22-28/6/2015- Training Course:!I trainer, I person! (Calarreona Youth Hostal (Aguilas) Spain, Spain)

The aim of this retreat could be summarize:

Tin general to give participants 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 to explore their inner emotional aspects related to their personality and explore with them to what extent are these an influence in their life as trainers.

B) To create a trustful and creative space for expression of fears, anger, sadness and/or unsatisfied needs as well as to give the chance to participants for integration, reconciliation and self awareness.

Contents we will cover are:
- Body, Movement and expression. (connection to body, creativity, expression, needs & self awareness)
- World of feelings and emotions (expression, responsability, self awareness)
- Mind and Ego mechanisms (projections, introjections, retroflections & deflections)
- Polarities (top dog VS under dog)
- Ego and different types of personality.

TARGET GROUP
We are targeting trainers, educators, facilitators or other people involved in the educational field (foral & non formal) and working with groups of people, young or adults, willing to learn more about themselves as professionals and persons.

METHODOLOGY
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.

This will be the transversal methodology for the retreat. Many of the contents will be covered through these two approaches.

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 behaviors 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 counseling 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 responsability 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.

RELAXATION AND FREE TIME IN CABO DE GATA
Every important meal needs an proper digestion in a proper space. Based on that premise we plan to make a break by the middle of this retreat, to visit one of the most beautiful natural parks in the south of Spain called Cabo de Gata in the province of Algeria and very near from our location. It is a magic place full of very special energy where participants can feel inspired and in contact with nature and with the beauty of elements, soil, water, air and sun.

You can see more here:
http://www.degata.com/eng/
http://www.cabogataspain.com

SEE THE FULL INFO & VIDEO OF THE RETREAT HERE: https://www.smore.com/cr4ra

This activity is organized by YOUTH MATTERS NOW NETWORK - www.youthmattersnow.org

Diego Marín
E-Mail: diegazorama@gmail.com
Phone: +34667721857

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