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SUMMARY:Couples Therapy Supervision Group
DESCRIPTION:This is a closed supervision group with Sean Tonnet for a new six-session supervision group for couples/relationship therapists\, supporting supervisee’s clinical excellence through a Gestalt Therapy lens. This is an online closed group for practitioners with experience in/currently working with couples. The group is limited to 6 participants.  \n\n\n\nTime: Thursdays 10am-11:30am (Melbourne/Sydney) \n\n\n\nDates: 2 April\, 7 May\, 11 June\, 16 July\, 13 August\, 10 September \n\n\n\nCost: $540 for 6 sessions total \n\n\n\nRegister here.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/couples-therapy-supervision-group-2026/
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SUMMARY:Embodied Self-Support in the Context of a Traumatised World: Self-Regulation and Resilience for Practitioners
DESCRIPTION:As practitioners\, therapists and ‘contact partners’ with people in this present overstimulating world field\, we are faced with the experience of both supporting our clients and managing our own embodied experience. The naïve belief that we can only work on/with our clients and not be impacted\, fades in increasingly traumatised atmospheres. Trying only to focus on the client leads to compassion fatigue or a mechanised procedure of ‘healing.’ So then\, what can we do to replenish ourselves and allow the impact of intensities of fear\, anger and helplessness to move through us? How do we support our own embodiment?  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we will discuss and practice shuttling between our own embodiment and the client’s\, grounding throughout the work and releasing after and between sessions. These practices (Grounding\, Shuttling\, Clearing) are analogous to grabbing our ‘own oxygen masks first’ to support being available both in the moment and in our ongoing practice.  \n\n\n\nCost:                   GANZ Student Members: $15. GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nDate:                   Saturday 21st February    \n\n\n\nTime:                   9:00am-12:00pm (Melbourne/Sydney) \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Craig Clemmens is a psychologist and trainer in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. He is a faculty member of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and teaches at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur\, California. Michael is the author of Getting Beyond Sobriety (1997)\, the editor of Embodied Relational Gestalt: Theory and Applications (2019) and numerous articles on Gestalt therapy\, body process\, and addiction. His main interest is the complex interaction of our bodies and the multi-layered field. \n\n\n\nPurchase your ticket here. \n\n\n\nPlease note that this webinar will not be recorded.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/embodied-self-support-for-therapists-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:2025 AGM
DESCRIPTION:The GANZ AGM will be held online on Sunday 23rd November. This is an opportunity for us to gather as a community\, reflect on the achievements of GANZ this year. It is also a time for you to bring your ideas to Council\, and for us to share our plans for supporting and strengthening the Gestalt community across Australia and New Zealand.This year\, we are thrilled to have nominations for two of our members\, Ash Power and Claire Taubert\, for GANZ Fellow Membership. This is a special moment to acknowledge their significant contributions and celebrate this milestone with the community.Please find the agenda\, including the Zoom link and time zone information here.As we need a quorum of 20 members for the AGM to proceed\, please consider allowing another member to be your proxy if you cannot attend. The proxy form can be downloaded here.  This year\, one Council position is open for election: the Community and Membership Chair. Current Council member Zoë Webber has expressed her intention to nominate for a further term in this role. Any other nominations for this position must be submitted no later than 21 days before the AGM (by 2 November 2025) using this form and addressed to:The Secretary at contact@ganz.org.au. You can find the role description and requirements for this position here. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you at the AGM! 
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/2025-agm/
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SUMMARY:Experiential Writing for Gestalt Therapists
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on my experience in memoir workshops with people from diverse cultures\, undergoing stress\, loss and dislocation\, I will present techniques to utilize experiential writing as an extension of Gestalt therapeutic work. As humans\, we need to come to terms with our life experience\, losses\, our stories and their meaning. As therapists\, so much of our work with clients serves as is a catalyst for our ongoing processing of experience. Writing facilitates meaning making. In the experiential segment\, we will do personal writing\, focused on our experience of being a therapist. We will read some of the writing in the group and discuss how the showing\, writing\, telling and letting others see\, hear and respond grounds our work as Gestalt therapists. \n\n\n\nCost:                    GANZ Student Members: $15. GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nDate:                   Saturday 11th October    \n\n\n\nTime:                   9:00am-11:00am (Melbourne/Sydney) \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIris Fodor\, PhD\, Professor Emerita\, Department of Applied Psychology\, New York University is a Gestalt psychotherapist known for her teaching\, workshops and writings about feminism\, women’s mental health and integrative psychotherapy. Iris is a life-long social activist and is also a photographer. She has travelled\, taught\, and run workshops world-wide. She has also participated in digital story telling projects with adolescents from diverse cultures. Recent work focuses on memoir and experiential writing for therapists. She lives in NYC and Woodstock\, New York\, USA. \n\n\n\nPurchase your ticket here!
