Key details
Dates | Monthly, starting March 23, 4:30-6:30pm
- Sunday 23rd March
- Sunday 11th May
- Sunday 1st June
- Sunday 20th July
- Sunday 31st August
- Sunday 14th September
Time | 4:30pm-6:30pm
Where | Dancehouse, 150 Princes St, North Carlton (https://www.dancehouse.com.au/contact/)
Cost | General admission: $104 per session, or $290.16 for a pack of 3 (7% discount - use code EEEP-3PACK)
VAGP members: $88.40 per session (15% discount - use code EEEP-VAGP), or $249.60 for a pack of 3 (20% discount - use code EEEP-VAGP-3PACK)
Advanced booking is required, as places are limited.
Facilitators | Awombda Codd and Anna Evans
About this series
These monthly practice sessions are designed to help therapists develop vitality and fluid responsiveness in their clinical practice.
Each session will build upon the previous ones, using experiential exercises, discussion, and reflection for participants to:
- Cultivate trust in their embodied presence as a guide for therapeutic interventions.
- Develop skills for meeting clients in an attuned and contactful way.
- Explore playful and authentic risk-taking through continuous micro-experiments.
- Enhance their ability to embrace uncertainty and respond fluidly to the unfolding therapeutic moment.
Each session will introduce a new embodied practice focus, drawing on principles from Gestalt therapy, Psychodrama, Open Floor, and Social Presencing Theatre.
Who is it for?
These sessions are ideal for emerging and practising therapists interested in exploring the somatic dimensions of therapy. Come and stretch your growing edges, supported by group process. Be prepared to move and be moved!
What you need to know
Our commitment is to provide a space that generates creative energy and focused learning. Given this, we rely on baseline numbers, so if you need to cancel your attendance, please notify us by 12pm the Friday prior to the workshop. The whole is more than the sum of its parts, so ongoing attendance will have a greater impact on your practice. This is why we have offered a 3-session package.
About your facilitators
Awombda Codd
Awombda is a gestalt psychotherapist and creative arts therapist working in private practice and community health, as well as on teaching faculty at GTA. She supports creative exploration and experiential body work in her clinical practice. Awombda has a background in theatre, film, performance art and performed with an improvisation collective for many years. Awombda was a sessional teacher at MIECAT (Melbourne Institute of Experiential Creative Arts Therapy) and values creating spaces in which curiosity can be manifested and explored.
Anna Evans
Anna is a psychologist and psychotherapist working in private practice and on the teaching faculty at GTA. Anna has a keen interest in embodiment and taught yoga for ten years. Her other practices include creative dance, Alexander technique and contact improvisation. Anna now follows an approach to yoga developed by Vanda Scaravelli and is fascinated by the idea that relationality can be explored through every joint in the body.
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.
