Institute/Organising body	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Street Address	15 Coleman Street
City	Lismore
Postcode	2480
Phone	(02) 66 213 911
Contact Person	Steve Vinay Gunther
Email	admin@gestalt.org.au

Event title	ET: Emotional Transformation
Event Presenter	Grant Wolven
Event Format	Workshop
Event date/s	2 May
Event times	9:00am-5:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	$70 (includes manual)
GANZ member discount %
Registration by date:	3 April
Details of event	Emotional Transformation (ET) is a profound method of healing. All of the new therapies in the holistic healing and personal growth fields have in common the understanding that the body, mind and spirit function as an integrated unit, via a field of vital energy. Thus the main objective is to release blockages at the energetic level, thereby bringing the body-mind back into harmony. Emotional Transformation works on all levels directly and quickly. acting at the causative level (energetically) and also releasing the associated blockages physically. It is a synthesis of aspects of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Yoga Chi Gung, Thought Field Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique and the work of Arnold Patent.    Emotional Transformation is a newcomer to a group of techniques known as Energetic Psychology. In simple terms these methods utilise subtle energy exercises to resolve psychological imbalances. ET works through the relationship between movement, posture, speech, thinking, feeling and the eyes.  ET can be used a s a self-help technique or, if one is working or studying in the counselling field, it easily can be utilised in working with clients. Although ET has been designed primarily to transform destructive emotions and unwanted habitual behaviours, it can also be used to decrease or neutralise physical discomforts.

Event title	Psychotherapy and Mental lllness
Event Presenter	Milly Wadsley
Event Format	Forum: presentation, exercises, discussion
Event date/s	4 June
Event times	6:30pm-10:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	$10, includes refreshments before, and supper afterwards
GANZ member discount %	-
Registration by date:	-
Details of event	Is psychotherapy realistic with people who are experiencing psychosis? This forum will examine the relevance and application of the principles of relationship, dialogue, awareness, and phenomenological enquiry for individuals who are experiencing an altered state of consciousness, especially psychosis. Common risk issues and concerns for the therapy practitioner will also be addressed.

Event title	Your Natural Clown
Event Presenter	Stephen Vinay Gunther
Event Format	Workshop
Event date/s	29/30 June
Event times	9:00am-5:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	$220, 10% earlybird discount if paid one month before event.
GANZ member discount %	5%
Registration by date:	30 May
Details of event	In this workshop you will be invited to rediscover your natural clown. This is the part of you that found delight in the world, where every moment was a revelation.   Your clown-self is spontaneous, present-centred, and eternally curious. The key is not effort, but rather the willingness to be surprised every moment. Unlike juggling or mime skills, this is not a skill that can be taught. It is a state that is often triggered through contact with young children. In this workshop you will find out how to access that state directly. The workshop will lead you through a series of unique physical, emotional and spiritual exercises, communication and theatre games. These processes lead to greater awareness, new energy skills, and a means to shed the judging, computing, evaluating censor within. This leads to working/playing with your clown character, stretching previously untried abilities. By exploring stillness, postulates, intentions, and other internal skills available in the clown's world, a new range of resources is uncovered. These discoveries inevitably flow on, enriching and expanding everyday living. The workshop is appropriate for people from all walks of life. Success as a natural clown has nothing to do with "trying to be funny" or with an ability to tell jokes. It is fundamentally about being more fully who you really are - your own brand of unique quirkiness.

Event title	The Inner Dynamics of Relationship
Event Presenter	Chris Campbell
Event Format	10 week course
Event date/s	5 July through 6 September, Mondays
Event times	6:30pm-10:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	$330, 10% earlybird discount if paid one month before event.
GANZ member discount %	5%
Registration by date:	6 June
Details of event	Exploring the foundation of all relationship patterns using the character and energy model - a 10 week training group with Chris Campbell. This is a unique opportunity to learn the essential elements of working with character and energy in relationship. Equally applicable to professional and interpersonal relationships, this work is powerful yet respectful. By understanding better our own structure, we can be more available to the richness and possibilities inherent in relationship. Chris Campbell is an authority on the topic, having practiced and taught for over 25 years. His studies have encompassed Gestalt therapy, Vegatato therapy, Bio Energetics, and his bodywork training was with the Boyensens in England in 1979. This approach to working with the mind-body connection is explored in a variety of approaches including: * Reich (Character Analysis) * Lowen (Bio Energetics) * Kurtz (Hakomi Therapy) * Hall (Hands of Light) * Pirakos (Centring)

Event title	A Taste of Conscious Partnership
Event Presenter	Rudolph Jarosewitsch & Miriam Busch
Event Format	Forum: presentation, exercises, discussion
Event date/s	23 July
Event times	6:30pm-10:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	$10, includes refreshments before, and supper afterwards
GANZ member discount %	-
Registration by date:	-
Details of event	Conscious Partnership embraces attitudes, skills and processes involved in learning how to use difficulties you face in relationships as opportunities to deepen your capacity to connect with yourself and others. Miriam and Rudolph will introduce some of Conscious Partnership's key principles. Those principles will be further explored and grounded in an experiential workshop on the following weekend.

