Gestalt Art Therapy Centre: 2026 Embroidering Emotions- Gestalt Art Therapy Face-to-Face Workshop

Mar 21, 2026

2026 Embroidering Emotions- Gestalt Art Therapy Face-to-Face Workshop

2026 Embroidering Emotions

Gestalt Art Therapy

Face-to-Face Workshop

From a Gestalt Art Therapy perspective, embroidery becomes a process of repair and integration. Each stitch symbolises resilience, helping transform trauma and unfinished business into a tangible form, where meaning, self-support, and emotional coherence can be restored through creative action.

*20% Off!

Series of Workshops for Wellbeing

Registrants from Australia can obtain their CPD /OPD hours (non-endorsed activities)

Art Therapy Associations CPD hours

AASW CPD hours

ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

Series of Workshops for Wellbeing

Embroidering Emotions: A Gestalt Art Therapy Perspective

This workshop introduces embroidery as an accessible, experiential creative practice that supports emotional processing, resilience, and self-regulation. Participants will learn beginner-friendly embroidery techniques while engaging in a reflective, supportive environment that integrates body awareness, creativity, and emotional exploration.

Through guided embroidery experiences, participants will explore how working with thread, fabric, and simple tools can strengthen inner resources and assist in working with unresolved emotional experiences. The learning is practical and experiential, allowing participants to later adapt this approach within therapeutic, counselling, and community contexts. Participation in this workshop contributes to Professional Development (PD) hours.

►Art materials included!

Workshop Objectives: Embroidering Emotions (for beginners)

(For professionals and non-professionals)

Learn basic embroidery stitches and tools suitable for beginners
Explore embroidery as a method for emotional regulation and inner stability
Use tactile creative processes to support presence and embodied awareness
Express personal experiences and strengths through symbolic imagery
Work with themes of repair, continuity, and resilience through stitching
Experience embroidery as a container for complex or unresolved emotions
Develop confidence in applying this creative approach in therapy and counselling sessions
Explore ways to adapt embroidery-based activities for community projects and group work
Understand how this experiential process can be safely introduced to clients
Gain PD hours through participation in a structured, face-to-face professional learning experience

Materials included in the workshop cost

Please note that the designs available at the workshop may differ from those shown in the photo. By participating in this event, you acknowledge and accept these conditions.

Workshop information:

Day: March 28th, 2026

Where: Gestalt Art Therapy Centre.

2 Findlay St. Ashgrove. Brisbane. Qld.

Time: 5 pm to 7 pm (Brisbane- Australian time) 2-hour workshop

Cost:

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Center

~~Participation: $150Aud~~

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*20% OFF!

$120 Aud

The 20% discount will be applied to payments made before March 15. After this date, the cost is $150.

Click here to pay by Credit card (Paypal)

General participants

~~Participation: $210Aud~~

~~Click here to pay by Credit card (Paypal)~~

*20% OFF!

$168 Aud

The 20% discount will be applied to payments made before March 15. After this date, the cost is $210.

Click here to pay by Credit card (Paypal)

Workshop REGISTRATION HERE

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By participating in our events, you agree to these conditions.

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 the Government:

Testing positive for COVID-19, 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

More information:

Gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

If the event does not meet the minimum number of participants and the organisers 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.

Please note that for payments and refunds processed via PayPal, a 3% commission will be applied by PayPal to each transaction.

By participating in our events, you agree to these conditions.

Cancellation policy. Read the information during registration.

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)