Phoenix Institute's Professional Development Program 2012
Phoenix offers a range of
workshops and professional development
activities that are designed to enrich
and explore themes of personal and spiritual
development as well as providing professional
development for practitioners. We believe it is important to offer a range of diverse and creative activities in order to explore and amplify our desire for meaning, community building and vision. The benefit of these programs is working together with people who share a common belief in greater communication, sharing and being challenged by new ideas and practices.
We invite you to become involved in our programs and be part of a wider community and network of individuals exploring personal development and spirituality in a safe, fun and creative way with our experienced facilitators. Participants receive a
Certificate of Completion at the end of the
activity. In some cases, workshop and lecture hours
can be used as the professional practice
requirement for your professional association.
Venue
All workshops and lectures are held at the Phoenix Institute, 314 Queen St Melbourne 3000 (corner of La Trobe and Queen St), unless otherwise stated.
Parking
All day parking is available at City Parking sites: cost all day $12.50 per day.
Enrolment Form
All payments need to be accompanied by a Form here or at the bottom of this page.
Workshops
Our workshops are often full - if you have not booked by making full payment, please do not turn up on the day as workshops have a limited number of participants to ensure the quality of the workshop.
Lectures: Payment must be made in full 3 days
prior to each lecture.
WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO DANCE-MOVEMENT THERAPY
“Dance-movement therapy draws upon the unique power of movement and dance to promote awareness, growth and well being” (Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australia).
This experiential workshop will introduce participants to dance movement therapy, a growing field of work based on the healing power of movement and the essential interrelationship of ‘body’ and ‘psyche’:
“Mind and body are in constant reciprocal interaction so that whatever the inner self experiences comes to full realization in the body, and whatever the body experiences influences the inner self” (Schoop, 1979).
Dance-movement therapy (DMT) emerged as a profession in the 1960s, alongside related developments in humanistic psychology and modern dance, with the establishment of the American Dance Therapy Association. Today there are professional associations around the world, including Australia. Dance movement therapists work in a wide variety of clinical educational and community contexts, with diverse client groups including mothers and babies, children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. Clients present with a wide range of concerns including difficulties with attachment, mental health, anxiety, depression, physical and intellectual disability, learning difficulties, social isolation, cultural dislocation, trauma, rehabilitation, and relationship issues. DMT facilitates self-expression, spontaneity, creativity, and interaction that promote a deepening sense of connection with self and other.
This, in turn, leads to enhanced awareness and an embodied sense of self that can increase confidence, improve communication, and nurture relationships. For some, DMT enables profound experiences of growth, healing,
and transformation. This workshop is suitable for counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, healthcare professionals, educators, arts therapists, dancers and others interested in DMT. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing as the workshop is experiential.
Facilitators:
 Heather Hill, Prof. Member DTAA, PhD, M.Ed, B.A. Grad. Dip. Movement and Dance, Grad. Cert. Dance Therapy. Heather has worked as a dance movement therapist since 1985, working with many different populations but in particular people with dementia. Her book ,Invitation to the dance: Dance for people with dementia and their carers, has just been published in second edition by the University of Stirling. She was involved in developing and teaching the dance therapy program at RMIT, and taught for three years at Miecat. She is now using her dance therapy skills in non-verbal communication and the relational realm to train care staff in person-centred approaches to dementia care.
 Jane Guthrie Prof. Member DTAA, M.Ed., MCSP; B.App.Sc (Phty); Grad. Dips. Movement and Dance and Rehabilitation Studies, Dance Therapy Cert. (Madden Grove Foundation). Jane is the President of the Dance-Movement Therapy Association of Australia (DTAA). She lectured in the dance movement therapy course at RMIT University and runs a private practice as a dance movement therapist. Jane is also a physiotherapist who has used dance movement therapy in physical rehabilitation throughout her career.
 Kim Dunphy B.A., Grad Dip Movt Dance, M. Ed.
