In this group, your inner world, feelings, and thinking receive attention. There is time to reflect and to process impressions and difficult situations. You can express your process in many ways. For example, by drawing, working with clay, painting, and working with materials from nature. And also by resting and sharing.
This group is for people who want to develop more awareness and delve deeper. Who want a creative and physical entrance to this. Regardless of how familiar you are with this creative and bodily-oriented work, it will always bring you something new. The group’s main objectives are self-experience, personal development, and growth. You work on your own subjects and develop them using a variety of techniques.
Situated between Hilversum, Loosdrecht, and the Kortenhoefse Lakes, Kortenhoef is a small peat settlement. You can lounge along the ditch banks and enjoy lovely strolls along the creeks. We work indoors in a spacious room and outside in the meadows.
English and Dutch are spoken in this group. We will translate for each other.
Overnight stay: There are B&Bs and a campsite nearby.
Dates: We start Friday, October 18 at 10 a.m. and finish the weekend on Sunday, October 20 at 4 p.m. The evenings are free.
The costs are €360, which includes lunches, coffee, tea, and materials. If the group wants, we can eat together in the evening.
You can apply for a grant on these amounts from the Foundation for Gestalt-art Promotion.
‘Your Bottom’
Gestalt-Art group for women
starts on Friday 1 November
Your bottom, your pelvis, where sexuality, zest for life, and ground can be experienced. Clay is a fertile primal material that fits beautifully into creating a solid ground; to develop creative power and let it run its course. We will take the time to delve into several aspects of being a woman, to reach our ground and stay there.
In our culture, the female pelvis is a part of our body that is little talked about or shared. There is a lot of 'silence' and 'shame' surrounding it. It is certainly a part of the body where a lot happens.
So we women are left with experiences around e.g. making love, intimacy, abuse, having/not having children, defecating, and urinating. Thus it remains an individual problem and we miss the power of “together” and the healing of sharing.
In this group, you explore your themes surrounding being a woman. There is room to elaborate on your experiences in the group and share them.
Bodily exercises and visualizations provide experiences that can be expressed in clay and mosaic, to then share and do personal work on. We connect with the power of our pelvis and with each other. If it suits and is desired, we will fire raku together (this is a ceramic kiln that is fired outside) and we can go to a sauna together.
Dates and times: Friday, November 1, December 13, January 24, 2025, March 14, and April 25.
From 10 am to 4 pm
The costs for this group are €450, which includes vegetarian soup, coffee, tea, and materials.
You can apply for a grant on these amounts from the Foundation for Gestalt-art Promotion.
Becoming curious?
Then make an appointment for an online introduction. In addition to discussing your questions and desires, we do an exercise so that you can experience the effects on you. The introduction costs €40.
Barbara Pompe-Gelissen
Body-orientated Gestalt-Art therapist
International body trainer
Gestalt trainer and -supervisor
+31 (0)654271060
Kortenhoefsedijk 146
1241LX Kortenhoef
Member of the foundation for Gestalt-Art promotion