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/experiential-writing-for-gestalt-therapists/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Procedural and Relational Approaches in Working with Embodiment
DESCRIPTION:This three-hour virtual workshop is intended to highlight the inherent polarity of pattern and relationship in Gestalt Therapy. Through discussion and experiential exercises\, we will explore the value of focusing on client’s embodied patterns (nervous system\, body structure and developmental movements) while remaining curious and immersed in the dynamic of the relationship. In recent decades a wave of nervous system-based approaches has influenced the practice of trauma treatment and therapy. This has led to some tension between the integration of somatic pattern in Gestalt and other therapies. We will focus on this inaccurate rift through embodied phenomenology using present embodiment understanding and the Gestalt practice of figure ground formation. \n\n\n\nSome Themes: \n\n\n\n\n• The Myth of the Objective and Challenges of the Relational Approach in working with Physical Process.\n\n\n\n• How to hold curiosity of the client in embodied practice as more than a symptom.\n\n\n\n• How to see “the forest from the trees”: staying attuned with the organizing ground of the client’s pattern.\n\n\n\n• How to approach pattern from a relational stance.\n\n\n\n• The importance of Mutual Patterning between the client and therapist.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCost:                   GANZ Student Members: $15. GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nDate:                   Saturday 6th September    \n\n\n\nTime:                   8:30am – 11:30am (Melbourne/Sydney) \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Craig Clemmens is a psychologist and trainer in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. He is a faculty of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and teaches at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur\, California. Michael is the author of Getting Beyond Sobriety (1997)\, the editor of Embodied Relational Gestalt: Theory and Applications (2019) and numerous articles on Gestalt therapy\, body process\, and addiction. His main interest is the complex interaction of our bodies and the multi-layered field. \n\n\n\nPurchase your ticket here!
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/procedural-and-relational-approaches-in-working-with-embodiment/
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SUMMARY:Peer Supervision Group for Autistic Gestalt Therapists
DESCRIPTION:This is an online space for autistic Gestalt therapists to come together and explore what makes us us – our unique strengths\, needs\, and ways of being in the world. Using our awareness and phenomenological experiences\, we’ll consider how these qualities shape our clinical work. \n\n\n\nWe’ll also explore supports that make our work more sustainable. Together\, we’ll get curious about what helps us stay regulated\, connected\, and resourced\, so we can avoid burnout and keep showing up in ways that feel true and nourishing. \n\n\n\nThis group is open to self-identified and diagnosed autistic Gestalt therapists and will be facilitated by Jennifer Leong.  \n\n\n\nThe group is limited to 6 participants.  \n\n\n\n\nTime: Saturdays 9am – 10:30am (Melbourne/Sydney)\n\n\n\nDates: 2025: 16 August\, 13 September\, 25 October\, 15 November\, 13 December and 2026: 14 February \n\n\n\nCost: $600 for 6 sessions total\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPurchase your ticket here!
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/peer-supervision-group-for-autistic-gestalt-therapists/
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SUMMARY:Intimate Dialogues: Navigating Conversations on Sexuality in Couples
DESCRIPTION:This sensitive\, important seminar looks to develop your confidence and effectiveness in discussing sexuality with couples. The interactive session creates opportunities for you to discuss and explore the complexities of sexual intimacy in relationships\, offering insights and wisdoms from each other and the presenter\, wrapped around Gestalt frameworks and sprinkled with other easily assimilated therapeutic modalities. Participants will gain skills in fostering open\, non-judgmental conversations\, addressing common sexual concerns\, and navigating sensitive topics with professionalism and care.  We will be discussing: \n\n\n\n\n• The Role of Sexuality in Couple Dynamics\n\n\n\n• Cultural & Social Influences on Sexuality\n\n\n\n• Therapeutic Skills for Discussing Sexuality\n\n\n\n• Practical and Experiential Approaches on Sexuality \n\n\n\n• Addressing Common Sexual Concerns\n\n\n\n• Ethical Considerations & Therapist Self-Care\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhether you’re new to couples therapy or looking to deepen your expertise\, this seminar provides an opportunity to broaden your understanding\, skills and confidence to help couples strengthen both their emotional and sexual connection. Don’t miss this opportunity to refine your therapeutic approach and create deeper\, more meaningful conversations in your work! \n\n\n\nCost:                    GANZ Student Members: $15. GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nDate:                   Wednesday 9th July    \n\n\n\nTime:                   5:30pm-8:00pm (Melbourne/Sydney) \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSean Tonnet (MGest) has been working with people for over 30 years and as a full time clinical psychotherapist\, clinical supervisor and international facilitator for the past 17 years. His reputed and respected practice reflects his comprehensive training and clinical excellence in therapy and facilitation. Specialising in relationships\, Sean has over 10\,000 case hours working with couples and exceptional experience in workshop development and delivery. He melds creative\, relational Gestalt methods and contemporary psychotherapy\, neurobiology and mindfulness practices within a safe and learning environment. His work with the entertainment industry\, including international band Parkway Drive\, was recently highlighted on the ABC Australia Story “Getting Heavy”. His work has been reviewed in radio\, television and in print. Sean is a highly sought after therapist and facilitator across Australia. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPurchase the recording here!
