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Webinar: Slicing Down - Deepening Emotional States in Couples Therapy
2024-11-06 17:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
This event has been postponed from September until 6 November. If you have registered, you will receive an email with more information.

Description:

Successful 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.

This presentation will benefit you in:

• Understanding the significance of primary and secondary emotions within the context of couples dynamics

• Discuss tracking & focusing on the cues, the meanings and the action tendency of emotions within relationships

• Explore working with experiment to deepen emotions within couples dynamics

• Support working with heightened emotions and conflict in couples therapy

• Resourcing the relationship dynamics through distilled emotional interactions.

About your Presenter:

Sean 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.

Cost:

GANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95.

You can purchase your ticket here.

Neuroscience Unravelled: Understanding the Interplay of Trauma and Addiction
2024-10-26 10:00 - 12:00
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.

Cost: GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95.

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About your Presenter:

Rafael 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

Webinar: Clinical Hospitality in a Contemporary World
2024-10-02 17:30 - 20:30
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.

I 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.

Further 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

Cost:

GANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95.

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About your Presenter:

Claire Taubert BBSc, BSc, B.Ed(Counselling) MAPS. GANZ

Claire 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.

Claire 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.

Let’s talk about self disclosure
2024-08-08 18:00 - 20:00
This interactive presentation is intended to:

• 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”;

• Discuss how both intentional therapist self-disclosure and non-disclosure may be helpful and counter-productive in any situation;

• Review self-disclosure from the perspective of interpersonal neurobiology; and

• Consider evidenced-based research on how to practice intentional self-disclosure effectively and ethically.

About your Presenter:

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.

Cost:

GANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95.

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Introduction to Depth Enquiry™ - EMDR with a Gestalt twist
2024-07-17 17:30 - 20:30
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.

About your Presenter:

Amanda’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.

Amanda’s next three day Depth Enquiry training is 11th-13th October 2024 in Melbourne.

Cost:

GANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95.

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Webinar: The Grieving Self - In and of the Field
2024-05-01 17:30 - 20:30
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.

Grief 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.

In 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.

Cost:

GANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95.

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About your Presenter:

Tracy Santos MGestTherapy, BSW, AMHSW, DipST, EMDRAA

Tracy 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.

Tracy 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.

Tracy 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.

Webinar: A Breach of Trust - Working with Infidelity and Betrayal
2024-03-27 17:30 - 20:00
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.

This presentation will benefit you in:

• Understanding the contemporary therapeutic thinking around Infidelity & Betrayal

• Providing an overview of recovery from relationship ‘crisis to renewal’ through a therapeutic process

• The importance of working with trust and forgiveness.

• Considering what meaningful & effective intervention will be of best support for your clients

• Opportunities to reflect on and avoid common issues that hinder a therapeutic process.

About your Presenter:

Sean 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.

Cost:

GANZ Members: $45. Non-GANZ Members: $95

Purchase your ticket here!
