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Dec 29, 2024

2025 Books: Working with Groups

 

2025 Books: Working with Groups




GROUP WORK by Yaro Starak

This book is for individuals who want to develop experiential skills and process models in working with groups. Here you will find numerous group facilitation examples, art therapy exercises, ideas, and experiments that will provide you, the reader, with many creative tools. Based on the author’s extensive group facilitation teaching at Universities in Canada, Europe, and Australia, as well as offering experiential group facilitation workshops all over the world, this book is an excellent and rich resource for those wishing to build and develop their group process skills.

Group Work with Art Therapy Exercises.

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Combining Gestalt therapy principles with art therapy can be a powerful and effective approach when working with groups in leadership, Gestalt Therapy, or counselling settings. Both Gestalt therapy and art therapy emphasize experiential and creative processes, making them valuable tools to foster self-awareness, personal growth, and group dynamics. 

Here's how this integrated approach can be beneficial:

  1. Enhancing self-expression: Art therapy allows group members to express themselves non-verbally, which can be particularly helpful for individuals who find it challenging to communicate their emotions or thoughts verbally. This enhances self-expression and encourages group members to share their experiences more openly.
  2. Facilitating exploration of emotions: Gestalt therapy encourages individuals to fully experience their emotions in the present moment. Art therapy can serve as a bridge to access and explore these emotions, providing a safe and creative outlet for group members to process their feelings.
  3. Promoting group cohesion: Engaging in art-making together can create a sense of camaraderie and cohesion within the group. The shared experience of creativity fosters a supportive and empathetic environment, leading to better group dynamics. ideal for businesses that want to create group cohesion.
  4. Encouraging self-awareness: Both approaches focus on self-awareness and present-moment awareness. Through art-making and Gestalt techniques, individuals can become more attuned to their feelings, behaviours, and patterns, facilitating personal growth and self-discovery.
  5. Uncovering unconscious processes: Gestalt therapy emphasizes bringing unconscious thoughts and behaviours into awareness. Art therapy can help reveal underlying emotions and conflicts that group members may not be fully aware of, allowing for deeper exploration and understanding.
  6. Addressing resistance and barriers: Group members may encounter resistance or defensive mechanisms during the therapeutic process. Art therapy provides an alternative avenue for exploring these barriers and can help individuals move past resistance more effectively.
  7. Developing problem-solving skills: Art-making and Gestalt techniques encourage creative problem-solving and new perspectives. Group members can apply these skills to challenges both within the group and in their personal lives.
  8. Creating tangible representations: Artwork can serve as tangible representations of group members' inner experiences and growth. This visual aspect allows for reflection, discussion, and a deeper understanding of each individual's journey.
  9. Fostering empowerment: Engaging in art-making and self-exploration within a supportive group setting can promote a sense of empowerment and agency. Group members may discover new strengths and resources, leading to increased self-confidence.
  10. Integrating mind and body: Gestalt therapy emphasizes the mind-body connection, and art therapy can help bridge the gap between verbal processing and embodied experiences. This holistic approach can lead to more profound insights and healing.

In this book you will read about the integration of Gestalt therapy principles with art therapy, offering a dynamic and versatile approach for group work in leadership, therapeutic group sessions, or counselling settings. It can create a rich and transformative experience that supports personal growth, self-awareness, and positive group dynamics.

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Jan 27, 2020

2020 Introduction Working with Groups March 7th








Time & Location

07 Mar, 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Art Therapy & Gestalt, Ashgrove QLD, Australia

About the Event

This workshop is 2020 AASW endorsed CPD hours
This course has 2020 ACA OPD points
Discover how to managing any kind of Groups: Work groups, School Groups, Groups Therapy
Group leadership is not just about techniques. Using gestalt therapy approach to groups will enable you to learn how to:
  • Keep the focus of the group in the present NOW.
  • Direct attention to the “how” not “why” questions.
  • Developing clear self-awareness ability.
  • Learn how to work with creative experiment to enhance group activity.
  • Facilitate group enactment to develop solutions to problems emerging in group.
  • Refine yours and participants' abilities to work with group dynamics as they emerge in the training group.
  • Learn the secret of leadership from within.
  • Become at ease in a safe place in which you can develop skills as a group facilitator.
  • Can practice various skills, creative methods in working with groups and become confident in being present as a leader.
  • Discover the key principles of group process work: Group energy, clients’ patterns and leadership models.
  • Practice working on simulated issues that deal with group problems and members will learn how to lead and solve group problems.
  • Learn how to resolve group conflicts, emotional blocks, 'shadow work' and more creative methods in group work.
Day: March 7th, 2020
Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Cost
Pay by Credit card/ PayPal
Pay by Credit Card/ PayPal
Where: 
Gestalt Art Therapy Centre 
Ashgrove- Brisbane 
Payment Methods: Ask us for Bank details, please 
Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link. 