Kim’s interest in the contribution of dance to community life has played out in diverse roles including those of community artist, therapist and educator. She is co-author of the book Freedom to move: Movement and dance for people with intellectual disabilities (Elsevier, 2003). Kim is Vice-President of the DTAA and has lectured at RMIT, Deakin and Melbourne Universities in dance therapy and dance education. Kim is currently undertaking PhD research examining the role of arts in social change in East Timor.
 Linda Murrow BA Anthropology, MA Counselling Psychology/Expressive Arts Therapy, Cert. Family Therapy, Specialist Training Couple Therapy, Cert lV Assessment and Workplace Training. Member: DTAA, VAFT, AARC, PACFA Reg. 20758 Linda completed her Masters in Expressive Arts Therapy in Boston and became a registered dance/movement therapist. She has taught Dance Therapy at Melbourne University and helped to develop the Master of Creative Arts Therapy and Graduate Diploma of Dance Therapy at RMIT, where she worked as a lecturer and supervisor for 12 years. Having further specialised in relationship counselling, she works for Relationships Australia and is part of their training faculty. She has a longstanding interest in depth-psychology, and has a private practice providing individual and couple psychotherapy, group work, and supervision. For many years she has been practicing and facilitating 'authentic movement', a Jungian-oriented approach to dance/movement therapy.
Course Code: W12 IDMT1
Date: 17 March 2012
Time: 9.30 am - 4.30pm
Cost: $150
Venue: Rosina Auditorium Abbotsford Convent
Limited to 24 Participants
Course Code: W12 IDMT2
Date: 20 October 2012
Time: 9.30 am - 4.30pm
Cost: $150
Venue: Rosina Auditorium Abbotsford Convent
Limited to 24 Participants
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WORKSHOP: HOW TO BEGIN RUNNING ART THERAPY GROUPS
This workshop is for those wanting to begin facilitating Art Therapy groups for children or adults, in private practice and/or for organisations. This workshop will cover all aspects of running Art Therapy groups. The workshop covers the following:
what to consider when starting a therapeutic group; dealing with different client groups; setting up, maintaining and holding a group in a safe and respectful way; coping with challenging client behaviours and the types of situations you may find yourself in; how to negotiate in a professional way with organisations about what you need to run a successful and satisfying group; working with children and much more. There will be time for group discussion and some practical Art Therapy exercises around this topic.
 Facilitator: Carla Van Laar is a committed advocate of the arts as healing, empowering and delighting for the body, mind and spirit. After studying fine arts (painting) as a young woman, Carla became interested in Community Arts and completed a number of public artworks and artist in residencies with local councils and schools. Carla's interest in the Arts in therapy was sparked by exposure to art therapy at the Royal Children's Hospital when visiting with her son. Carla completed her Master of Creative Arts Therapy in 2001 and since then has worked in full time positions in community, education, health and justice institutions as
a Project Co-ordinator, Clinician and Manager. Carla has co-authored chapters in "Healing the Inner City Child" (Jessica Kingsley Publishers) and "Knowing Differently - Arts based and collaborative research" (Nova Publishers) and is the author and illustrator of "Bereaved Mother's Heart", an arts therapy resource for working with loss and grief. Currently completing a Professional Doctorate at MIECAT and working in private practice based at her Brunswick Arts Therapy Studio 'aHa', Carla remains committed to the promotion of well-being and happiness through relationships and the arts.
