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26 Dec 2023

2024 Kokedama Therapy© A Gestalt Art Therapy approach - Face to Face Workshop -Brisbane

2024 Kokedama Therapy© A Gestalt Art Therapy approach -

Face to Face Workshop -Brisbane

Time & Location

09 Mar 2024, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm AEST

Ashgrove, 2 Findlay St, Ashgrove QLD 4060, Australia

About the event

KOKEDAMA Therapy©

The world in a plant

Kokedama is a traditional Japanese form of botanical art where plants are wrapped in a ball of soil, covered with moss, and bound with string.

The word "Kokedama" can be broken down into "koke" (moss) and "dama" (ball), literally translating to "moss ball." This art form goes beyond mere aesthetics and carries philosophical, emotional, and therapeutic significance.

In this workshop from the Gestalt approach and from the beautiful metaphor of the Kokedama technique you will experiment:

Connection to Nature: Kokedama emphasizes a close connection with nature. By working with living plants and moss, practitioners are reminded of the beauty and life force present in the natural world. This connection can bring a sense of tranquility and grounding.
Mindfulness and Meditation: Creating Kokedama requires focused attention and mindfulness. The process of crafting the moss ball and planting the vegetation can be meditative, helping individuals to be present at the moment and relieve stress.
Nurturing and Responsibility: Taking care of living plants encourages a sense of responsibility and nurturing. Watching the plants grow and thrive can give a sense of accomplishment and purpose.
Emotional Expression: Kokedama's work will be a form of self-expression, allowing participants to create unique and personalized pieces of art that reflect their emotions, personality, and artistic taste.

Engaging in Kokedama as a practice you can experiment with therapeutic benefits. Studies have shown that spending time with plants and engaging in gardening activities can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, promoting overall mental well-being.

Environmental Awareness: Kokedama art often utilizes sustainable materials and encourages recycling and repurposing. This can foster a deeper appreciation for environmental issues and sustainable practices.

Symbolism: Kokedama can hold symbolic meaning for individuals. The act of enveloping a plant's roots in a moss ball may be seen as a representation of protection, growth, and the cyclical nature of life.

Beauty in Imperfection: Kokedama embraces the concept of wabi-sabi, an essential aspect of Japanese aesthetics, which finds beauty in imperfection and transience. Each Kokedama is unique and imperfect in its own way, and this appreciation for imperfection can extend to life's ups and downs.

Mind-Body Connection: Engaging in Kokedama art can help strengthen the mind-body connection. It involves using hands to create something tangible, promoting a sense of accomplishment and physical engagement.

Social Bonding: Kokedama practiced in groups, encouraging social interactions and fostering a sense of community among enthusiasts. Sharing the experience with others can lead to the exchange of knowledge and inspiration.

This will be a "hands-on" workshop, where the "process" will be the most interesting. The "how" will be more important than the "what" or "why".

The final result is not the objective, although you will be surprised at what you can create and, above all, integrate into your "here and now"

*Please wear closed shoes and if suffering from asthma, bring a mask.

Materials included in the workshop cost

Workshop information:

Face-to-Face

Day: March 9th, 2024

Time: 10 am to 12 pm (Brisbane- Australian time)

Where: Gestalt Art Therapy Centre.

2 Findlay St. Ashgrove. Brisbane. Qld.

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

AASW CPD hours

ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

Cost:

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Center

Participation: $95Aud

Click here to pay by Credit card (Paypal)

General participants

Participation: $120Aud

Click here to pay by Credit card (Paypal)

Workshop REGISTRATION HERE

We are not registered for GST

Please note:

Covid Requirements

Following the Australian Government Health Department's indications and to offer a safe space for all patients and 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 session will be rescheduled.

Important information from Government:

Testing positive for COVID-19

Any person who tests positive for COVID-19 will need to immediately isolate at home or other suitable accommodation for at least 4 full days from the date the person had their test. Follow the advice from Queensland Health, including the first steps to take if you have COVID-19.

Close Contact

If you are a close contact, on the day of the event/ session you should have a negative test and wear a mask.

If there is a positive test, please reschedule the session.

2024 CR© Creative Retreat "Love Yourself" in Brisbane

2024 CR© Creative Retreat "Love Yourself" in Brisbane

Time & Location

23 Feb 2024, 5:00 pm AEST – 25 Feb 2024, 2:00 pm AEST

Mount Glorious, Mount Glorious Rd, Mount Glorious QLD 4520, Australia

About the event

✴️CREATIVE Retreat "Love Yourself"

"Treat yourself"

During the Retreat:

Participants will learn the steps to self-acceptance, investigating their blocks practicing forgiveness, and acknowledging resilience to build confidence in each "here and now" to achieve their future goals.
Time to relax by doing creative and transformative activities.
Enjoy the environment in a place full of peace.
Recognize the efforts you have made and are making every day of your life and give yourself time to love yourself and give yourself time and receive support to design your future Goals.
We will use a wide variety of media (painting, drawing, writing) and creative techniques. No prior art or therapy experience is necessary. It will be a place to explore and enjoy without our inner critic! Creativity, Poetry, Art Journaling, Mandalas, Dreams, drawing, Coloring, Painting, Movement, Rituals, and personal growth.

Days of the retreat 2024:

Friday February 23rd 2024 from 5 pm

Saturday February 24th, 2024

Sunday February 25th, 2024 until lunch time (included)

Venue: Mount Glorious Luxury Retreat- Brisbane

Included:

Accommodation:

Sharing Room (Twin beds). Each Room Features:

Twin beds.

