Please note - All workshops integrate a unique blend of gestalt therapy, neuroscience, somatic experiencing, the diamond heart approach, buddhist psychology and mindfulness principles for supporting healing and wholeness.
This experiential and practice focused workshop will provide an opportunity for an in-depth experiential inquiry and exploration of the topics of self-criticism, shame, core beliefs, self-compassion and present-centred awareness practices that support a return to wholeness and dis-identification from fixed self-diminishing beliefs.
The format of the workshop will be based on the use of experiential exercises, skills based practice sessions, small group conversations, lectures, use of case material and discussions in the large group.
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The following workshop will introduce students to a best practice 3 stage trauma model that covers the core principles of trauma sensitive practice. The module will introduce students to a comprehensive understanding of the nature of trauma as well as a number of interventions that support people to re-negotiate the impact of trauma in safe ways. The theory and practices from Gestalt therapy's emphasis on awareness, field theory, supports, the paradoxical theory of change, embodiment and working relationally will be explored in the context of contemporary trauma theory and neuroscience. The body work approaches of Peter Levine's Somatic experiencing and Pat Ogden's Sensory-motor psychotherapy will be also strongly integrated into this approach.
The format of the workshop will be based on the use of experiential exercises, skills based practice sessions, small group conversations, lectures, use of case material and discussions in the large group.
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This two-day workshop introduces the fundamental concepts of different Attachment Styles: Secure, Anxious/Ambivalent, Avoidant, and Disorganized, as well as how they impact our interpersonal relationships. Based on an integration of Gestalt therapy's contact style theory, Dr. Diane Poole Heller's groundbreaking dynamic attachment re-patterning work, and mindfulness and Somatic experiencing principles, this three-day workshop will support you with theory and practical principles to help clients build a bridge back to secure attachment and to heal attachment wounds to build lasting relationships in adulthood. Learn what the characteristics are for identifying attachment styles, their unique strengths and challenges and what is needed to help heal insecure attachment patterns, as well as what is needed to "learn" and reinforce secure attachment.
From gestalt perspective addictions are understood as 'creative adjustments' that have developed into chaotic or rigid habits of self- regulation subjectively experienced as "out of my control". These habits of self-regulation can profoundly constrain our functioning, health and relationships, as well as impair our movement towards emotional, physical, cognitive and spiritual integration. For many clients, addictive habits of thinking, perceiving or behaving are a core feature of their presenting struggles and are all too often their best attempt at surviving the impact of a dys-regulated nervous system, or meeting ones core relational, developmental and existential needs.
This two-day workshop is for professionals wanting to learn about working with addictions from a gestalt, Buddhist psychology and somatic experiencing lens. The workshop will support an application to working with a broad range of addictive impulses and behaviours. Participants will be given an overview of gestalt theory and somatic experiencing principles in relation to understanding and effectively working with addictions.