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6Sep10:00 am- 4:00 pmThe Relational Movement: The Quiet RevolutionA day workshop with Mark Fairfield.10:00 am - 4:00 pm The Relational Institute of Australia, 3/166 Pacific Highway North Sydney

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At this time in history we face mounting threats to our humanity and to the sustainability of life on the planet. Now more than ever, an appreciation for the fundamentally relational nature of the ecology of life is critical to our survival.

In this workshop, international Gestalt trainer, author and community organizer, Mark Fairfield, frames the relational perspective as a movement that is revolutionizing human consciousness.

This relational perspective is more than just an alternative point of view: it is a vital, coordinated effort to engage humans back to the deeply relational cultures that once ensured our ancestors’ survival.

Grounded in the values central to the gestalt paradigm;

Health can only be defined relationally and holisti- cally.
Embodied experience should be included in important decision making.
Diversity is essential to all development.
Sustainability depends on sharing leadership.

This workshop identifies how The Relational Movement can equip us with the tools to catalyse a culture that supports a sustainable, diverse, healthy community.

Participant Outcomes
·   Understanding of relational perspectives, their central ideas and the values and practices they promote
·   The power of story to shift consciousness and organize knowledge
·   Orientation to peer education and peer support as tools for developing relational “leaders”
·   Bridging to opportunities to connect to movement leaders and make a contribution

Who is the workshop for?
The workshop is open to all therapists, coaches, organization development consultants, organizers, educators, supervisors, administrators or allies.

FACILITATED BY

Mark Fairfield ( international visiting faculty)

Mark is an internationally recognized Gestalt trainer, author and organizer, with significant experience in organizational consulting, leadership coaching and clinical social work. After completing his graduate studies in social welfare at Columbia University in the 1990s, he occupied various leadership positions in the AIDS movement and the field of public mental health. He founded The Relational Center, a grassroots non-profit in Los Angeles. There he served as Executive Director for over 10 years. Today Mark works with senior executive teams of change-making institutions, offering leadership development and support for culture shift and social transformation.

TIME & LOCATION

TRIA

3/166 Pacific Highway

North Sydney

10am-4pm

COURSE DATES

6 Sept 2019, 10am-4pm

Organizer

The Relational Instituteadmin@therelationalinstitute.com.au

Ticket Price

Full Fee $225 +GST

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12Oct - 13Oct 129:30 amOct 13Exploring your growing edgeA workshop for therapists9:30 am - 4:30 pm (13) AEST The Relational Institute of Australia, 3/166 Pacific Highway North Sydney

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As practicing therapists, we each form our own unique and personal style of working with our clients. As we grow and develop as practitioners it is important that our style continues to evolve, to be fresh, contemporary and lively.

This clinical supervision workshop offers “hands on” professional supervision in a supportive environment aimed at enhancing your skills and self awareness as a practitioner through the sensitive exploration of your personal style and practice.

Drawing on Gestalt therapy’s grounding in the relationship between the therapist and client as the source of healing and change, the workshop will focus on the process of ‘meeting in the moment’ as a foundation of experiential learning.

This workshop is open to practitioners who have no, some or considerable experience in Gestalt therapy practice and/or training.

‘Take homes’ from participating in this workshop:

A more informed understanding of your professional style and your growing edges and how these can contribute to transforming self-understanding, human relating and your therapeutic work.
A greater appreciation of the untapped revolutionary and evolutionary ideas that are at the heart of the Gestalt approach.
Shared ideas for how to apply a broader understanding of specific contemporary issues in your counselling and therapeutic endeavours.
Memories and learnings about relational processes from living and practicing the gestalt approach in a group through the exploration of a range of challenging ideas as well as having fun together.

FACILITATED BY

Michael Reed PhD is a registered psychologist, accredited clinical social worker, authorised clinical supervisor and a recognised gestalt therapist, based in Sydney.