Course Code: W12 ATG1
Date: 14-15 April 2012
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: $300*
Note *10% discount for Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders Limited to 18 Participants
Course Code: W12 ATG2
Date: 4-5 August 2012
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: $300*
Note *10% discount for Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders Limited to 18 Participants
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WORKSHOP: DREAMS, IMAGINATION & SOUND: WHEN SOUND TRANSFORMS IMAGES
The two-day workshop will involve participants in the intimate, dynamic and transformative relationship between sound and image. Participants will be guided on a journey into vocal sound awareness and personal transformation. Emitting sounds is an imaginative act, involving us in the dynamics of image creation. Actually emitting the sound, for example, that comes with our dreams implies nurturing a palpable relationship with the invisible. Meeting unknown aspects of oneself in one’s own sounds affects the images themselves and our relationship to them. Authentic sound is the most direct, immediate, efficient and effective way to perceive that which vibrates within us. While we generally understand visual images as primary, sound is there from the beginning, coming with each and every encounter – offering possibilities for awareness and transformation. Emitting and listening to our sounds affects us in two fundamentally deep and parallel ways: it dissolves that which is stuck: liberating, breaking, cleansing, opening... and gives form to that which is as yet diffuse and unrealized: defining, organizing, delimiting, shaping, creating. Dreams will be our materia prima, as they often challenge our neutrality by confronting us with the unexpected. Instead of using what we already know as a frame of reference in approaching our dreams, my work involves responding to the images in them –and in our lives– with active imagination. An essential first step is to develop a sound sensitivity, by hearing and listening to the sound of our images as much as to what they awaken in us and to the sounds we emit while relating to them. While working with dream images over the last 25 years, I have discovered four different vocal sound possibilities: (1) refining deep listening skills, (2) emitting the sounds that literally appear in a dream, (3) exploring the tones, accents, attitudes and rhythms that accompany the telling of a dream, (4) giving voice to certain emotionally charged moments in a dream by emitting –and thereby discovering– their sound. By allowing vibrations within us to take external form through sound, we stimulate the imagination, incite vivid experiences and discover new ways of knowing. The most challenging, fun and creative aspect of this work involves emitting sounds, inviting us to risk going beyond the familiar to discover the sounds that come with our images and when our images are transformed, so are we. The Friday evening presentation will include a brief introduction to dreams and the relevance of dreams to my work with images and sounds. I will then introduce ways of working with images from dreams, and from our daily lives, that show some of the benefits that come with developing a sensitivity to vocal, sound awareness.
 Facilitator: SVEN DOEHNER, PhD., MFA., was born and lives in Mexico City. He is a depth psychotherapist trained in Archetypal Psychology with James Hillman. In addition to his private practice, he is a teacher and workshop facilitator and is currently writing about his work with sound and images. He founded the Instituto de Psicología Profunda en México in 1991, in order to introduce Junguian-Archetypal Psychology to México. He has guided workshops and training programs since 1981, in Mexico, Europe and North as well as South America, blending Junguian-Archeypal Psychology with ancestral native healing and spiritual practices. He innovates experiences that give unexpected form and transformation to images from dreams and life through vocal sound-work - generating ongoing somatic, emotional, mental and spiritual movements in the lives of those who work with him. In addition to an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Newport University, he participated in the training program of the C.G. Jung Institute – Boston, worked in Psychiatric Emergencies at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, trained in Alexander Lowen’s Bio-energetics, and as a Somatic Movement Educator in the School of Body Mind Movement. A founding member of the Consejo Interamericano de Espiritualidad Indígena, he has worked with native mayan, zapotec and miztec healers in southern Mexico since 1986.
Course Code: W12 DIS
Date: 28-29 April 2012
Time: 9:30am-4:30pm
Cost: $180
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WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO SANDPLAY
A two-day experiential workshop assisting therapists in exploring approaches and applications in the use of sandplay with varied therapeutic contexts and client groups.
Sandplay is a therapeutic method that helps to resolve life issues and restore balance to the psyche. It is a profound and deeply transformative process of soul work. Sand is moulded to form a landscape in a sandbox, into which miniatures representing symbols of inner experience are placed to become the landscape of the whole of our being.
