I was born in Split, at the coast where the sea, even though mighty and huge, collaboratively (almost confluently) changes its colour harmonising with skies, and people are always right, pronouncing absolute truths (specially about others), like control and do not stand differences.
Studying psychology in Zagreb brought me bigger degree of invisibility and possibility to live in accordance with myself. Two years of post-graduate education in USA broaden my professional, social and cultural views.
A bit less than 20 years work as school psychologist in the II. Gymnasium (general secondary school) taught me a lot about people and life and incited me to more learning, because it proved that what I knew was not easily applicable in practice and work with individuals. The Behaviour therapy training of that time gave me useful tools, yet I was missing understanding people from ‘inside’. Encounter with Gestalt opened that third dimension, but also the right on subjective truth and differing from others, right to make personal choices, possibility to be blue when skies are leady dark, or gray and heavy when skies are bright. It showed me path towards myself through all layers of my onion. I have started pealing my onion in 1981 and am still doing it.
As in Gestalt the path towards oneself doesn’t exclude way to others, I was along my way very active in Croatian Psychology Society, Association of Psychotherapy Societies of Croatia, among founders of the Society of Gestalt and Integrative therapists of Croatia, before that one of the organisers of the first proper Gestalt education in Croatia under IGW (Germany); also conceptualised and structured conference “Psychology, media, ethics”, and I have written some of my professional thoughts and experiences in books, journals and talked in media.
Being of that kind prone to activism, the war made me be expert on stress, trauma and recovery and provided me with four years of working experience in non-governmental sector in the Society for Psychological Assistance. From my three years experience of directing a secondary school I learned two things – that it is possible to manage people and operations respecting all stakeholders following Gestalt principles, and that governing is not what I like to do.
I quitted all the jobs and finally stood up on my own feet in 2000. Since then I have had my own official private therapy practice, I have collaborated with many on the NGO and GO scenes; I have done trainings in Croatia and abroad, lectures on postgraduate studies, team, group and individual supervision. Two activities are especially important and dear to me – leading education in Gestalt therapy (since 1999 under the IGW roof, and now at the Gestalt Centre Homa – 8 groups/generations till now) and authorship and leadership of the UNICEF programme Stop violence among children (with which we reached over 300 schools and 150.000 students) because they enable process of change and growth.
In peeling my onion and revealing myself a special place have had, of course, my husband, children and (from not so long) my grandson.
Studying psychology in Zagreb brought me bigger degree of invisibility and possibility to live in accordance with myself. Two years of post-graduate education in USA broaden my professional, social and cultural views.
A bit less than 20 years work as school psychologist in the II. Gymnasium (general secondary school) taught me a lot about people and life and incited me to more learning, because it proved that what I knew was not easily applicable in practice and work with individuals. The Behaviour therapy training of that time gave me useful tools, yet I was missing understanding people from ‘inside’. Encounter with Gestalt opened that third dimension, but also the right on subjective truth and differing from others, right to make personal choices, possibility to be blue when skies are leady dark, or gray and heavy when skies are bright. It showed me path towards myself through all layers of my onion. I have started pealing my onion in 1981 and am still doing it.
As in Gestalt the path towards oneself doesn’t exclude way to others, I was along my way very active in Croatian Psychology Society, Association of Psychotherapy Societies of Croatia, among founders of the Society of Gestalt and Integrative therapists of Croatia, before that one of the organisers of the first proper Gestalt education in Croatia under IGW (Germany); also conceptualised and structured conference “Psychology, media, ethics”, and I have written some of my professional thoughts and experiences in books, journals and talked in media.
Being of that kind prone to activism, the war made me be expert on stress, trauma and recovery and provided me with four years of working experience in non-governmental sector in the Society for Psychological Assistance. From my three years experience of directing a secondary school I learned two things – that it is possible to manage people and operations respecting all stakeholders following Gestalt principles, and that governing is not what I like to do.
I quitted all the jobs and finally stood up on my own feet in 2000. Since then I have had my own official private therapy practice, I have collaborated with many on the NGO and GO scenes; I have done trainings in Croatia and abroad, lectures on postgraduate studies, team, group and individual supervision. Two activities are especially important and dear to me – leading education in Gestalt therapy (since 1999 under the IGW roof, and now at the Gestalt Centre Homa – 8 groups/generations till now) and authorship and leadership of the UNICEF programme Stop violence among children (with which we reached over 300 schools and 150.000 students) because they enable process of change and growth.
In peeling my onion and revealing myself a special place have had, of course, my husband, children and (from not so long) my grandson.