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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: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: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/
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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: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/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260502T090000
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SUMMARY:Race and Racism: From ideology to consequences in client work and colleagueship
DESCRIPTION:This 3 hour webinar will expose how ideologies around race are consistent\, invisible and how racism is reproduced by good people\, with adverse consequences. Central to the scene setting is an understanding of the distinction between racial discrimination (people/organisations treating racialised people unfairly) and systemic and institutional racism that is reproduced as we become habituated in expectation of ourselves and other groups.   \n\n\n\nThe session will adopt a participatory and dialogical approach supported by work on creating a safe-enough environment to lean into the uncertain. The facilitator will seek a commitment from participants to support their colleagues present with a non-judgemental mindset. \n\n\n\nDate:                   Saturday 2nd May \n\n\n\nTime:                   9am-12pm AEST (Melbourne/Sydney) \n\n\n\nCost:                    GANZ Student Members: $15. GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHari 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.   \n\n\n\nHari is a writer and speaker in his specialist area of social justice\, equality\, race and culture in mental health. Hari is a Member of the Scientific Board of the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health. Hari has had various books\, articles and book chapters published\, with new material emerging regularly. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you at this important event.   \n\n\n\nYou can purchase your ticket here.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/race-and-racism-in-client-work-and-colleagueship-online-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Gestalt in the More-Than-Human World: Practice\, Presence and Responsibility
DESCRIPTION:This 3 hour online experiential workshop invites Gestalt practitioners into the evolving field of Gestalt Eco-Psychotherapy – an approach that re-awakens our relational intelligence with the more-than-human world. \n\n\n\nGrounded in core Gestalt principles of awareness\, contact\, dialogue\, field theory and embodied presence\, this workshop explores how our practice extends beyond the therapy room into the living systems that sustain us. Even in online spaces\, we remain embedded within ecological field conditions. Together\, we will experiment with recognising the Earth not as backdrop or metaphor\, but as living context and potential co-therapist. \n\n\n\nThis work is informed by Indigenous relational worldviews that understand land as sentient\, interconnected\, and inseparable from identity and wellbeing. We will acknowledge how colonial frameworks have shaped dominant therapeutic paradigms – separating psyche from land\, individual from community\, and human from ecosystem. Gestalt Eco-Psychotherapy offers a way of making these field conditions visible and interrupting inherited patterns of disconnection. \n\n\n\nThrough guided experiential processes\, reflective dialogue\, breakout conversations\, and embodied awareness practices participants can engage with from their own environments\, we will explore: \n\n\n\n\nHow contact processes shift when the more-than-human world is consciously included in the therapeutic field\n\n\n\nWays ecological awareness deepens presence\, regulation and relational responsiveness\n\n\n\nHow colonisation and extractive worldviews influence psychological suffering and therapeutic norms\n\n\n\nThe relationship between personal healing\, collective wellbeing and ecological justice\n\n\n\nPractical and ethical pathways for integrating eco-psychotherapeutic awareness into everyday Gestalt practice — including telehealth settings\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will be invited to work with whatever elements of the natural world are accessible to them (a window view\, weather\, soundscape\, plant life\, memory of place\, back yard)\, making the workshop accessible regardless of location. \n\n\n\nIn a time of climate disruption and social fragmentation\, this workshop asks: how might expanding our field awareness support decolonising practice\, psychological resilience\, community responsiveness and ecological responsibility? \n\n\n\nSuitable for all Gestalt practitioners and trainees. No prior experience in eco-therapy or outdoor practice is required. \n\n\n\nCost:                   GANZ Student Members: $15. GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nDate:                   Saturday 23rd May    \n\n\n\nTime:                   9:00am-12:00pm (Melbourne/Sydney) \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAsh Power is a Gestalt psychotherapist\, educator and founder of Gestalt Sydney and The Relational Institute Australia.  With over three decades of experience in therapeutic practice\, training and group facilitation\, her work is grounded in relational field theory\, embodiment and trauma-informed practice\, and continues to evolve in response to contemporary ecological and social challenges. \n\n\n\nAsh’s interest in Gestalt Eco-Psychotherapy arises not only from professional inquiry but from lived experience. As a previous custodian of 100 acres of Australian bushland\, she spent many years learning directly from Country – developing a deep respect for land as living context rather than backdrop. This experience continues to inform her therapeutic and teaching philosophy. \n\n\n\nShe approaches ecological and decolonising perspectives with humility\, recognising the influence of Indigenous worldviews while remaining mindful of her position as a non-Indigenous practitioner. Her work invites an expansion of Gestalt practice toward greater relational awareness\, ecological responsibility and community responsiveness. \n\n\n\nAsh warmly invites participants to explore alongside her\, sharing curiosity\, openness\, and a sense of care for the wider world. \n\n\n\nYou can purchase your ticket here.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/gestalt-in-the-more-than-human-world-practice-presence-and-responsibility/
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SUMMARY:Connection\, Conflict and Co-Parenting: Supporting Couples Through the Challenges of Contemporary Parenting
