To Lean, To Fall, To Fail: A Gestalt experiment in surrender

Join Tony Jackson for a 2-hour seminar inviting a reimagining of the Gestalt contact/awareness cycle.

Key details

Date | Thursday 18 September, 2025

Time | 6.30pm–8:30pm

Where | Elie, 27 Royal Parade, Parkville

Facilitator | Tony Jackson

Cost | $40 VAGP members. $50 non-members

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About this event

This two-hour seminar offers a reimagining of the Gestalt contact/awareness cycle — not just as a process of reaching or need fulfilment, but as one that also embraces surrender, collapse, and letting go. Through embodied and experiential practices, we’ll explore the wisdom of yielding, the necessity of failure, and the quiet contact that emerges when effort gives way.

This is a space to lean back, to fall in, and to discover what might arise when we stop trying so hard.

Please wear comfortable clothes.

About your facilitator


Tony Jackson, Managing Director, Gestalt Centre

B.Theol, BA.Psych, GradDip.Counselling, AdvDip.Gestalt Therapy, GradDip.Supervision, M.GANZ


Tony is a psychotherapist, facilitator and coach with over 20 years of experience. Tony works with people to support resilience and wellbeing and helps them develop a sense of vitality and choice in their lives. He provides supervision for psychotherapists which assists them to deepen their own personal and professional capacities. Tony also provides training for individuals and groups that focuses on building responsiveness to individual and group needs in emergent situations.

About the Gestalt Centre

The Gestalt Centre is the heart of Melbourne’s Gestalt community. We offer a four-year psychotherapy training program through Gestalt Therapy Australia, staying true to the experiential roots of Gestalt while embracing cutting-edge developments in contemporary Gestalt thinking and practice worldwide.

We also operate ConnectGround, a community-based counselling and psychotherapy clinic. ConnectGround serves as both a training facility for psychotherapists and a provider of low-cost individual and group therapy for clients. The clinic emphasises the therapeutic relationship between client and therapist as a key support for building awareness and adaptability. Psychotherapy interns and volunteers gain valuable hands-on experience, enhancing their skills and professionalism through client work.

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