Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

12 Feb 2018

2018, March 10 & 11, Working with Children in Therapy Sessions

Working with Children in Therapy Sessions. Explore how to use Sand Play, Drama, Music, etc in a therapeutic context.

Workshop AASW endorsed CPD hours

Any professional in the helping services who want to work with children must consider the child as a total system: the family, social, cultural and developmental factors influencing the child.

In addition, we must pay attention to the small or subtle details that the adults may not notice or may not understand about the child’s symptoms that are clearly obvious to a professional. For example, the manner we communicate with a child is to notice the pace, rhythm, and assimilation of the content, as well as the meaning attribution to the play experiments during the session. This is a way of developing trust and safety during the session by clarifying anything that is happening between the child and the adult therapist.

In this weekend, you will learn:

Discover how deep traumatic experiences in childhood affect the adult client.
Uncover the truth why most traditional work with child trauma does not work.
Learn how you can enable children to achieve positive feelings about their contacts with parents and society at large.
Practice art therapy methods and tools to encourage creativity in self and children.
How to be aware of the several ways you may be able to work with emotional wounds.
The way to work with children in a therapy session could be a little different than working with adults. Professional therapists need to adjust their therapeutic tools to the level of children.

What You Will Learn:

The basic principles and practices will be covered through experiential exercises, discussion, and some personal exploration.

This will include:

• The paradoxical theory of change

• The magic of role-playing with children

• Being open to the unexpected – magic happens

• Experiencing the Now: savouring and chewing

• The importance of being specific and concrete

• The creative void and change in the Here and Now

Also, we will explore an introduction to Gestalt work with children:

• Use of drawing and colours

• Sand play with children

• Music therapy

• Family sculpturing and more.

Day/s: March 10 & 11, 2018

Time:

Saturday 9:30 am to 5:00 pm

Sunday 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost:

Members: $169.00

Non- Members: $199.00

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Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Contact Phone: 04 2151 4907

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2018, March 3 & 4, April 28 & 29, May 12 & 13 iCAT Course

iCAT® Course. 3 weekends.

Introduction to Capability Art Therapy Course

Course AASW endorsed CPD hours

iCAT Course. Capability Art Therapy Gestalt Approach.

Semi- online training

3 Workshops + 2 Private Supervisions Sessions

Discover all about Gestalt and Art Therapy at these workshops

Members discount!!!

INTRODUCTION iCAT® SHORT COURSE 2018

Art Therapy- AUSTRALIA

Facilitated by YARO STARAK & GEMMA GARCIA

SEMI online Course

NUMBER OF HOURS OF TRAINING AND TIMETABLE

DATE 2018	HOURS	TOTAL HOURS
March 3 & 4, 2018	Saturday: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm Sunday: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm	13 h
April 28 & 29, 2018	Saturday: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm Sunday: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm	13 h
May 12 & 13, 2018	Saturday: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm Sunday: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm	13 h
2 Supervision Sessions	Day & Time by arrangement	2 h
Total training hours iCAT®		41 h

Methodology iCAT® Course

This Introduction course offers essential information how to use Art Tools in therapy sessions with a wide range of clients and situations.

After each weekend, the student will receive by email a module with the theory content.

This will be put into practice in the experiential workshops.

Note: To receive the final Certificate you must complete all three weekends. If anytime, for unplanned reasons, you are not able to attend a weekend or supervision session, then it is possible to make up the weekend or supervision session at the next course.

