5 July 2019

2019 Denmark Orø Intensive Gestalt Art Therapy Seminar June 30 to July 5, 2019



2019 Denmark Orø Intensive Gestalt Art Therapy Seminar June 30 to July 5, 2019




An amazing ART THERAPY Seminar in Gestalt Institute of Escandinavia Denmark!
Leaders from Australia
Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia
Where:
GIS
Gestalt Institute of Escandinavia
Næsbyvej 28, Orø 4300 Holbæk Danmark

Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia have explored this topic for over eight years now and found that the Gestalt community everywhere does not have a curriculum where the Gestalt Art approach is integrated into the Gestalt therapy practice.
Of course, bits and pieces of drama, drawing, and other so called artistic elements are added to a session with a training group. Yet, a specific training in the use of art tools in gestalt work is not available everywhere.
In this workshop Yaro work together with Gemma Garcia, Gestalt therapist and Visual artist, with whom he founded the Gestalt Art Therapy centre in Australia. www.gestaltarttherapy.com

Fritz Perls was excited to incorporate dramatists and body work in his workshops, and Laura Perls integrated Dance in her workshops too, of which many have become well known in their artistic work. At this time, the art aspect in training students is not sufficiently promoted, and the experiential aspects of Gestalt is losing its important place in therapy.

At this GIS week workshop, we will introduce the skills and tools of Gestalt Art Therapy.
OBJECTIVES:
  • To enable trained gestalt therapists, attain creative tools of practice in their work.
  • To offer an art focused Gestalt workshop at Orø

METHODOLOGY:

The workshop will offer some theoretical principles with extensive practical elements and experiential group processes using Art materials as tools to enhance therapy with clients.

MATERIALS

During the introduction to ART Therapy, there will be many art materials used (see the program) each “tool” will be explained and practiced with a volunteer client and also we will use the group process work to demonstrate the healing medium in art. The art materials are negotiated as to availability.

Where: Orø, Denmark

When: June 30th, 16.00 to July 5th, 14.00, 2019.

Cost:
Seminar Fee, Company: 9.600 DKK (1.300 EUR)
Seminar Fee, Private: 7.200 DKK (875 EUR)
Seminar Fee, Students: 5.040 DKK (680 EUR)
Stay: 4.560 DKK (618 EUR)

Leaders: Yaro Starak and Gemma Garcia

More Information: gis@gis-international.com
Næsbyvej 28, Orø
4300 Holbæk
Denmark
+45 59 47 00 17

21 June 2019

2019 ART THERAPY RETREAT Spain- Valencia , June 21, 22, 23


2019 ART THERAPY RETREAT Spain- Valencia , June 21, 22, 23





THE EVENT WAS A SUCCESS!





































Pictures's copyright participants
& Gestalt Art Therapy centre & arteterapia Gestalt


An incredible opportunity to discover another country, participating in an Art Therapy Retreat and enjoying a relaxing time, meeting new and interesting people with similar interests to yours. Event in the English and the Spanish language.
GESTALT ART THERAPY RETREAT
  FROM 21st to 23rd, June 2019
With the special participation of Sixto Abril- Spain
Leaders and coordinators of the event Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia
Directors Gestalt Art Therapy Centre- Australia
Event in English and in Spanish


Why participate in the Gestalt Art Therapy Retreat?
If you are a professional of Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, Therapies, Social Work, Educators, etc., you will be interested in discovering new techniques and therapeutic approaches to apply with a large population of clients in a creative way. Ideal to apply to families, children, couples, groups, companies, etc.
If you are not a professional Therapist, and you are interested in Art as a form of expression, and / or for your own personal process, in this Gestalt  Art Therapy Retreat you will learn Artistic exercises to use yourself and how to investigate the messages that they carry from the Unconscious from a Gestalt Therapy approach. We will experiment with Land Art, Music, Movement, Sculpture, Poetry, Painting, Rituals and more.
During the development of the workshop we will use different Artistic materials as a vehicle for the expression of Emotions. You will discover howwhen and why to use different art materials and their therapeutic applications.
You can draw, paint, model, dance, sing, write poetry, etc. You do not have to worry about the materials, we will bring them.
The entire Art therapy Retreat will be coordinated and attended by Yaro Starak and Gemma Garcia (Australia), as well as super interesting collaborations by Sixto Abril (Spain).

GESTALT ART THERAPY RETREAT
WHEN:
The 21st, 22nd y 23rd of June 2019

Day 21st June- 18:00 h Reception of the participants- Dinner- Accommodation
Day 22nd June- Workshop, Breakfasts, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 23rd June- Workshop, breakfast, Workshop closing 14:00 h. (See more information in the program please)

WHERE?

