We’re an international community and not-for-profit organisation committed to widening participation and exploring new ways of building community via application of gestalt (and aligned disciplines) across a number of domains - health services, education, therapy, organisational/ business, community, and government/political.
NEW GESTALT VOICES
NEW GESTALT VOICES
CONTRIBUTION OF GESTALT
We understand gestalt as a socially transformative approach that is concerned with restoring 'aliveness' to human living and activity - and with an orientation towards the wider 'field' - the various social wholes of which our activities form a part. Gestalt's founding text says "it is impossible for anyone to be extremely happy until we are happy more generally” (Perls et al. 1951).
EXPERIMENT
NGV offers a test bed for innovation with a view to supporting applications of gestalt in relation to social justice, environmental and political challenges - what Paul Goodman, one of gestalt's founders, called "social-therapy".
CATALYST
We do not see NGV as doing it all ourselves. We act as a network - or convenor of 'worknets' (Bruno Latour) - first phase mover, incubator and ultimately support for others to enter into new areas. We will continue to support anyone who comes to us to innovate - commissioner, organisation, team or individual.
COMMUNITY
The NGV approach esteems development at the group/community/systemic level. We turn our attention to the wider systems, including structures of power, influence and oppression (such as racism), against the background of which much traditional change work proceeds.
SERVICES
New Gestalt Voices is an organisation that aims to support the voices of those least likely to be heard in socio-political dialogue, and to bring this into discussion in the Gestalt community.
TRAINING
Our training topics are led by our curiosity, and our creativity. We run a number of training activities with different gestalt entities and gestalt people throughout the world.
ABOUT US
John Gillespie founded NGV to offer a space for something new to emerge for people who were experiencing the same needs at that moment.Lena Grigorieva is now stepping into the lead.
THE JOURNAL
The Journal was launched in 2017 to challenge the narcissism of academic publishing, and offer an alternative model whereby the ‘field’ speaks through its less heard from voices.
EVENTS
This is the space where we share events and workshops that we have an affiliation to - either as organizers, or speakers/trainers, or other useful events we are engaged in other capacities.
OUR NEWS
This is the space where we will update you on what’s new and what’s going on with New Gestalt Voices – our thoughts about all things meaningful, energizing, or just colourful…