Become a member today just for $35/Year and access to discounts! 
Full membership 2020: $35
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Mar 21, 2019

2019 Introduction Working with Groups March 9th at our Centre



2019 Introduction Working with Groups March 9th at our Centre






Discover how to managing any kind of Groups: Work groups, School Groups, Groups Therapy
• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours
Each Group is a different World...

Group leadership is not just about techniques. Using gestalt therapy approach to groups will enable you to learn how to:
  • Keep the focus of the group in the present NOW.
  • Direct attention to the “how” not “why” questions.
  • Developing clear self-awareness ability.
  • Learn how to work with creative experiment to enhance group activity.
  • Facilitate group enactment to develop solutions to problems emerging in group.
  • Refine yours and participants' abilities to work with group dynamics as they emerge in the training group.
  • Learn the secret of leadership from within.
  • Become at ease in a safe place in which you can develop skills as a group facilitator.
  • Can practice various skills, creative methods in working with groups and become confident in being present as a leader.
  • Discover the key principles of group process work: Group energy, clients’ patterns and leadership models.
  • Practice working on simulated issues that deal with group problems and members will learn how to lead and solve group problems.
  • Learn how to resolve group conflicts, emotional blocks, 'shadow work' and more creative methods in group work.


Day: March 9th, 2019
Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Cost
Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50
Non- Members: $210.00
More Information: gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com

Ask us for Bank details, please
Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.
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Full membership 2019: $30

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Feb 12, 2018

2018, June 9 &10, Group Work Skills




2018, June 9 &10, Group Work Skills


Each group, working in the "here and now"  has its own rules, do you know how to manage them??
Group work skills
Each Group is a different World...Group leadership is not just about techniques. Using gestalt therapy approach to groups will enable you to learn how to:
-              Keep the focus of the group in the present NOW.
-              Direct attention to the “how” not “why” questions.
-              Developing clear self-awareness ability.
-              Learn how to work with a creative experiment to enhance group activity.
-              Facilitate group enactment to develop solutions to problems emerging in a group.
-              Refine yours and participants' abilities to work with group dynamics as they emerge in the training group.
-              Learn the secret of leadership from within.
-              Become at ease in a safe place in which you can develop skills as a group facilitator.
-              Can practice various skills, creative methods in working with groups and become confident in being present as a leader.
-              Refine yours and participants' abilities to work with group dynamics as they emerge in the training group.
-              Discover the key principles of group process work: Group energy, clients’ patterns, and leadership models.
-              Practice working on simulated issues that deal with group problems and members will learn how to lead and solve group problems.
-              Learn how to resolve group conflicts, emotional blocks, 'shadow work' and more creative methods in group work.

Day/s: June, 9 & 10,
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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See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.
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Oct 17, 2017

2017, November 4 & 5 Introduction to working effectively with Groups





Each Group is a different World...
MASTERCLASS IN WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH GROUPS
 
Each Group is a different World...
 
In this weekend, you will learn:
 
- The secret of leadership from within.
 
- Become at ease in a safe place in which you can develop skills as a group facilitator.
 
- Be able to practice various skills, creative methods in working with groups and become confident in being present as a leader.
 
- Refine yours and participants' abilities to work with group dynamics as they emerge in the training group.
 
-Discover the key principles of group process work: Group energy, clients’ patterns, and leadership models.
 
- Practice working on simulated issues that deal with group problems and members will learn how to lead and solve group problems.
 
- Learn how to resolve group conflicts, emotional blocks, 'shadow work' and more creative methods in group work.
 
 
Days: November 4 & 5, 2017
 
Time:
 
Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm
 
Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm
 
Where:
Gestalt Art Therapy centre
Ashgrove- Brisbane
 
Price:
 
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Oct 2, 2016

2016, November 19 & 20 Master class in Working Effectively with Groups







2016, November 19 & 20 Master class in Working Effectively with Groups - 
GESTALT ART THERAPY Centre

Learn about the style of the leader, the role of the participants and also, how to resolve group conflicts in a creative way. Group therapy and/or Business groups.

