Associate Certification Course In
Gestalt Psychology
About the programme
Gestalt Psychology offers an experiential approach to mental wellness by helping individuals resolve past conflicts, become more present, and understand their thoughts and emotions. This training introduces 12 transformative tools that support emotional clarity, dissociation from limiting patterns, and connection with one’s true self.
As Associates, participants learn to engage fully with the present moment through practical activities and guided exercises. The programme provides a 4-day immersive live training experience available in a hybrid format, allowing you to join in person in Mumbai or participate online from home while receiving the depth, presence, and transformative impact.
Learning Outcomes:
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Counseling Skills training helps counselors create a safe, supportive space while understanding deeper layers of emotional pain. They learn to clear neural pathways, guide therapeutic breakthroughs, and help clients dissociate from overwhelming emotions to regain clarity, balance, and renewed focus.
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Therapy Tools empower coaches to help clients connect with their true self and recognize emotional layers that need attention. Using natural element–based methods, clients learn to understand their burdens, release patterns that no longer serve them, and move toward meaningful personal transformation.
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Psychology Students strengthen academic performance and analytical thinking. They learn to view problems from multiple angles, identify deeper patterns, generate creative solutions, and unlock their full intellectual and creative potential.
Objectives of the Certificate Programme:
Our primary aim is to empower you to incorporate Gestalt psychology tools into your professional practice.
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Enhanced Problem Solving: Apply Gestalt principles to enhance your problem-solving abilities by considering the broader context and relationships within a given situation, leading to more effective and holistic solutions.
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Present Moment Awareness: Emphasize the significance of being present in the moment, fostering heightened awareness and mindfulness in your professional interactions.
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Conflict Resolution: Apply Gestalt principles to navigate conflicts by understanding the underlying dynamics, leading to more effective and empathetic resolutions.
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Effective Communication: Utilize Gestalt psychology principles to refine your communication skills, fostering clearer expression and understanding in professional relationships.
We go beyond theoretical understanding, placing importance on providing practical skills for applying Gestalt psychology tools in real-world situations. The goal is to empower you with the knowledge and capabilities to make a significant and positive impact in both your professional and personal life.
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
-Abraham Maslow
Next live training dates are from 23rd Jan to 26th Jan 2026.
A transformational 4 day live training experience, offering a hybrid flexibility:
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Attend in person in Mumbai or
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Join virtually from the comfort of your home
Timings: 12 pm to 10 pm on all days.
Admissions are open. Apply now to check vision alignment and join the course.
Early bird registrations currently ongoing.
Syllabus
01. Pre - work
3 Modules | 15 Hours
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Introduction to Gestalt
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Intro Day
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What is Gestalt
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Gestalt Mentors
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Language creates experience
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Gestalt Psychology
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White Triangle
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Intro to unfinished business and chair
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Role Identity
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Psychodrama
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Balance in Key (Polarity Collapse)
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Integrating masculinity & femininity polarity
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Memory and Cognition
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Trauma & Gestalt
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Abnormal Psychology
02. Class Syllabus
4 Modules | 40 Hours
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Forming Beliefs: Emphasizing the organization of perceptual experiences, suggests that individuals form beliefs by integrating and organizing information into coherent and complete mental structures, influenced by principles such as closure, proximity, similarity, and gestalt shifts.
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Psychodrama: Involves experiential role-playing techniques to explore and integrate emotions, relationships, and conflicts, fostering self-awareness and personal growth.
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Sensing Contact: Being present in the moment, focusing on bodily sensations and direct experiences to enhance awareness and deepen one's connection with the environment.
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Gestalt Cycle: Encapsulates the ongoing process of awareness, contact, assimilation, and withdrawal, emphasizing the dynamic nature of human experience and personal growth.
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The Gestalt Prayer: Associated with Fritz Perls highlights the importance of embracing personal responsibility and living in the present moment rather than dwelling on past or future concerns.
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Unfinished Business: Involves unresolved emotions and experiences from the past that hinder present awareness, emphasizing the need to address and integrate these issues for personal growth
7. The Empty Chair: Involves symbolic dialogue and role-playing, allowing individuals to express and explore unspoken feelings, conflicts, or aspects of themselves.
