In this paper, Violetta Van Vliet explores the processes of professional identity formation that condition the journey towards becoming a gestalt therapist. The individual experience of five gestalt therapists in Malta is shared and described using gestalt theory and methodology.

The paper offers an insightful perspective on the question of what happens when we engage with a gestalt training, assimilating different aspects of the journey towards personal growth and professional identify formation.

When we think of justice, we rarely think of psychotherapy, perhaps less of gestalt. Nonetheless, it is the argument of this paper that justice and psychotherapy not only complement each other but also, become one and the same.

This paper by Katya Caruana eloquently draws out the similar ethics underlying gestalt therapy and restorative justice. Katya makes an argument for the greater application of gestalt therapy within the justice system.

The paper is a first statement of NGV’s thinking around climate change and sustainable economics.

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In this paper Bernadette O’Koon (Latuch) argues for the value of gestalt’s field perspective when it comes to understanding and responding to microaggressions.

The question of whether a micro aggression has taken place rests with the receiver of it, and as a microaggressor the onus on me is to respond from a place of grace rather than wishing to minimise what took place. Nonetheless aggressor and aggressed on can also meet by taking in the wider situation containing structured oppression whether connected with race, class, gender or other identity variables. These make micro aggressions inevitable, and whilst not taking away responsibility from the aggressor may support us to find compassion in a difficult situation.

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