MASTER CLASS IN WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH GROUPS

In this weekend you will learn:


  • Learn the secret of leadership from within.
  • Become at ease in a safe place in which you can develop skills as a group facilitator.
  • Be able to practice various skills, creative methods in working with groups and become confident in being present as a leader.
  • Refine yours and participants' abilities to work with group dynamics as they emerge in the training group.
  • Discover the key principles of group process work: Group energy, clients’ patterns and leadership models.
  • Practice working on simulated issues that deal with group problems and members will learn how to lead and solve group problems.
  • Learn how to resolve group conflicts, emotional blocks, 'shadow work' and more creative methods in group work.



Days:
November 19 & 20

Time:
Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm
Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm

Where:
Gestalt Art Therapy centre
Ashgrove- Brisbane


Price:
Early bird payment, before November 5th: $250

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Payment after November 5th: $270

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Aug 23, 2016

2016, August 27 & 28 Masterclass in Working Effectively with Groups





2016, August 27 & 28 

Masterclass in Working Effectively with Groups



Each Group is a different World...

 MASTERCLASS IN WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH GROUPS

In this weekend you will learn:

Learn the secret of leadership from within.

Become at ease in a safe place in which you can develop skills as a group facilitator.

Be able to practice various skills, creative methods in working with groups and become confident in being present as a leader.

Refine yours and participants' abilities to work with group dynamics as they emerge in the training group.

Discover the key principles of group process work: Group energy, clients’ patterns and leadership models.

Practice working on simulated issues that deal with group problems and members will learn how to lead and solve group problems.

Learn how to resolve group conflicts, emotional blocks, 'shadow work' and more creative methods in group work.

Download the Registration form here

Days:
August 27 & 28


Time:
Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00pm 
Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm

Where:
Gestalt Art Therapy centre
Ashgrove- Brisbane


Price:
Early bird payment, before August 22nd: $250

Payment after August 22nd: $270








Free book !!! For the 5 first Registrations to the workshop "Working with Groups" 



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Dec 22, 2015

2016, February 27 & 28 workshop: Working with Groups







The workshop is designed to teach by experiential demonstration of a variety of ways to work with groups in any setting using Gestalt Art Therapy approach.
 The workshop is for those working or training as social and community service providers, counselling or anyone wanting to explore, develop confidence, and further group facilitation skills. The participants will be able to understand their unique style and gifts and to use them to their best advantage in the group environment. The workshop is designed to offer an in depth understanding of the dynamics of group energy and gives a clear methodology to the theoretical basis of group work. 

This workshop is an approved PD for professionals

Each participant will receive a free book : "Group Work Skills" by Yaro Starak
 
Day 1:

INTRODUCTION TO GROUP WORK.
 The theoretical principles and practices will be covered through experiential exercises, discussion and some personal exploration in group settings:

 - How to begin group work.

 - The paradoxical theory of change.

 - What sort of groups can get us into trouble and what to do to change and re-frame our difficulties into opportunities.

 - The magic of role playing.

In addition we will explore THE UNKNOWN ASPETCS IN GROUPS. That is looking at the major aspects of the unconscious process of group work. Much of what goes on in groups happens ¨below the neck¨. Much of it is in the dance between our unconscious selves. This dance is what helps to make groups so exciting, scary and full of potential for transformation.
 
Day 2:

THE PRACTICE OF GROUP LEADERSHIP.
The more we understand our own inner 'selves' and their interplay, the better facilitators we will be. Come prepared to know (and accept) yourself better!

 This includes:
   - How to facilitate groups in any setting.
   - Getting to know and working on the fears and other self-limiting messages that hold us back as group facilitators
  - Learning by facilitating a small group and receive feedback.
  - Group reality development, including the 'dreaded' unconscious group collusion and the role of 'ghosts'.
   - Meeting and working with people's different 'selves' in a group.
  - Understanding the unconscious roles people can play, and get stuck in set ways.
 
FACILITATOR:
Yaro Starak has extensive experience for over thirty years in group facilitation in Australia and in many countries around the world. Yaro has a warm, affirming manner and endeavors to help participants understand their unique style and gifts and to use them to their best advantage in the group situations. His perspectives in Gestalt Therapy ensure a deep understanding of the dynamics of group energy. His background in lecturing gives a clear methodology to the theoretical basis of group work. He is also the author of a new book on group work and art therapy.

Time:

Saturday: 9:30am - 5:00pm & Sunday: 9:30am - 4:00pm

Costs: Click the link please

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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.