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/intimate-dialogues-navigating-conversations-on-sexuality-in-couples/
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SUMMARY:Making the invisible visible: Taking Account of Racial Trauma\, Diversity and Power in practice and colleagueship
DESCRIPTION:How do we do truly anti-racist work within mental health systems rooted in white\, Western frameworks? What language acknowledges racial trauma without pathologising? Are we unintentionally reinforcing harm by the way we respond to distress—or bypassing structural issues through an individualistic lens? And how often do we pause to examine how our own identity and privilege show up in the therapeutic room? \n\n\n\nThese are just some of the challenging and necessary questions we’ll explore in a participatory and dialogic session facilitated by Hári Sewell. Grounded in psychological safety and gentle disruption\, this webinar invites open\, authentic conversation—because if not in a development space\, when are we allowed to ask the curious\, even clumsy\, questions? \n\n\n\nWe’ll examine the power dynamics embedded in the very concept of race\, while exploring unintentional bias\, racialised trauma\, and the real-life impacts these have on racialised people. \n\n\n\nParticipant learning outcomes:  \n\n\n\n\n• Understand the history of race as a concept and how it functions in society today\n\n\n\n• Understand racism(s) in its various manifestations\n\n\n\n• Learn about how the racialisation process is inherently racist\n\n\n\n• Learn about how a racial hierarchy is reinforced in society\n\n\n\n• Learn about the socio ecological model that links individual experience with systemic processes that mean that racism is often invisible\n\n\n\n• Ability to apply learning to specific patterns of racial discrimination in practice and frameworks for addressing them\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDate:                   Wednesday 11th June   \n\n\n\nTime:                   5:00pm-8:00pm (Melbourne/Sydney) \n\n\n\nCost:                    GANZ Student Members: $15. GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nPlease note: This webinar will not be recorded. \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHári Sewell is founder and director of HS Consultancy and is a former executive director of health and social care in the National Health Service in the UK. He has worked for the Department of Health in regulation and policy. Hári is a writer and speaker in his specialist area of social justice\, equality\, race and culture in mental health. Hári is a Specialist Guest Lecturer at University of Bradford and Visiting Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University. Hari is also a Member of the Scientific Board of the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health. Hári has had various books\, articles and book chapters published\, with new material emerging regularly.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/making-the-invisible-visible-taking-account-of-racial-trauma-diversity-and-power-in-practice-and-colleagueship/
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SUMMARY:Love and Biology\, Parents and Stepparents: The Invisible Relational Field in Stepfamily and New Formed Family Situations
DESCRIPTION:”Stepfamilies bring out the worst in people and challenge them to find the best in themselves” (Papernow 2013).  \n\n\n\nAs couples increasingly choose to separate\, or co-parent\, we are likely to come across stepfamily and new-formed family situations\, either in our clients’ or our own families. With a relational field that includes biological and non-biological relationships\, parents\, children\, stepchildren\, ex-partners\, full and half siblings\, these families are complicated and hard to navigate. When they work well\, they can look like a tribe or network rather than nuclear\, with children having a mix of adults\, parents and others\, caring for them. It takes time for this to develop.  \n\n\n\nBefore a stepfamily bonds or blends\, they can be difficult for their members\, who can be surprised by acting and feeling in ways that are not what they know of themselves. Unforeseen challenges cause emotions to arise that like magnets\, attract and repel. This is the invisible relational field of primitive forces beyond reason; the same as those that on a larger scale cause wars and are built-in to us. Examples are the instinct to further our genes\, protect our children from harm\, keep our families together\, push back invaders\, hold on to our partners and it’s all happening within the stepfamily group.  \n\n\n\nThe invisible field constellates around the natural connection between parents and their children. It is more than love\, they are part of each other\, with children being experienced by the parent as a vulnerable extension of themselves. In most cases\, this remains the same when parents have separated. It is not the same for stepparents\, and other adults who come into the family. They are less likely to stay connected with their stepchildren if the relationship with their parent ends. Step-parental love is more like that of a mentor\, uncle or aunt. However\, love takes time to develop and as familiarity grows the step-parent and stepchild are competing with the same person for love\, attention and time\, as if they were brothers and sisters. Stepfamily couples often struggle with each other’s perspective\, unable to hear each other\, feeling protective of their children.  \n\n\n\nThe start of stepfamily couples working together is for them to listen to each other even when what they hear disturbs them. It then becomes possible to find creative solutions to stepfamily problems that take both parties needs into account\, the ground for consolidation. It’s easier said than done for couples\, when the feelings each have are natural\, and pull in different directions from each other. Supporting this contact with awareness of the dynamics in these diverse family situations is where therapeutic support is invaluable.  \n\n\n\nIn this online workshop\, I aim is to raise awareness of the consequences of the stepfamily field and consider ways Gestalt therapists can make sense of the situation and support their clients. I will present a method of illustrating stepfamily relationships based on biology that shows where the lines of attachment and loyalty run. With presentation\, exploratory exercises\, discussion in small groups and the opportunity for someone to work with me on either their own\, or a clients’ situation\, we will explore the relational field of stepfamilies.  \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClaire Asherson Bartram is an experienced Gestalt therapist and has been working in the field for over 30 years. Over the years she has been influenced by other modalities\, including developmental and attachment theory\, family constellations and internal family systems. Since the start of her work as a therapist she has been interested in stepfamily relationships\, beginning with her own family becoming a stepfamily\, with her and her partner both having children from our previous relationships. In an early placement she worked as a telephone counsellor for the National Stepfamily Association (UK\, no longer existing) and discovered that other stepfamily members were also struggling. In 2012 she completed my doctorate ‘Narratives of Mothers in Stepfamily situations’ in 2012 (DPsych Metanoia Institute and Middlesex University) from which she founded the organisation StepIn ASAP\, with other therapists with personal experience of stepfamilies and she is currently writing a book aimed at couples in stepfamilies. Claire has a private practice in London as a therapist and supervisor with individuals\, couples and groups. She is a mother\, stepmother and grandmother. \n\n\n\nCost:                    GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nPurchase your tickets here! \n\n\n\nPlease note: This webinar will not be recorded.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/love-and-biology-parents-and-stepparents-the-invisible-relational-field-in-stepfamily-and-new-formed-family-situations/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Working with illness\, disease and dying from an embodied relational stance
DESCRIPTION:In this Workshop we will focus on the Embodied sensory Atmospheres that are emergent in the presence of those that are ill\, experience disease and on the path towards death. Within the larger context of the health care system and Social Construction of illness (Conrad & Barker\, 2010) the Gestalt value of interactional relational experience (Clemmens\, 2011\, Clemmens\, 2025) offers a palliative and validating alternative to the isolation that is so common for people who are suffering in these ways. An overview of this phenomenological and somatic emphasis will be explored and practiced in working with clients who are ill or in the process of death. Participants will be invited to experience and acknowledge their own embodied response to illness and death as well as supporting clients in their own journey.  \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Craig Clemmens is a psychologist and trainer in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. He is a faculty of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and teaches at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur\, California. Michael is the author of Getting Beyond Sobriety (1997)\, the editor of Embodied Relational Gestalt: Theory and Applications (2019) and numerous articles on Gestalt therapy\, body process\, and addiction. His main interest is the complex interaction of our bodies and the multi-layered field. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCost: \n\n\n\nGANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nPurchase your tickets here! \n\n\n\nPlease note: This webinar will not be recorded.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/webinar-working-with-illness-disease-and-dying-from-an-embodied-relational-stance/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250322T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250322T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T183542
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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Autism for Gestalt Therapists
