Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Nov 28, 2021

2021 Inner Child work- A Gestalt Art Therapy approach

Inner Child work- A Gestalt Art Therapy approach

"A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him." - Pablo Neruda- Poet

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

AASW CPD hours

ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

Who has never been a child?

In popular psychology and analytical psychology, the inner child is an individual's childlike aspect. It includes what a person learned as a child, before puberty. The inner child is often conceived as a semi-independent subpersonality subordinate to the waking conscious mind.

Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) originated the concept in his divine child archetype. New Thought spiritual leader Emmet Fox (1886–1951) called it the "wonder child". The concept of the inner child was further developed by husband and wife team Vivian and Arthur Janov in primal therapy, expounded in the books The Primal Scream (1970) and The Feeling Child (1973).

During this day  you will:

Work with the meaning of the "nurturing parent" and "protective parent" within "inner family work" to care for a person's physical, emotional, creative and spiritual needs.
We will review the concept of the "critical parent within" , and provide you tools for managing it.
investigate about the unresolved childhood experiences and the lingering effects of childhood dysfunction: the sum of mental-emotional memories stored in the sub-conscious from conception through pre-puberty.
Through Gestalt Art Therapy approach each participant will access, in a safe mode, to their child memories, being the witness of the stories of their origins in childhood, and participants will find some different proposals to the healing process.
Recovery and support of Your Inner Child using Gestalt art therapy techniques.
Review of the connection between Attachment Theory and the Inner child work.
Discover how unfinished business of the inner child will be affecting the adult live of your clients.
Support your clients in working with their inner child.
Work with your inner child, to be ready to support your clients' inner child.

Day: 28th November 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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Nov 27, 2021

2021 Collage Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach

Collage 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

Collage Art therapy 

The use of figurative and metaphorical language during the creation using collage techniques, helps to make changes, implement new options within the client's process, without having to work directly with the confrontation of the problem or conflict. Through collage, clients objectify their conflicts to put them in a different perspective and open future channels of communication. 

During this workshop you will:

Know how to design the collage-work: kind of collages

Paper collage – One of the more basic forms of collage. Various pieces of paper gathered and put together to create a unique collage strictly from paper products.
Photomontage – whether done by hand or with the help of a computer, a photomontage is a collage of pictures or photos.
Painting collage – Gluing pieces to a canvas and then painting over and/or around those pieces on the canvas, thus creating an original and unique painting.
Wood collage – Create from pieces of wood, whether it be from scraps, old furniture, crates, barrels, house parts, driftwood, branches, sticks, bark, etc.
Digital collage – Using a computer to gather the visual pieces and put them together

Discover how this tool will support the psychological process, revealing meaningful information about the clients’ inner world.
Collages are visual artworks that are created by selecting magazine images, textured papers, or ephemera; cutting or altering these elements; and arranging and attaching them to a support such as paper or cardboard”. This kind of creation could be compared with clients' life and patterns.
Uncover the power of the creation with symbols, also the act of cutting and ripping images and gluing them together can be cathartic for some clients.
Offer options to the client to communicate in a new language, collage art therapy work involves inconsciente levels related to archetypes and colective unconscious .
Adapting this tool to the client's age and emotional development

Day: 11th 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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2021 Clay Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach

Clay 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

Clay therapy has the quality of nurture, integration and healing for participants, during the therapy process.

Clay products are well known in human history since prehistoric times in such forms as vases, pots, and symbolic figures, including human figures. Clay has been used throughout history by many cultures as a vehicle to express a religious dimension in human life. (Michal Sholt, and Tami Gavron)

During this workshop you will:

How to design the clay-work: procedural expressions, constructive and deconstructive processes, and the integration process.
Investigate and experiment about the product (clay) and process.
Discover how this tool will support the psychological process, revealing meaningful information about the clients’ inner world.
Uncover the power of the development of three-dimensional representation in clay.
Procedural Expressions through the Experience of Touch, Movement, and the Three-Dimensional Aspect of Clay-work.
Offer options to the client to communicate in a new language, clay-work involves a very primal mode of expression and communication.
Adapting this tool to the client's age and emotional development

This will be an interesting and creative workshop!

Day: 27th November 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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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)