Bud Feder Scholarship Fund

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The AAGT Scholarship Fund exists:

To encourage a growing community of diverse practitioners and students from all over the world to attend our conferences
So that we can share and grow together

This wonderful achievement could not have been made without Bud Feder, whose passion, dedication and generosity throughout the history of the AAGTscholarship fund has helped so many of us come to our conferences.

A little message from Bud, after our Asilomar conference:

“Many people have told me that the event at my award ceremony where many of you identified yourselves as recipients and facilitated small groups was one of the best ever and helped members be aware of what the fund really is: not a bunch of numbers but a vital flesh and blood contingent that contributes so much to the conferences…. and to the organization [many SF recipients have joined and been very active, serving on committees and on the board.

Thank you so much, SF Class of 2014! Bud Feder”

The Board and the AAGT Scholarship Fund Committee have decided that the Scholarship Fund be renamed as “the Bud Feder AAGT ScholarshipFund”.

And, as a way of honoring Bud’s contribution to our organization, we encourage donations of any size to the Fund at this time.

Thank you.

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Announcing: The Bud Feder Scholarship Fund Fundraising Online Seminar Series

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Apply for Scholarship Funds

The criteria which the scholarship committee will consider include the following: financial need, ethnic diversity, geographic diversity, student status, new practitioner status, potential conference presenter, as well as unique circumstances. We also consider your specific expenses based on travel distance, etc. After giving us the demographic information requested, please write in 150 words or less your interest in attending, your connection to gestalt therapy and in what ways you reflect our eligibility criteria.

Confidentiality: please note that your name will be known only to the AAGT Scholarship Fund committee and one person from the conference organizing committee.

The AAGT Scholarship Fund is primarily derived from voluntary contributions. The committee has a limited resources and must budget. It may not be able to meet the demand.

Check back soon for registration deadlines.

Committee Co-Chairs: Adam Kincel and Dominique Chabre

Committee Members: Heather Keyes, Lori Farley, Catherine Gray and Nickei Falconer.

The deadline for applications for grants to the Gathering & Annual General Meeting is July 1st, 2019

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Testimonials from the Scholarship Fund

As shown in the testimonials our fund helps our community members not only at the beginning of their career, but also to deal with illness and high cost of traveling. Please help us to keep the community together regardless of health, age and location.

I know words are still not doing it justice, but I hope this gives each and everyone one of you a sense of how much gratitude and joy I feel for having known you and our time at Asilomar.

Alex Levine

The generosity of the committee created the opening for me to be able to attend and I received many rich benefits from the experience.

Lorraine Stidd

This very sense of Community is something which I took with me to Poland. Thank you! Without all of you, as a Scholarship recipient, probably I would not decide to participate in the Conference.

Daniel Bak

I was delighted to see my old AAGT friends, to make new friends and connections, and to be able to contribute by presenting my 2 hour workshop; wonderful to share with my colleagues on something I feel passionate about.

Nickei Falconer

I just want to let you know that it was really great to be at Asilomar , in a big way because of my scholarship because other way it was impossible for me, so THANK YOU very very much.

Abril Canterall

A heart problem diagnosed in 2011 prevented me from travelling to Puebla and led to my withdrawal from a teaching commitment in St Petersburg whilst waiting for surgery. By 2014 I had recovered sufficiently to start seeing clients, facilitate some training and supervise. […] Much as I had wanted to attend my sixth AAGT conference at Asilomar I felt unable to find the airfare. […] It felt so confirming and supportive to receive help from the scholarship fund: without it my trip to Asilomar would not have been achievable.

Jon Blend