In this workshop we take time to listen deeply to our bodies, becoming more sensitive to how they express our experiences. By cultivating our body based intelligence we deepen our awareness and our trust in our  body’s wisdom. We will refine our sensory perceptions and instinctual responses to make fuller contact with ourselves, and others. We will explore how we digest our experiences, how our inspiration is found in the breath rhythm, how our bones give form to our ideas and beliefs, how we mobilize our energy through the pathways of the body. In the therapeutic relationship our own embodied presence facilitates a deepening of the interpersonal dialogue.  Including the creativity of our body as the foundation of our life process brings us more truly in to the here and now. We will also learn hands on skills (partner graphics) that practitioners could possibly use with their clients, to expand/ground/integrate their experience of their breath, weight, front-to-back sensory awareness, and their ability to yield to gravity.

Zjamal is a Gestalt psychotherapist and trainer, choreographer, teacher and a theatre director. She has 30 years experience in group facilitation and community process leadership. She graduated from and taught at the Amsterdam College of the Arts and was on the faculty of the School for New Dance Development in Holland.  She has taught at the Philosophy and Religion Department of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, U.S.A. Zjamal is a clinical member of GANZ, and is a trainer for Gestalt Therapy Brisbane. She has a private practice in the Northern Rivers region and Gold Coast.    

                A UNION OF UNCERTAINTY AND HOPE

This workshop will explore the relational perspective in Gestalt theory and practice and its application to the key area of human ‘resilience’. The concept of ‘relational resilience’ offers a useful framework for health care professionals in identifying, supporting and fortifying key processes that enable each of us to surmount crises, adversity and persistent stresses. Interventions that focus on strengthening relational resilience have timely relevance for weathering the rapid social changes and uncertainties that have become such a significant aspect of life in the 21st century. Michael will present his current formulations regarding concepts such as awareness, here-and-now, the ‘self’, ‘the personal conversation’, process and technique as well as address such key personal phenomena as relational resilience and experience, uncertainty and hope. 

Dr. Michael Reed

Michael  is a registered psychologist, an accredited social worker and a Fellow member of GANZ who has over 35 years clinical experience of working with individuals, couples, families and groups. He is a visiting trainer with a number of accredited and respected training centres across Australasia and has run workshops in Australia, Hong Kong, the United States and the Middle East. He has published in the areas of relational resilience and wellbeing, adolescent health and the family as well as subjective wellbeing and meaning in life in numerous psychological, medical and psychotherapy journals and books. Michael runs a private  practice in Crows Nest, Sydney.

TITLE:      Family Constellations Workshop (2 Days)

DATE:      Fri & Sat 27 & 28 Aug 2010, 9.00am - 5.00pm

PRESENTER:        Margarete Koenning

Family constellations work provides a powerful opportunity in a safe setting to deeply explore entanglements in our family of origin and our current family system. The patterns of relating established in our families have lasting consequences. We often want to change these patterns but don’t know how. The processes employed during the workshop can support significant reconciliation, with traumatic experiences and patterns of relating inherited from unresolved stories and responsibilities that don’t belong to us. Over the course of the two days eight participants will have the opportunity to work with their family system. The remaining group members will participate as representatives of these family systems. Working as representatives offers vicarious learning opportunities and insight learning in to one’s own family dynamics. This workshop encourages and supports participants to free themselves from the burden of entanglements and habitual pattern to relating so they can move toward their fuller potential.

Margarete is a Social Worker and Gestalt Therapist. She originally trained in Gestalt Therapy in Germany and is a College Member of GANZ. She returned to Germany to train in Bert Hellinger’s Family Constellations work. Margarete has worked in a range of therapeutic roles over the last 25 years. She currently conducts a private practice on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland and woks as a trainer with a number of Gestalt Institutes. She has been conducting Family Constellations workshops since 2008.

TITLE:      COACHING: A GESTALT APPROACH

DATE:     Friday 24 September 2010, 9.00am-5.00pm

PRESENTER:         Forrest James

Executive and organisational coaching has grown exponentially over the last ten years and is the most rapidly expanding form of interpersonal work in the world today. Coaching differentiates itself from psychotherapy as a discipline with an insistence on working with a future rather than past orientation, and working with healthy functioning rather than pathology. This workshop will explore how the ‘here and now’ relational, experiential and field oriented approach of Gestalt is already a perfect model for coaching. Topics covered in the workshop will include:

§  Coaching: models & approaches

§  Coaching vs. therapy – what’s the difference?

§  Psychological competence and coaching

§  Relational and field dynamics in coaching practice

§  Organisational ‘role’ as person in field: a ‘situated system of activity

§  The ‘edge’ the Gestalt approach has over other coaching models

The workshop is designed for psychotherapists and counsellors with an interest in coaching, or practicing coaches who wish to develop their practice.

Forrest is a psychotherapist and coach. He is a Director of Training with GTB and Senior Consultant with in-depth – a consulting, coaching and organisational change firm. He provides executive and leadership coaching in a range of private, public and community sector organisations. He has a particular interest in applying relational and field/contextual practice to organisational and workplace coaching. A particular area of concern in his work is how organisations can support the development of workplace resilience in teams and individuals.

TITLE:       GESTALT AND ORGANISATIONS

DATE:       Friday 15 October 2010, 9.00am-5.00pm

PRESENTER:      Trevor Bentley PhD

This workshop will present an overview of working with organisations from a Gestalt perspective.  Trevor will explore the ‘touch of magic’ that Gestalt has brought to his work as an organisational development consultant. In his work with large organisations. Trevor seeks to ‘crack the corporate spells’ that organisations  labour under, and thus improve human relationships. He identifies the ‘bottom line’ as the most important spell to crack by encouraging executives to keep their eyes on the ball rather than on the score.

Trevor has written over 30 books on business, including Bridging the Performance Gap (Gower), Effective Performance Appraisals (Spiro Press), Facilitation, Creativity and Teamwork (McGraw-Hill and the space between). His latest release is A Touch of Magic (the space between) looking at how leaders and consultants can bring a touch of magic to their work to bring about extraordinary results. His latest book is “Moments of Leadership – leadership with a Gestalt focus”.  Trevor has a PhD in business and organisational development, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and is trained in Gestalt therapy.

1. It is an expectation that participants will book their place and pay the cost of the workshop prior to attendance;

2. Participants will receive a full refund of their payment of the Workshop fee if notice is given to GTB of non attendance up to 5 days prior to the workshop;

3. At the discretion of the Directors a $40 administration charge will be levied if notice is given of inability to attend less than 5 days prior to the workshop. However full payment will be expected if cancellation occurs within 24 hours of the commencement of the workshop.

4. Additional to this GTB may need to recoup funds for external facilitators and therefore charge an additional fee for cancellation after numbers have been confirmed with the external facilitator. Participants who cancel their enrolment will be informed if this fee applies at the earliest convenience.