Description
Death, Dying and the Wholeness of Living
A Workshop for Therapists & Mental Health Professionals
Our mortality and the reality of death are essential aspects of our humanness. Modern culture regularly marginalises death as a problem or enemy, to be avoided, denied or fought. This disallows the aliveness that may be possible through contact with the emergent wholeness of life, including our dying and inevitable death.
This workshop will offer participants an opportunity to move towards and closer to the topics of death, dying and existential anxiety, with a dialogical approach. A combination of experiential and relational processes, reflective practices and pieces of relevant theory will be included. Gestalt therapy methodologies will weave through the weekend both in theory and practice.
Who is this workshop for?
- Therapists/counsellors
- Supervisors
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- Health care professionals
- Teachers
- GTB students and graduates
- interested others
Participant Outcomes:
- Greater understanding and awareness (self and other) of the personal and cultural contexts for being and working with these issues
- Enhanced understanding and insight into how, and in what ways, these themes might arise or present in practice
- Expanded understanding and skill in applying gestalt practice methodology in these contexts
- Increased knowledge of resources and information in relation to death and dying which may support clients who are impacted
- Greater ability and capacity to allow, embrace, include and be present with, death, dying and existential anxiety, as they emerge in work with clients
Presenter
Tracy Santos
MGestTherapy, BSW, AMHSW, DipST, EMDRAA
Tracy is a gestalt psychotherapist, mental health social worker, group facilitator and educator who has been working as a clinician in private practice for 22 years. She has been on faculty at Gestalt Therapy Brisbane and lectured at Southern Cross University for many years. She has a strong interest and specialised training in the field of death and dying, grief and bereavement and has been closely affiliated with Amitayus Home Hospice Service in the Byron Shire since 2003. Tracy brings her lived and professional experience, and soul-directed dedication, to raise awareness, capacity, and skill, to work with and care for the living, dying and grieving.