8. Figure & Ground: The concept of figure and ground emphasizes the perception of distinguishing a focal object (figure) from its surrounding background (ground), illustrating the importance of context in shaping one's experiences and perceptions.
9. Pendulum Theory: That individuals oscillate between polarized states, experiencing shifts in perceptions, emotions, and behaviors as they seek balance and integration.
10. Collapsing Polarities: Involves integrating opposing aspects or conflicts within oneself to achieve a more balanced and unified experience.
11. Systemic Constellation: Involves the use of spatial arrangements and role-playing to explore family dynamics, relationships, and hidden influences on personal issues, promoting insight and resolution.
12. Allowance Before Acceptance: suggests the importance of acknowledging and understanding experiences without immediate judgment, allowing for a more authentic and comprehensive acceptance of oneself.
03. Integration Submission
3 Modules | 5 Hours
1. Skills Showcase video
A comprehensive and detailed demonstration
of the tools of Gestalt.
2. Written Integration:
An evaluation based on your knowledge of theoretical concepts of Gestalt Psychology .
3. Live Integration:
An oral evaluation with the senior moderator on your understanding of the skills.
Certification And Evaluation :
The International Journal of Neurolinguistics & Gestalt Psychology:
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The International Journal of Neurolinguistics & Gestalt Psychology (IJNGP) serves as the overseeing body for the course, ensuring the smooth and organised conduct of evaluations.
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They manage the compilation of everyone's marks, enlist moderators, and establish the evaluation processes according to their guidelines.
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IJNGP is an annual, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing research in Neurolinguistics and Gestalt Psychology.
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The journal publishes research articles and reviews, contributing to the ongoing development of research in Neurolinguistics and Gestalt Psychology.
Integration Summary:
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Participants in the Gestalt evaluation will undergo a thorough assessment, examining their proficiency in Gestalt Skills.
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Participants must successfully complete all assessments and achieve the required scores across various parameters to be eligible for the certification of the Gestalt course.
The integration summary serves as the platform for the disclosure of your grades, functioning as a comprehensive mark sheet that highlights your performance.
Apostillization:
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Participants must submit a written paper answering questions related to the subject.
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Viva rounds with a moderator involve inquiries about tool applications in specific contexts and demonstrations of participants' acquired skills.
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The apostilization process serves as formal certification, affirming your status as a Gestalt Associate.
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This official document bears the signatures of diverse moderators who actively participate in the evaluation process.
Testimonials:
Sudarshana Sinha
Anil Thomas's session for Gestalt Associate course was an enriching experience. His way of explaining and bringing Fritz's teachings in front of us was truly life changing. The activities done in the course was helpful for self and it intrigued me to know more about this approach. The entire team of Anil was extremely co operative and helpful at all times because of which the course was a hassle-free experience. This is a course I would recommend for all to experience at least once.
Nikhil Damble
Shivani Garg
I was curious to learn Gestalt, since it was one of the source disciplines of where Neuro Linguistic Programming comes from. I wouldn't say "taught", but Anil "initiated" us into Gestalt, would be more apt. The great thing about Anil is as they say "form without form" - he walked us through various simple or sometimes abstract experiential activities, and I later realised how purposefully each had been crafted.
Each course with Anil is an experience by itself. His teaching style, his wisdom, knowledge, genuine desire to share this with others is unique and brings rapid transformations in the audience. Learning Gestalt with Anil has added new dimensions to my understanding of human nature and psychology. I highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to work on their own inner world as well any professional interacting with others.
Resources:
Exploring the topic of Archetypes, the following article aims to highlight how significant it is to recognise the roles played by archetypes around us, their influential capacity, and its variation across cultural groups with relevant examples drawn from intercultural and interfaith global narratives.
Gestalt Associate Course
Gestalt theory suggests that humans perceive objects and patterns in their entirety, often as unified wholes, rather than as a collection of distinct elements. This idea is encapsulated in the famous phrase, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
A Quantitative Study, Lurian Kabbalah and Gestalt Therapy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52522/ijngp.v3i2.5
Author: Anil Thomas
Abstract
This paper explores the interplay between Jewish Lurianic Kabbalah and Gestalt Therapy, focusing on enmeshment of emotions of the client. The paper proposes a method to unmesh enmeshed emotions using principles of Lurianic Kabbalah applied to Gestalt Therapy.