As part of his ongoing professional development as a gestalt therapist, over the past 40 years Michael has trained with some of the leading figures of the global gestalt therapy and contemporary psychoanalytic communities.

Michael has been working therapeutically with individuals, couples, families, and groups for over 40 years and has been in full-time private practice for over 20 years.

Michael has also been involved in the training and supervision of psychotherapy practitioners and counsellors in general, and Gestalt therapy practitioners in particular, for over 30 years, in Australia, USA, Israel and Japan.

When not ‘at work’ Michael enjoys gardening, relaxing with family and friends and having fun exploring the world with his grandchildren.

TIME & LOCATION

TRIA

3/166 Pacific Highway

North Sydney

Organizer

The Relational Instituteadmin@therelationalinstitute.com.au

MODULE FEE

Early bird rate ( before June 30th) $395

Full rate $450

Ticket Price

Early bird rate ( before June 30th) $395

Full rate $495 + GST

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7Feb - 10MayFeb 79:30 amMay 10Gestalt Group Facilitation TrainingA professional training in group facilitation 9:30 am - (May 10) 4:30 pm The Relational Institute of Australia, 3/166 Pacific Highway North Sydney

Event Details

The journey to leading from the heart begins with connecting fully with our ‘self’, becoming a coherent unified whole, agreeing wholeheartedly with who we are as layered and intertwined within a number of systems; family, group, cultural, ancestral, social, ethical and spiritual. (Margarete Koenning)

In this professional and experiential training, Margarete provides an opportunity to explore the dynamics and interactive fields required to create a space within a group setting that is most effective for the flow of healing.

Margarete brings years of experience and deep passion about the benefits of group work as a vehicle for transformation, supporting the individual to move from isolation to connectedness, she shares her experience of how to lead a group to fully engage with their desire for bonding and belonging.

In this training you will experience a place of ‘coherence’ and how to use it to radiate out into the field that supports transition from separateness into connectedness and from the individual into community.

Spaces in this training are limited to 16, and participants are required to possess undergraduate qualifications in counselling or equivalent.

Participants will learn;

Gestalt group therapy theory
System informed group theory
Group work within teams, organisational groups, training and teachings
How, we as professional, can create a space within a group setting that is most effective for the flow of healing
Create movement beyond our old engrained neural pathways, broaden our potential to engage with our truth as social beings, and what it means to constantly interrelate with others
How our own ‘coherence’ connects us to our ancestry and supports us to agree wholeheartedly with who we are.

Participants will have the opportunity to be part of a dynamic group whilst learning how to facilitate group within the training cohort.

Testimonials from previous participants:

“My nervousness meets yours’, the opening words from Margarete on the first weekend woke an attentiveness within me; I was moved by the her transparency, risking connection straight up, very powerful.

Margarete is a woman with a guiding principle of love. This baton has been passed onto me and has transformed me as a group facilitator. What a gift that is. She is deeply encouraging and supportive of your won individual style as a practitioner, embodying a wealth of life experience, her unshakeable presence a laser focus for the unseen to be seen”. (Carmel)

This training will take place over 4 weekends and will attract 54 PD hours.

Feb: 7,8,9.

March: 7,8

April: 4,5

May: 9,10.

FACILITATED BY

Margarete Koenning

Margarete is a PACFA accredited Supervisor and Senior Gestalt Therapist with a BA in Social Work and has more than 30 years’ experience in the field.
Margarete brings a deep feminine wisdom to her way of working with individuals and groups, she has an ability to hold intense affect until it softens and reconnects with life. Her compassion for healing trauma has drawn her to working with Indigenous organizations and communities with mental health issues, addiction and family of origin entanglements. As a trainer and facilitator of Gestalt Therapy & Family/Systemic Constellations, Margarete is known and loved for her healing heart, her deep authentic contact, attention to phenomenology and inclusion of many healing rituals within her work.
Along with her husband Keith Margarete lives in the beautiful hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, where she runs her practice and trainings, since arriving in Australia from Germany in 1993.