DESCRIPTION:Psychotherapy isn’t meeting the needs of the autistic population. Autistic patients often report psychotherapy is unhelpful and at times harmful and suicide is the leading cause of death for autistic adults without co-occurring intellectual disability\, occurring at a rate nine times higher than the general population (Hirvikoski\, 2016). Gestalt Therapy’s focus on awareness\, without trying to fix or change\, is well matched to the needs of autistic patients\, yet still requires additional training on autism (Narzisi\, 2023). Understanding the common attributes and vast diversity of autistic people is a cultural competence that is often overlooked in psychotherapy and psychotherapy training. As Gestalt Therapists\, learning about autism can enrich our ground and support us in better serving the autistic patients we work with.  \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, Jen will draw from her clinical and personal experiences\, the lived experiences of others\, and current research. The workshop will begin with foundational education on autism and autistic ways of experiencing the world. We will then move into the topic of practicing Gestalt Therapy with autistic patients. Workshop participants will explore principles of Gestalt Therapy including dialogue\, field theory\, and phenomenology\, and how the process of therapy may have aesthetic differences when working with an autistic patient. \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Jimenez Leong\, LMFT is an autistic Gestalt Therapist certified by the Pacific Gestalt Institute (PGI). She is a former adjunct professor at Antioch University Los Angeles where she taught graduate-level Gestalt Therapy courses and current adjunct faculty at PGI. Jen maintains a private practice specializing in working with autistic patients and runs a consultation group for Gestalt Therapist trainees. Since realizing her autistic neurotype\, Jen has sought to learn not only about her own autistic experience but also the diverse and often misunderstood experiences of the broader autistic community. Dedicated to inclusivity\, she challenges stereotypes while educating and advocating for autism awareness and acceptance. \n\n\n\nCost:                    GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nPurchase your tickets here! \n\n\n\nPlease note: This webinar will not be recorded.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/webinar-an-introduction-to-autism-for-gestalt-therapists/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241121T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241121T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T183542
CREATED:20240806T110945Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Beyond the Binary: Exploring the diversity of gender\, sexuality and relationships
DESCRIPTION:Description: \n\n\n\nHow do we meet our clients and each other beyond the shadow of our socially sanctioned norms regarding gender\, sexuality and relationships?  \n\n\n\nThis webinar is offered as a support to working with clients who identify outside of traditional norms of male/female\, heterosexual and/or monogamous. This webinar offers a comprehensive exploration of what exists beyond the binary\, creating a platform for open dialogue and introspective examination.  \n\n\n\nGestalt therapy is uniquely suited for working safely with diversity and responding to change: by being present to what is here and now\, by understanding that nothing in this world is as simple as our binary thinking would have us believe. Phenomenology invites gestalt therapists to attend to our own bodies and somatic experiences as well as our client’s\, this offers a unique perspective for gender diverse experiencing. Relational dynamics calls for us to be aware of our own internalised gendered stereotypes and biases and how we\, like all humans\, treat people differently based on the way we gender people in our thoughts.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will be of benefit not only to our clients\, colleagues\, family and friends identifying outside of the traditional norms but to everyone we relate to including our relationship to ourselves\, no matter how we identify. Living beyond the binary of our own lives can free up the felt sense of our own gendered bodies and sexual identification making us more available for authentic and meaningful relating. \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRochelle\, Roch (she/they)\, is a PACFA Clinical psychotherapist for individuals\, couples\, and families. Roch is also an educator\, trainer\, group facilitator and supervisor. Roch has extensive training in Gender Affirming Practice from ACON\, AusPath\, and the University of Melbourne\, and has had many years of training in and teaching gestalt psychotherapy. Roch has served as a faculty member at The Relational Institute Australia and studied at the Family Systems Institute\, earning an Advanced Certificate in Couples and Family Therapy. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Youth Mental Health from the University of Melbourne. Rochelle currently operates a private practice in Potts Point\, offering individual supervision\, group supervision\, and individual\, couples and family therapy. Her specialization is in supporting sexuality\, gender\, and relationship diverse individuals\, couples and families\, with a particular focus on families with a young person transitioning gender. In addition\, Roch is a counselor at the Australian Film\, Television\, and Radio School\, where she facilitates group work to optimize creative collaborative practice and support ethically responsible media practices. Roch’s work is supported\, influence and inspired by Professor Vikram Kolmannskog and Mark Fairfield LCSW. \n\n\n\nCost: \n\n\n\nGANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nPurchase your tickets here!
