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This was the Announcement for the

17th Scientific Gestalt Theory Convention of the GTA

The lectures of this conference will be published in Gestalt Theory 2/2011



March 30 - April 2, 2011
Potsdam, Germany

in cooperation with the
Business School Potsdam
for Management and Health

BSP

Gestalt - Organization - Development

Kurt Lewin and Organization Development

 

 

 

 

Head of Conference Committee:
Univ.-Prof. Herbert Fitzek


You are cordially invited to attend the international 17th Scientific Convention of the GTA at the Business School Potsdam (Germany), on March 30–April 2nd, 2011.

Development and Organization are core topics of Gestalt psychology. Kurt Lewin defined them as basic concepts of a psychological analysis of social and economical issues. The conference essentially refers to the question, how Gestalt and field theory give an insight on the dynamics of groups and institutional processes. Furthermore, it will focus on their contribution to a psychological diagnosis and consultation of organizational cultures.

But the conference theme – Gestalt - Organization - Development – is intended to suggest rather than restrict topics for consideration. Presentations may focus specifically on this conference theme or on other related subjects from a variety of fields of research and application of Gestalt theory which serve the discussion and advancement of the Gestalt-theoretical approach. In this way the meeting is open for theoretical and practical presentations and discussions on Gestalt - Development - Organization also in other fields of science, research and application in the sense of an interdisciplinary dialogue.

Part of the convention will be an excursion on Saturday to Berlin sites relevant for Gestalt theory´s history.

The program of the conference will feature plenary lectures, workshops and poster sessions. Conference languages are German and English.

Preliminary list of Presentations
Lectures, Workshops, Posters

For a more detailed program please click here


Key Note Address - Festvortrag:
Helmut Lück, Hagen: Kurt Lewin - Anfänge der Wirtschaftspsychologie (Kurt Lewin - Beginnings of Economic Psychology)

Lectures - Workshops - Posters:

  • Norbert Andersch, London:
    Kurt Lewin - Gespannte Systeme und Genesereihen
  • Anna Arfelli Galli, Macerata:
    Interaktive Didaktik: Lewin und Tavistock
  • Tobias Braun / Rainer Zeichhardt, Potsdam:
    Organisation und Entwicklung - A Case Study
  • J. Claussen, Potsdam:
    Organisationsentwicklung in einem Start up - Unternehmen
  • Herbert Fitzek, Potsdam:
    Lewin und Aktionsforschung
  • Rainer Kästl, Lindau /B. Lindorfer, Vienna:
    Psychosomatik
  • Anna Khodorenko, Dnjepropretowsk:
    Linguistic Gestalt and Language Units Hierarchy
  • Gisela Kubon-Gilke, Darmstadt:
    Gestalttheoretische Hintergründe zum Zusammenhang von Wirtschafts- und Sozialstaatskrise
  • Hellmuth Metz-Göckel, Dortmund:
    Duale Prozess-Theorien in der Psychologie
  • Raymond Pavloski, Indiana:
    Recurrent Neural Networks as a Model of Gestalten? 
  • Klaus Schwarzfischer, Regensburg:
    Integrative Ästhetik / Integrative Aesthetics
  • Marianne Soff, Karlsruhe:
    Lewin als Pionier der Burnout–Forschung
  • Gerhard Stemberger, Vienna:
    Das Ich – Konstruktion, Illusion oder Realität?  
  • Katharina Sternek, Vienna / Thomas Fuchs, Bonn:
    Gestalttheoretische Psychotherapie - Einführung
  • Thomas Stöcker, Potsdam:
    Der Lebensraum als Möglichkeitsraum für Training, Beratung und Coaching
  • Jaana Vainio-Utriainen, Helsinki:
    Bauhaus and Gestalt Theory
  • Uta Wedam, Graz:
    Die Gestalt des Fremden in der Gesellschaft
  • Pola Zügge, Gudrun Schoppe, Kathalin Laser und Eva Graubner (Potsdam):
    Bild/Er/Leben

Conference fee:
190 € (till March 15th, 2011), then 230 €.
Conference fee for GTA-members:
160 € (till March 15th, 2011), then 200 €.
Reduced fee upon request: 70 € (till January 31th, 2011).

Registration and payment:
Please send your registration via e-mail to the Conference Committee Potsdam 2011: gta2011@gestalttheory.net and pay the conference fee to the GTA bank account:

GTA
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Konto-Nr: 826413
BLZ: 52069029
IBAN: DE83 5206 9029 0000 8264 13
BIC: GENODEF1GMD
Payment reference: Conference 2011

The registration´s confirmation and further information will be sent to you upon registration and payment.

If there is anything you would like to ask or suggest, please do not hesitate to contact the Conference Committee Potsdam 2011 by eMail:

Email Conference Committee

Click here for a list of the Scientific Conventions of the GTA 1979-2009

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