Participant biographies

Antonio Ferrara

Psychologist and psychotherapist. Director of IGAT, Institute of Gestalt Psychotherapy and Transactional Analysis, and of the Quadrennial School of Specialization in Psychotherapy, recognized by the Ministry of University and Scientific Research (MIUR), in Italy. He lives and works in Naples. Founding member and former president of FISIG, Federazione Italiana delle Scuole and Istituti di Gestalt. Counselor of the College of Psychologists of the region of Campania, Italy. Professor and supervisor in Gestalt Psychotherapy recognized by the FISIG. Member of the EAGT, European Association for Gestalt Therapy. He is also trained in Transactional Analysis and is a professor-supervisor recognized by the ITAA, International Transactional Analysis Association and EATA, European Transactional Analysis Association. An expert in transpersonal therapy, he is part of the supervision team of Claudio Naranjo's international SAT programs. He has elaborated the "Transformative Theater" model, a creative path for the development of the individual and the group.

Isabel Herrera

Body therapist, lives and works in Barcelona. This name is a pseudonym, since the author preferred to remain anonymous for reasons related to her personal process.

Lluís Serra

He is a Doctor in Psychology (URL, Barcelona), a graduate in Theology (PUG, Rome), and a graduate in Philosophy (UB, Barcelona). Director of the Center for Religious Life and Spirituality. He is a professor at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, at ISCREB and at Espailúdic. He collaborates in the Psychology and Spirituality line of the Psychology, Person and Context Research Group of the Ramón Llull University of Barcelona, where he has carried out managerial and teaching tasks. Specialist in the study of Claudio Naranjo's Enneagram, his doctoral thesis is entitled The Enneagram of Passions. He is the author of numerous articles and books, among which Codes of Inner Awakening stands out. He teaches seminars and courses in various countries in Europe and America. He is a columnist for Catalunya Cristiana and a talk show host for Radio Estel.

Paolo Baiocchi

Doctor in psychiatry and gestalt psychotherapist. He is founder and director of the Trieste Istituto Gestalt Trieste, Scuola Quadriennale di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia della Gestalt (recognized by MIUR). He is co-founder of the Comunicazoine Sana method. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and a book entitled Affective communication and human

contact, made with Dr. Danilo Toneguzzi. He trained in gestalt psychotherapy with Claudio Naranjo, with Erving and Miriam Polster and, in Italy, with Paolo Quattrini. He is a collaborator of Claudio Naranjo.

Consuelo Trujillo

Actress and theater director. Teacher of actors and researcher of artistic processes applied to education and psychotherapy. She is a disciple and, since 1998, a collaborator of the SAT Program. My bond with Claudio Naranjo as a teacher has led me to be a seeker of fulfillment in art and in life. My path has to do with the search for a more authentic sense of love and freedom, with opening myself to the conscience and with the acceptance of my true existence, the unconditional surrender and surrender to a greater Will that leads me to accept that what that life brings me is enough. I walk this path of transformation and seek through spirituality the artistic expression, and the sense of transcendence in the great art that is the experience and commitment to everyday life. I long to find peace within myself, that spring of love that heals everything springs from my heart: compassion towards myself and towards others.

Cati Preciado

I am 40 years old, I am married, I did not have children, I am the middle daughter of a family of three children, the only woman. I studied clinical psychology because I fantasized that I could help my family and others if I understood how the human psyche worked. However, deep down it was my way of asking for help and being around adults who could take care of me. I studied a postgraduate degree in psychology and countless courses and diverse experiences in search of finding inner peace, since when I finished my psychology degree I felt very depressed and lonely. On this path, at the age of 24, I came across the Enneagram and my life changed completely: I became passionate about it and I began to get out of my deep depression. I also began to realize that he was very insensitive and ignorant of me. A year later I met Dr. Claudio Naranjo. He was a great awakening to life and love in many ways, and since then I have not separated from his work, his lucidity and his great love for humanity; Today I have been working on my own for more than 15 years as a psychologist for children, adolescents, adults and groups; everything is a resource for me: listening, art, therapy, games, movement, silence... I am very happy to be able to feel like a woman who can live by herself and with others.