TIME & LOCATION

The Relational Institute Australia

3/166 Pacific Highway

North Sydney

COURSE DATES

Training times will be 9.30am to 4.30pm on the following dates for 2020:

Feb: 7,8,9 ( 3 day intensive)

March: 7,8

April: 4,5

May: 9,10.

Organizer

The Relational Instituteadmin@therelationalinstitute.com.au

MODULE FEE

Early Bird: Before Dec 31, 2019- $1795 +GST

Full rate: $1995 plus GST

Ticket Price

Early Bird rate until Dec 31st: $1795 + GST

Early Bird rate available before Dec 31st

7Feb - 10MayFeb 79:30 amMay 10Gestalt Group Facilitation TrainingA professional training in group facilitation (February 7) 9:30 am - (May 10) 4:30 pm The Relational Institute of Australia, 3/166 Pacific Highway North Sydney

Event Details

The journey to leading from the heart begins with connecting fully with our ‘self’, becoming a coherent unified whole, agreeing wholeheartedly with who we are as layered and intertwined within a number of systems; family, group, cultural, ancestral, social, ethical and spiritual. (Margarete Koenning)

In this professional and experiential training, Margarete provides an opportunity to explore the dynamics and interactive fields required to create a space within a group setting that is most effective for the flow of healing.

Margarete brings years of experience and deep passion about the benefits of group work as a vehicle for transformation, supporting the individual to move from isolation to connectedness, she shares her experience of how to lead a group to fully engage with their desire for bonding and belonging.

In this training you will experience a place of ‘coherence’ and how to use it to radiate out into the field that supports transition from separateness into connectedness and from the individual into community.

Spaces in this training are limited to 16, and participants are required to possess undergraduate qualifications in counselling or equivalent.

Participants will learn;

Gestalt group therapy theory
System informed group theory
Group work within teams, organisational groups, training and teachings
How, we as professional, can create a space within a group setting that is most effective for the flow of healing
Create movement beyond our old engrained neural pathways, broaden our potential to engage with our truth as social beings, and what it means to constantly interrelate with others
How our own ‘coherence’ connects us to our ancestry and supports us to agree wholeheartedly with who we are.

Participants will have the opportunity to be part of a dynamic group whilst learning how to facilitate group within the training cohort.

Testimonials from previous participants:

“My nervousness meets yours’, the opening words from Margarete on the first weekend woke an attentiveness within me; I was moved by the her transparency, risking connection straight up, very powerful.

Margarete is a woman with a guiding principle of love. This baton has been passed onto me and has transformed me as a group facilitator. What a gift that is. She is deeply encouraging and supportive of your won individual style as a practitioner, embodying a wealth of life experience, her unshakeable presence a laser focus for the unseen to be seen”. (Carmel)

This training will take place over 4 weekends and will attract 54 PD hours.

Feb: 7,8,9.

March: 7,8

April: 4,5

May: 9,10.

FACILITATED BY

Margarete Koenning

Margarete is a PACFA accredited Supervisor and Senior Gestalt Therapist with a BA in Social Work and has more than 30 years’ experience in the field.
Margarete brings a deep feminine wisdom to her way of working with individuals and groups, she has an ability to hold intense affect until it softens and reconnects with life. Her compassion for healing trauma has drawn her to working with Indigenous organizations and communities with mental health issues, addiction and family of origin entanglements. As a trainer and facilitator of Gestalt Therapy & Family/Systemic Constellations, Margarete is known and loved for her healing heart, her deep authentic contact, attention to phenomenology and inclusion of many healing rituals within her work.
Along with her husband Keith Margarete lives in the beautiful hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, where she runs her practice and trainings, since arriving in Australia from Germany in 1993.

TIME & LOCATION

The Relational Institute Australia

3/166 Pacific Highway

North Sydney

COURSE DATES

Training times will be 9.30am to 4.30pm on the following dates for 2020:

Feb: 7,8,9 ( 3 day intensive)

March: 7,8

April: 4,5

May: 9,10.

