Description
Working Experimentally In Therapy & Supervision
Professional Development Workshop for Therapists and Supervisors
Gestalt psychotherapy is known for its process oriented and experiential approach to therapy and supervision.
A capacity to realise the creative potential emerging from our work with individuals and groups is an important area of development for many therapists and supervisors.
This 2-day experiential workshop will reconnect therapists with gestalt therapy`s spirit of curiosity, edginess and play and reintroduce psychodrama as one of its important early influences. Participants will be invited into experimentation and explore creative ways of exploring human experience.
Participants will learn about different types of experimental techniques and how they may be used in the therapy and supervision space.
Who is this workshop for?
- Therapists/counsellors
- Supervisors
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- Youth workers
- Teachers
- GTB students and graduates
Participant outcomes
- A greater capacity to realise the creative potential in therapy and supervision practice (with individuals and groups)
- An introduction to creative techniques to enhance awareness and concretise experience
- A better understanding of how and when these techniques may be used
- Learn about the sequence of an experiment
- Demonstrations of experimentation may include psychodrama techniques e.g. enactments, monodramas and psychodramas, amplification, and empty cushion (chairwork), role-reversal, doubling, auxiliary.
- Opportunities to practice skills explored with other participants
- Opportunities to bring questions related to participants` own therapy or supervision work
- Discussion and questions
Presenter
Dr Ari Badaines
Dr. Ari Badaines is a Clinical Psychologist with over 50 years of experience in individual, couples, family, and group therapy. Since 1985, he has been a faculty member at various psychodrama and gestalt therapy institutes and conducts training workshops across the USA, UK, Europe, and Sydney.
He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in the U.S. and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health, becoming a certified psychodramatist and later achieving the highest level of certification as a Trainer-Practitioner-Educator in psychodrama and group work.
Dr. Badaines has supervised and consulted for organizations such as the Richmond Fellowship, Marriage Guidance, and the Benevolent Society. He has also presented workshops on sexual health and continues to run a private practice in Balmain, Sydney.
