Philadelphia In-person: Theory Without Practice is Empty / Practice Without Theory is Blind:

Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia sponsors:

In-person: Philadelphia Workshop

Theory Without Practice is Empty /
Practice Without Theory is Blind

Two Days of Demonstration Sessions with Master Clinician and Teacher, Ruella Frank, PhD

TIME

Saturday and Sunday, January 24 & 25, 2026

10 am – 5 pm (USA EST)

LOCATION
In the Philadelphia area with access to airports and trains. Specifics to be announced.

TUITION
(includes the cost of CEUs):
Refunds will only be issued to those who cancel a full two weeks prior to the workshop.

$350 – Full Tuition

$315 – GTIP Associate Members

$300 – Students of Gestalt Institutes

REGISTRATION
To register through the Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia:
Online Registration Form

Registration Deadline: Saturday, January 17, 2026

Limited number of spaces available

CEUs
GTIP offers Continuing Education credits to: LSW, LCSW, LPC, LMFT, PSY, ICF, GENERIC. Should you be requesting CEUs, please indicate what license you hold and your license number on the registration form.

This session is co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research for a maximum of 11 credit hours. Bryn Mawr College GSSWSR, as a CSWE accredited School of Social Work, is a pre-approved provider of continuing education for Social Workers in PA and many other states.

GTIP is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer 11 hours of continuing education for psychologists. GTIP maintains responsibility for the program. The Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology requires Psychology workshop participants to furnish their license number to receive a certificate of attendance.

Who Should Attend
The workshop is based on Gestalt theory, however it is also applicable to any psychotherapist, as well as movement practitioners and educators, yoga instructors, health professionals, and anyone who wants to better understand the emergent somatic processes that underly all human relating and experience.

Learning Objectives
In this workshop, participants will:

• Learn how gestalt theoretical concepts inform the intuition of the therapist in the immediacy of the moment

• Better understand how the past is worked through in the moment-to-moment interactions of a session

• Gain insight into the concept of “waiting” – what it means and how it is useful for both patient and therapist

• Gain a deeper understanding of how the therapist can attune to the relational field through their bodily knowing of the situation

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia