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The Gestalt Project

One of the VAGP’s central offerings is The Gestalt Project— a program of diverse seminars, ranging from the experiential, the ground-breaking and the transformative, and that also delve further into traditions while connecting them with new and evolving modalities. 


These seminars are designed to be inspiring, interactive, highly informative and affordable, and form a large part of VAGP’s main aim to connect, learn and reflect together.    

Professional development

Neurodivergence: How gestalt therapy is (and isn’t) an ideal therapy​

 Saturday 14 March, 2026, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Online event)


Explore how gestalt therapy can better support neurodivergent clients through awareness, acceptance, and harm-reducing practice.

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An experience of Mindful Somatic Ecotherapy
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 Thursday 2 April, 2026, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM 


An experiential introduction to Mindful Somatic Ecotherapy, inviting embodied awareness, nature connection, and creative reflection.

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Enlivened Embodied Experiential Practice (EEEP): Exploring the somatic underpinnings of reaching and grasping​

 Thursday 23 April, 2026, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM 


This is the second in a series of 3 workshops designed for therapists interested in emerging somatic experience as a resource for the therapeutic dyad.

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Enlivened Embodied Experiential Practice (EEEP): Embodied field study
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 Thursday 11 June, 2026, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM


This is the third in a series of 3 workshops designed for therapists interested in emerging somatic experience as a resource for the therapeutic dyad.

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Reimagining gestalt therapy in an age of AI chatbots​

 Monday 20 July, 2026, 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM


An experiential workshop exploring AI, human presence, and the future of psychotherapy beyond the promises of tech solutions.

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An essential guide to setting up private practice​

 Saturday 12 September, 2026, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM



Key issues that need to be considered when setting up a sustainable and vibrant psychotherapy practice.

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VAGP Conference 2025

Highlights from our “30” conference exploring the then, now and next of gestalt therapy in Australia.

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Become a gestalt therapist

Thinking about training as a gestalt therapist? Gestalt Therapy Australia offers a comprehensive program that blends experiential learning, clinical skills, and personal growth. Many VAGP members began their journey here.

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Past Gestalt Project seminars

  • Enlivened Embodied Experiential Practice (EEEP) (Anna Evans & Awombda Codd)
  • An essential guide to setting up private practice (Belinda Gibson)
  • To Lean, To Fall, To Fail: A gestalt experiment in surrender (Tony Jackson)
  • Who do we notice? Who do we forget? Exploring community in Gestalt practice (Umaa Thampu)
  • Depression as an invitation to wholeness (Rhys Price-Robertson)
  • The body of the client: insights for therapists (Anna Kostina)
  • The body of the therapist: a tool in therapy (Anna Kostina)
  • Embracing paradox in the age of the quick fix (Rhys Price-Robertson)
  • Enneagram basics: an introduction for gestalt therapists (Leanne O'Shea)
  • Group supervision (Belinda Gibson)
  • An evening with Perry Klepner from New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy (Perry Klepner)
  • Essentially erotic: therapy as vital engagement (Leanne O'Shea)
  • Working with ambivalence using chairwork and vector dialogues (Scott Kellogg)
  • Let the symptoms speak: working with chronic pain and illness in therapy (Gina Denholm)
  • Extending healing narratives through child-led imaginative play (Claire Niven)
  • Lived bodies as relational intertwining in a world of objective perspective (Michael Clemmens)
  • Clinical hospitality in a contemporary world (Claire Taubert)
  • Climate change in the consulting room (Steffi Bednarek)
  • Fields of power (Marie-Anne Chidiac)

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