29 Dec 2022

2023 Mandalas Gestalt Art Therapy approach ZOOM

 2023 Mandalas Gestalt Art Therapy approach ZOOM

 Registrants can obtain their CPD /OPD hours (non-endorsed activities)

AASW CPD hours

ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

 MANDALAS a Gestalt Art Therapy approach

“My mandalas were cryptograms about the state of the self that presented itself to me each new day… I kept them as precious stones…. It was becoming more and more clear that the Mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. ”

                             Memories, Dreams and Reflections. CG jung

 THE SACRED ROUND: Carl Jung's Patient Mandalas

“The Sacred Round: Carl Jung's Patient Mandalas” was the first exhibition of forty patient-created mandalas by Swiss psychoanalyst C.G. Jung, which was on view at the Oglethorpe University Art Museum from February 5 to May 6, 2012. The exhibit was courtesy of C.G. Jung Institute in Kusnacht, Switzerland

Workshop objectives:

- The artistic techniques involved in creating mandalas using a wide range of artistic materials.

- Investigate and experiment on the creation of mandalas and the process in the Gestalt Art therapy session.

- Have the opportunity to practice with this tool, because when you draw or paint your own mandala, you are making a portrait of your unconscious self in a particular moment in your life, and when you carefully observe your creation, it can provide an amazing insight in a deep level (Susanne F Fincher)

- Learn how to present this art tool to your clients

- Discover the spiritual transformative power of the mandala

- You will be able to offer options to the client to communicate in a new language. Mandala work provides a space where clients can reproduce their inner world in a safe and relaxed way.

- Practice with the integration of polarities using Mandalas.

- Investigate more about Symbols, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.

· During this online workshop, participants will understand how to work with Mandalas, in a Gestalt art therapy approach.

· Working with mandalas with a Gestalt approach will help the participants to understand not the "why" but the "what for" and the "how" during the creation and understanding of the Mandala.

"Here and Now" will give participants valuable awareness during this amazing process of working with the Mandalas.

· This workshop is "practical" - this means that the importance is the practice, the moment, the experience. We will present theories but the goal is practical.

No previous experience with mandalas or in Gestalt Therapy, or in Psychology, Therapy or Art is necessary.

This workshop will not be recorded because it will be experiential "Here and now". So there will be no later access to the contents.

Workshop information:

When: January 29th, 2023

Time: 4 pm to 6pm  (Brisbane- Australian time)  AEST- Australian Eastern Standard Time. UTC/GMT +10 hours. See here time converter https://24timezones.com/difference

Registrations will close on January 27th

Cost:

Gestalt Art Therapy Club members

Participation: $95Aud

Click here to pay by Credit card (Paypal) Promo Members Offer $80

General participants

Click here to pay by Credit card (Paypal) Participation: $110Aud

Any questions please contact us.

gestaltarttherapy@gmail.com

Workshop REGISTRATION HERE

We are not registered for GST

New member payments before December 30th, 2022

· Silver members: $20 per year

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· Gold members: $30 per year

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Payments after December 30th, 2022:

Silver members: $40 per year

Gold Members: $60 per year

Membership is from one year, until December 31st, 2023.

Do not miss this opportunity!

System: Zoom (After registration and payment you will receive the link for your participation)

System and Materials you will need for the workshop participation:

System: Zoom (After your registration you will receive the link so you can access the day of the event)

Connection system and materials that you will need to have available on the day of the workshop:

- Internet connection, a computer, tablet or phone, with access to a webcam and microphone.

- Have the Zoom program or APP installed and be registered@

- One A4 Paper to write and/or draw

- A pen, color markers or crayons.

One A4 black Black sheet 

- Gel pen white or white pastel pencil

- Rock (flat as a possible)

Some acrylic paints (we will use a small amount) 

- Paper or plastic plate

- Fine brush or cotton sticks or chopsticks

- Ruler

- Something to create a circulo (a cup or a bowl, etc)

- Once the registration is paid, we will send you a link with access to Mandalas material, which you can print to have ready for the day of the workshop.