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/webinar-beyond-the-binary-exploring-the-diversity-of-gender-sexuality-and-relationships/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241106T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241106T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T183542
CREATED:20240112T064639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T045434Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Slicing Down - Deepening Emotional States in Couples Therapy
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed from September until 6 November. If you have registered\, you will receive an email with more information.\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nSuccessful couples therapy pivots around deepening awareness of emotions between partners: Deepened emotions\, disclosed in a new way\, creates new contact experiences of positive reaching and responding between partners. Although often a stalwart of individual therapy\, many couples therapists can struggle with knowing how to support partners and the relationship into deeper primary emotional states. Where working phenomenologically and within field orientated approaches can become lost in the conflict and negative interactions of the couple. This presentation will provide a snapshot and overview that will add insight to your work with couples from a Gestalt psychotherapeutic and emotionally focused approach. It will be of benefit to practitioners working with individuals\, couples or families. It will offer opportunities for group discussions. Sharing techniques and interventions that attendees use\, in their work towards supporting relationship repair and healing. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will benefit you in: \n\n\n\n\n• Understanding the significance of primary and secondary emotions within the context of couples dynamics\n\n\n\n• Discuss tracking & focusing on the cues\, the meanings and the action tendency of emotions within relationships\n\n\n\n• Explore working with experiment to deepen emotions within couples dynamics\n\n\n\n• Support working with heightened emotions and conflict in couples therapy\n\n\n\n• Resourcing the relationship dynamics through distilled emotional interactions.            \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSean Tonnet (MGest) has been working with people for over 30 years and as a full time clinical psychotherapist\, clinical supervisor and international facilitator for the past 17 years. His reputed and respected practice reflects his comprehensive training and clinical excellence in therapy and facilitation. Specialising in relationships\, Sean has over 16\,000 case hours working with couples and exceptional experience in workshop development and delivery. He melds creative\, relational Gestalt methods and contemporary psychotherapy\, neurobiology and mindfulness practices within a safe and learning environment. His work has been reviewed in radio\, television and in print. Recently\, Sean’s work with international band Parkway Drive\, was a feature of the ABC Australia Story “Getting Heavy”. Sean is a highly sought after therapist and facilitator across Australia.   \n\n\n\nCost:  \n\n\n\nGANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95.  \n\n\n\nYou can purchase your ticket here.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/slicing-down-deepening-emotional-states-in-couples-therapy/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241026T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241026T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T183542
CREATED:20240722T111602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241024T063656Z
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Unravelled: Understanding the Interplay of Trauma and Addiction
DESCRIPTION:The intricate relationship between trauma and addiction through the lens of neuroscience can support clinicians in developing interventions that support healing experiences. This workshop offers an exploration of how traumatic experiences can intersect with addictive behaviours\, shaping neural pathways and influencing individual responses. Participants will embark on a journey through the complexities of the brain\, gaining insights into how trauma alters neural circuitry and contributes to the development and maintenance of addictive patterns. Through an interdisciplinary approach drawing from psychology\, neuroscience\, and addiction studies\, attendees will uncover the underlying mechanisms driving the co-occurrence of trauma and addiction. \n\n\n\nCost: GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95.  \n\n\nPurchase your tickets here! \n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRafael is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 22 years of experience working with individuals\, couples\, families\, and groups. He holds a Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology and a Masters in Business Administration. He is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional\, Certified Gestalt Therapist and a Certified Gestalt Couples Therapist and have specialized training on EMDR\, TRM\, addiction treatment and trauma work. See Rafael’s full bio here: https://www.in-sighttherapygroup.com/rafale-cortina-mft-mba 
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/neuroscience-unravelled-understanding-the-interplay-of-trauma-and-addiction/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241002T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241002T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T183542
CREATED:20231220T103642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240928T043115Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Clinical Hospitality in a Contemporary World
