Gestalt Therapy Australia

🌱 Curious about taking the next step in your counselling or psychotherapy career?

Join us on 18 June for a free information session about the ConnectGround Counselling & Psychotherapy Internship Program.

Our 12-month internship offers the opportunity to:
• Work with ongoing clients in a community clinic
• Receive individual and group supervision
• Build over 100 client hours
• Participate in training and professional development
• Grow your confidence as a practitioner within a supportive clinical team

Come along to meet members of the team, learn more about the program, and ask any questions you may have.

📅 Thursday 18 June
🎟️ Free information session

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/counselling-psychotherapy-internship-program-information-session-tickets-1990062960887?aff=Social

Applications for the September 2026 intake are now open.

Counselling & Psychotherapy Internship Program Information Session Learn all about our Counselling & Psychotherapy Internship Program at our info session on June 18th at 6.30pm.

Opinion | This Is Why I Find Pema Chödrön So Essential The 89-year-old Buddhist nun teaches the power of agreeing with your anxiety, instead of trying to run from it.

Join We Al-li in Naarm / Melbourne for a rare public workshop series led by Alison Elliott and Jem Stone.

These workshops support trauma-informed practice, cultural competencies, and the integration of Indigenous frameworks into your work through grounded, relational, and reflective learning experiences.

🌿 Dadirri
📅 27–28 June 2026

🌿 The Prun – Managing Conflict
📅 15–16 August 2026

🌿 Addictions, Violence & Spirituality
📅 14–15 November 2026

✔ Standalone workshops
✔ Certified & PACFA-endorsed
✔ Discounts for attending all three
✔ Dedicated rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants

Learn. Connect. Integrate.

Booking is open on this link

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1579971

🩺 Many of the mainstream psychological treatments focus on individuality, but gestalt therapy starts somewhere different.

🌏 We don't experience life in isolation. Our sense of self is shaped by the relationships we're in, the environments we move through, and the moments of connection and disconnection that leave their mark on us.

🤗 We invite you to experience gestalt through dialogue, and online workshop hosted by Gestalt Therapy Australia on Thursday 14 May, 6.30–8.30 pm (AEDT)

💞 Dialogue in gestalt represents a way of being in relationship that trusts the between and is willing to surrender to what emerges there. In a gestalt dialogue, meaning is not found in one person or the other, but only in the dialogue itself, in the "between" which people live together.

👀 Through dialogue, you discover who you are in relationship, exploring the intersubjective patterns that emerge and recognising that in any meeting, both parties are changed.

💎 Your facilitator is Tony Jackson, gestalt psychotherapist and Managing Director of the Gestalt Centre, with over 20 years of experience in gestalt practice, supervision, and training.

🌟 The workshop is experiential and highly interactive. You will practise and apply key concepts through pairs and small group activities - the same methodology as our psychotherapy training program. A certificate of completion is available on request.

🤩 Looking forward to connecting with you at the workshop!

Pillars of relational gestalt therapy A series of workshops to explore field theory, phenomenology, dialogue, and learn how to apply them to personal & therapeutic contexts.

Western thought has often cast curiosity as a solitary pursuit of hidden knowledge. But Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett propose something more relational: “Imagine a curiosity that aims less to know and more to make connections.” For them, knowledge-seeking is never purely individual but part of a web of social relations. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/curiosity-is-no-solo-act/

🌿 Applications are now open for the first-year cohort in the Blended Training Pathway (previously hybrid program) starting in October, with a maximum of 16 students.

🌟 Combining the flexibility of facilitated online classes (Tuesday evenings) with the depth of four in-person long weekends in Melbourne, you will embark on a transformative personal and professional journey in a relational and experiential environment.

💼 We welcome applicants from all backgrounds - our current students are working in various sectors, including but not limited to psychology, social work, education, HR, engineering, coaching, and business.

Learn more about the training program via our website below - We look forward to connecting with you! 🤗

https://www.gestalttherapyaustralia.com.au/our-program/blended-training

Coaching with Presence, Not Process

What if coaching relied less on technique — and more on presence?

In this half-day workshop, Kirsten Brumby introduces a Gestalt-informed approach to coaching conversations grounded in awareness, contact and the present moment.

📍 Melbourne
📅 25 March 2026 | 1:00–5:00pm

👉 See flyer for details and registration https://www.kirstenbrumby.com/coaching-with-presence-not-process

Gestalt doesn’t only belong in therapy rooms.

Sneaking Gestalt into Organisations is a half-day workshop with Kirsten Brumby exploring how Gestalt principles can be applied in meetings, leadership conversations and everyday workplace dynamics.

📍 Melbourne
📅 25 March 2026 | 9:00am–12:30pm

👉 See flyer for details and registration https://www.kirstenbrumby.com/sneaking-gestalt-into-organisations

Looking for deeper connection and personal growth?
Group therapy offers a powerful space to explore your patterns, strengthen relationships, and build greater self-awareness — alongside others on their own journey.
Our next group is forming soon.
✔ Structured and professionally facilitated
✔ Supportive, confidential environment
✔ Real-time relational learning
Places are limited.
👉 Learn more and complete an intake form here:

ConnectGround - Psychotherapy and counselling We offer short term counselling or long term psychotherapy and do not limit the number of sessions you can receive.

🥹 It's not too late yet, but it will be in a few weeks!

⌛ A gentle reminder that our 2026 first-year in-person training program is starting soon. The opening weekend for the Monday afternoon class is on 21-22 February, and for the Wednesday evening class, the opening weekend is on 28 February & 1 March.

⚡ The last two group interviews are scheduled at 6 pm on Wednesday 11 Feb and 18 Feb. If you would like to attend, please submit an online application ASAP: https://forms.zohopublic.com.au/gestaltcentre/form/Applicationfor1styearstudyatGestaltTherapyAustrali/formperma/upffg2VtbfiFfcT3KbEV1kvOnJPnxo4c8VEOjOwShQM

👋 Detailed program info is available on our website
https://www.gestalttherapyaustralia.com.au/our-program/program-overview

🤩 We look forward to your application and welcoming you to our student community!

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