Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

2 Nov 2021

2021 Portraits Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach

Portraits Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach

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ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

Portraits Art therapy 

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Portraits are a powerful tool to affirm and connect to client's own reality. Self-portrait process is a chance to express the authentic voice and true self, to remember to clients who they are and be centered in the here and now.

During this workshop you will:

Discover the power of portraits to heal.
Self-portraits, the object and the spectator
Experiment with a big range of Art techniques creating portraits.
Investigate the dynamics surrounding self-portraiture are also considered in light of Schaverien's (1995) discussion of the three-way form of relating that develops in art therapy between the client, their image, and the Art therapist.
Self-portraits may allow the client to get in touch with aspects of themselves on both physical and emotional levels and the completed image may reflect unexplored elements of the self, back to the client.
Discover the importance of awareness and self-acceptance.
Reflect about the relationship between the creation of self-portraits in art therapy and Winnicott's (2005) concept of mirroring.
Presenting the theme of duality in self-portraits exploring client's two opposing, contrasting, or complementary sides of themselves.
Each client's exploration of self-portraiture is unique and significant in different ways.

Day: 4th December 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

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Full membership 2021: $40

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1 Nov 2021

2021 The Magic Box Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach

The Magic Box 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

The Magic box and Art therapy 

The use of boxes to enclose and conceal contents, create a new realm of space, and unite opposites makes the box very effective in therapy.

During this workshop you will:

Know how to design the Magic box to offer this tool to your clients.
Discover how this tool will support the psychological process, revealing meaningful information about the clients’ inner world.
Identify the factors that make the use of the box an effective art therapy tool.
Uncover the power of the creation with symbols, also the meaning of "inside versus outside" the box, can be cathartic for some clients.
Offer options to the client is to communicate in a new language, using boxes and other mixed media materials.
A Box Story: How the Functional Becomes Symbolic.
Boxes as containers, protectors, preservers and concealers of emotional content.
Adapting this tool to the client's age and emotional development

Day: 18th December 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

See here information related to Refunds & Cancellation policy.

Become a member today just for $40 Year and access to discounts!

Full membership 2021: $40

Join our Group on Facebook

Read information about our COVID-19 Guidelines 

2021 SURVEY Competition

SURVEY Competition

You do not need to have a ticket to be able to participate in this survey

Just click on SURVEY and give us your opinion.

The system will record your email and we will inform you if your email has been selected.

Tell us what your interest is, and we will create events for you! It will take only a few minutes to share your wishes with us.

Survey

We are going to raffle two t-shirts. Winners can chose between these designs:

"I LOVE COLLAGE", "DON'T PUSH THE RIVER IT FLOWS BY ITSELF" or, " I AM GESTALT".

(One t-shirt to each winner). The competition runs from 1am AEST (UTC +10) September 12th, 2021 to 5pm AEST (UTC +10) November 30th, 2021.

 HOW TO ENTER:

For your chance to win one Limited Edition T-Shirt you must:

1. Complete the survey

2. Provide your email at the survey form

We will randomly choose an email from those received. We'll choose entries and notify the prize winner via email.

Prizes: We have total 2 T-Shirts, only 2 winners.

One T-Shirt to each winner.

Winners will be announced during December 1st  2021 by email.

The competition runs from 1am AEST (UTC +10) September 12th 2021, to 5pm AEST (UTC +10) November 30th, 2021.

For full terms and conditions see below or visit our website at www.arttherapygestalt.com

PARTICIPATION TERMS & CONDITIONS:

Entrants must be 18 years of age at the moment of their participation.

Entrants must have an email to be

 able to complete the survey

The T-shirt will be sent to each winner by normal courier post, any issue related to arrival the winner must contact directly their currier post. Gestalt Art therapy centre are not responsible to any delays or nor arrivals.

To be able to receive the T-Shirt the winner must provide their emails and Postal address.

If the winner does not provide the required information in the deadline of 7 days, the prize will be declared unclaimed, and the unclaimed prizes will become property of Gestalt Art therapy center and no longer part of the competition.

Entry into the competition means that the entrant warrants that the competitor meets the entry eligibility requirements and accepts these terms and conditions.

The prize cannot be exchanged for other products or money

The number of entries allowed per person is only one

Competition starts:  1am AEST (UTC +10) September 12th, 2021

Submissions will close:  5pm AEST (UTC +10) November 30th, 2021.

Winners will be announced:  December 1st 2021

The survey must have a minimum of ten participants to be able to run the competition.

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Participating in this competition means that participants are accepting terms and conditions explained above.

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)