Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

27 Nov 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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21 Nov 2021

2021 Poetry Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach

Poetry 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

Poetry Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach

Poetry and narratives are shown to be valuable tools for presenting people’s lived experiences of complex existential principles and processes. As existentially oriented therapies evolve, new methods of inquiry have been developed that demonstrate how existential themes emerge within the context of people’s lives.

During this workshop you will:

How narrative reflections can contextualize, explore, or expand client's poems.
Poetry may be thought of as the emotional microchip, in that it may serve as a compact repository for emotionally charged experiences. (Rich Furman)
Explore how Poetry is not based upon linear cause and effect logic; a poem does not need to “make sense.” In this manner, the poem may be a particularly valuable means of exploring emotions (Mazza, 1999).
Investigate how the poem allows for interplay between the external and internal worlds of the person that are often complex, contradictory, and even dialectical (Harrower, 1972).
Discover the depth exploration of the meaning of clients’ feelings and experiences that they are helped to make sense of their feelings as they relate to their needs, dreams and values through Poetry.
Know more about different kinds of poems: focus on the specific existential theme of free poems.
Working with integrations of client's projections.

Day: 1121st 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

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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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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)