ECOTHERAPY PRINCIPLES AND THE USE OF GESTALT TECHNIQUES IN THE ECOTHERAPY GROUP OUTING
This virtual workshop explores how Ecotherapy in its many forms can invite clients into a wider field of possibility, where insight can arrive through sensation, contact, and encounter. Gestalt therapy offers a particularly fitting lens for understanding these processes. 3 CE credits are available.
Time & Location
Apr 11, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:10 PM EDT
Zoom link will be provided on 04/10/26
Details
Ecotherapy Principles and the Use of Gestalt Techniques in the Ecotherapy Group Outing
Nathan Schlingmann, LPC
Ecotherapy appears in many shapes, from quiet contemplative practices to fully immersive, movement-based experiences. One of its most powerful expressions emerges inside the frame of psychotherapy. When we integrate the living world into our clinical work, we invite clients into a wider field of possibility, where insight can arrive through sensation, contact, and encounter rather than conversation alone. In group therapy, this widening becomes even more dynamic. Clients relate not only to each other but to the environment that holds them, allowing fresh patterns of connection, curiosity, and mutual support to surface with a kind of organic novelty. Gestalt therapy offers a particularly fitting lens for understanding these processes, since its emphasis on present-centered awareness, co-created experience, and embodied exploration mirrors what naturally unfolds in nature-based sessions. I’ll be using Gestalt concepts to illuminate…
Schedule
15 minutesWelcome and Introductions
3 hours 10 minutesWorkshop
Tickets
Non-Member CE Admission
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Apr 10, 9:00 AM EDT
This option is for individuals who are not currently PAGPS members and DO want CEs.
$130.00
+$3.25 ticket service fee
Non-Member No CE Admission
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This option is for individuals who are not currently PAGPS members and DO NOT want CEs.
$100.00
+$2.50 ticket service fee
Member Admission
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This option is for current PAGPS members.
$75.00
+$1.88 ticket service fee
Student Admission
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This option is for students and early career professionals.
$25.00
Equity Rate Admission
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This Equity Rate registration option is for participants with historical/institutional barriers to access. We invite you to pay whatever you feel is possible given your particular situation. Before selecting this ticket option, please make your donation at https://www.philadelphiagrouptherapy.com/equity
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