Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

23 Oct 2021

2021 Sand Play Therapy Art Therapy a Gestalt approach

Sand Play Therapy Art Therapy a Gestalt approach

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

AASW CPD hours

ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

It is not just sand... Sand play offers you a deep therapeutic work. SAND PLAY THERAPY – Art Therapy- A GESTALT APPROACH

During this workshop 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
Support client's expressions from verbal to symbolic.
Improve your skills working with traumas, early child painful history, blocked relationships.
Discover ways to heal negative memories and blocks
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.

Day: 23rd October 2021

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $183
Non- Members: $215

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Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Payment Methods: Ask us for Bank details, please

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17 Oct 2021

2021 Introduction Working with Groups

Introduction Working with Groups

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

AASW CPD hours

ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

Working with Groups

Discover how to manage any kind of Group: Work groups, School Groups, Groups Therapy

Group leadership is not just about techniques it is even more. 

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: 17th October 2021

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $183
Non- Members: $215

Pay by Credit Card

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Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Payment Methods: Ask us for Bank details, please

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Full membership 2021: $40

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Opinions from the last participants:

Prior to attending my first workshop with Yaro and Gemma, I had heard many good things about the Gestalt Art Therapy Centre from other professionals. As soon as I entered the space, I felt calm, welcomed and excited for what was ahead. Yaro and Gemma, were able to bring the group members together at the beginning of the workshop in a warm and friendly way and were able to move the energy of the space and group effortlessly. Although the workshop was more of a refresher for me, I still gained insight, new knowledge and techniques, and other things that were beneficial to me personally and professionally.

I would recommend this workshop to other professionals and have already spoke very highly of Yaro and Gemma to several people since the workshop (Sarah M)

Anyone who enjoys using creative methods in groups or therapy would appreciate the ideas presented in this workshop. I particularly like the experiential nature of the workshop and feel that this is the element that many training workshops lack. I found it very valuable. (Joyce W)

16 Oct 2021

2021 Puppets Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach

Puppets Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach

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

AASW CPD hours

ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

Puppets could be used to promote emotional empathy with children and persons with disabilities

Art and play therapy offer a wide variety of materials which can be beneficial in accessing both cognitive and sensory aspects of the self. According to child psychologists, one of the most successful materials used in art therapy that creates a play-like atmosphere, has been the use of puppets. (Keely Anderson)

 “Puppets have been used in counseling and psychotherapy for different purposes, such as assessment and diagnosis and addressing specific clinical problems” (Butler, Guterman, & Rudes, 2009. p. 226)

During this workshop you will:

Art techniques involve in the creation of Puppets using recycled materials and steps adapted to the client's age.
Investigate and experiment about the creation and the process in the therapy session.
Discover how Puppets are a way to externalize a problem, emotion, or experience, and can help clients identify and relate to a trauma because as they play, the puppets become an extension of themselves.
Using Puppets as a link between clients/ children and their family and system (School, society).
Blank Puppets ready for client's projections.
Offer options to the client to communicate in a new language. Puppets work provides a space where clients can reproduce their inner world.
The integration of the narrative using Puppets.
An opportunity to explore the client's process when they are creating Art. During the art making process, transference emerges in the way that clients handle the art materials provided by the psychotherapist, and the final creation.

"Because pain could be treated through play..." (G.Garcia)

Day: 10h October 2021

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club: $183
Non- Members: $215

Pay by Credit Card

Credit card payments have 2.90% of commission is applied, see the link.

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

Payment Methods: Ask us for Bank details, please

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Full membership 2021: $40

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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.

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)