Fridge, Kettle, and pod coffee machine

Ensuite with Shower and Mini Bath

Reading chair

Blockout Curtains

Australian Botanical Toiletries by Leif

Catering Included (Friday dinner until Sunday lunch)

Participating in a retreat that aligns with your needs and goals can offer a wide range of benefits for your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Here are some of the potential benefits of attending a retreat focused on relaxation, self-reflection, and creativity from a Gestalt Therapy perspective, especially in a beautiful natural setting:

Stress reduction: Retreats typically provide a break from the hustle and bustle of daily life, allowing you to detach from stressors and focus on relaxation. This can lead to reduced levels of stress and anxiety.
Mindfulness and self-awareness: In a retreat setting, you can practice mindfulness, which involves being fully present in the moment. This can enhance your self-awareness, leading to a better understanding of your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
Creative expression: Retreats often encourage creative activities, such as art, writing, or music. Engaging in creative expression can help you tap into your emotions and foster personal growth and self-discovery.
Time for reflection: Retreats provide dedicated time and space for introspection and contemplation. This can help you gain insights into your life, relationships, and future goals.
Personal growth: By focusing on yourself and your needs during the retreat, you can foster personal growth and development. It can be an opportunity to address unresolved issues and work on self-improvement.
Clarity and decision-making: Being away from the usual distractions and responsibilities can help you gain clarity on important life decisions, including those related to your career, relationships, and future goals.
Connection with like-minded individuals: Retreats often attract people with similar interests and goals. Building connections with others can provide a sense of community and support during your journey.
Improved focus and productivity: Taking time to rest and recharge can boost your focus and productivity when you return to your regular routines.
Nature's therapeutic effects: Being in a beautiful natural setting can have a calming and rejuvenating effect on your mind and body. Nature is known to reduce stress and promote overall well-being.
Physical health benefits: Many retreats also include activities like yoga, meditation, or outdoor exercises, which can have positive effects on your physical health, flexibility, and fitness.
Emotional healing: Engaging in therapeutic activities, such as group discussions or one-on-one counseling if available, can help with emotional healing and processing unresolved issues.
Enhanced problem-solving skills: The combination of relaxation, self-reflection, and creative activities can stimulate your mind and enhance your problem-solving abilities.

It's important to note that the benefits of a retreat can vary from person to person, depending on individual needs and experiences. To get the most out of a retreat, it's essential to be open to the process, actively participate, and embrace the opportunities for growth and self-discovery.

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

AASW CPD hours

ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

OTA hours

Contact your Association and confirm the CPD points.

Participants will receive a certificate of participation CPD hours related to:

Narrative Therapy
Relaxation strategies
Mindfulness Cognitive therapy
Positive relationships
Burn out
Teamwork
Cultural competency

Indicated also for corporations

Learning Objectives:

Gestalt art therapy techniques combined with participants' skills and professional objectives.
Mindfulness and stress management.
Through the proposed activities during the Retreat participants will develop skills and knowledge for self-care, managing stress, workload, and burnout, and building authentic relationships for team workers.
Intervention Strategies: Participants will learn a wide range of therapeutic interventions tailored to individuals' needs, including adaptive strategies, therapeutic exercises, and environmental modifications.

All the techniques gained during the retreat can be implemented in any kind of Therapy intervention/session, utilizing art as a tool for the physical, emotional, cognitive, and psychosocial development of clients, with different abilities, and ages (Children, Adolescents, families)

Cost per person:

Become a member Silver or Gold

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy CLUB (Silver or Gold )

Click here to pay by Credit card (paypal) Payments before January 26th, 2024 $1640 per person

Payments after January 26th, 2024 $1850 per person

Non Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club

Click here to pay by Credit card (paypal) Payments before January 26th, 2024 $1850 per person

Payments after January 26th, 2024 $2050 per person

►Contact us for a payment plan

Available 2 spots for couples/ friends (Sharing bed)

Payments before January 26th, 2024 are $2995 per couple

Payments after January 26th, 2024 $3280 per couple

RETREAT REGISTRATION HERE

We are not registered for GST

Participation costs are per person. (Registration for couples, the price is for two people)

Payments through Paypal will have 3% of applied Paypal commission in each payment/ refund through this platform.

Ask us for Bank details if you do not want to pay PayPal commission fees.

Please read more information about the cancellation policy.

Please note:

Covid Requirements

Following the Australian Government Health Department's indications and to offer a safe space for all participants and Retreat leaders.

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

• Before the start of the Retreat/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 Retreat/ event.

Important information from Government:

Testing positive for COVID-19

Any person who tests positive for COVID-19 will need to immediately isolate at home or other suitable accommodation for at least 7 full days from the date the person had their test. Follow the advice from Queensland Health, including the first steps to take if you have COVID-19.

Close Contact

If you are a close contact, on the day of the event/ session you should have a negative test and wear a mask.

If there is a positive test, please contact us with this information.

Regarding face-to-face Retreats/ workshops/ sessions, clients who tested COVID-19 positive must have passed a minimum of 14 days after COVID-19 to be able to have a face-to-face participation/ session and have a RAT negative test.

Please read the information about cancelations and refunds here.

Cancellation policy:

If the Retreat cannot go ahead due to the decision of the leaders, the Retreat will be postponed and participants will receive the information of the next dates of the event. Please note that if this situation happens, it is not a cancellation, it is a postponed event and economic refunds will not be possible for participants. If you booked and paid for the retreat and you cannot participate in the new dates, the amount that you paid, can be transferred to a friend or you can be used to participate in other of our events or to use at our store to buy our books and our products. If you cancel your participation in this retreat before December 25th, 2023, you will receive 100% of the paid amount that you did. If you cancel your participation after December 25th, 2023, you will not receive any economic refund, and/ or credit to be used later, in any circumstances including sickness, Covid positive, etc.

Participating in this retreat means that you accept all of these conditions.

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)