Dr. Billy Desmond
PhD, MBA, MSc, Dip Gestalt, Dip Supervision, PG Cert Research Supervision
Billy lives between London and the rural west coast
of Ireland. He is a registered UKCP, IAHIP Gestalt psychotherapist and
supervisor. As a working-class cis gender queer white Irish(e)migrant he has a particular
ability and interest in building collaborative partnerships transculturally and
transdisciplinary. His passion for collaborative, embodied and disruptive forms
of researching has been driven by his personal and professional experience of
exiling and marginalisation, areas he is now particularly focused on
addressing. He is an embodied practitioner-researcher and dialogical educator
with a particular interest in groups and embodied ways of knowing. His recent
PhD qualitative research focused on aesthetic forms of knowing in groups
situated in disturbing fields. He is Director of the Gestalt Institute of
Ireland, guest faculty at different Gestalt training institutes internationally,
and a certified trainer of Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy. He is on the
editorial board of the Gestalt Book Series and the Gestalt Review journal. He
has published journal papers andbook chapters on group work, experiential ways
of knowing, sustainability, spirituality,homophobia, working with gay men; and
co-authored a book introductionto Gestalt (Sage, 2013). He presents regularly
at international conferences.
Contact:
billy.desmond@gestaltinstitute.ie
Mobile:
+353 83 4123447