PROGRAMME OUTLINE – 2018

	PROGRAMME OUTLINE – 2018
MODULE 1	1.1 History of gestalt therapy & Fritz Perls. Gestalt theory. 1.2 The Gestalt Cycle of creative experience. Gestalt Therapy tools & techniques. The empty chair work. 1.3 Theory of the creative process in therapy. 1.4 Masks 1.5 Sand Play
MODULE 2	2.1 Why study the history of art? 2.2 History of art. 2.3 Theories of art. 2.4 The various periods in the history of art. 2.5 Art and society. 2.6 The seven muses. 2.7 Theory of creativity 2.8 Psychotherapy as a creative process in Gestalt Therapy 2.9 Art therapy history 2.10 Gestalt Art therapy 2.11 Colour theory 2.12 Colour psychology 2.13 Psychopathology and psycho- diagnosis 2.14 Painting 2.15 Mandalas 2.16 Collage
MODULE 3	3.1 Group work 3.2 Sculptures 3.3 Phototherapy 3.4 Video therapy 3.5 Music-therapy 3.6 Dance therapy 3.7 Psychodrama Conclusion

FEES FOR THE iCAT® INTRODUCTION COURSE 2018

FULL PAYMENT FOR THE COURSE iCAT®

FULL PAYMENT FOR THE COURSE	FEES
Registration	Members- Registration: FREE Non- Members: $50.00
Fee for the three weekends	Workshops: $199.00 x 3= $597.00
Fee for two supervision sessions	Supervision: $120.00 X 2 =$240.00
Early Bird: One Payment before February 15^th, 2018: (Applied discount)	Members: $795.15 Non- Members: $842.62
One Payment after February 15th, 2018	Members: $837.00 Non- Members: $887.00Top of Form Bottom of Form Top of Form Bottom of Form

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Cost is in Australian Dollars

TWO PAYMENTS FOR THE COURSE iCAT ®

PARTIAL PAYMENTS	FEES
Early Bird: Members 1^st Payment before February 15th, 2018 2nd Payment before 1st of May 2018 Total course Non- Members 1st Payment before February 15th, 2018 2nd Payment before 1st of May 2018 Total course	Members: $438.00 First payment Members: $438.00 Second Payment Total course $876.00 Non- Members: $464.00 First Payment Non- Members: $464.00 Total Course $928.00

Payment options:

PAYPAL:

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11 Feb 2018

2018, Febuary 10th, Mandalas Art Therapy Workshop

The ART THERAPY WORKSHOP

MANDALAS was a success!!!

Thank you to everyone for your amazing and important participation!

Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia

Directors

Pictures Gestalt Art Therapy Centre's copyright

11 Dec 2017

2018 AASW Endorsement of CPD activities

AASW Endorsement of CPD activities

Happy to announce to you that our workshops are recognized by AASW CPD hours 2018!

If you are a member of AASW, and if you will participate in our Gestalt Art therapy Centre CPD endorsed workshops, you will receive "CPD Hours".

2018, February 24 & 25 Introduction to Gestalt Therapy

2018, February 24 & 25 Introduction to Gestalt Therapy

Just be present... Here and now

This workshop is designed to enable the participant to establish a basic Intervention model that clearly describes the process of therapeutic relationship between client and therapist. This requires the participant to become familiar with the ‘phases’ of this relationship. After demonstrating some degree of comfort in this structure, the participant will be able to begin to develop his or her own ‘style’ of interventions and creative practice. Gestalt therapy was developed from various influences upon the lives of its founders during the times in which they lived, including: the new physics, Eastern religion, existential phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, experimental theatre, as well as systems theory and field theory.

Learning objectives:

To examine specific therapeutic applications of Gestalt Therapy theory and explore practical interventions with individuals, couples, families and groups.
To examine the ways a therapist designs intervention strategy using the cycle of awareness model.
To enable the participant to develop a beginning personal style of ‘Gestalt Work’ and enhance his or her practice with clients.

At the workshop, we will extend the knowledge of:

- The power of the here and now and awareness in working with clients

- How to develop a Gestalt experiment to enhance and improve therapeutic outcomes.

Day/s: February 24th, 25th

Time:

Saturday: 9:30 am to 5:00 pm

Sunday: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Contact Phone: 04 2151 4907

Cost:

Members:

Non- Members:

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Download the Registration form here

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts!

