Gestalt Art Therapy Centre

29 Dec 2022

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

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

SAND PLAY ART THERAPY- a Gestalt Art Therapy approach - Face to face Workshop

Who can participate?

If you are a professional Psychotherapist, Mental health psychologist, Counsellor, Coach, Teacher, Social Worker, this short workshop will give you an idea about the power of symbols and how to support clients using this approach in therapy sessions

If you are not a mental health professional, you can also benefit from the knowledge of this technique and the theory of Jung's symbols in combination with Gestalt Art Therapy, for a personal growth.

Objectives of the workshop:

· Discover the hidden messages of your unconscious here and now.

· Learn the steps to work with Symbols in the Sand tray.

· Working with stories in a Gestalt Art therapy approach

· Integrate the awareness during the Sand play work in your everyday life.

· Create your own Sand tray in a conscientious manner

· Gain tools to be used with your clients in therapy sessions

· Create your own powerful figurines

Participants will receive a certificate of 6 hours completed from Gestalt Art Therapy Centre Australia of “Sand Play Therapy Art Therapy- Gestalt art therapy approach”

This Face to Face workshop is designed for people interested in knowing about how to work with symbols in the sand tray, in their practice and for all individuals with an interest in discovering and learning how to work with their own unconscious bringing it to the “here and now”

Workshop date:

Day: March 25th, 2023

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 have lunch.

Cost:

Gestalt Art Therapy members Silver or Gold

Participation: $265Aud

Click here to pay by Credit Card (Paypal) Promo Members: $245

General participants

Click here to pay by Credit Card (Paypal) Participation: $285Aud

Workshop REGISTRATION HERE

We are not registered for GST

New member payments before December 30th, 2022

· Silver members: $20 per year

Pay here

· Gold members: $30 per year

Pay 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"

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 refunds via paypal, commissions will be applied by Paypal of 3% of the payment received, in each refund.

More information:

Gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

2023 Luxury Retreat for Couples

2023 Luxury Retreat for Couples

LUXURY Retreats for Couples

► A place where:

✴️Reconnect with your partner

✴️Express your emotions in a protected and supportive space

✴️Confront unfinished business from creativity

✴️Decide whether or not to continue the relationship, In the case of goodbyes, close the cycle of experience in a nutritious way for both parties. In the case of the decision to renew the commitment, review the agreements and emotional contracts.

►Working with the couple as a system (family, friends, children, society)

►Work with situations of infidelity and recovery of trust in the relationship.

►Strategies to improve communication between couples A time of self-encounter and meeting with your partner. It will be a respectful retreat of emotional growth, and understanding with empathy. The activities will be adapted to the situation of the group and couples. Open to all types of couples regardless of gender and/or type of partnership in the couple, marriage, cohabitation, etc.

Planned days for the Retreat 2023:

Friday March 10th from 5pm

Saturday March 11th

Sunday March 12th until Lunch time

3 days, 2 nights

Included:

Accommodation:

One room for each couple. Each Room Features:

1 Split King Bed providing double or twin configuration options.

Fridge, Kettle and pod coffee machine

Ensuite with Shower and Mini Bath

Reading chair

Blockout Curtains

Australian Botanical toiletries by Leif

Catering
Activities during the Retreat and Couples Counselling support

Cost per couple (two people):

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy CLUB (one person of the couple must be a member Silver or Gold )

Click here for Credit card Paypal payment - Payments before February 15th 2023 $1900 Aud

Payments after February 15th 2023 $2300 Aud

Non Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club

Click here for Credit card Paypal payment - Payments before February 15th 2023 $2300 Aud

Payments after February 15th 2023 $2700 Aud

► Ask us for payment plan for Payments before January 30th 2023

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Club (Deposit $950 before January 30th, 2023, and 3 weekly payments starting on 13th of February, next payment 20th of February and last payment on 27th of February of $317/week)

Non members (Deposit $1150 before January 30th, 2023, and 3 weekly payments starting on 13th of February, next payment 20th of February and last payment on 27th of February of $384/week)

We are not registered for GST

Payments through Paypal will have 3% of applied Paypal commission in each payment/ refund through this platform.

Ask us for Bank details if you do not want to pay paypal commissions fees.

Please read more information about cancellations policy.

Please note:

Covid Requirements

Following the Australian Government Health department indications and with the objective of offering a safe space for all participants and Retreat leaders.

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

• Before the starting of the Retreat / 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 Retreat/ event.

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 contact us with this information.

Regarding face to face Retreats/ 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.

Please read information about cancelations and refunds here.

2023 Collage Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach ZOOM Online workshop

2023 Collage Art Therapy CAT© a Gestalt Approach ZOOM Online workshop

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 unconscious levels related to archetypes and collective unconscious .
Adapting this tool to the client's age and emotional development

Participants from Australia:

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

AASW CPD hours

ACA OPD hours

PACFA CPD hours

Days:

February 25th, 4 pm to 6pm (Brisbane- Australian time) AEST- Australian Eastern Standard Time. UTC/GMT +10 hours

Time Zones

https://24timezones.com/difference

Cost:

Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Cenntre Participation: $95Aud

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

General participants

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

Workshop REGISTRATION HERE

We are not registered for GST

New member payments before December 30th, 2022

· Silver members: $20 per year

Pay here

· Gold members: $30 per year

Pay 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!

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

System and Materials you will need for the workshop participation:

- Internet connection

- Having installed the Zoom program (Download here)

- PC, Laptop, Tablet with webcam & audio

- Paper to write

- Magazines

- Scissors

- Glue

- Felt pens, or other coloured pens that you like

- Mobile phone or camera to take a photo of your creation.

Read Policy cancelation and Participation conditions at the "Event 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% of the payment received, in each payment/ refund.

Read information about our COVID-19 & Vaccine Guidelines

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 refunds via paypal, commissions will be applied by Paypal of 3% 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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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)