivation, expectations and self-regulation of the majority of the participants.

Such procedures may be suggested:

(a) By the Institute itself, according its standards of functioning (even just before the start of the project), and according to the constant program’s refining.

(b) By the wholeness of the group, during the program course (after its start).

For example, just indicatively, there may be different kinds of discussions and question-answer tests (oral or written).

In any case, such possible procedures, are not to doubt the self-commitment of the participants as persons, and not to establish a “school” atmosphere.

Their goal is just to maintain the high quality level of the program, to adapt it to the Institute standards, and rame its live processes.

APPENDIX (1)

The program’s conductor: PETROS THEODOROU (Greece)

www.petrostheodorou.gr [e-mail]

He is a professional Gestalt psychotherapist active in Greece and abroad (he is member of EAGT - The European Association for Gestalt therapy).

He works with individuals and groups, interested in a broader relational and existential perspective.

He is also the PSP approach founder, and a Playback Theatre trainer and supervisor (he teaches Playback through PSP).

And, he is lecturing in several frameworks, and involved in writing.

For example, he is the author of the lengthy book “The Gestalt philosophy, the PSP approach, the Playback Theatre: impro-landscapes”, and also of an article published in the British Gestalt Journal -BGJ- volume of May 2011, about the coral PSP concept of the “personal film”, etc.

Education and training is one more of his areas of activity.

His educational-training programs are flexible and they may have different goals and levels.

They regard several areas and frameworks (therapy, education, art, Organizations, etc), depending on the each area’s needs and goals.

He participates in or structures and conducts several kinds of educational programs in Greece and abroad (he visited Russia several times since 2005, in Moscow, and recently in St. Petersburg, in this Institute).

His training “style” is a personal systematic method, founded on his approach PSP (Proces-Stage-Praxis), as it is applied to the each time educational-training goal.

In PSP, he is actually integrating the fundamental principles of the Gestalt therapy philosophy with stage improvisation, in an idiosyncratic amalgam. However, even if In the past he has been a composer combining in his works multiple artistic languages, PSP is clearly differentiated from the art-therapy field.

His training method is based on deep awareness and process work, developing rather on structures of live workshops than on the “classroom” mentality.

In his workshops of any length, he usually includes alternating zones of theory and practical (experiential) work.

APPENDIX (2)

Some notes on PSP (Process-Stage-Praxis).

... introduction

It is is an approach attempting to configure an existential - relational perspective of the arts of human contact, of heightening awareness, and of personal growth, on the basis and the praxis of improvisation.

By its nature it is designed to support our inherent creative skills and their development through process and awareness work.

PSP has to do with 2 functional levels. Today, both levels are working within the framework entitled “PSP-studio” that organizes several kinds of programs. These two levels are:

(1) The “application” level, on which PSP functions as a tool that can be useful in several cases: in psychotherapy, art, education, Organizations. Such applications usually take the form of experiential workshops and seminars, employing PSP in several ways and degrees:

(a) directly (as the main tool or even the key object of the workshop), or

(b) indirectly and discreetly (as a complementary element, regardless of the principal goals of the workshop).

(2) The “training” level, on which one learns to use the PSP theory and practice according to oneʼs goals and interests. This is a multi-dimensional and extremely flexible educational program.