2018, February 17 & 18 Sand Play Therapy - a Gestalt approach with symbolism.

Sand Play Therapy - a Gestalt approach with symbolism.

Play therapy is a form of counseling or psychotherapy that uses symbolic play to communicate with and help people, especially children, to prevent or resolve psychosocial challenges. This helps them to move towards better social integration, growth and development, emotional modulation, and trauma resolution.

Play therapy can also be used as a tool for diagnosis. A sand play therapist observes a client playing with toys (play-houses, pets, dolls, etc.) to determine the cause of the disturbed behavior. Because trauma is often debilitating, directed sand play therapy works to create change in the present, without the lengthy healing process often required in traditional sand play therapy. According to the psychodynamic view, people (especially children) will engage in play behavior to work through their interior issues and anxieties. According to this viewpoint, play therapy can be used as a self-help mechanism for adults as well.

What you will learn:

Learn how to understand the meaning of symbols as therapy tools
Use creative methods to enhance your therapy practice with Sand Play tools.
Learn how to facilitate and promote positive results with symbolic imagery
Uncover the reasons why your clients may resist verbal counseling.
Improve your skills working with traumas and early child painful history.
Discover ways to clear negative memories and blocks to your own growth
Find the way of facilitating sand play figures and understand their unconscious meanings.
Enable clients to discover their self-supports and deal with their life crises.

Day/s: February 17 & 18

Time

Saturday 9:30 am to 5:00 pm

Sunday 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost:

Members: $169.00

2018, February 10 Mandalas Art Therapy

Incorporating MANDALAS in Therapy Sessions- ART THERAPY

Life is a circular process. Our unresolved conflicts are also circular...like the universe, we are constantly circling around our being and growing.

In this one-day event, you will learn how to change the repetitive patterns that emerge in your life using/creating/ modifying mandalas in a symbolic way.

Learn how to practice this skill to be used with your clients and/or for your own personal growth.

Note: According to art therapist and mental health counselor Susanne F. Fincher, we owe the re-introduction of mandalas into modern Western thought to Carl Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst. In his pioneering exploration of the unconscious through his own art-making, Jung observed the motif of the circle spontaneously appearing in therapy. At that moment the circle drawings reflected his inner state of being.

What you will learn:

The meaning of Mandalas in our lives.
How to enhance therapeutic results using the Mandala symbol
Enable the client to recognize the symbol as their guide
Discover the unconscious messages using the Mandala

Day/s: February 10th

Place: Gestalt Art Therapy centre- Ashgrove- Brisbane- Qld

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members: $105.00

Non- Members: $120.00

Credit card payments have 4% of the commission is applied. see the link.

See Cancellation Policy on the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/year and access to discounts!

ART THERAPY - A GESTALT APPROACH

Hello! Welcome to our creative therapy centre!

Here you will find everything related to Art Therapy using the Gestalt approach.

What is Art ?:

Art is genarally known as what is done by a person whose purpose is to express a message through symbols.

These symbolic tools can be music, paintings, sculptures, theater and so on.

What is Gestalt Therapy ?:

Gestalt therapy is a methodology within psychology that grew out of the research and work of the psychiatrist Dr.Fritz Perls and his wife Dr.Laura Perls.

These two professionals were coming from the psychoanalytic perspective and felt that this method was not enough to work with clients. Today we are clearly aware that no one single method can resolve the issues that involve a range of human suffering and growth.

Gestalt is a German word roughly meaning "Shape" or "configuration".

This concept is understood, in gneral terms, that all individual experiences are shaped by a figure and a background. As time goes on, and our needs change, the figure can become the background and vice versa. So in the client's experience, the figure is changing at all times from becoming a background and as the needs arise, the figure emerges seeking completion.

When we block or prevent this process, we become unaware and suffer. That is a part of the theoretical foundations of Gestalt therapy.

Gestalt therapy, therefore, is a "philosophy", a way of being in the world in the "here and now" and taking "response-aibility" without pushing the river. Thus life is a flow ..