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar we will discuss the attitudinal stance of Clinical hospitality.  The stance of Clinical Hospitality offers a needed antidote amongst the prevailing culture of immediacy\, demand for rapid outcomes\, influencers and an increasing intolerance and misunderstanding of human suffering in the current zeitgeist of a popularized mental health narrative.  We will consider what constitutes clinical hospitality and how comfortably this attitude sits next to the foundational principles of Gestalt Therapy and theory. \n\n\n\nI believe Clinical Hospitality is a relational attitude that creates a fundamental and necessary scaffolding for the therapeutic alliance. Supporting the clinician towards developing an efficacious but pragmatic\, ethical and fallible stance in the therapeutic engagement. \n\n\n\nFurther to the consideration of therapeutic engagement\, we will discuss the pernicious impact of reductionism on a relational stance and consider the potential effects of the plethora of shorthand teleological approaches and techniques so prevalent in our psychotherapy culture and how the attitude of clinical hospitality can provide some ballast within this particular context for the therapeutic alliance \n\n\n\nCost: \n\n\n\nGANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95.  \n\n\n\nPurchase your tickets here! \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClaire Taubert BBSc\, BSc\, B.Ed(Counselling) MAPS. GANZ \n\n\n\nClaire is the Co-founder and past Managing Director of Gestalt Therapy Australia (GTA). She has been involved in the Australian and International Gestalt community as a student\, trainer\, therapist\, supervisor\, mentor and member of the GANZ council for over 30 years. She was originally trained in Melbourne\, U.K. and San Diego and has furthered her interests in relational Gestalt with an ongoing training and relationship with the Pacific Gestalt Institute (USA) where she associate faculty.  She is the founder and director of Gestalt Concepts\, Melbourne. \n\n\n\nClaire has run a psychotherapy and psychology practice in Melbourne and Ballarat for the past 35 years where she works as a relationally orientated psychotherapist and psychologist. Claire also works as a consultant to various community\, mental health and medical organisations\, facilitating groups and providing clinical supervision\, mentoring and support to organisations and health workers. Claire is interested by how early developmental and attachment experience manifests as enduring relational capacity and resource in adulthood. Her interests in the developmental processes extends to the challenge of supervising and mentoring clinician’s with a particular focus on the personal and professional developmental trajectory of this unique journey\, and how this informs an understanding and integration of the clinician’s ethical relational sensibility in their work.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/webinar-clinical-hospitality-in-a-contemporary-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240808T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240808T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T183542
CREATED:20240101T054926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250601T005349Z
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SUMMARY:Let’s talk about self disclosure
DESCRIPTION:This interactive presentation is intended to: \n\n\n\n• Explore and refine the concept of “self-disclosure” in the clinical setting\, including a review of the many different ways therapist self-disclosure can occur and the distinction between “immediacy” and “intentional therapist self-disclosure”; \n\n\n\n• Discuss how both intentional therapist self-disclosure and non-disclosure may be helpful and counter-productive in any situation; \n\n\n\n• Review self-disclosure from the perspective of interpersonal neurobiology; and \n\n\n\n• Consider evidenced-based research on how to practice intentional self-disclosure effectively and ethically. \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n Susanna (Zan) has been practicing as a Gestalt Therapist for 20 years. Zan has a long history as an educator and trainer\, teaching at Sydney Gestalt Institute\, The Relational Institute\, Gestalt Therapy Brisbane\, Australian College of Applied Professions and The University of New England in their undergraduate\, post-graduate and advanced training programmes. Zan’s clinical work is influenced by Gary Yontef and Lynne Jacobs’ relational approach\, interpersonal neurobiology and more recently\, Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing approach. Zan now works in private practice in Crows Nest\, Sydney as a clinician and supervisor.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCost:  \n\n\n\nGANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95.  \n\n\n\nPurchase your tickets here!
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/webinar-lets-talk-about-self-disclosure-what-it-is-what-it-isnt-and-the-clinical-dilemma-an-evening-to-explore-discuss-and-learn-in-conversation-together/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240717T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240717T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T183542
CREATED:20240112T065520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250601T005359Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Depth Enquiry™ - EMDR with a Gestalt twist 
DESCRIPTION:This three hour interactive workshop will give a brief overview of the Depth Enquiry process.  It will include some theory\, demonstrations\, case studies and plenty of time for questions.  Bring an open mind\, lots of questions and you will leave with some new thoughts about how to use bilateral stimulation in your work and when to think about plunging in deeper. Depth Enquiry is a powerful therapeutic approach to resolving trauma and underlying shame. Amanda has developed Depth Enquiry during the course of her work with clients suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and a wide range of trauma-related symptoms.  Depth Enquiry unblocks resistant traumas and negative beliefs using a gentle and supportive process.  Depth Enquiry builds on EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) principles and is further informed by the theories and approaches of Bessel van der Kolk\, Pat Ogden and Peter Levine.  Since 2011 Amanda has worked to meld these perspectives into a deep and safe method of therapeutic inquiry; one that retains as its underpinning the holistic tenets of Gestalt psychotherapy. \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmanda’s early start in the human growth and wellbeing communities holds her in good stead for quickly and deeply understanding complex presenting issues in therapy and counselling. Her passion for the process means she is continually questioning the current modalities and developing these further if necessary to meet the needs of her clients. An example is her development of Depth Enquiry\, from its basis in EMDR. She was a trainer of Gestalt therapists for five years and is a clinical supervisor for therapists.Amanda holds a BVA (Hons) degree and an Advanced Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy. She’s a Clinical Member of PACFA\, Reg. 21766\, and is a PACFA Accredited Supervisor. \n\n\n\nAmanda’s next three day Depth Enquiry training is 11th-13th October 2024 in Melbourne. \n\n\n\nCost: \n\n\n\nGANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nPurchase your ticket here!
