Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

21 Mar 2019

2019 Working with Children in Art Therapy May 11

Explore how to use Painting, Drawing, Drama, Music, Sand Play Therapy, etc. with kids in a therapeutic context.

This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours
This course has 2019 ACA OPD points

Any professional in the helping services who wants to work with children, must consider 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.

In this workshop 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.
Learn how you can 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 aware of the several ways you may be able to work with emotional wounds.
The way to work with children in a therapy session could be a little different than working with adults. Professional therapists need to adjust their therapeutic tools to the level of children.

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: savouring 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 colours
Family sculpturing and more
Puppets as a magical transition object
Sand Play Therapy

Day/s: May 11, 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

Where:

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

Ashgrove- Brisbane

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Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts!

Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Sand Play Art Therapy May 4th, at our Centre

Sand Play Therapy - a Gestalt approach with symbolism.

This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours
This course has 2019 ACA OPD points

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: May 4th, 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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Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts!

Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Art Therapy Sessions 50% off!! See discount conditions

What?

One Hour of one ART THERAPY SESSION at the *cost of $37.50 Aud?

Yes! Benefit of this amazing discount only until March 30th, 2019

Online and face to face options

*See Discount conditions please.

FEES with the applied discount until March 30th, 2019

ART Therapy Sessions by

YARO STARAK

and/ or

GEMMA GARCIA

1-hour session

ART THERAPY Sessions For individual Adults, Couples, Families, Teenagers, Children	Gestalt ART Therapy clubmembers Fees with the discount of 50% until March 30th, 2019	Non- Members Fees with the discount of 30% until March 30th, 2019	Gestalt ART Therapy clubmembers Package of 4 Sessions	Non- Members Package of 4 Sessions
ONLINE Skype program Brisbane- Australia Time Zone
Individual	$37.50	$52.50	$140	$199
Couple	$60	$84	$200	$300
FACE TO FACE
Individual	$60	$84	$230	$300
Couple & family session	$75	$105	$280	$400

Professional Supervision Sessions by

YARO STARAK

And/or

GEMMA GARCIA

PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION SESSIONS

1-hour session

Professional Supervision Sessions	AASW ACA Gestalt ART Therapy clubmembers Fees with the discount of 50% until March 30th, 2019	Non- Members Fees with the discount of 30% until March 30th, 2019	AASW ACA Gestalt ART Therapy clubmembers Package of 4 Sessions	Non- Members Package of 4 Sessions
ONLINE Skype program Brisbane- Australia Time Zone
Individual	$37.50	$52.50	$140	$199
FACE TO FACE
Individual	$55	$77	$200	$300

Therapy and Supervision Sessions discount conditions:

If you are member of AASW, ACA and /or Gestalt Art Therapy Club member you can benefit of the 50% of the total fees of the Therapy and/or supervision session. To be able to benefit this discount you will need to provide us your association’s name and number.

If you are not a member you can benefit the discount of the 30% of the total fees of the Therapy and/or supervision session.

If you are member of AASW you will receive CPD hours recognition.

Note: Children and teenagers are not allowed to receive online sessions. Parents, care givers tutors need to book for the minor persons.

To book you must have 18 years old.

This offer cannot be used with another offer like Gestalt Art Member Sessions discounts and or Medicare concession.

This discount ends on March 30th, 2019

This discount can be used only in a maximum of four sessions, and the four sessions need to be paid in advance like a package.

The final fees with the discount applied has not include GST

If you book a session and you cannot make it, you can book another session if the previous session is cancelled 24 hours before of the session time, without any extra cost.

If you cancel the session and you didn’t inform us 24 hours before the time session booked, the session can not be change for another session, it is any refund or change and if you would like to attend another session you will need to pay the fees again.

To change the day/time the booked session (before 24 hours of the day/time booked session), you need to write an email to: gestaltarttherapycnetr@gmail.com informing us your situation and the preferred next day/time for the session, and you need to receive our conformation that we received your information and the approve of changing the new session day/time.

It is any refund of this service, you are welcome to book your session and we will confirm the viability of day/time.

This discount could be applied for an “online session” or a “face to face session” or the mentioned package of maximum 4 sessions.

The “face to face session” will be at the Gestalt Art Therapy Centre- Brisbane- Australia. Contact us for more information please.

The “online Session” will be developed by the Skype program. Please note that if you are overseas and booking an online session, you need to be adapted to the Brisbane- Australia zone time. To participate in this session the client needs to have some paper, colour pens and an extra chair.

The PC system needs to have the Skype program installed, the microphone and camera activated.

It is totally prohibited to record any therapy session online or/a face to face without written permission of the therapists.

The Therapy sessions and Supervision could be in English language and if you want in Spanish language.

The payment of the session needs to be minimum 24 h in advance of the session day/time.

Amount is in Australian Dollars

Payments can be by PayPal (please note that PayPal has an extra of 4% of commission, you can see the final cost when you will pay using this method) and/or by Bank Transfers (Ask us for Bank details please)

Any questions please feel free to contact us: gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

2019 Working with Teenagers & Art Journals March 30th at our Centre

This Amazing and interesting Tool is the "Star" of the Art therapy techniques.

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours and ACA Points

During this workshop you will learn:

How to create Art Journals
How to develop Mixed media techniques building Art Journals
Starting the process of using the Art Journal with clients
Selecting some creations at the Art journal to work in the therapy sessions
How to close the therapy session after an Art Journal work
Offer options to the client to continue working with the Art Journal at home until the next session

This will be an interesting and creative workshop!

Day: March 30th, 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

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts!

Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Introduction to Gestalt Therapy March 16th at our centre

Here some pictures from the workshop:

Pictures participants' copyright & Gestalt Art Therapy centre

You will be introduced to Psychological tools that can be used to increase the sharpness with which you see and relate to the world and practice psychotherapy in an authentic manner.

This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours

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. Gestalt therapy was developed from various influences upon the lives of its founders during the times in which they lived, including: the new physics, Eastern religion, existential phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, experimental theater, as well as systems theory and field theory.

Learning objectives:

To examine specific therapeutic applications of Gestalt Therapy theory and explore practical interventions with individuals, couples, families and groups.
To examine the ways a therapist designs intervention strategy using the cycle of awareness model.
To enable the participant to develop a beginning personal style of ‘Gestalt Work’ and enhance his or her practice with clients.

At the workshop, we will extend the knowledge of:

- The power of the here and now and awareness in working with clients

- How to develop a Gestalt experiment to enhance and improve therapeutic outcomes

Day: March 16th, 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

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts!

Full membership 2019: $30

2019 Introduction Working with Groups March 9th at our Centre

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

• This workshop is 2019 AASW endorsed CPD hours

Each Group is a different World...

Group leadership is not just about techniques. 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: March 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

Ask us for Bank details, please

Credit card payments have 4% of commission is applied, see the link.

See Cancellation Policy in the registration form, please.

Be a member today just for $30/Year and access to discounts!

Full membership 2019: $30

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)