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Apr 19, 2025

2025 Working with Loss and Grief Gestalt Art Therapy

2025 Working with Loss and Grief Gestalt Art Therapy

Working with Loss and Grief Gestalt Art Therapy (TTGAT©)

For Australian Professionals

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

ANZACATA CPD hours

AASW CPD hours

ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

AHPRA CPD hours

Who Is This ONLINE Workshop For?

Professionals: Counsellors, therapists, psychologists, social workers, educators, Gestalt Therapists and art therapy practitioners looking to expand their therapeutic toolkit.
Individuals: Anyone interested in personal growth and emotional exploration in a symbolic, supportive context.

The Process of Loss and Grief in Gestalt Art Therapy.

Presented by the Gestalt Art Therapy Centre Australia.

Facilitators: Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia

Overview:

In psychotherapy, various theories help to understand and support individuals through the experience of loss and grief. This workshop, Working with Loss and Grief in Gestalt Art Therapy, is designed to explore these experiences as natural life processes that everyone will encounter. However, it’s important to note that this session will not address prolonged grief, trauma, or PTSD, as these issues require more specific and combined therapeutic interventions.

Workshop Description:

This engaging and experiential workshop will focus on key theories and approaches to loss and grief, with a specific emphasis on the integration of Gestalt Therapy and Art Therapy. Participants will be introduced to the SICAIDIR method, which involves working with art projections in Gestalt sessions, alongside the practical application of the Empty Chair technique.

SUMMARY

Key Gestalt Therapy concepts will be covered, including:

· The "here and now" principle, which focuses on the present moment.

· Unfinished business, where unresolved emotions or experiences related to loss are addressed.

· The Gestalt cycle of experience, which involves moving through different stages of awareness and contact to resolve emotional issues.

Through Gestalt Art Therapy, participants will learn how to provide clients with a safe space for emotional expression, fostering greater awareness of their emotions. The creative process becomes a powerful tool for individuals to navigate their grief, leading to healing, closure, and a sense of new meaning after loss.

Key Learnings:

· Understanding the nature and different types of loss, including loss of freedom (as seen during the Covid-19 pandemic), loss of loved ones, war-related losses, migration, relationship breakdowns, and loss related to sickness.

· How loss and grief manifest emotionally and the stages individuals typically move through during the grief process.

· Application of core Gestalt Therapy concepts to support clients dealing with grief.

· Introduction to the SICAIDIR method for using art projections in therapy.

· Practical use of the Empty Chair technique in working through grief.

· The role of creative expression in providing emotional relief and resolution, including how drawing, collage, and other forms of art-making can facilitate emotional expression and healing.

Hands-on Experience:

This workshop is highly interactive, offering participants the chance to create their projective pieces, such as drawings or collages, in a safe and supportive environment.

Live demonstrations will be conducted with invited volunteers, showcasing techniques and methods in real time. Importantly, this session will not involve deep emotional therapy; participants are responsible for their emotional well-being during the creative activities. The focus will be on learning and experiencing, not delving deeply into emotions.

Note:

While this workshop provides valuable insights and tools for working with loss and grief in a therapeutic context, it is not intended to substitute for intensive therapeutic work with trauma, PTSD, or prolonged grief. Participants are encouraged to seek professional support if needed for such issues.

Awareness, self-expression, and integration.

ONLINE Workshop information:

When: May 10th, 2025

Time: 5 pm to 7 pm (Brisbane- Australian time) AEST- Australian Eastern Standard Time. UTC/GMT +10 hours.

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Cost:

Gestalt Art Therapy Club members. Participation: $95Aud

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General participants. Participation: $110Aud.

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Any questions please contact us.

gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com

ONLINE Workshop REGISTRATION HERE

System and Materials you will need for the workshop participation:

System: Zoom (After your registration, you will receive the link so you can access the day of the event)

Connection system and materials that you will need to have available on the day of the workshop:

- Internet connection, a computer, tablet, or phone, with access to a webcam and microphone.

- Have the Zoom program or APP installed and be registered

- One A4 Paper to write and/or draw

- A pen, coloured markers, acrylics or crayons.

- Once the registration is paid, we will send you the Zoom link for the workshop connection.

Online Workshops

Please note that if, on the day of the workshop, we do not have a minimum number of participants, the live workshop will not proceed, and you will receive a recording.

Please note that PayPal payments and refunds will incur a 3% transaction fee, applied by PayPal.

Workshop Participation Guidelines and Emotional Wellbeing Information

Purpose and Scope of the Workshop

The objective of The Working with Grief and Loss workshop is to provide training and learning in tools and techniques from Gestalt Art Therapy, including symbolic and gentle methods and the Empty Chair technique. It is important to note that this workshop is not designed for personal therapeutic work or for processing individual Grief/trauma.

Participants will explore methods in a safe, structured, and professional environment, focusing on how these techniques can be applied in their practice or personal exploration without engaging in deep emotional work or therapy sessions.

Participant Conditions and Limits.

Emotional Wellbeing Support:

The workshop involves creative activities and reflective discussions that may evoke emotions related to Loss, Grief or personal experiences.

Participants are encouraged to remain within their comfort zone and are reminded that this is a training session, not a space for therapy.

If you feel overwhelmed or require immediate support during or after the workshop, please prioritize your wellbeing by:

Calling emergency services on 000 if in crisis.

Contacting your General Practitioner (GP) or a mental health professional for further assistance.

Managing Emotions During the Workshop:

Engage in the activities at a level you feel comfortable with. There is no expectation to share deeply personal details.

If an activity feels emotionally challenging, you can step back, pause, or take time to reflect.

The facilitator will create a safe and supportive environment and provide guidance to ensure activities remain manageable for all participants.

Privacy and Recording:

The workshop will be recorded, providing current and future participants the opportunity to revisit the content and activities at their convenience. Participants will have online access to the recording for six months from the date of the workshop.

By participating in this event, you acknowledge and consent to the session being recorded. You understand that your image, voice, and contributions may be included in the recorded material, which may also be made available for sale. By joining, you also agree that no economic or other forms of compensation will be provided for your participation or contributions to the recording.

Important Contacts for Emotional Support

If you feel you need additional emotional or psychological support, please consider the following resources:

Emergency Services: Dial 000 (for emergencies in Australia).
Lifeline Australia: 13 11 14 (24/7 crisis support and suicide prevention).
Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 (support for mental health and wellbeing).
Your GP or Psychologist: Reach out for professional assistance and guidance tailored to your needs.

Cancellation policy. Read the information during the registration.

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)