2019 Sand Play Art Therapy February 16th, at our Centre

2019 Sand Play Art Therapy February 16th, at our Centre

Sand Play Therapy - a Gestalt approach with symbolism.

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours

Sand Play therapy is a form of counselling or psychotherapy that uses symbolic play to communicate with and help people, especially children, to prevent or resolve psychosocial challenges. This helps them to move towards better social integration, growth and development, emotional modulation, and trauma resolution.

Sand Play therapy can also be used as a tool of diagnosis. A sand play therapist observes a client playing with toys (play-houses, pets, dolls, etc.) to determine the cause of the disturbed behaviour. Because trauma is often debilitating, directed sand play therapy works to create change in the present, without the lengthy healing process often required in traditional sand play therapy.  According to the psychodynamic view, people (especially children) will engage in play behaviour to work through their interior issues and anxieties. According to this viewpoint, play therapy can be used as a self-help mechanism for adults as well.

What you will learn:

• Learn how to understand the meaning of symbols as therapy tools
• Use creative methods to enhance your therapy practice with Sand Play tools.
• Learn how to facilitate and promote positive results with symbolic imagery
• Uncover the reasons why your clients may resist verbal counselling.
• Improve your skills working with traumas and early child painful history.
• Discover ways to clear negative memories and blocks to your own growth
• Find the way of facilitating sand play figures and understand their unconscious meanings.
• Enable clients (Adults, Children, Couples, Families) to discover their self-supports and deal with their life crises.

Day/s: February 16th, 2019

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $178.50

Non- Members: $210.00

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Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Mandalas and Art Therapy February 9th at our Centre

2019 Mandalas and Art Therapy February 9th at our Centre

Jung recognized that the urge to make mandalas emerges during moments of intense personal growth. Their appearance indicates a profound re-balancing process is underway in the psyche.

The result of the process is a more complex and better integrated personality. The mandala serves a conservative purpose—namely, to restore a previously existing order. But it also serves the creative purpose of giving expression and form to something that does not yet exist, something new and unique. ... The process is that of the ascending spiral, which grows upward while simultaneously returning again and again to the same point. (Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz, C. G. Jung)

Incorporating MANDALAS in Therapy Sessions- ART THERAPY

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours

Life is a circular process. Our unresolved conflicts are also circular...like the universe, we are constantly circling around our being and growing.

In this one-day event you will learn how to change the repetitive patterns that emerge in your life using/creating/ modifying mandalas in a symbolic way.

Learn how to practice this skill to be used with your clients and/or for your own personal growth.

Note: According to art therapist and mental health counsellor Susanne F. Fincher, we owe the re-introduction of mandalas into modern Western thought to Carl Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst. In his pioneering exploration of the unconscious through his own art making, Jung observed the motif of the circle spontaneously appearing in therapy. At that moment the circle drawings reflected his inner state of being.

What you will learn:

• The meaning of Mandalas in our lives.
• How to enhance therapeutic results using the Mandala symbol
• Enable the client to recognise the symbol as their guide
• Discover the unconscious messages using the Mandala

Day: February 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

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Full membership 2019: $30

2018, Febuary 10th, Mandalas Art Therapy Workshop

The ART THERAPY WORKSHOP

MANDALAS was a success!!!

Thank you to everyone for your amazing and important participation!

Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia

Directors

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2017, October 15 PSYCHO- MAGIC and Rituals in Gestalt Art Therapy

2017, October 15 PSYCHO- MAGIC and Rituals in Gestalt Art Therapy

Psychomagic aims to heal psychological wounds suffered in life. 

Psychomagic is the name of a therapeutic practice used by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The technique is very useful in psychotherapy. It combines art, Eastern philosophies (particularly Zen Buddhism), mysticism and modern psychotherapy to heal patients with emotional problems. The principle relies on the belief that the unconscious mind takes a symbolic act as a fact. So, a symbolic act could accordingly help solve some types of nonrational conflicts. 

Psychomagic aims to heal psychological wounds suffered in life. This therapy is based on the belief that the performance of certain acts can directly act upon the unconscious mind, releasing it from a series of traumas, some of which practitioners of the therapy believe are passed down from generation to generation.

In this workshop, we will examine the method and practice of Psychomagic as a way of healing.

1 day:

Day:

October 15, 2017

Sunday: 9:30 am – 4:00pm

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Contact Phone: 04 2151 4907

Price:

Members: $105

No Members: $120

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2017, September 9 & 10 Gestalt as a way of being

2017, September 9 & 10 Gestalt as a way of being

Gestalt a way of being Here and now!

This workshop is designed to enable the participant to establish a basic Intervention model that clearly describes the process of therapeutic relationship between client and therapist. This requires the participant to become familiar with the ‘phases’ of this relationship. After demonstrating some degree of comfort in this structure, the participant will be able to begin to develop his or her own ‘style’ of interventions and creative practice.