 The Retreat Arteterapia Gestalt, will be developed at JARDIN DE MAR, located in GILET- the province of Valencia, Spain. (See additional information on the place and how to get to the "PROGRAM OF THE WORKSHOP")
COST OF PARTICIPATION IN THE ART THERAPY RETREAT PER PERSON:

(Pay now with your card a single payment here is the link)
Payment after 20 MAY 2019: 290 Euros

Payment in TWO Payments:
(Pay now with link card Fee 1, link payment Fee 2)
The price includes:
-Participation in the Workshop on the indicated days
-Use of Art materials during the retreat
-Accommodation, meals, dinners as indicated in the program.
The prices do not include:
-         Flight tickets costs to the Event and returning from the event
-         Airport transfers from any City to the event and returning from the event
-         Medical Insurance
-         Other cost not included in the: “prices include” information
IMPORTANT TO BRING SLEEPING BAG or bed sheets, and if you want a swimsuit.
PLEASE COMPLETE YOUR REGISTRATION FORM (Download the document here) 
FORMS OF PAYMENT: Credit Card (PayPal) or Bank Transfer
  • [1] PAYPAL: You can make the payment through the links previously in this doc and / or on the web: Gestalt Art Therapy Retreat in Valencia and / or ask for the PayPal link for payment to: arteterapiagestalt@gmail.com

  • BANK TRANSFER: Ask us for Australian bank account details. For payments made outside Australia, we are using www.transferwise.com. The organizers of the event will cover the costs of the transfer through transferwise. Other Banks / Platforms not including the transfer costs. See here how to make the payment. Note: Using this method of Bank transfer to Australia, the payment must be in Australian Dollars 250 euros = $398 Aud

General agreements and contract of participation in the Gestalt Art Therapy Retreat Jardin de Mar. Gilet. Valencia. Spain.
Here you can see the General Conditions of participation in the Gestalt Art Therapy Retreat, participating in this event means that you accept all the conditions noted here:

  • The participant accepts that if he/she suffers an accident or illness during the days of the development of the Art Gestalt Therapy Retreat, the Organizers and / or Coordinators of the Jardin de Mar will be able to call medical services for you to be attended. The expenses derived from this situation will only be charged to the participant (and / or his Social, Private and / or Travel Insurance). Participants coming from other countries will be governed by the same conditions. The Organizers are not responsible for accidents that occurred during the development of the event.
  • Participants must be 18 years of age at the time of the workshop. To participate in this Art Therapy Gestalt Retreat, the participant must have paid the total amount of the fees before participating. If you have chosen two payments, the fees must have been paid in full before the start of the workshop. If no payment is made before the day of the workshop, the interested party could not participate in the event and would not receive any economic refund, regardless of the fees paid, to cover cancellation costs. Payments do not include GST. “commission/transfer fees” are paid by the organizers in payments through transferwise, another forms of transfers, the bank commission/transfer fees will be paid by the participant.
  • Because the event is related to Psychology and / or Gestalt Therapy, the Organizers inform you that the Workshop is for teaching purposes and not for Personal Therapy. As we inform in the registration, the Organizers of the event are not responsible for the mental state of the participants, being the responsibility of each of the participants their emotional situation. Since the exercises to be developed out will have an emotional component, all the personal / emotional information exhibited in the workshop by the participants, on a voluntary basis, will be treated by the Organizers of the event and participants in a confidential manner, requesting this confidentiality also to each participant for the event.
  • During the event different artistic products/materials will be used, in case you are allergic to any of them, you must inform the Organizers of the Gestalt art therapy, to offer you alternative materials to the allergic ones. The Organizers of the event are not responsible for complications arising from these products, in addition to the misuse of tools such as scissors, scissors etc.
  • The Organizers of the event and / or Jardin de Mar are not responsible for losses, theft, robbery of personal effects of the participants, including money, being the sole responsibility of each participant to take care of their properties.
  • The Organizers of the event will be able to take photographs and video recording during the days of the Gestalt Art Therapy retreat of participants and their works, being able to use this material with didactic and promotional purposes of their web pages of Arteterapia Gestalt & Gestalt Art Therapy, YouTube, Instagram and / or Facebook. If you do not wish to be photographed / recorded, you must communicate it in writing to: gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com. Personal data will be strictly confidential and will not be shared with third parties
  • In the case of bad behavior (Abuse, humiliation, insult, et) of any participant, against another Participant, or against the Organizers, collaborator, guests, and / or Jardin de Mar and workers and / or the Group, the Organizers of the event may expel this person / person, without right to claim and economic compensation or economic refund. Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia can change the program and content of the event in case it was necessary without informing the participants in advance of the changes, all the contents being related to Gestalt Art Therapy. Participation in this event means that all the conditions reported here are accepted, with no right to claim and compensation.
  • Alcohol is not allowed in the Jardin de Mar venue and during the Art Therapy retreat

Cancellation Policy / Returns:
- If the participant cancels his participation two months before the start of the event, there will be no refund whatsoever.
- If the participant cancels his participation three months before the start of the event, the return of 50% of the amount will be made, discounting commission expenses for transfers / refunds of the total paid. Withholdings on % refunds will cover the payment of the reservation of the place and expenses derived from the management of the same.
- If Yaro Starak and Gemma Garcia will cancel the development of the Gestalt Art Therapy retreat for reasons beyond their control, the full refund of the amount previously paid by each participant, would be refund (transferwise transfer fees commissions are not included in the refund) an/or commission/ fees  for payments with credit cards and / or through payments by PayPal that the participant has paid derivatives for the payment and/or return.

Any questions please contact us:
WE CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOU IN JUNE 2019!
Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia

21 Mar 2019

2019 Working with Children in Art Therapy May 11


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
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.

Full membership 2019: $30




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



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

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.

Full membership 2019: $30







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


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


Fees with the discount of 50% until March 30th, 2019
Non- Members



Fees with the discount of 30% until March 30th, 2019

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


Fees with the discount of 50% until March 30th, 2019
Non- Members






Fees with the discount of 30% until March 30th, 2019
AASW
ACA

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 
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.