Eustaquio García Vallés

Gestalt psychotherapist, works at the Bitácora Gestalt Therapy center in Madrid. Her areas of work are individual therapy with adults, group therapy, couples therapy and the business field. She has been trained in the Claudio Naranjo SAT Program.

Lorena García de las Bayonas

Actress, theater director and teacher of actors. Trained as an actress mainly at the school of dramatic art in Sydney, Australia, and in Spain with Juan Carlos Corazza, with whom I also collaborated for 14 years at his school Estudio Corazza for the Actor, Trained in Gestalt Therapy by the AETG and in Integrative Psychology and Transpersonal with Dr. Claudio Naranjo. She has collaborated with Claudio Naranjo in the SAT program since 2002 in the theater part. Currently she directs the Actor's Center in Madrid. I came to the SAT in 1998, before starting training in gestalt therapy. It has been one of the most important places in my life, both personally and professionally.

Assumpta Mateu

psychologist. Specialist in clinical psychology. Gestalt and integrative psychotherapist. Director of GestalTransformació, Center for Psychology, in Mallorca. Disciple and collaborator of Claudio Naranjo in the international team of the SAT program, Representative of the Claudio Naranjo Foundation in Mallorca. Specialized in Palliative Care and trained in Creative Accompaniment of terminal illness and bereavement. Titular Member and Supervisory Member of the AETG. Member of the FEAP and Psychologist specialized in Psychotherapy by the EFPA (European Federation of Psychologists Associations). Trained in Systemic Family Therapy in the area of couple conflicts. Master in Brief Strategic Therapy. Master in Environmental Intervention (UB). Trained in Relationship Restoration with Suzy Stroke.

Sonia Gajnaj

Graduated in 1990 as a Municipal Actress from the Metropolitan School of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. I have dedicated myself to exploring corporal and vocal artistic disciplines, and I have trained with different teachers related to acting, including Bartiz, Gaspio and others. I start giving classes in 1992 without interruption. Children of all ages, teenagers and a few years later adults interested in vocational theater, are the constant experience in my practice to this day. While developing my acting career, in theater and cinema, from a few teaching days with Hilda Elola I became passionate about teaching in the framework of vocational theater and took two levels of training for workshop leaders with Roberto Vega. I am interested in Gestalt therapies and, for seven years, I take training in this regard, which strongly contributes to my teaching experience. Many times, the benefits of "being what we do" are proclaimed. In this case, fortunately, "I am what I do", because my soul and my heart express themselves through my teaching profession.

Annie Chevreux

Gestalt psychotherapist trained by the Spanish Association of Gestalt Therapy, of which she is a full member. She co-founder and professor of the Madrid School of Gestalt Therapy. She is a

disciple and collaborator of Claudio Naranjo. She is the author of The Berlin of Perls: The avant-garde spirit in art and gestalt therapy (Mandala, Madrid, 2007).

Cristina Nadal

Psychotherapist since 1981. Trainer of Gestalt and humanistic therapists since 1983. Between 1983 and 1989 I was one of the promoters of humanistic and gestalt psychotherapy in the Canary Islands. I am a graduate of the London Institute of Human Potential. I had the honor of co-directing the Institute of Humanist Psychotherapy. I am a full member of the Spanish Association of Gestalt Therapy. I have been developing a gestalt approach to body work. Since 1988, my personal and professional career has been impregnated by the work carried out first with Guillermo Borja and later with Claudio Naranjo, director of the SAT program, to whom he has invited me as a collaborator on some occasions. At the same time, I have become interested in psychoanalytic knowledge, especially in some of its clinical developments. I co-founded and co-direct the Barcelona Gestalt Workshop School, and I currently direct Aula Gestalt.

Angelo Contarino

Graduated in History and Philosophy from the University of Catania, he began as a teacher. He was a lecturer at universities in Colombia and Mexico, and later became a Cultural Attaché at the Italian Embassy in Tunisia. In such countries he opened himself to another vision of existential angst and the path of growth. In Mexico, a place of particularly significant encounters and experiences, he embarked on the teachings of Claudio Naranjo, from whom he continues to learn. Back in Italy, he creates the Educarte center in Noceto, near Siena, in which the search for new lifestyles is promoted and the training experience is shared (he is director of the School of Counseling and artistic mediation), according to a vision integrated psychology, art and spirituality.