- Camera or cell phone to take a picture of your creation to be shared with the participants.

Read Policy cancelation and Participation conditions at the "Event Policy"

This workshop will be “hands on” and will not be recorded.

More information:

Gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

Payment Methods: Ask us for Bank details, please See here information related to Refunds & Cancellation policy. In the situation that there is not a minimum number of participants and the organizers decide to cancel the event, they will offer to transfer the payment to another future event or the refund of the payment made by each participant will be offered. In payments and refunds via paypal, commissions will be applied by Paypal of 3% , also the commission will be discounted of the payment received, in each refund. 

Online workshops:

If you cancel your participation less than 24 hours before the day of the workshop, there is no refund or credit forfeiting the payment you would have made to participate in the workshop. If you do not have the necessary materials to participate in the workshop, unfortunately you will not be able to participate. In each event you will be able to read the list of materials required for each workshop on the website and also in the emails we send you, these materials may be similar, although it is necessary to have them. If you cancel your participation in the workshop due to not having the necessary materials, the payment you would have made to participate will not be refunded. Participating in our events means that you accept all these conditions.

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2023 Online FREE EVENT TVB© Therapeutic Vision Board

 2023 Online FREE EVENT TVB© Therapeutic Vision Board



✴️Create your Therapeutic Vision Board TVB©!

Date: January 22nd, 2023

Time: 4pm to 6 pm (Brisbane Australia time)

Cost: FREE

Platform: Zoom

  • Materials:

Basics: Magazines, Scissors, Glue, a sheet of paper

Extra materials (if possible): a hard cardboard (the base for your Therapeutic Vision board) of the size you want, if you are interested in 3D creations, then have ready: little symbolic objects, feathers, tree leaves, etc, anything you want to glue on your board. For this, the glue must be liquid (the glue stick does not work for 3D objects!)

Event for adults for being a therapeutic workshop.

Important read the conditions of participation and the personal data management policy. Information that you can read during registration.

gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

  • What is a TVB© Therapeutic Vision Board

It is a creation using different materials such as magazine clippings, words, phrases, and even objects that may be significant with important symbols for you.

In this creation, as a "Collage" those ideas that interest the participant will be represented to capture their future wishes or dreams.

For example, getting a new job, a personal relationship such as having a partner, a trip or more economic income, among other ideas.

It is about “designing” your dream so that it can become a reality.

  • What is the difference between a traditional Dream Board and a the TVB© Therapeutic one

Our proposal is revolutionary because it addresses all aspects, levels (conscious and unconscious) in the creation of this board.

The traditional Vision Board focuses on the future, what you want to achieve.

With our Holistic approach, participants will be able to design their future based on other super important aspects of their lives related to approaches such as Gestalt therapy, Art Therapy, Family Constellations, etc.

  • What is a dream?

According to the dictionary, a person is dreaming when in is a state of rest that a person finds when they are sleeping.

From the work with the TVB© Therapeutic Vision Board, we will discover how to "wake up" to achieve this dream/desire/objective, what you want to achieve.

  • What parts does a Vision Board have?

Unlike the traditional Vision board (in which only the dream/desire/objective is captured), our TVB© has a super powerful structure that will help you "realize" and plan your future to achieve your Vision/ desire/objective/ goal/dream .

  • How do you work with the dream board from the Gestalt CAT© Art Therapy approach?

Steps:

· Meditation on what you want for yourself. Dream big!

· The creation of your board with Collage materials (through your selected the images we can see what you have chosen and what messages these images/symbols may be giving you) working " Here and now",  with the Unconscious!

The commitment (Designing the strategies to follow in order to achieve your desire)

· Achieve the dream/objective, the proof obtained from your TVB©!

· (Once you have achieved your wish, in the short, medium or long term, we would love you to share it with us please!)

During this free workshop we will look at our past, present and future to create a future goal in a holistic way.