Subject objectives:

1. To examine specific therapeutic applications of Gestalt Therapy theory and explore practical interventions with individuals, couples, families, and groups.

2. To examine the ways a therapist designs intervention strategy using the cycle of awareness model.

3. To enable the student to develop a beginning personal style of ‘Gestalt Work’.

At the workshop, we will extend the knowledge of:

-          The power of the here and now and awareness.

-          The Gestalt experiment to enhance and improve being in the here and now. 

Days:

September 9 & 10, 2017

Time:

Saturday: 9:30 am to 5:00pm

Sunday: 9:30 am to 4:00pm

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Contact Phone: 04 2151 4907

Price:

Members: $169

Non- Members: $199

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2017, Workshop, February, Introduction to Sand Play Therapy A Gestalt approach

It is not just sand... Sand play offers you a deep therapeutic work.

INTRODUCTION TO SAND PLAY THERAPY – A GESTALT APPROACH

In this weekend you will:

• Use creative methods to enhance your therapy practice with Sand Play tools.
• Learn how to facilitate and promote positive results with symbolic imagery
• Uncover the reasons why your clients may resist verbal counselling.
• Improve your skills working with traumas and early child painful history.
• Discover ways to clear negative memories and blocks to your own growth
• Find the way of facilitating sand play figures and understand their unconscious meanings.
• Enable clients to discover their self-supports and deal with their life crises.

Days: February 18 & 19, 2017

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 January 16th, 2017: $250

2017, Workshop, February, Introduction to Gestalt Therapy,

Gestalt Therapy.
Learn more about this Theory and practice of Psychotherapy.

INTRODUCTION TO GESTALT THERAPY FOR PROFESSIONALS

This innovative experience is designed for therapists and counsellors, trainers and facilitators, consultants and leaders, who are currently practicing.
This is an excellent opportunity for professionals to learn more advanced Gestalt methods and skills within their own disciplines.
In this weekend you will learn:

• Learn how to innovate your practice skills with individuals, groups and families.
• Discover how people develop and create false memories this being stuck in traumas.
• Find out how the therapist promotes (unconsciously) resistances to problem solving.
• Practice visualization techniques to enhance own and client’s growth.
• How to feel calm, compassionate and creative in working with clients.
• How to implement art therapy tools in Gestalt Therapy practice.

Days:
February 4 & 5
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 January 16th: $250 

2016, November 12&13 MASTERCLASS IN SAND PLAY THERAPY – A GESTALT APPROACH

A Powerful Method with Families, Children, Couples, Groups and individual sessions.

MASTERCLASS IN SAND PLAY THERAPY – A GESTALT APPROACH

In this weekend you will:

• Use creative methods to enhance your therapy practice with Sand Play tools.
• Learn how to facilitate and promote positive results with symbolic imagery
• Experience your own aspects of growth in symbolic imagery.
• Uncover the reasons why your clients may resist verbal counselling.
• Improve your skills working with traumas and early child painful history.
• Discover ways to clear bad memories and blocks to your own growth
• Find the way of facilitating sand play figures and understand their unconscious meanings.
• Enable the clients to discover the self-supports and deal with their life crises.

Days:

November 12 & 13, 2016

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 October 31: $250

Payment after October 31: $270

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See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

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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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2016, October 15 & 16 MASTERCLASS IN SAND PLAY THERAPY – A GESTALT APPROACH

2016, October 15 & 16 

MASTERCLASS IN SAND PLAY THERAPY 

 A GESTALT APPROACH

It is not just sand....

MASTERCLASS IN SAND PLAY THERAPY – A GESTALT APPROACH

In this weekend you will:

Use creative methods to enhance your therapy practice with Sand Play tools.

Learn how to facilitate and promote positive results with symbolic imagery

Experience your own aspects of growth in symbolic imagery.

Uncover the reasons why your clients may resist verbal counselling.

Improve your skills working with traumas and early child painful history.

Discover ways to clear bad memories and blocks to your own growth

Find the way of facilitating sand play figures and understand their unconscious meanings.

Enable the clients to discover the self-supports and deal with their life crises.

Days:

October 15 & 16

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 October 3rd: $250

Payment after October 3rd: $270

More info

Download the Registration form here

2016, October 8 & 9 Working with CHILDREN IN THERAPY SESSIONS, Gestalt approach

2016, October 8 & 9 

Working with CHILDREN IN THERAPY SESSIONS, 

Gestalt approach

Any professional in the helping services who wants to work with children, must take into account the child as a total system: the family, social, cultural and developmental factors influencing the child.

In addition, we must pay attention to the small or subtle details that the adults may not notice or may not understand about the child’s symptoms that are clearly obvious to a professional. For example, the manner we communicate with a child is to notice the pace, rhythm and assimilation of the content, as well as the meaning attribution to the play experiments during the session. This is a way of developing trust and safety during the session by clarifying anything that is happening between the child and the adult therapist.

