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The Belgian Gestalt Society.

As a professional association, the SBG relies on its foundations to fulfil its missions. Thus, it:

  • affirms the importance and necessity of continuous membership in a professional organisation that ethically and deontologically engages each member with respect to their patients, colleagues, any person, and any organisation with which the practitioner will be in contact.
  • recognises the importance and necessity for each practitioner to actively contribute to the functioning of the professional organisation to which they belong.
  • pays particular attention to issues of ethics and deontology, and strives, both towards clients and its members, to ensure respect for their dignity, autonomy, and freedom.
  • pays attention to the quality of training for Gestalt therapists, practitioners, and coaches in their respective specialities, respecting differences, and working to confront their practices.

Activities

The activities of the SBG may vary depending on the available resources. Here is a non-exhaustive list of what it offers, in line with its statutes:

  • the processing of applications, the integration of new members, start-up assistance
  • the dissemination of an official list of its members, including supervisors recognised by the SBG.
  • the development, dissemination and enforcement of a code of ethics applicable to members
  • the organisation of reflection days, seminars, workshops, colloquia, conferences, debates
  • the dissemination of information on all media and raising awareness of Gestalt
  • the implementation of civic actions, the facilitation of forums and websites, the organisation of meet-up cafés
  • the creation of networks, the establishment of links and collaborations with any association having a similar or complementary purpose to its object

Complementary actions

  • Reflection/rest days: members meet in a friendly manner on a Gestalt theme
  • Theoretical reflection groups open to members: they meet several times a year to deepen and clarify theoretical and clinical questions
  • A Complaints Commission: An internal body of the SBG responsible for receiving and processing complaints from patients involving Gestalt therapists who are members of the SBG and for addressing any potential complaints from patients
  • Financial or organisational support for various projects such as publications, research
  • Legal actions aimed at defending its interests, those of its members and/or their patients
  • The processing of applications, the integration of new members, start-up assistance
  • The dissemination of an official list of its members, including supervisors recognised by the SBG
  • the development, dissemination and enforcement of a code of ethics applicable to members
  • The organisation of reflection days, seminars, workshops, colloquia, conferences, debates
  • The dissemination of information on all media and raising awareness of Gestalt
  • The implementation of civic actions, the facilitation of forums and websites, the organisation of meet-up cafés
  • The creation of networks, the establishment of links and collaborations with any association having a similar or complementary purpose to its object

The SBG is part of a network of professional associations 

This network includes other therapeutic approaches, notably theBelgian Association of Psychotherapy (ABP-BVP). 
At the European level, the Belgian Society of Gestalt is the co-representative in Belgium of theEuropean Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT, European Association for Gestalt-therapy). In this capacity, it is recognised as a national accreditation body that can participate in the issuance of the CEP (European Certificate of Psychotherapy).