Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

1 Oct 2016

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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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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22 Aug 2016

2016, October 21, 22 & 23 ART CAMP

2016, October 21, 22 & 23 ART CAMP

Psychologists, Counselors, Artists and any person who wants to use Art techniques in a Therapeutic way, all are welcome!

GLAMPING! AT A LUXURIOUS PLACE!

At this Art Camp, You will be able to learn and enjoy creative ways of working with clients and groups, using Clay, Paintings, LandArt, and more.

Enjoy this ART CAMP in a SPECIAL natural venue near MULLUMBIMBY! NSW.

Sharing Rooms, Healthy Food, plenty of Nature, relaxing time and art work, they are the best ingredients to experience an amazing weekend!

Facilitated by Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia, Artists and Directors of the Gestalt Art Therapy Centre.

Do not miss this opportunity!

At this ART CAMP you will study:

A variety of Art materials.

Get some ideas from this Art Camp like how to use Art Techniques with clients in an GESTALT Art Therapy sessions

Discover different ideas and adapt them in the therapeutic context.

Express yourself, play, investigate with techniques and materials, this is the only way you will gain ways of working creatively with a client or group.

Learn when, why and how to use specific techniques in the context of the client's age, situation, level of the therapeutic process or working theme of your client.

At this ART CAMP you will practice:

Working with Acrylic painting & Water Color

Using Clay

Exploring Land Art

Mixed media

Performance

Spiritual Rituals

The Art work as the focus of Art Therapy:

Working with Self-esteem

Working with the polarities of the light/ shadow aspects

Working with the family

Working with kids

Groups work

Note: We are not doing Individual or Group Therapy. This Art Camp has the purpose of training in Art skills. We have a Gestalt focus, but the goal of the Art Camp is investigating materials used in Art Therapy sessions that can apply to any style of therapy.

All the participants are welcome, if you are Psychologist, Counsellor, Therapist, teacher, Artist, this ART CAMP would offer you the Art therapy skills. If you are not, you will be able to experiment with Art as a Therapeutic approach.

ANAHATA RETREAT

Anahata is in a lush bush setting beside a bend in the river. It has its own private waterhole complete with platypus, turtles, many water birds and butterflies. A Balinese pavillion next to running water is for yoga, meditation or just relaxation and a magical tipi for getting in touch with your mystic spiritual side next to the fire at night. Anahata is home to a beautiful waterfall, a glow worm grotto and rolling lawns dotted with fruit and nut trees and gorgeous green bush.

Within this setting is a magnificent 5 bedroom pole house surrounded by a wide wooden veranda where the retreats are held. Accommodation is shared rooms both twin and triple and there are also alternatives to provide your own tent. Maximum number of participants is 12 people. There are plenty of private places to sit or make small walks on the property or go for a swim in the fresh waters of Wilsons Creek.

The location is 15 minutes from Mullumbimby, 30 minutes from Byron Bay and 2 hours from Brisbane airport. The closest airport is Coolangatta/Gold Coast or Ballina (both 45 minutes away) and an airport shuttle bus can be arranged to get you here.

The full Cost included:

Accommodation in a sharing room, two nights.

Linen, Towels, blankets

Meals: Friday dinner, Saturday all meals, Sunday until lunch time, (lunch included)

Art materials (Paintings, paper, Clay, glue, etc)

Art classes

Morning Yoga Classes

EARLY Bird: $800.00 Payment before September 30th

Payments made after September 30th will be: $1000.00

More info

More Information- Phone Number: 0421 514 907

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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 9th The wisdom of colour Through Aura-Soma

2016, September 9th

The wisdom of colour Through Aura-Soma

The wisdom of colour Through Aura-Soma

Guest speaker : Maria Teresa De Vivo

Get a basic understanding of the Aura-Soma Colour system and how through colour and the Equilibrium bottles you are able to unlock messages hidden at a subconscious level. “You are the colours you choose and these reveal your being’s needs” is the motto of Aura-Soma. Come and discover how Aura-Soma can help you and/or your clients reveal what can be stopping you from realizing your full potential.

Day: September 9th

Time: 7 pm to 8 pm

Free event

Please let us know if you are coming.

Please bring a small plate to share

More info: gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

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

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)