Research Papers:
Anger: Examining Anger Variations and their Effects
Author Affiliations
Author: Anil Thomas
Co-Author: Pranjali Vatsa
Abstract
Anger is one of the simplest and primary emotions felt by human beings but this emotion can single-handedly give rise to various negative emotions like frustration, aggression, irritation, sadness, grief and pain.
Treatment of Trauma through Integrational Dissociation and Distortion
Author Affiliations
Anil Thomas
Abstract
Trauma has been one of the oldest and most difficult sufferings of humans. Even though the source of trauma has passed, there are long-lasting effects that generations have to deal with.
Gestalt Cycle: The Resistance of Commerce
Author Affiliations
Anil Thomas
Abstract
This brief report throws light on the evolution of humans, the various universal emotions that exist like happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, surprise and anger and the biological basis of the human brain, the two different hemispheres, the lobes and the functions that it performs.
Next live training dates are from 23rd Jan to 26th Jan 2026.
A transformational 4 day live training experience, offering a hybrid flexibility:
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Attend in person in Mumbai or
-
Join virtually from the comfort of your home
Timings: 12 pm to 10 pm on all days.
Admissions are open. Apply now to check vision alignment and join the course.
Early bird registrations currently ongoing.
Enrolment Process :
Fees :
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The all inclusive total course fee is INR 35,000/-.
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Early registrations benefit from the all-inclusive Early Bird Fee of INR 29,000/-
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Pay the fees using one of the Easy EMI Installment plan for upto 12 months.
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Registration form &
Guidelines call
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Pre-work, Video Lectures & Reading Material
(15 Hours)
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Live Classroom
Training with Anil Thomas
(40 Hours)
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Assessments & Evaluations
(5 Hours)
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Course Materials & Certifications
Age Criteria: 21 years old or older
Eligibility: Preferable professionals from the mental health space - counselors, coaches, psychologist & alternate healing modalities- TA, Yoga, Reiki etc...
Medium of Instruction: English
Progression: Successful candidates after clearing all the requisites may be invited for the international Gestalt Masters Certification.
Refund Policy:
* INR 9,000/- off the total fee paid will be non-refundable and non-transferrable (neither to another person or batch).
* The balance amount paid is non-refundable if you decide to withdraw 10 days (or less) before the live training begins.
* Please write to gestalt@anilthomas.co if you wish to claim your refund based on the above policy.
About the Facilitators:
Anil Thomas
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Anil Thomas is an internationally certified NLP trainer and Gestalt Practitioner and owes his therapeutic skills to Dr. Richard (Dick) McHugh; SJ. Ph.D.
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Through Fr Dick's teaching and his love for the subject he was blessed to further learn NLP from John Grinder himself and other co-developers such as Judith DeLozier (Russia) and Robert Dilts (USA).
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Anil has been emboding and living NLP across the world since 2008.
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He is a humble facilitator of Global Certification Courses in NLP and Gestalt across countries such as Australia, Russia, USA, Hong Kong, Thailand and China.
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He is a proud mentor to the International Journal of Neurolinguistics & Gestalt Psychology (IJNGP).
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He is also the creator of multiple books, podcasts, blogs and research papers.
India
Hong Kong
USA
Macedonia
Australia
Russia
China
Thailand
Aarti Asrani, Co-facilitator, Moderator
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Aarti is a TEDx Speaker, Bestselling Author, Law Of Attraction & Consciousness Coach, NLP & Gestalt Master Practitioner, Psychotherapist, & a Health & Wellness Consultant.
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With over 24 International Certifications in her field, she has authored four books.
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Aarti has helped people across the globe to overcome health, life and emotional issues like finance, stress, migraine, depression, separation, vertigo, anxiety, fear, addictions and more.
Peer Review & Moderation Panel :
Aastha Kamra
Counsellor and Therapist
Elisha Virani
Psychologist
Ritika Jain
Counsellor
Shivali Dharaskar
Clinical Psychologist
Sushma Sharma
Founder, Director
& Psychotherapist