What is GESTALT Art Therapy?

It is the sum of the two previous concepts, Gestal therapy and the use of tools we learn to use in art therapy.

Using the artistic tools and adding the gestalt language between client and psychotherapist we work jointly to decode the messages hidden in the intrinsic symbols representing the client's situation. The Psychotherapist accompanies the client in the process of "discovering" what is helpful and not analysing or interpreting, but suggesting and asking the client what it is he or she knows are the answers and supports client's need to discover the ncessary solutions.

WE ARE SURE THAT YOU WILL BE ATTRACTED by this new way of working with emotions, whether or not you are a professional psychologist or therapist, since many of the exercises can be used personally for your own growth.

Our work is done in Australia & Spain and other countries. We have given workshops and participated in conferences throughout the world. We are located in our offices at the Gestalt Art Therapy Centre in Brisbane -Australia.

BE HAPPY HERE AND NOW..... AND BE CREATIVE !

Yaro Starak - Gestalt Psychoterapist
Gemma Garcia- Gestalt Therapist- Ericksonian Hypnosis

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1-TRAINING MODULES FOR SALE: Gestalt art therapy

1.1-FOR PSYCHOLOGY & THERAPY PROFESSIONALS:

Here you will find and carry out therapeutic work with tools that combine art and gestalt method.

You can learn new ways of providing therapeutic treatment depending on the particular situation and client needs.

1.2-ART AS PERSONAL GROWTH

These modules can be practical exercises for your "realize" how do you do in your life.

There are specific modules that you can play with your partner and / or family.

SKYPE - ON LINE THERAPY

We offer brief therapy sessions via Skype. You may request a no-obligation appointment with us, the first session is free.

This is a way of doing personal therapy we call "Emergency work" used in very special cases and situations. For us, the therapy session should be mainly for the benefit of the client needing immediate help.

BOOKS FOR SALE:

GESTALT THERAPY theory and practice - some books written by Yaro Starak

A GESTALT TEST: you can acquire to discover your potentials.

VIDEOS & DVD focussing on gestalt work and art therapy work.

ARTICLES: Written by varoius therapists from Australia, NZ and overseas.

Yaro Starak

He graduated in Psychology from the University of Manitoba and in Social Work from the University of British Columbia, Canada. He continued his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, specializing in group psychotherapy and Adult Education. He trained in Gestalt Therapy with Jorge Rosner at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto and after graduation, he was a faculty member for four years. He worked as a professor at the University of Queensland, Australia and is the founder of the Gestalt Center in Brisbane and Terrigal near Sydney in this country. Yaro conducts gestalt training workshops in Spain, Mexico, Denmark, Germany, and Canada. He also gives workshops for groups of men using indigenous rituals. Yaro is Gestalt Art Therapist CAT®. Co-Director of the Gestalt ART Therapy center (Australia). Co-Director of the Arteterapia Gestalt (Gestalt Art Therapy training in the Spanish language)
Yaro has an interesting range of Books related to the Gestalt works, Couples & Groups work.

Gemma Garcia

Gestalt Art Therapist CAT® Gestalt Art Therapy. Gestalt Therapist Master diploma from the Gestalt Institute Valencia (Spain). Art Therapist using the Gestalt approach CAT. Master in Ericksonian Psychology at the University of Valencia (Spain). Communications Operator at the Provincial Emergency Coordination center and Fire Consortium (Castellon, Spain) Naval radiotelephone operator. Group work and individual psychological intervention in crisis and emotional impact on collective emergencies with firefighters, policemen, paramedics using Gestalt art therapy techniques. Aurasoma Therapist Level 2. Dip. of Visual Arts. Curator. Coordinator-Art Group exhibitions. Co-Director of the Gestalt ArtbTherapy center (Australia). Co-Director of the Arteterapia Gestalt (Gestalt Art Therapy training in the Spanish language)