We will use Gestalt Art Therapy techniques and other therapeutic approaches that will help you "realize", make adjustments and achieve your goals "dreams"

· It will be a two-hour workshop, an exciting journey through your life, building towards the future.

· During the workshop we will guide you on how to build your Dream Boards, the steps to follow, the emotions to explore, the techniques to use so that you can achieve your future dreams!

For participation we will ask you to have the camera on, and that, once the board is finished, share your creation with us by showing your Therapeutic Vision board to the camera.

It will not be necessary for you to share your personal process with the group of participants, we will use examples from other people, so that the creation of the board is understood. You only need to have an open mind to create, understand and define the dreams of your future!

After the participation at the workshop, if you are interested in receiving the certificate of participation in this event, contact us via email requesting it please gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com (Read conditions of participation and requirements to obtain the certificate of participation)

· If after your participation in this Workshop you would be interested in working individually with your Therapeutic Vision Board, in a more deep way, and outline your process and final goals, you are welcome to book a Counseling session with us. See more information about costs here

Start the adventure here and now to design your future now!

Looking forward to having you at the event!

Cheers

Yaro Starak and Gemma Garcia

Directors of the Gestalt Art Therapy Centre



2023 Clay Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach - Face to Face workshop

 


2023 Clay Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach - Face to Face workshop


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!

Workshop information:

Day: January 28th, 2023

FACE TO FACE WORKSHOP

Where: Gestalt Art Therapy centre. 

2 Findlay St. Ashgrove. Brisbane. Qld. 

Time: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm  (Brisbane- Australian time) 

Break 12:30 pm to 1:30pm. The centre has refrigerator and microwave, you are welcome to bring your food or very close to Woolworths, there are cafeterias where you can go to eat.

Cost:

Gestalt Art Therapy Silver & Gold members

Participation: $265Aud

Click here for Credit card payments (Paypal) Promo Members: $245

General participants

Click here for Credit card payments (Paypal) Participation: $285Aud

Workshop REGISTRATION HERE

Materials for the workshop will be provided by the Gestalt Art Therapy centre

We are not registered for GST

New member payments before December 30th, 2022

· Silver members: $20 per year

Pay here

Register here

· Gold members: $30 per year

Pay here

Register here

Payments after December 30th, 2022:

Silver members: $40 per year

Gold Members: $60 per year

Membership is from one year, until December 31st, 2023.

Do not miss this opportunity!

Read Policy cancelation and Participation conditions at the "Event Policy"

This workshop will be “hands on”

More information:

Gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

Join our Group on Facebook

Read information about our COVID-19 & Vaccine Guidelines 

In the situation that there is not a minimum number of participants and the organizers decide to cancel the event, they will offer to transfer the payment to another future event or the refund of the payment made by each participant will be offered. In payments and refunds via paypal, commissions will be applied by Paypal of 3% of the payment received, in each payment and refund.

Please note:

Covid Requirements

Following the Australian Government Health department indications and with the objective of offering a safe space for all patients and Counsellors:

Every participant before being admitted to each Face-to-face session/ workshop:

• Before each workshop/ session temperature measures will be taken. If the participant has symptoms like fever (37°C or more), coughing, sore throat, shortness of breath, unfortunately, he/she will not be admitted to the event/ session, and the session will be rescheduled.

Important information from Government:

Testing positive to COVID-19

Any person who tests positive to COVID-19 will need to immediately isolate at home or other suitable accommodation for at least 7 full days from the date the person had their test. Follow advice from Queensland Health, including the first steps to take if you have COVID-19.

Close contact

If you are a close contact, on the day of the event/ session you should have a negative test and wear a mask. 

If there is a positive test, please reschedule the session.

Regarding face to face workshops/ sessions, clients who tested COVID positive must have passed a minimum of 14 days after Covid to be able to have a face to face participation/ session and have a RAT negative test.

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


SEE LABELS ON THE RIGHT SIDE

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.