Devotion, Ritual, and the Ground of Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles (GTILA)

A presentation with Jordan Dann, MFA, LP, CIRT, SEP

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Gestalt therapy invites us to meet what is—fully, reverently, and with care. This workshop explores devotion not as dogma or sentiment, but as a disciplined, embodied orientation toward presence. Devotion in the therapeutic encounter arises through contact, humility, and human-to-human meeting—but also through the ritual structures that hold the work: our attendance to time, boundaries, beginnings and endings, the preparation of space, the rhythm of return, and the ongoing tending of the field. In both physical and virtual rooms, the therapist’s devotion is expressed in how we create and sustain the conditions for awareness. Every ritual gesture—lighting a candle, opening a laptop, arranging the chairs—can be understood as a way of saying “you matter; we matter.” Devotion, then, becomes a form of aesthetic and ethical care: attention to the relational, the environmental, and the temporal. Through dialogue, experiential practice, and reflection, we will explore how devotion and ritual together root Gestalt therapy in an ethic of presence, reverence, and responsibility—to self, other, and field.

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About the presenter:Jordan Dann, MFA, LP, CIRT, SEP is a nationally certified, New York State–licensed psychoanalyst and traumatologist whose work integrates Gestalt therapy, somatic psychology, and relational neuroscience. With a foundational background in the performing arts—specifically Linklater voice technique and Grotowski-based physical theatre—her clinical approach is deeply grounded in presence, creativity, and embodied relational attunement. Jordan is the author of Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma and co-editor of Experiential Therapies for Treating Trauma. She is the creator of the Relationship Transformation Course and serves on the faculty at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy. Through her private practice and her widely followed Instagram presence, @jordandann, she translates complex clinical theory into accessible, research-informed practices supporting trauma recovery, nervous system regulation, and conscious processes of rupture and repair in relationships.

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