Mireia Darder

Founding member of the Gestalt Institute of Barcelona. She has a doctorate in Psychology and a psychologist specializing in Clinical Psychology. Gestalt therapist. Trainer in NLP. Technician in Sociocultural Animation. Trained in Integrative Psychotherapy in the SAT program. Teaching member of the AETG. Psychotherapist recognized by the FEAP. Professor at the Ramón Llull University (1997-2003).

José Ignacio Fernández

Graduated in Documentation and librarian for many years, today I am an integrative therapist from gestalt, bioenergetics, NLP and enneagram, among others. I combine my work with the study and training in psychotherapy and the practice of Zen meditation. Co-director of the Human Space Center for integrative therapy and personal development in the city of Malaga (Spain). I discovered the enneagram in 1998 and it was a great impact for me to identify myself

in character five, seeing for the first time that there were other people like me. Knowing that the creator of the adaptation of the enneagran to modern psychology was Claudio Naranjo, I always wanted to go deeper by approaching him, his school and his books. This led me to carry out the SAT process and to offer my collaboration after the II International Symposium on the Psychology of Enneatypes (Pilas, Seville). I am deeply grateful to Claudio for having created this system that has helped me and others to "go beyond themselves".

Gerardo Ortiz

Graduated in Clinical Psychology, gestalt psychotherapist, body mind therapist, he is a professor of Integrative Gestalt Therapy, collaborates with Sateducación in Chiapas, is part of the Viva Claudio Naranjo Gestalt School in Mexico. Director of Yut O'ntal, Psychotherapeutic Center. Disciple and collaborator of Claudio Naranjo in different SAT Schools in America.

Grazia Cecchini

Gestalt and systemic-relational psychotherapist, he met Claudio Naranjo in 1986 at a workshop in Italy for gestalt therapists. After having been a student in the SAT program, she began to collaborate as a therapist in the SAT in Spain and then in Italy. Over the years, she strengthens her collaboration with Claudio and at the SAT in Europe and America. Her investigations in the Psychology of Enneatypes have become her greatest personal and professional commitment. She is patron of the Claudio Naranjo Foundation.

Betina Waissman

Trained in Authentic Movement since 1995 with Marcia Plevin, Neala Haze, Zoé Avstreih, Joan Chodorow, Tina Stromstead and Janet Adler. Body psychotherapist trained at the CIO in Rio de Janeiro and at the ESTER center in Valencia. She co-founder of Espacio Movimiento. Teacher of the Open River System. Actress. Professor of Movement and Expression at the Corazza Studio for the Actor (Madrid). Disciple and collaborator of Claudio Naranjo in the SAT Program since 1992. Member of FEAP and ADMTE.

Francisco Peñarrubia

A pioneer of the gestalt in Spain, he is a psychologist from the Complutense University of Madrid, he has been director of the Ciparh team for 30 years (1976-2006), a pioneer center of Humanist Psychology in Spain, created by Ignacio Martín Poyo (1973), at that he considers his first teacher and initiator in the gestalt. Co-founder and first president of the Spanish Association of Gestalt Therapy (1982) Disciple of Claudio Naranjo and collaborator in his SAT program periodically. Honorary Member of the Spanish Society of Psychotherapy and Group Techniques (S.E.P.T.G, 1993) and of the Spanish Association of Gestalt Therapy (A.E.T.G., 1999). He is the author of the books "Emotional Integration and Humanist Psychology" (Marova) and "Gestalt Therapy, the path of the fertile void" (Alianza, 1998).

Enrique Villatoro

Bachelor of Psychology. Diploma in Labor Relations. Master in Human Resources Management and process consulting in Organizations. Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Organization at the University of Barcelona. He has over ten years of experience in the field of HR and training. Gestalt psychotherapist, he is a disciple and collaborator of Dr. Claudio Naranjo in the SAT program. He is a full member of the AETG.

