Life Transitions: Engendering Vitality While Aging With Alessandra Merizzi
What if ageing is not a story of decline—but a field of vitality, resistance, and creative adjustment?
Instead, we will ask:
How do cultural images of ageing become embodied?
How do they shape our therapeutic presence?
What happens in the co-created field when ageing and vitality meet?
This is not a lecture-based event. Expect embodied exploration, movement, relational exercises, and deep dialogue in pairs and small groups. There will be space to reflect on your own experience of ageing—and your clinical work with clients navigating transition.
In this experiential CPD workshop, Alessandra Merizzi invites us to examine the existential dimensions of ageing and how we relationally navigate life transitions—both personally and in the therapy room.
Drawing on psychogerontology, clinical neuroscience, and Gestalt therapy, Alessandra brings a provocative lens to the embodied stereotypes that shape how we grow older. Influenced by the research of Becca Levy and re-examined through Gestalt practice, this workshop challenges the dominant Western narrative that equates youth with vitality and ageing with limitation.
CPD Hours awarded
Part of our Living and Working on the Margins Programme
Alessandra Merizzi is a Clinical Psychologist, Gestalt Psychotherapist, psychogerontology specialist, and neuroscience researcher affiliated with the National Institute of Health and Science on Aging (INRCA-IRCCS). An international trainer and published author, she brings clinical depth, research rigour, and embodied presence to her teaching.
If you work with adults in transition—this conversation is already in your therapy room.
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