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Gestalt-Informed Certificate in Somatic Pattern Interruption

Recognise the moment change loses energy

Your client can name the change they want but their thoughts, and body language reveal the protective pattern influencing what happens next.

Learn to recognise and work with six Gestalt interruptions to contact.

Start with the Master Class, it's 100% free.

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Saturday 14 November 2026  and

Tuesday 17 and Thursday 19 November 2026
Live online.
FULLY BOOKED

15 hours of experiential training · CPD certificate · €195 Early Bird

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Why Gestalt And Why It Matters 

Gestalt offers a precise framework for understanding how people interrupt change.  Fritz Perls called these the interruptions to contact. They shape the movement from awareness and action towards completion.

Yet it is important to remember that eash one began as an adaptive strategy supporting safety, protection or belonging.

  • The client who swallowed a rule whole and never chewed it over.
  • The client whose anger turns inward through muscular tension, self-criticism or silence.
  • The client whose humour appears each time the work reaches a tender edge.
Hypnotherapy often meets these experiences through concepts such as resistance, secondary gain and self-sabotage.  But labels don't create change.  Gestalt contact work does.  It adds a clinical map of how the interruption happens.  

When you can name it, you can work with it.
First with the thoughts, then with the body and then with suggestion.

Saturday, Clinical Calibration Starts With You 

Your own experience becomes part of the experiential work.   Because the more you can sense a pattern in your own experience, the more accurately you can recognise it in the therapeutic relationship.

That’s why we start by exploring  your own protective strategies are subconsciously running your career.

For example, Pricing. Visibility. The diary that keeps you anxious.  The boundary that you didn't keep. The opportunity that activated hesitation.  Some version of these in interruptions are activated in all of us as we build our career.   Understanding them creates self-compassion, greater choice and a more sustainable way of building your practice.

Tuesday and Thursday: from embodied awareness to clinical skill

The two online evenings bring the Saturday experience into clinical practice while the learning remains alive in your body.

We apply the six patterns to therapeutic work with anxiety, exploring how repeated interruptions shape a client’s capacity for regulation, contact and choice.

These evenings turn embodied insight into practical clinical skill.

Fully Embodied Training 


What you will learn works equally well in-person or online.   If you already work online, then practising it online will sharpen your somatic skills. 

Each exercise is self-directed, with clear guidance around choice, pacing and physical boundaries.

Simple objects become part of the learning process. Here's what you need to bring if you are online.  If you are in person, Susan will bring the supplies.

  • Paper and pens
  • A water bottle
  • Clear plastic you can write on
  • A phone torch
  • A ball

Let's Explore The Six Interruptions

Discover the six patterns shaping your body and your practice, then learn to recognise them in clients presenting with anxiety.

Introjection

Absorbing a rule or belief before you've had a chance to test whether it fits.

“A good hypnotherapist should keep their fees accessible, so I’m still charging the same amount I chose when I qualified.”

Projection

Feeling something in yourself and experiencing it as though it belongs to the other person.

“People probably look at my website and wonder whether I have enough experience.”

Retroflection

Turning a feeling or an impulse back on yourself instead of sending it outward.

“Every slow week becomes another reason to push myself harder and question whether I’m right for this work.”

Deflection

Steering the energy away through humour, abstraction, a generalisation or a change of subject.

“I keep refining my website, planning new content and taking another course. The conversation about becoming visible gets forgotten for a while.”

Confluence

Losing the edge between yourself and the other person, until your own needs are hard to pick out.

“I feel every client’s urgency as if it were mine, and by Friday my whole body is carrying the weight of the week.”

Egotism

Watching yourself so closely that spontaneity and natural contact have nowhere to go.

“In sessions, part of me is monitoring myself, wondering whether I sound skilled enough and searching for the perfect thing to say.”

What You'll Leave Able To Do


  1. 1
    Identify the six ways clients interrupt change.
    Recognise what's actually happening when a client wants change and keeps producing the same response. Use precise questions to explore how the interruption appears in thoughts, language and beliefs.
  2. 2
    Read each pattern in the body.
    Track the experience as it moves through the body. Share observations tentatively and collaboratively, while supporting the meaning your clients are making from the experience.
  3. 3
    Use somatic interventions and hypnotic suggestion to support change. Develop suggestions that come from your client’s own language and embodied discovery. Connect the session experience with an achievable step in everyday life.

Thirty Years of Listening Beneath the Words

Susan Wallace brings thirty years of experience in hypnotherapy and practitioner development. She listens at two levels: for the interruption shaping the present moment and for the capability ready to emerge.

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CPD CERTIFICATION

Complete 15 hours of training in somatic awareness and experiential enactment, with a focus on clinical application, practitioner reflection and ethical integration.
Gestalt Informed Certificate in Somatic Pattern Interruption
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Dates and Booking

Early bird until 14 October is €195.  €250 thereafter.
Includes the Saturday training, two clinical integration evenings and CPD certification.
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Saturday 14 November 2026, 10am to 5pm Irish time. Calibration day. In person in Kilkenny, or live online.

Tuesday 17 and Thursday 19 November 2026, 7pm to 9pm Irish time. Clinical integration. Online for everyone.