Organizer

The Relational Instituteadmin@therelationalinstitute.com.au

MODULE FEE

Early Bird: Before Dec 31, 2019- $1795 +GST

Full rate: $1995 plus GST

Ticket Price

Early Bird rate until Dec 31st: $1795 + GST

Early Bird rate available before Dec 31st

7Feb - 10MayFeb 79:30 amMay 10Gestalt Group Facilitation TrainingA professional training in group facilitation (February 7) 9:30 am - (May 10) 4:30 pm The Relational Institute of Australia, 3/166 Pacific Highway North Sydney

Event Details

The journey to leading from the heart begins with connecting fully with our ‘self’, becoming a coherent unified whole, agreeing wholeheartedly with who we are as layered and intertwined within a number of systems; family, group, cultural, ancestral, social, ethical and spiritual. (Margarete Koenning)

In this professional and experiential training, Margarete provides an opportunity to explore the dynamics and interactive fields required to create a space within a group setting that is most effective for the flow of healing.

Margarete brings years of experience and deep passion about the benefits of group work as a vehicle for transformation, supporting the individual to move from isolation to connectedness, she shares her experience of how to lead a group to fully engage with their desire for bonding and belonging.

In this training you will experience a place of ‘coherence’ and how to use it to radiate out into the field that supports transition from separateness into connectedness and from the individual into community.

Spaces in this training are limited to 16, and participants are required to possess undergraduate qualifications in counselling or equivalent.

Participants will learn;

Gestalt group therapy theory
System informed group theory
Group work within teams, organisational groups, training and teachings
How, we as professional, can create a space within a group setting that is most effective for the flow of healing
Create movement beyond our old engrained neural pathways, broaden our potential to engage with our truth as social beings, and what it means to constantly interrelate with others
How our own ‘coherence’ connects us to our ancestry and supports us to agree wholeheartedly with who we are.

Participants will have the opportunity to be part of a dynamic group whilst learning how to facilitate group within the training cohort.

Testimonials from previous participants:

“My nervousness meets yours’, the opening words from Margarete on the first weekend woke an attentiveness within me; I was moved by the her transparency, risking connection straight up, very powerful.

Margarete is a woman with a guiding principle of love. This baton has been passed onto me and has transformed me as a group facilitator. What a gift that is. She is deeply encouraging and supportive of your won individual style as a practitioner, embodying a wealth of life experience, her unshakeable presence a laser focus for the unseen to be seen”. (Carmel)

This training will take place over 4 weekends and will attract 54 PD hours.

Feb: 7,8,9.

March: 7,8

April: 4,5

May: 9,10.

FACILITATED BY

Margarete Koenning

Margarete is a PACFA accredited Supervisor and Senior Gestalt Therapist with a BA in Social Work and has more than 30 years’ experience in the field.
Margarete brings a deep feminine wisdom to her way of working with individuals and groups, she has an ability to hold intense affect until it softens and reconnects with life. Her compassion for healing trauma has drawn her to working with Indigenous organizations and communities with mental health issues, addiction and family of origin entanglements. As a trainer and facilitator of Gestalt Therapy & Family/Systemic Constellations, Margarete is known and loved for her healing heart, her deep authentic contact, attention to phenomenology and inclusion of many healing rituals within her work.
Along with her husband Keith Margarete lives in the beautiful hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, where she runs her practice and trainings, since arriving in Australia from Germany in 1993.

TIME & LOCATION

The Relational Institute Australia

3/166 Pacific Highway

North Sydney

COURSE DATES

Training times will be 9.30am to 4.30pm on the following dates for 2020:

Feb: 7,8,9 ( 3 day intensive)

March: 7,8

April: 4,5

May: 9,10.

