Second Gestalt Therapy Conference

August 17-20, 2000

Pre-Conference Workshops 14th-16th
Post-Conference Workshops 21st-23rd

Gestalt Australia New Zealand (GANZ) is a professional organisation for Gestalt Therapists, and people who use Gestalt approaches. There are over ten training centres supporting GANZ in a growing community of practitioners and students. GANZ's second conference is an opportunity to gather, learn, and develop as a global community.

To offer Dreaming as the ground for the 2000 Conference theme is an intention to acknowledge the wider dimensions of the Ground on which we’ll meet. “Dreaming” is a word that carries special significance for the Aboriginal and Islander community in Australia, in terms of how they relate to the land and to one another. The Dreaming interweaves law, songs, history, dance, and responsibility for the land and life. There are echoes in the field theoretical, holistic approach of Gestalt Therapy, through Buber’s dialogue, the social action of Lewin and Goodman, and exploration through metaphors, dreams, arts, and the transpersonal.

Part of the Conference process will allow us to dream the future of Gestalt, which will provide direction for a community based Annual General Meeting of GANZ early on Friday evening.

[ Last updated, 11/19/03 ]

Gestalt!
ISSN 1091-1766 

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Gestalt Global Corporation
Indexes to Gestalt!

Volume 3 ; Number 3
Early Winter, 1999

Introduction | Editorial | Gestalt in Brazil | Twenty Years of Gestalt in Argentina | What is Gestalt?, Poetry from Uruguay | Healthy and Unhealthy Functioning and Process-Oriented Diagnostic Thinking | GANZ 2000 Conference

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An international, refereed, Gestalt journal, based in Australia, the Australian Gestalt Journal is a premier vehicle of Gestalt Therapy writing and promotes the growth and development of Gestalt Therapy theory and practice. Orthodox, traditional or dogmatic views are welcome, as are the irreverent, anarchical and heretical. There is room for poetry as well as prose, for the artist, as well as the academic.

Editor, Publisher & Owner:
Bruno G. Just.
Editorial Advisors:
Andy Busuttil, Jim Jupp, Lee Owens, Gunter Swoboda, and Brian O'Neill (Founder).
Editorial Board:
Ari Badaines, Barry Blicharski, Don Diespecker, Ruth Dunn, Joel Latner, Alan Meara, Gabriel Phillips, Robert Resnick, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Frank-M. Staemmler, Yaro Starak.


Address: The Editor, A.G.J.
1 / 56 Falconer St.,
Southport. Qld. 4215.
Australia.
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May 1997, Vol. 1, No. 1:
Staemmler, Evans, Meara, Erskine, Caradoc-Davies, Wheeler, Adams, Feldhaus, Just, Hamilton

October 1997, Vol. 1, No.2:
Wheeler, Philippson, Polster, Fonseca, Gunzburg, Staemmler, Diespecker, Swoboda

June 1998, Vol. 2, No.1:
Shane, Wheeler, Robine, Philippson, Polster, Starak, Roberts, Prosnick, Diespecker

December 1998, Vol. 2, No. 2: Diespecker, Latner, Braune, Spagnuolo Lobb, Salonia, Cavaleri, Sichera, Melnick, Nevis, Evans, Prosnick, Woldt, Kepner, Wagner, Park, Evans, Coe, Lucey, O'Neill, Just.

 Features of the Conference programme:
  • Three broad streams of experiential workshops and papers, with over 30 presenters from eight countries, including:
    • Clinical Practice and Health (Friday 18): Life themes, Working with the future, Eating Disorders, Psychoses, Fun and fantasy with children, Art and dreams, Gambling.
    • Education and Training (Saturday am): Assessment, Reflecting teams, Ethics, Back to the Future with Fritz.
    • Organisations and communities (Saturday pm): Is gestalt culturally specific?, Political systems, Organisation consultancy, A hunger for stories, Virtual reality.
  • A conference process that follows a gestalt cycle, including a welcome ritual, times in lightly facilitated process groups for reflecting, connecting, and reporting, and a closing review and reflection as a community.
  • A dinner dance (Saturday evening) held at restaurant overlooking Brisbane and environs.
  • A semi bushland setting at a conference centre with modern facilities and on-site accommodation.

The conference programme will commence on Thursday evening, post registration, with a welcome reception with light refreshments at 5.30 pm. This will be followed by a formal process at 6.30, which all registrants are encouraged to attend. Friday and Saturday programs will most likely extend from 9 am to 6 pm and Sunday will conclude at around midday followed by a light lunch.

Registration* fees (including Goods and Services Tax of 10%) are:

Early Bird (by June 17) By 17 August
Non-Members AUD 385.00 AUD 440.00
GANZ members/students AUD 330.00 AUD 385.00

*One Day Registration: AUD165. Dinner Dance AUD 49.50.

We also invite you to participate in an exciting array of pre- and post-conference workshops, to be confirmed by advanced registration:

Mon 14 to Wed 16 (W1)
Ole Ry Nielson: Holotropic Breathwork and Gestalt
Mon 14 to Wed 16 (W2)
Sue Clayton: Working with Organisations
Mon 21 (W3)
Barry Blicharski: Excellence in Psychotherapy
Tues 22 & Wed. 23rd. (W4)
Phil Brownell: Contact, Faith, and Impasse – Religious Clients and Spiritual Issues in Gestalt Therapy
Mon 21 to Wed 23 (W5
Joe Melnick: A Hopelessly Optimistic Approach for Couples and Family Therapy


Fees:

  • Three-day workshops (W 1, 2, & 5) AUD 440
  • Two-day Workshop (W 4) AUD 320
  • One-day workshop (W 3) AUD165

The registration form contains details of fees, accommodation options (on site is recommended), and transport information. An information kit, with more details will be sent to registrants. Correspondance should be sent to :

GANZ Conference 2000
Sally Brown Conference Connections
PO Box 108 Kenmore, Queensland 4069 AUSTRALIA
Ph + 61 (7) 3201 2808


The official conference domestic airline is Ansett Australia, and we ask you to support them. Overseas visitors – note that visas are necessary.

The Bardon Conference Centre is set on seven acres of native bushland adjacent to national park land, and is six kilometres from the central city. Transport from the airport is by taxi (app. AUD25) or bus (AUD7.50) to the city centre (GST to be added). Tipping is not common in Australia. The conference is being held during late winter, which is usually sunny, with average temperatures in the range from 10 to 20C. Cool westerly winds are possible at this time of year.

Brisbane is a young and vibrant city of almost one million, with a sub tropical climate. The Brisbane River provides transport and sightseeing by fast catamarans, and cruises. The central city provides shopping, dining and business houses, nightclubs, and on the south bank of the river, cultural centres and markets.

It is hoped visitors will take the time to explore our unique lifestyle. Dine out in one our thousands of outdoor restaurants that reflect the multicultural diversity of the city. The local seafood is excellent, and most restaurants cater for vegetarian needs. Visit our popular Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast for surf and sandy beaches, shops, theme parks, and dining. Each coast has a rainforest mountain hinterland with national parks, craft shops and restaurants.
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