Existential Experience Therapy

Welcome to ExisTherapy. Our motto is: 
"To exist is to experience, and to experience together is therapy."

Upcoming workshop: 05.05.26
other dates: 19.05.26 / 02. 06.26 / 
Additional updates on Facebook group: ExisTherapy group.

Welcome to a new course!

An existential deep-dive;
exploration of meaning, identity and relationships.

Here you can ask the big questions about meaning, belonging, freedom and vulnerability. We use open-ended questions, dialogue, creativity and movement, so that you also get in touch with yourself behind the words.

Confidentiality is important; what is shared in the group, stays there. If and when difficult, sensitive things come up, you are held professionally by the course facilitators.

And we are...

Sven Dybwad Haagensen, PhD, MNGF, gestalt psychotherapist

Dagmara Pater, visual artist and art educator

You will get an opportunity to ... 

- take a deep dive into your own existential questions

- address things you are struggling with, without anyone trying to "fix" you,

- experience being seen, heard and taken seriously,

- express yourself through drawing and movement to get behind the words,

- explore and work with uncertainty, pain or anxiety.

No prior knowledge of philosophy, art/drawing or movement is required.

Practical information

Date: 21.04.26

Time: Tuesdays at 19.00–22.00, every other week

Duration: 6 evenings – until summer, and your first time is free.
Place: Torshofloftet, Vogts gate 64b, 0477 Oslo (above/behind SoriaMoria/Cosmopolite)

Price: 450 kr; Students/ Social security recipients: 300 kr

We aim for having 8 participants in the group.

Registration, by first time registration mark "First time check in"

Questions: info@existherapy.com
or Dagmara Pater, mob: 47 26 23 70.

Some more info:

Each course evening contains ...

Dialogue
We start with a conversation about a topic (for example, choice, loneliness, trust, freedom).

Creative expression

Then we draw what we have come into contact with in the dialogue. Whatever comes to you.  Afterwards, we reflect together on what we see. There are always interesting angles and aspects to be found, and maybe this is where you get an AHA? Something new, that is important to you.

Movement

We round off with simple, guided movements that help the body integrate what has come up – feelings, insights, questions. We also move to music, with the same purpose. 

We set up a "waterhole", trusting that you will take home something of value for you.

Maybe you'll find...
- increased self-awareness and self-respect,

- higher resilience in life,

- a feeling of not being alone with your questions

You are warmly welcome!

Regards, Dagmara and Sven

Registration: https://www.letsreg.com/no/booking/existentialexperiencetherapy_1768601977#/, 

As long as the group is not full, we welcome spontaneous drop-ins. We will inform you here once the group reaches 8 people, which is the limit to keep it intimate and comfortable for everyone.

Belonging and depth – a weekend of inner exploration.
We're setting up a "watering hole"
by Isdammen at Årvoll in Oslo,
Saturday and Sunday, April 11–12, 10:00–17:00.

A small group will reflect on life's big questions – you can bring what you're struggling with, be seen, heard, and taken seriously. We'll also use drawing and movement to go beyond words and discover your own inner resources.

Facilitators: Gestalt therapist Sven Dybwad Haagensen and visual artist/art educator Dagmara Pater.

Price: 1600 NOK for both days (1200 NOK for students/people on benefits).
Free parking at the nearby trailhead parking; bus 31 to Stig.

Registration: info@existherapy.com, 
or see the event and sign up on FB (Facebook).

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