 WORKING WITH CHILDREN IN THERAPY SESSIONS. A GESTALT APPROACH 

In this weekend you will learn:

Discover how deep traumatic experiences in childhood affect the adult client.

Uncover the truth why most traditional work with child trauma do not work.

How can you enable children to achieve positive feelings about their contacts with parents and society at large.

Practice art therapy methods and tools to encourage creativity in self and children.

How to be more aware of the several ways you may be able to with emotional wounds.

Days:

October 8 & 9

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 September 30th: $250 

Payment after September 30th: $270

More info

Download the Registration form here

2016, September 3 & 4 Masterclass in the PRACTICE of GESTALT THERAPY

2016, September 3 & 4 

Masterclass in the PRACTICE of GESTALT THERAPY

Learn about The Gestalt Philosophy, "Here and Now"

MASTERCLASS IN THE PRACTICE OF GESTALT THERAPY

This innovative experience is designed for therapists and counsellors, trainers and facilitators, consultants and leaders, who are currently practicing.

This is an excellent opportunity for professionals to learn more advanced Gestalt methods and skills within their own disciplines.

In this weekend you will learn:

Learn how to innovate your practice skills with individuals, groups and families.

Discover how people develop and create false memories this being stuck in traumas.

Find out how the therapist promotes (unconsciously) resistances to problem solving.

Practice visualisation techniques to enhance own and client’s growth.

How to feel calm, compassionate and creative in working with clients.

How to implement art therapy tools in Gestalt Therapy practice.

Days:

September 3 & 4

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 28th: $250

More info

Download the Registration form here

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

More info

Download the Registration form here

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

2016 March/ April/ May Training Course- 3 workshops

2016 March/ April/ May Training Course- 3 workshops

i-CAT: AN INTRODUCTION TO GESTALT ART THERAPY

PROGRAM OUTLINE – 2016

MODULE 1

March 12 & 13, 2016

HISTORY OF GESTALT THERAPY & FRITZ PERLS

  THE GESTALT CYCLE OF CREATIVE EXPERINCE

  GESTALT THERAPY TOOLS & TECHNIQUES

  ART HISTORY & THEORY OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS

 

MODULE 2

April 16 &17, 2016

  ART THERAPY HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT

  PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND DIAGNOSTIC TEST. THE ROLE OF THE THERAPIST.

  THERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLES IN ART THERAPY AND GESTALT THERAPY. ETHICAL ISSUES.

  WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM ART THERAPY: Children, Adolescents and Adults.

  WHERE WE USE ART THERAPY: Emergency rooms, child clinics, educational settings, hospitals etc.

  SOME EXAMPLES OF ART THERAPY AND GESTALT PROCESS WORK.

  USE OF ART MATERIALS AND TOOLS.

 GROUP WORK AND THE CREATIVE HEALING PROCESS.

MODULE 3

May 14 & 15, 2016

  SAND PLAY.

  MASKS,PAINTING, MANDALAS, COLLAGE

  SCULPTURES, PHOTOTHERAPY.

  VIDEO THERAPY, MUSIC-THERAPY


Registration form and Cost

2016, March 5th Workshop: Using the TAROT in a Therapy Sessions

2016, March 5 Using the TAROT in a Therapy Sessions

Why not?

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre is using creative ways to offer professional support to Psychologists, Counsellors, Therapists, Social workers and social service providers who are working with clients in therapy sessions.

Using the Tarot with a psychotherapeutic objective is novel and exciting.

The reason being that the cards are associated with the Archetypes (Jung) therefore the work is directly relevant to the discovery of the unconscious material indicated in the symbolic images in the cards.

We tend to project everything onto images before us. Our thoughts, feelings and emotions, and make decisions based on our selection of a specific card. In this workshop the participants will learn how to use Tarot cards as a technique to deepen their work with clients and find unconscious material in a Gestalt Art Therapy approach.

 

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: 9:00am - 5:00pm

Costs

2016, February 27 & 28 workshop: Working with Groups

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

Registration form

2016 February 20th- Workshop Working with Kids

2016 February 20th- Workshop Working with Kids

What You Will Learn:

The basic principles and practices will be covered through experiential exercises, discussion and some personal exploration.

This will include:

 • The paradoxical theory of change

 • The magic of role playing with children

 • Being open to the unexpected – magic happens

 • Experiencing the Now: savoring and chewing

 • The importance of being specific and concrete

 • The creative void and change in the Here and Now

Also, we will explore an introduction to Gestalt work with children:

 •          Use of drawing and colors

 •          Sand play with children

 •          Music therapy

 •          Family sculpturing

Download here the Workshop Registration