20 Nov 2021

2021 Art Journals Art Therapy a Gestalt approach


  Art Journals  Art Therapy a Gestalt approach







  • Registrants can obtain their CPD /OPD hours (non-endorsed activities)
AASW CPD hours
ACA OPD hours
PACFA CPD hours

This Amazing and interesting Tool is the "Star" of the Art therapy techniques for the huge amount of applications that the tool offers.
During this workshop you will:
How to create Art Journals and how to incorporate it, in therapy sessions
  • 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
  • Adapting this tool to the client's age (For example creating books for children)
This will be an interesting and creative workshop!

Day: 20th November 2021

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost
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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14 Nov 2021

2021 Drawing and Coloring Art Therapy a Gestalt approach

 


Drawing and Coloring Art Therapy a Gestalt approach



  • Registrants can obtain their CPD /OPD hours (non-endorsed activities)
AASW CPD hours
ACA OPD hours
PACFA CPD hours

Since prehistoric times, humans have tried to communicate.
Now, with hundreds of languages and words we can communicate better, or maybe not?
Discover how to invite your clients to express themselves, in therapy sessions, from a creative and engaging medium.
During this workshop you will:
  • Use different methods to improve even more, your therapy practice with Drawing and Painting tools.
  • Practice with yourself, explore, and then later, you will be able to explain to your clients the impact of the paintings and drawings in a therapeutic context and invite them to this powerful experience.
  • Support client's expressions from verbal to symbolic and colors.
  • Develop skills understanding symbols and the meaning of colors.
  • One symbol has hundreds of meanings, use this incredible awareness to provide support to your clients
  • Communicate with clients on a deep and therapeutic level.
Day: 14th November 2021

Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost
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.
Full membership 2021: $40
Read information about our COVID-19 Guidelines 


2 Nov 2021

2021 Portraits Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach

 Portraits 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

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
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.
Full membership 2021: $40
Read information about our COVID-19 Guidelines 

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.