Workshops
Gestalt Skills for Awareness Intellegence:
Coaching in today’s world of change
Date: July 15 | 5:30pm ET
Lead Faculty: Dorothy E. Siminovitch, MCC
Join Dorothy Siminovitch, MCC for a powerful MasterClass designed for coaches who want to deepen their presence, strengthen their awareness, and expand their ability to coach effectively in a rapidly changing world.
This session will explore Gestalt skills that support Awareness Intelligence, helping coaches become more attuned to what is emerging in the moment — within the client, the relationship, and the larger system.
Participants will gain insight into how presence, awareness, and relational skill can create more meaningful coaching conversations and support transformational change.
The Power & Relevance of Gestalt Coaching
Sept.29, 2026 | 9:30 ET | 14:30 UK | 15:30 CEST
Lead Faculty: Dorothy E. Siminovitch, MCC
If you’re looking to strengthen your awareness, deepen your presence, and experience Gestalt coaching in action, join Dorothy E. Siminovitch, Ph.D., MCC for this experiential session on the power and relevance of Gestalt coaching in today’s world of change.
This session introduces a Gestalt approach uniquely suited for complexity, helping participants explore awareness, presence, psychological safety, and the “data of the moment” as foundations for meaningful change.
Key Takeaways from this Session:
• Understand awareness as the foundation for change
• Explore presence and psychological safety in coaching conversations
• Learn how to work with the “data of the moment”
• Discover how the self can be used as a coaching instrument
• Recognize the importance of the relational field in coaching
• Practice reflective learning from experience
• Move from awareness toward intentional action
Register to experience how awareness expands perception, presence informs action, and Gestalt coaching supports meaningful change.
Gestalt Coaching:
Working with Resistance Advanced Masterclass
In English only
Date: Nov. 18-20, 2026, Ljubljana, in-person workshop | Jan. 19, 2027 group online supervision
Lead Faculty: Dorothy E. Siminovitch, MCC, in partnership with Jasna Knez, MCC
In a world where AI can support productivity and performance, the human capacity to stay present with complexity, uncertainty, and resistance remains essential.
This advanced experiential masterclass helps coaches understand resistance through a Gestalt coaching lens, not as something to overcome, but as meaningful information about safety, identity, self-protection, and growth.
In this masterclass, participants will:
• Recognize resistance somatically, emotionally, relationally, and contextually
• Distinguish between resistance as a resource and resistance as a limiting pattern
• Work with resistance without fixing, rescuing, overriding, or colluding
• Deepen coaching presence and strengthen use of self as a coaching instrument
• Build greater awareness, curiosity, and psychological safety in coaching conversations
• Navigate complexity, uncertainty, and emotionally charged moments with more confidence
• Expand Gestalt-informed skills for transformational coaching
• Strengthen mastery-level coaching capacities aligned with advanced ICF competencies
Designed for experienced coaches, this workshop supports a more mature, relational, and transformational approach to coaching.
Presence and Masterful Use of Self: Intervention and Influence Skills
Jan. 6 to 9, 2027 (Live Online) – ICF CCEU: 15
8:00am to 1:00pm New York | 4:00pm to 9:00pm Istanbul | 12:00-18:00 UTC
If you’re looking to elevate your presence, impact, and effectiveness as a leader, unlock your full potential at this 4-Day Workshop (5.5 Hours Per Day).
Key Takeaways from this Workshop:
- An increased awareness of your distinctive presence
- Opportunities to explore your impact and effectiveness as intervener at multiple levels of system
- Identification of your access to both relational and intentional action
- Developmental strategies to increase awareness intelligence mastery
Drawing from Gestalt foundations, this workshop offers a highly experiential, relational, and feedback-rich learning experience. Workshop participants practice what they are learning in the observant, supportive company of equally committed peers and a master Gestalt Practitioner.