Organizer

The Relational Instituteadmin@therelationalinstitute.com.au

MODULE FEE

Early Bird: Before Dec 31, 2019- $1795 +GST

Full rate: $1995 plus GST

Ticket Price

Early Bird rate until Dec 31st: $1795 + GST

Early Bird rate available before Dec 31st

7Feb - 10MayFeb 79:30 amMay 10Gestalt Group Facilitation TrainingA professional training in group facilitation (February 7) 9:30 am - (May 10) 4:30 pm The Relational Institute of Australia, 3/166 Pacific Highway North Sydney

Event Details

The journey to leading from the heart begins with connecting fully with our ‘self’, becoming a coherent unified whole, agreeing wholeheartedly with who we are as layered and intertwined within a number of systems; family, group, cultural, ancestral, social, ethical and spiritual. (Margarete Koenning)

In this professional and experiential training, Margarete provides an opportunity to explore the dynamics and interactive fields required to create a space within a group setting that is most effective for the flow of healing.

Margarete brings years of experience and deep passion about the benefits of group work as a vehicle for transformation, supporting the individual to move from isolation to connectedness, she shares her experience of how to lead a group to fully engage with their desire for bonding and belonging.

In this training you will experience a place of ‘coherence’ and how to use it to radiate out into the field that supports transition from separateness into connectedness and from the individual into community.

Spaces in this training are limited to 16, and participants are required to possess undergraduate qualifications in counselling or equivalent.

Participants will learn;

Gestalt group therapy theory
System informed group theory
Group work within teams, organisational groups, training and teachings
How, we as professional, can create a space within a group setting that is most effective for the flow of healing
Create movement beyond our old engrained neural pathways, broaden our potential to engage with our truth as social beings, and what it means to constantly interrelate with others
How our own ‘coherence’ connects us to our ancestry and supports us to agree wholeheartedly with who we are.

Participants will have the opportunity to be part of a dynamic group whilst learning how to facilitate group within the training cohort.

Testimonials from previous participants:

“My nervousness meets yours’, the opening words from Margarete on the first weekend woke an attentiveness within me; I was moved by the her transparency, risking connection straight up, very powerful.

Margarete is a woman with a guiding principle of love. This baton has been passed onto me and has transformed me as a group facilitator. What a gift that is. She is deeply encouraging and supportive of your won individual style as a practitioner, embodying a wealth of life experience, her unshakeable presence a laser focus for the unseen to be seen”. (Carmel)

This training will take place over 4 weekends and will attract 54 PD hours.

Feb: 7,8,9.

March: 7,8

April: 4,5

May: 9,10.

FACILITATED BY

Margarete Koenning

Margarete is a PACFA accredited Supervisor and Senior Gestalt Therapist with a BA in Social Work and has more than 30 years’ experience in the field.
Margarete brings a deep feminine wisdom to her way of working with individuals and groups, she has an ability to hold intense affect until it softens and reconnects with life. Her compassion for healing trauma has drawn her to working with Indigenous organizations and communities with mental health issues, addiction and family of origin entanglements. As a trainer and facilitator of Gestalt Therapy & Family/Systemic Constellations, Margarete is known and loved for her healing heart, her deep authentic contact, attention to phenomenology and inclusion of many healing rituals within her work.
Along with her husband Keith Margarete lives in the beautiful hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, where she runs her practice and trainings, since arriving in Australia from Germany in 1993.

TIME & LOCATION

The Relational Institute Australia

3/166 Pacific Highway

North Sydney

COURSE DATES

Training times will be 9.30am to 4.30pm on the following dates for 2020:

Feb: 7,8,9 ( 3 day intensive)

March: 7,8

April: 4,5

May: 9,10.

Organizer

The Relational Instituteadmin@therelationalinstitute.com.au

MODULE FEE

Early Bird: Before Dec 31, 2019- $1795 +GST

Full rate: $1995 plus GST

Ticket Price

Early Bird rate until Dec 31st: $1795 + GST

Early Bird rate available before Dec 31st