Ageing identity. The story-teller self” webinar with Alessandra Merizzi

Since our face-to-face training is disrupted, we are offering online webinars using Zoom.  Each webinar will last 2½ hours, including a 15 minute break.  A presentation on the theme will be followed by smaller group discussions (using Zoom’s Breakout Room facility), followed by a break, then plenary questions and case consultation connected with the theme.  The plenary sessions will be recorded (apart from case consultations), and the recordings are also available to purchase.

Language All webinars will be in English.

In Gestalt terms, Identity is the result of the integration of the ongoing co-created experience of the process of self. The Personality function of self gives a sense of self-continuity and it allows us to verbalise our story, our autobiography (Philippson, 2009).
During the ageing process our identity is challenged by several aspects, including changes in our physical appearance/abilities, in perceiving our self, alongside the possible occurrence of psychosocial crisis as described by Erickson (1950).
The aim of this webinar is to explore how the above aspects challenge the believed stability of one’s identity, including and starting from our own, and how we may support others to enrich their identity during older age.
All participants are invited to have pictures with them of their childhood and adulthood, and a picture representing themselves in the future.

Alessandra Merizzi, Gestalt Psychotherapist and Clinical Psychologist, has been working for several years with older adults in a variety of settings including the NHS. She published an article entitled “Clinical Supervision in the Context of Older Adult Mental Health NHS Services”. She recently submitted a chapter “Gestalt Therapy and Later Life” for a forthcoming publication. Alessandra has also been running seminars on this theme for the Russian association Psy4Psy.
For further information, please visit her website
https://www.merizzi-psychotherapy.com/