DESCRIPTION:Parenthood\, at any stage\, is one of the most significant challenges couples will face\, and one of the most common reason couples come for therapy. Contemporary parenting movements emphasise emotional attunement and responsiveness to children and while these approaches offer enormous benefits\, they can also introduce complexity for the couple relationship. Many partners find themselves navigating exhaustion\, resentment\, identity shifts and a loss of intimacy\, alongside differences in parenting values and expectations. Couples may struggle to find space for their relationship while adjusting to the demands and responsibilities of raising children.  \n\n\n\nThis presentation explores how therapists can support couples who are parents. Alongside understanding the pressures parenting can place on relationships\, the seminar introduces a practical parenting framework that helps partners clarify\, communicate and align their parenting\, supporting collaboration rather than conflict.  \n\n\n\nDrawing from attachment parenting models (like Tuning into kids/Teens and circle of security & S.T.E.P) the seminar offers perspectives and interventions that help couples strengthen both their parenting partnership and their relationship. The seminar will also include opportunities for group reflection and discussion\, allowing participants to share experiences and approaches that support couples navigating parenting and family life. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will benefit you in:  \n\n\n\n\n– Understanding the relational impact of parenting on intimacy\, identity and emotional connection\n\n\n\n\n\n– Recognising common couple dynamics that emerge during early parenting and family life\n\n\n\n\n\n– Learning a parenting framework that supports couples to clarify and communicate their parenting values\n\n\n\n\n\n– Supporting partners to collaborate rather than polarise around parenting differences\n\n\n\n\n\n– Helping couples maintain connection while navigating the demands of raising children\n\n\n\n\n\n– Strengthening the co-parenting relationship while also supporting the couple bond\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDate:                   Thursday 4th June \n\n\n\nTime:                   5:30pm-8:00pm AEST (Melbourne/Sydney) \n\n\n\nCost:                    GANZ Student Members: $15. GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95. \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSean Tonnet (MGest) has been working as a full-time clinical psychotherapist\, clinical supervisor and international facilitator for the past 20 years. His reputed and respected practice reflects his comprehensive training and clinical excellence in therapy and facilitation. Specialising in relationships\, Sean has over 18\,000 case hours working with couples and families as a Gestalt Therapist. Sean is a passionate father and has worked with a number of parenting initiatives including the Heart to Heart Parenting Program\, the not-for-profit organisation Pregnancy\, Birth and Beyond\, and as a facilitator for fatherhood programs with Interrelate. His work has been reviewed in radio\, television and in print\, and he is a highly sought-after therapist and facilitator across Australia. \n\n\n\nPurchase your ticket here.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/parenting-co-parenting-webinar-therapists/
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SUMMARY:Illuminating Strengths: Celebrating Sparkly Moments in Supervision and Counselling Encounters
DESCRIPTION:Reflecting on the positives in supervision and counselling isn’t about ignoring difficulties; it’s about strengthening our sense of competency\, resilience\, and identity. When we notice what shines\, we anchor ourselves in the parts of our clinical practice that energise us\, sustain us\, and remind us of the impact we have. These moments of insight\, attunement and connection provide a counterbalance to the emotional labour of counselling. They help us sustain our wellbeing and maintain perspective and purpose. \n\n\n\nIn this community connection event\, we will engage in small and large group strengths-based reflective processes to honor our moments of connection and growth by identifying\, sharing and integrating positive experiences – the ‘sparkly’ moments that highlight our strengths and meaningful therapeutic impact. \n\n\n\nDate:                   Saturday 20th June      \n\n\n\nTime:                  9:30am-11:30am AEST (Melbourne/Sydney) \n\n\n\nCost:                  $35 \n\n\n\nAbout your Presenter:   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Forman is a PACFA-registered Clinical Counsellor\, Psychotherapist\, and Clinical Supervisor with over two decades of experience across the Not for Profit\, Private\, and Tertiary Education sectors. She holds both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Counselling from the University of New England\, graduating with High Distinction\, and has completed training in Dance Movement Therapy. Her practice is grounded in a relational\, somatic and embodied approach\, with clinical training across a range of modalities including Somatic Intersubjective Self Psychology\, Systemic Relational Therapy\, Clinical Supervision\, and Perinatal and Trauma-Informed frameworks. \n\n\n\nSarah specialises in supporting individuals\, couples\, and families navigating complex relational\, psychological\, and developmental challenges such as grief\, loss\, parenting transitions\, and mental health concerns. Her leadership experience includes serving as National Manager of Counselling and Wellbeing in higher education\, more than a decade as a senior relationship counsellor and clinical supervisor with Relationships Australia Queensland. and recently served as member of Queensland Leadership Group for PACFA. Across her roles\, she has championed inclusive\, equitable\, and collaborative models of care\, while designing and implementing responsive and innovative service systems. \n\n\n\nIn addition to her clinical work\, Sarah is an experienced Clinical Supervisor\, mentoring both emerging and established practitioners across Australia. She lectures in counselling at the Australian College of Applied Professions and Southern Cross University and provides trauma-informed supervision for Blueknot Foundation. Her therapeutic approach is warm\, collaborative\, and evidence-based—shaped by extensive professional training and a rich cross-cultural personal history that informs her work with depth\, integrity\, and presence. \n\n\n\nPurchase your ticket here.
URL:https://www.ganz.org.au/event/illuminating-strengths-celebrating-sparkly-moments-in-supervision-and-counselling-encounters/
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