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/webinar-introduction-to-depth-enquiry-emdr-with-a-gestalt-twist/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240501T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240501T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T183542
CREATED:20240112T065915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T105740Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: The Grieving Self - In and of the Field
DESCRIPTION:Grief cascades across and through every life\, human and non-human. Its waters flow over\, between and around the rocks of being\, down the river of inevitable loss\, change and death. Sometimes the waters rage\, sometimes howl\, other times trickle\, almost imperceptibly. Always here\, always there. \n\n\n\nGrief and grieving emerge from the relational and phenomenal field\, influenced by the cultural\, ecological\, and situational. Grief surfaces within a context of a particular seen or unseen loss\, transition or death\, and longs to be tended by a coexisting dialogical soul. In a culture in which suffering is avoided and rituals are few\, this can be hard to find\, even in therapy. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, grief and loss will be foregrounded as a core human experience which holds fundamental significance. This webinar will be a mix of presentation\, breakout sharing and discussion in order for participants to learn and engage with grief and grieving to support therapeutic practice. \n\n\n\nCost: \n\n\n\nGANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nPurchase your ticket here! \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTracy Santos MGestTherapy\, BSW\, AMHSW\, DipST\, EMDRAA \n\n\n\nTracy Santos is a psychotherapist\, mental health social worker\, supervisor and educator who has been in private practice for 22 years. She is on faculty at Gestalt Therapy Brisbane and lectured for many years at Southern Cross University on grief and trauma informed practice in the human services. \n\n\n\nTracy has specialised in the field of death and dying\, grief and bereavement for the last 18 years\, working with individuals\, couples and groups. She has been closely affiliated with the Amitayus Home Hospice Service in the Byron Shire since 2003 and is on their training committee and team. \n\n\n\nTracy brings her knowledge\, lived experience\, and soul-driven devotion\, to raise awareness and cultivate capacity to compassionately care for the dying. She is committed to create and support dialogical and emergent spaces to explore and practice how to be\, and work with mortality\, grief\, and bereavement.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/webinar-the-grieving-self-in-and-of-the-field/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240327T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240327T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T183542
CREATED:20231231T071500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T054438Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: A Breach of Trust - Working with Infidelity and Betrayal
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 27\, 2024. Infidelity and betrayal affects many families and relationships\, and presents in a myriad of ways\, from broken promises to full-blown affairs. The damage to relationships and individuals can be profound\, traumatic and lifelong. For therapist\, working with infidelity and betrayal in clinical settings can be complicated. Often adding a degree of confusion in knowing where to start and how to best to support clients. This presentation\, with a focus on Couples Therapy\, will provide a snapshot and overview that will add insight to your work with clients from a Gestalt psychotherapeutic approach. It will be of benefit to practitioners working with individuals\, couples or families. The presentation will offer opportunities for group discussions. Sharing techniques and interventions that attendees use\, in their work towards supporting relationship repair and healing. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will benefit you in: \n\n\n\n• Understanding the contemporary therapeutic thinking around Infidelity & Betrayal \n\n\n\n• Providing an overview of recovery from relationship ‘crisis to renewal’ through a therapeutic process \n\n\n\n• The importance of working with trust and forgiveness. \n\n\n\n• Considering what meaningful & effective intervention will be of best support for your clients \n\n\n\n• Opportunities to reflect on and avoid common issues that hinder a therapeutic process. \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSean Tonnet (MGest) has been working with people for over 30 years and as a full time clinical psychotherapist\, clinical supervisor and international facilitator for the past 17 years. His reputed and respected practice reflects his comprehensive training and clinical excellence in therapy and facilitation. Specialising in relationships\, Sean has over 16\,000 case hours working with couples and exceptional experience in workshop development and delivery. He melds creative\, relational Gestalt methods and contemporary psychotherapy\, neurobiology and mindfulness practices within a safe and learning environment. His work has been reviewed in radio\, television and in print. Recently\, Sean’s work with international band Parkway Drive\, was a feature of the ABC Australia Story “Getting Heavy”. Sean is a highly sought after therapist and facilitator across Australia. \n\n\n\nCost: \n\n\n\nGANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95 \n\n\n\nPurchase your ticket here!
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/webinar-a-breach-of-trust-working-with-infidelity-and-betrayal/
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