🌱Starting 2026 as we mean to continue.🌱

If you have been viewing our social media channels you will know that January and February have been a flurry of activity for us at the Gestalt Institute of Ireland.

We started the year with the return of our academic programmes including our MA Module 1-3, and Module 4 programmes congregating in Teach Bhride.

We held our first Personal Development residential of the year, and the first of our non-residential groups in Dublin.

At the start of February we hosted the evocative and informative CPD event exploring neurodiversity in the therapeutic space. This was facilitated by Peri Mackintosh and Susan Gregory as part of our Living and Working in the Margins Series of CPD events.

Alongside these events we are recruitment for our supervision programme and developing and launching CPD events, while the appeal to support our Ukrainian colleagues is still available to donate to.

You can find more tasters of our forthcoming events and initiatives below.

When racism and exclusion are normalised in public life, therapy rooms are not insulated from their impact. Across Europe, the UK, and beyond, public discourse is hardening. Racist narratives are re-entering mainstream politics.

We are excited to offer the upcoming April CPD event with Toni Gilligan who will explore anti racism, anti oppressive practice through a Gestalt Lens.

We have extended our early bird offer for limited time so that more people can avail of this pertinent and important topic.

You can find more information by clicking the image below or the book here button:

We are excited to welcome Alessandra Merizzi to support us through a community exploration of how we engender vitality during life transitions.

While considering this CPD event, we knew how important the immersion in the topic is. This informed our decision to offer it over a weekend in the gorgeous scenic base of Teach Bhride, Tullow, in September. There are limited places available for this event.

Join us in the embodied exploration as we ask: What if ageing is not a story of decline—but a field of vitality, resistance, and creative adjustment?

You can find more information by clicking the image below or the book here button:

For almost four years, while political leaders debate and global attention drifts, our Ukrainian colleagues have continued to live and work inside the daily reality of war. Air raid sirens, displacement, exhaustion; yet they keep showing up for others.

What they have never had in all this time is something most of us take for granted: the chance to be physically together in safety. To rest without fear. To regulate their nervous systems. To reconnect with their own bodies and with one another outside the shadow of violence.

We refuse to normalize this.

💙💛 BRISEADH CIÚNAS / BREAKING SILENCE 💙💛

In a political climate where fatigue, misinformation, and shifting alliances threaten to erode solidarity, silence becomes complicity. Mental health professionals are not separate from the world’s crises; we are part of how communities survive them.

For nearly four years, we have held a weekly relational therapy group with Ukrainian therapists as a vital line of support. Now we are taking the next step: creating a safe, in-person gathering so they can restore, strengthen, and sustain their work.

This is not symbolic. It is practical resistance.
It is trauma-informed solidarity.
It is care as action.

Every contribution directly enables rest, connection, and resilience for those carrying unimaginable strain. We will report transparently over the coming months on how funds are used and the impact they have.

Help transform solidarity from a statement into embodied support.

We have active social media channels where you can keep up to date with our latest information.

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