Event title	Conscious Partnership
Event Presenter	Rudolph Jarosewitsch & Miriam Busch
Event Format	Workshop
Event date/s	24/25 July
Event times	9:00am-5:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	$330/couple, 10% earlybird discount if paid one month before event.
GANZ member discount %	5%
Registration by date:	25 June
Details of event	A workshop for all men and women, in or out of partnership. Love's challenges provide us with many opportunities to learn how to be ourselves and in intimate relationship. When two partners choose to work with the obstacles arising between them, it deepens the connection with themselves and with each other, and provides a mutual sense of path and direction. In this workshop you have the opportunity to identify and develop the resources you need to live in a conscious partnership. We look forward to co-creating an enjoyable and enriching experience that will take us all a step forward. The numbers for this workshop will be limited. Couples only.

Event title	Psychosis and Human Nature
Event Presenter	Harry Freeman
Event Format	Forum: presentation, exercises, discussion
Event date/s	20 August
Event times	6:30pm-10:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	$10, includes refreshments before, and supper afterwards
GANZ member discount %	-
Registration by date:	-
Details of event	It is far too easy to ignore the totality of meanings that accompany any part of human mental life. Psychosis remains curious, mystifying, exasperating and captivating, despite being looked at from every imaginable angle for aeons. In this session we will take as many possible journeys as possible into this fascinating terrain.

Event title	The Orders of Love
Event Presenter	Steve Vinay Gunther
Event Format	Workshop
Event date/s	24/25 August
Event times	9:00am-5:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	$220, 10% earlybird discount if paid one month before event.
GANZ member discount %	5%
Registration by date:	25 July
Details of event	Orders of Love comes out of the work of Bert Hellinger. He discovered that there are inherent structures to families that are more functional. Dysfunction arises from movement against these healthy connections. The method differs from ordinary therapy. It involves members of the group, but there is very little dialogue. After a brief introduction of the person's issue, a family "constellation" is formed by selecting a number of group members to stand in for family members. They are placed at the same distances from each other that the family members occupy. The therapist then enquires as to their experience. What is remarkable, time after time, is how accurate are the perceptions that arise. What is even more striking is how changes in the family constellation as it is portrayed have an immediate and long-lasting effect upon persons witnessing their family being recreated. Finally, they step into their own place in the family, now reorganised in a more functional form. The work is reminiscent of the Morphogenic Fields described by Rupert Sheldrake. Steve is Director of the Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute.

Event title	Gestalt and Addictions
Event Presenter	Murray Sutton
Event Format	Forum: presentation, exercises, discussion
Event date/s	22 October
Event times	6:30pm-10:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	$10, includes refreshments before, and supper afterwards
GANZ member discount %	-
Registration by date:	-
Details of event	Many people have tendencies to use substances and behaviour to alter emotional and feeling states. We will explore the altered states behind your own tendencies, and gather simple experiments to use in your work.

Event title	Gestalt Institute Information Evening
Event Presenter	Steve Gunther
Event Format	Presentation and discussion
Event date/s	27 October
Event times	7:30pm-9:30pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	Nil
GANZ member discount %	-
Registration by date:	-
Details of event	The four year Graduate Diploma offered by the institute is becoming more popular each year. This is a chance for anyone interested in the training to come along, ask questions, and find out more details before committing to the program.

Event title	Gestalt Institute Taster
Event Presenter	Steve Gunther
Event Format	One day introductory workshop
Event date/s	30 October
Event times	10:00am-4:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	$40
GANZ member discount %	-
Registration by date:	-
Details of event	Introduction to Gestalt.

Event title	Bio Psychology
Event Presenter	Dada Giridevananda
Event Format	Workshop
Event date/s	20/21 November
Event times	9:00am-5:00pm
Event venue	Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute
Cost	N$220, 10% earlybird discount if paid one month before event
GANZ member discount %	5%
Registration by date:	21 October
Details of event	Bio Psychology is the science of the integration of body, mind and spirit based upon the ancient Tantra yogic concept of the 50 vrittis. Each of the 50 vrittis corresponds to a particular mental/emotional state, which is physiologically expressed through the hormonal secretions of the endocrine glands. This spiritual science has been handed down for thousands of years and is described in many Tantric texts. It is highly relevant to current advances in psychotherapy, based as it is on the philosophy of holism. The workshop will explore a description of the 50 vrittis, and relate Bio Psychology to various schools of psychology and current research in psychoneuroimmunology. The workshop will also cover practical techniques to correct imbalances in the energy centres and restore body/mind harmony. Although the concepts are highly sophisticated, they will be grounded in their everyday application to both professional practice and personal self-improvement. Dada Viggi is a highly trained meditation teacher, having studied and practiced yoga for over 25 years.

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12th of May,
11th of August, and
10th of November.