28 Dec 2024

Working with Dreams A Gestalt Art Therapy approach - Face to Face Workshop

Working with Dreams

A Gestalt Art Therapy approach -

Face to Face Workshop

Working with DREAMS a Gestalt Therapy approach

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Dreams as a Source of Personal Insight

Research supports the hypothesis that sleep facilitates cognitive insight and creative thinking (Maquet & Ruby, 2004; Stickgold & Walker, 2004; Wagner et al., 2004; Darsaud et al., 2011). This makes it plausible that sleep also fosters personal and emotional insight, often reflected in the content of dreams. Dreams typically feature interactions between characters and vivid emotional experiences (Nielsen & Lara-Carrasco, 2007), offering a rich field for self-exploration.

In psychology and psychotherapy, dreams hold a special place, whether approached through traditional or modern methodologies. The "Traditional Interpretive Dream Approach," which dates back to Mesopotamian origins and inspired psychoanalysis, focuses on interpreting symbols in dreams to uncover hidden meanings. However, this method often distances itself from the client’s subjective, lived experience. Gestalt Therapy shifts this focus by emphasizing the individual's present-moment experience and their active participation in deriving meaning from dreams.

Dreams, like waking experiences, are deeply personal, placing the phenomenal self at their center. According to Hayrettin Kara, dreams contain hidden meanings cloaked in symbols, which must be interpreted to reveal their implicit messages. Kara describes dreams as "the symbolic narration of an unconscious reality," highlighting their potential to offer profound insights.

Neuroscientific studies further reveal that memory processes during REM sleep play a role in learning and adaptation. Existing evidence suggests that dreams may serve a primary adaptive function by enhancing our capacity for learning and integrating experiences (Isaac Roberts).

Workshop: Dreamwork in a Gestalt Art Therapy Approach

This workshop introduces participants to working with dreams through the lens of Gestalt Art Therapy. By engaging creativity, expressive techniques, and imagination, participants will connect with their dream projections and gain a deeper understanding of the “how” and “for what” behind their dreams, rather than merely exploring the “why.”

Key Features:

Practical Focus: The workshop emphasizes hands-on practice, making the experience dynamic and immersive.
Inclusive Participation: No prior experience in dreamwork, Gestalt Therapy, psychology, or art is required. Even participants who do not remember their dreams will receive guidance to engage meaningfully.
The “Here and Now”: Participants will experience the transformative power of awareness in the present moment, enriching their understanding of dreams.

Workshop Objectives:

Discover the hidden messages in dreams.

Learn step-by-step methods for working with dreams.

Explore Gestalt Art Therapy techniques for dreamwork.

Integrate awareness from dreamwork into everyday life.

Create a dream with conscious intention.

Gain tools to support clients in therapy sessions.

Become a “Dream Catcher,” adept at capturing and working with the essence of dreams.

Materials included in the workshop cost

Workshop information:

Day: February 16th

Where: Gestalt Art Therapy Centre.

2 Findlay St. Ashgrove. Brisbane. Qld.

Time: 10 am to 1 pm (Brisbane- Australian time) 3 hours workshop

Cost:

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Center Participation: $230Aud Click here to pay by Credit card (Paypal)

General participants

Participation: $250Aud Click here to pay by Credit card (Paypal)

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Workshop only for adults

Please note:

Covid Requirements

Following the Australian Government Health Department's indications and to offer a safe space for all patients and Psychotherapists/ Counsellors:

Every participant before being admitted to each Face-to-face session/ workshop:

• Before each workshop/ session temperature measures will be taken. If the participant has symptoms like fever (37°C or more), coughing, sore throat, or shortness of breath, unfortunately, he/she will not be admitted to the event/ session, and the participant must reschedule the session/ workshop participation.

Important information from Government:

Testing positive for COVID-19 and close contact and Flu symptoms

Any person who tests positive for COVID-19 or is a close contact, or has Flu symptoms, will not be admitted and will need to reschedule the session/workshop participation.

Payment Methods: Ask us for Bank details, please

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More information:

Gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

If the event does not meet the minimum number of participants and the organizers decide to postpone it, you will be offered the option to transfer your payment to a future event or discuss a refund. Cancellations made less than 24 hours before the event will not receive refunds or credits.

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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)