“This is the way one should go in love – by oneself or under someone else’s guidance: having started with separate manifestations of the beautiful, one should all the time, as if on steps, go upwards for the sake of the most beautiful – from one beautiful body to two, from two – to all, and then from beautiful bodies to beautiful morals, and from beautiful morals to beautiful teachings, until one rises from these teachings to that which is the teaching of the most beautiful, and finally learn what it is – the beautiful.”
Plato’s “The Feast”
Is love really an art? If so, it requires labor and knowledge. Or is it only a pleasant sensation, the experience of which is a matter of chance, a state into which you “fall” if you are lucky?
Fromm’s “The Art of Loving.”
Participants:
- Olga Kadysheva, psychologist, crisis psychologist, Gestalt therapist, leading trainer of NAGTU “Ukrainian Gestalt Institute”. Ukraine – France
- Mikhail Slutskin, psychologist, accredited Gestalt therapist and supervisor of NAGTU “Ukrainian Gestalt Institute”, leading supervisory and therapeutic groups. Ukraine – Germany
- Mikhail Baytalsky, philosopher, PhD, Gestalt therapist of HIGiP (Kharkov Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama). Ukraine – USA
The discussion space “About Love!”.
We propose to reflect together on these and other questions concerning love:
- Love as a feeling and as a relationship
- Love: healthy attachment and dependency
- Love from the Self process point of view
- Love as a substitute
- What do people look for in each other?
- Love and the transcendent
- The place of love in psychotherapy
When: February 17, 2025 p.
Meeting duration: 3.5 hours, from 18:00 to 21:30 (Kyiv time).
Plan of the event:
Introduction: 5 minutes.
Speakers’ dialog: 1 hour.
Question on the topic: 15 minutes.
Break: 15 minutes.
Discussion in working groups: 55 minutes.
Questions and exchange of opinions in a common group: 1 hour.
Что такое Диалоги Онлайн?
Dialogues Online is a space for collaborative reflection on what matters most in the face of the ongoing crisis. Dialogues Online is a continuation of the “Dialogues in Toulouse” held in May 2023 as part of a school for Gestalt therapists for intercultural exchanges of experience.
For whom:
▪️ For practicing psychologists with a Gestalt approach and other areas of psychology and psychotherapy.
▪️ For students in relevant programs.
▪️ For anyone interested in psychology and philosophy.
▪️ For those seeking themselves and their place in a changing world, for those who are curious, sensitive, changing themselves, open to new experiences and resources.
For: Education in psychology, philosophy and anthropology; developing a culture of dialog.
How: by creating a collegial interdisciplinary field for reflection in dialog and polylogue.