THE ConnectGround PROFESSIONAL EXTENSION CALENDAR 2022
These seminars are designed to support practitioners grapple with very specific client issues. These are sessions are informative and practical.
All seminars are free to ConnectGround interns and staff.
All other participants can book and pay by following the links.
Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Assault
Presented by Northern Centre Against Sexual Assault team
Date / Tuesday 8 March 2022
Time /9.30-1.30pm
Cost / $150 / Costs / $150 (exc gst)
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Queer 101: LGBTQI Sensitive Practice
Presented by Larz Lauer and Eden brown
This workshop provides Gestalt practitioners and students with a Queer 101, to incorporate LGBTQI and Gender affirmative, inclusive and sensitive approaches to your practice.
We will explore: a brief historical ground of the LGBTQI movement and resistance; the current health situation for LGBTQI identified people; affirming language, concepts and pronouns; critiquing how our heteronormative biases may be impacting our practices and interventions by bringing the unconscious in to awareness in both therapeutic work and ones wider life/field and; experiment with your own queerness and gender-beingness to support integration.
Date / Thursday 2 June 2022
Time /9.30 -1.30pm
Cost / $150 (exc gst)
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Clients at Risk of Suicide in the Clinical Practice of Gestalt Psychotherapy
Presented by Karolina Krysinska, PhD
Suicide-related presentations are often experienced as very challenging and distressing for therapists, including Gestalt psychotherapists
The seminar will include some theory or psychoeducation and an overview of Gestalt thinking on this topic. The training will be an opportunity to share experience and dilemmas around working with clients expressing suicidal ideation and with a history of suicidal behaviour, and their families.
Date / 23rd August
Time /9.30 -1.30pm
Cost / $150 (exc gst) / Free of charge for current ConnectGround interns
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