Description
Working Experimentally with Groups and Individuals
Growing our Creative Capacity
Gestalt psychotherapy is known for its process oriented and experiential approach. A capacity to realise the creative potential emerging from our work with individuals and groups is an important area of development for many therapists.
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 space.
Who is this workshop for?
- Therapists/counsellors
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- Youth workers
- Teachers
- GTB students and graduates
- Anyone interested in ways to playfully engage in exploration of human experience
Participant outcomes
- A greater capacity to realise the creative potential in therapeutic encounters (in group and individual work)
- 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 client work
- Discussion and questions
Dr Ari Badaines
Dr Ari Badaines obtained his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the United States. In 1980 he was awarded a one-year post-doctoral fellowship with the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, DC where he completed his certification requirements to be a psychodramatist. In about 1984, Ari qualified as a Trainer-Practitioner-Educator by the American Board of Examiners, the highest level of certification in psychodrama and group work.
In the 1980’s Ari undertook training in gestalt therapy and from 1985 to the present he has been a member of the faculty of various psychodrama and gestalt therapy training institutes. He runs experiential and training groups in the USA, UK, Europe, and Sydney each year. Ari also studied group and family therapy in different institutes, including the Institute for Family Therapy in London. He presented workshops on the assessment and treatment of sexual problems in the UK and Australia. In addition to the training and experiential workshops that Ari runs, he also maintains a private practice in Balmain (Sydney).
