Is identity fixed, or is it a continually co-created story we tell ourselves and others and they tell us? Or could both be true?
About this Event

Exploring Identity in Gestalt Group Therapy
(Online Format)
Patricia Tucker, LCSW

Sunday, April 27, 2025
10 am – 4 pm (ET)
(with one-hour lunch break)
5 CE hours
$150
(2 full scholarships available for students or others. Email: [email protected])

Is identity fixed, or is it a continually co-created story we tell ourselves and others and they tell us? Or could both be true? In this workshop we will explore these questions in a Gestalt group therapy format as we experientially explore together our conceptions of “I am” in our histories, in our current lives and in the moment. Drawing on Gestalt Theory and framing our themes around building awareness of our identities and their meanings as our primary focus of attention, group members will co-create this unfolding together as we reach for authentic dialogue in the reimagining of ourselves in the moment.

Objectives:

Participants will be able to name 3 interventions that a Gestalt group therapist can make to enhance dialogue around identity.
Participants will be able to name 5 common themes that emerge for people around issues of identity.
Participants will gain a greater availability to their clients by working with their own understandings around personal identity.

Patricia holds a BA from Bard College (’78), an MSSW from Columbia University (’81), and is a graduate of Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy in New York City (1985). Patricia has been a faculty member at Gestalt Associates since 1987 and was Director of Training there from 1999-2011. Patricia was President of AAGT from 2014-2016. She has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work since 2012. She has been running groups and teaching group therapy since 2002 and she is thrilled to be delving deeper into conceptions of identity in Gestalt group therapy!