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What is it?
Watch below our video presentation of the retreat.
WHAT FOR?
The aim of this retreat is to provide participants with a space for personal and professional development in a natural, peaceful and safe environment using Gestalt therapy as the main approach.
Our specific objectives are:
A) To help participants discover and better understand the inner emotional aspects of their personality and explore with them to what extent these influence their life as trainers;
B) To create a trustful and creative space for the expression of a wide range of feelings such as fear, anger, sadness and/or unsatisfied needs as well as to give the chance to participants for integration, reconciliation and self awareness.
Contents we will tackle:
- Body, movement and expression (connection to body, creativity, expression, needs & self awareness);
- World of feelings and emotions (expression, responsibility, self awareness);
- Mind and neurotic mechanisms (projections, introjections, retroflections & deflections);
- Polarities (top dog vs. under dog);
- Ego and different types of personality.
- Emotional responses and reactions in certain situations
- Critical revision of our own training style from "a third person" perspective
FOR WHOM?
Target Group
We are targeting organizations and their staff with priority to trainers, educators/educationalists, facilitators or other people involved in the field of training & non formal education who work with groups of people (young or adults), willing to learn more about themselves as professionals and as individuals.
We are inviting EU countries and Associated Countries (Armenia, Belarus, Serbia, etc.)
Approaches
Gestalt Therapy & Gestalt Theatre
Gestalt therapy is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Frederick S. Perls and his wife Laura Perls in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Gestalt became part of the humanistic approach to psychotherapy, and was groundbreaking in shifting the focus from the analyst as observer to the inclusion of self by the therapist, expressed in a dialogic relationship between therapist and client.
Gestalt Therapy, in its purest application, addresses what is happening in the moment in relationship between the therapist and client. The Gestalt approach brings into the client’s awareness, in the present, the more obvious discrepancy between the individual’s presentation or responses and their current life situation.
Once we are fully present in the here and now, we are able to take responsibility for our responses and actions with more excitement, energy and courage to live life directly.
Gestalt Theatre: its methodology is the result of the synthesis between Theatre of the Experience and Gestalt therapy as a mean for self-discovery, personal growth and the person’s holistic development.
The value of this fusion is that, as well as all therapy is defined with a cure, art develops health. In particular Gestalt therapy and Theatre share the same precepts of the experience: working in the present, to be aware and take responsibility for your own experience so both are included and nourishing each other.
Much of the therapeutic value of theatre is that everyone is his/her own tool, his/her instrument and his/her interpreter. Fiction requires exploring safely entering situations that otherwise the person would avoid, to express feelings that were contained, release emotions that had been penalized and integrate different aspects of ourselves that we used to give less or no space.
Gestalt Artherapy
Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy that uses the creative process of making art to improve a person’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
The creative process involved in expressing one’s self artistically can help people to resolve issues as well as develop and manage their behaviours and feelings, reduce stress, and improve self-esteem and awareness.
You don’t need to be talented or an artist to receive the benefits and there are professionals that can work with you to dive into the underlying messages communicated through your art, which will aid in the healing process.
Art therapy can achieve different things for different people. It can be used for counselling by therapists, healing, treatment, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, and in the broad sense of the term, it can be used to massage one’s inner-self in a way that may provide the individual with a deeper understanding of him or herself.
Art therapy proposes an accompaniment to the person in personal development in a context of maximum care and empathic listening.
Art therapy restores communication with oneself and the environment. Through our creations we can re-experience conflicts in a safe environment and we can take the responsibility and overcome them.
Through art therapy we will use different visual arts techniques like drawing, painting, collage, puppets ...
We will experience the space and introduce participants to the presence of self-expression with the performance.
DeepDance
DEEPDANCE is a dynamic bodywork and free movement focused on dance, where music has a paramount importance. A tool for personal growth in which we seek the integration of the three centers: body, emotion and cognition.
The music invites us on an energetic and emotional journey; A journey through different sensations that serves exploration and expression of emotions, while we touch ourselves and others from a different place, leading to genuine personal expression.
With continued practice one can develop a therapeutic and self-help resources as well as to integrate forgotten and neglected parts of ourselves.
The work is influenced by different physical contributions as the five rhythms of Gabrielle Roth, authentic movement, body Gestalt, Gestalt Arterapia, dance trance ..
The structure of the sessions is:
-Starting: Small theoretical introduction to explain what is DEEP DANCE.
-Warm Up and bodywork focused on preparation for the dance.
-Dance and music session.
-Silence, meditation
-Debriefing of the experience in plenary
HOW?
During the retreat the following types activities are planned:
a) Morning and sunset meditation;
b) Theoretical introductions to the Gestalt approach applied in non formal learning contexts.
c) Practical activities (in groups and individually) based on Gestalt, Gestalt Theatre and Gestalt Artherapy;
d) Outdoor activities for personal development by the sea and mountain;
e) Music and breath work;
f) Individual and group activities to review critically our own performance as trainers from "a third person" perspective.
g) Leisure and free time activities and cultural visits to the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata
WITH WHOM?
Yosem Martínez
Yosem is a Gestalt Art therapist, trainer and specialist in performance and personal development through arts since 2002.
She has also worked in the field of personal development and training with international groups as well as national and local.
Yosem has developed her therapeutic activity in the penitentiary context as well as with young people and adults.Carol Villalón
Carol Villalón works as Gestalt art/therapist, DJ and sculptor.
She has being working in the field of personal growth since 2006 and is the founder of the method called “Deepdance” that she continuously develops in Barcelona since 2010.
She works as trainer for penitentiary staff in art therapy, as well as with individuals and groups in personal development in other contexts.
Always focused in body movement, dance and music, she believes that those disciplines can be a true path for personal healing. She is also experienced in bioenergetics and holotropic breath work.
Diego Marín
Interesting Links
Where?
The venue is the International Youth Hostel of Calarreona:
Accommodation will be organized in single and double rooms. There are 7 double rooms and 3 single rooms.
Link to its site: http://www.mundojoven.org/murcia/albergue_calarreona/#http://estaticojuventud.carm.es/wmj/home/GALLERY24552754747_61_cararreona14.jpg
WHEN?
Project will be submitted in October 2015
The retreat will be implemented in June 2016
Economic Conditions?
The project is fully covered by ERASMUS + Programme in terms of traveling, board and lodging according to the financial rules of the Programme, still, there will be a participation fee of 120 Euros.
Want to be our partners?
Please, send us your expression of interest as a partner organization to diegazorama@gmail.com BEFORE 18 January 2016.