Albert Rams

Psychologist, psychotherapist since 1979. Honorary Member of the Spanish Association of Gestalt Therapy. Co-director of the Barcelona Gestalt Workshop School. Author of "Gestalt Clinic", "Metaphors of travel" and "Twenty-five years of Gestalt", both in Ediciones la Llave.

Maria Elena Tinoco Zavala

They call me Brisa, which means mercy. I am a Gestalt therapist, I am the founder of a civil association called Education for Peace (Edupaz), in Mexico, dedicated to the areas of agroecology, solidarity economy (microcredits for indigenous communities) and holistic health. This project connects with the Mayan SAT, with Roberto Gutiérrez and others. I am part of the school of integrative body therapy, along with Toni Aguilar. After thirty years of being a Catholic nun, now, two years ago, I came out with a dispensation from my perpetual vows. I dedicate myself to the work of Edupaz and to giving group and individual therapy. I approached the SAT in 2002. In 1989 I read Claudio Naranjo's book The only search, and since then I started looking for him. After reading "The Agony of Patriarchy", I was even more eager to get in touch with him. Gerardo Ortiz told us one day that Claudio was going to give an SAT in Tonalli, Mexico. I didn't even think about it: it was my big chance...

Alice Maria Ribeiro

I am 59 years old and I have studied History {lato sensu). I am a therapist, with training in Relationship Restoration by Suzana Stroke by the Eneasat do Brasil Institute and the IGAT since 2008. I attend individual consultations for orientations after the SAT courses. I discovered the enneagram in 1994 with Alaor Passos and then I went through the SAT School in 1996 with Claudio Naranjo. Since then I have been doing all the degrees of the SAT Program, and two meditation retreats. I recognized Claudio as my teacher at the 2003 retreat, where he began my journey of transformation.

Juanjo Albert

Psychiatrist. Neurologist. Integrative clinical psychotherapist. Clinical coordinator of the IPETG, Member of the Spanish Society of Psychotherapy and Group Techniques (SEPTG.) and

Teaching and Supervisory Member of the AETG. Member of the Spanish Federation of Psychotherapy Associations (FEAP.) and the Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry (AEN).

Miriam Ortiz de Zárate

Execurive Coach, by the European School of Coaching. Diploma in Coaching from the Centro de Estudios Garrigues. PCC (Professional Certified Coach) by ICF. CP {Professional Coach) by AECOP. Degree in Psychology (UAM). Diploma in Leadership and Team Management (IE). Master in Human Resources (IDE CESEM). SAT Program for Development and Integrative Psychotherapy. Trained in gestalt psychotherapy (two years in EMTG). Currently, she works as an executive coach, trainer and supervisor of coaches. I am a trainer and supervisor at the European School of Coaching. She also taught coaching training programs at the Official College of Psychologists, among others. I have previously held positions of responsibility in the Human Resources Department of national and multinational companies: HR Director at PC CITY, Department Manager at AT&T, Area Manager at Madrid Metro, etc. I have written the book It is not the same (Editorial Lid) together with Silvia Guarnieri. I am a member of the International Coach Federation. Member of AECOP, Spanish Association of Coaching and Processes. Member of the Official College of Psychologists.

Juanita Richter

A potter, she is heir to the school of her father Leopold Richter (1896-1984), a renowned German entomologist, painter and potter. Through years of working with ceramics, color and inspiration, she has achieved that the artistic takes over her work and that ceramics is the means of pictorial expression. Her work revolves around two central themes. One is the wild nature, Colombian fauna and flora, the other is the inner human nature, made up of beings that live inside other beings, transcending and transmitting meaning. Her experience and her evolution in mural work led Juanita to join a team of plastic artists in 1993, which allowed her to streamline the processes of drawing, engraving, application of enamels and painting, thus developing a high level technical and creative.

Emilia Ligi

She was born 55 years ago in Florence, the city where she always resides. Her profession is that of a home assistant for the municipality of Florence, where she is in charge of providing social services to the community. Since 1992 she has been training with Claudio Naranjo in the SAT Program in Italy.