Current developments in sandplay therapy are being successfully used with traumatised groups such as refugees, children in the aftermath of natural disasters and socially disadvantaged groups. Sandplay has its origins in depth psychology and the work of C.G. Jung and Dora Kalff, with its home in Zurich, Switzerland. The practice has now expanded to include ideas from Gestalt therapy, psychodrama, experiential and arts-based approaches as well as family therapies. Topics will include assessing suitability and contraindications; introducing the process to children, adolescents and adults; phenomenological approaches to symbols and healing; and mapping the cycle of the sandplay process. Participants are expected to work with the sand tray in pairs as well as in experiential group activities.
Facilitators:
 Judith Ayre is a transpersonal and depth psychotherapist working with sandplay since 1997 and has been working with traumatized adults and children for the last twenty years. She has been teaching sandplay as well as counseling, psychotherapy and art therapy for the last ten years. She is on the register of PACFA and the Society of Counseling and Psychotherapy Educators (SCAPE) She is also a candidate for the International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST).
 Roman Ilgauskas is a registered Guided Imagery and Music therapist and a professional transpersonal counsellor and art therapist in private practice since 2000. In 2002 he co-authored a self-help booklet Men and separation: Choices in tough times, at Relationships Australia to help guide men through constructive choices when experiencing separation and divorce. Roman has taught transpersonal art therapy and counselling to students since 2004. In his private practice he works with guided imagery and music, ritual and dreams using sand play and other expressive art based processes to assist clients with exploring and discovering the many varied levels of human experience. He continues his Jungian studies in sandplay therapy for adults with the International Institute for Sandplay Therapy. He is a clinical member of the Australian Counseling Association.
Course Code: W12 ISP2
Dates: 24-25 November 2012
Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm
Cost: $315*
Note *10% discount for Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders Limited to 26 participants
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WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO SHAMANIC HEALING
This workshop is designed for people who have an interest in shamanic practices which address the complex arena of soul loss, retrieval of soul and ritual processes which enhance personal well-being. Shamanism is a very ancient form of traditional healing that focuses on developing a direct relationship with many possible sources of healing, guidance, and grounded wisdom. It is based on a deep relationship with nature, transcending illness and inducing specific altered states of consciousness. This one-day workshop will explore shamanic notions of soul loss and soul retrieval, ritual processes, cosmology, drum journey and symbolic representation through art. The day will be both experiential and informative. The workshop also examines concept of personal power, totems, and shamanism as a contemporary healing modality.
 Facilitator: Terry Larson BA (Anthropology), BSW (hons). Advance Dip Shamanic Practice, Dip Transpersonal Art Therapy. Dip Transpersonal Counselling. Certificate IV TAA. Memberships. AASW.SPAA.IICT.
Terry initially trained in Anthropology and comparative religion with a specific focus on healing body, land and spirit. He has undertaken extensive training in Shamanism, Visionary Practice and Transpersonal Psychotherapy. He is a contemporary Shamanic Practitioner with a deep passion for the Traditional Medicine Ways. He is inspired by the Australian Dreaming Project, contemporary Anthropology, ritual and the awakening of personal mythology and transcendence. He is a Registered Psychological Counsellor and has been in private practice as a Transpersonal Psychotherapist over ten years.
Course Code: W12 SHA
Dates: 19th May 2012
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: $150
Limited to 26 participants
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WORKSHOP: MUSIC, IMAGERY & THE HERO/OINE'S JOURNEY
This program offers an opportunity for therapists to battle their own personal limitations. The hero/oine’s
journey is a psychological one; symbolic of that divine creative and redemptive image which is hidden within us all, only waiting to be known and rendered into life. As therapists, we need an experience of the journey so that we not only understand the meaning of its images for contemporary life, but also the singleness of the human spirit in its aspiration, powers, vicissitudes and wisdom. This cannot be found in theoretical or descriptive writing; but in our own experience of the inner life and through the archetypal images often found in our client’s, and our own, art therapy and expressive creativity.
By having ourself experience its challenges, we can then hold on to the hope needed by our clients, as they navigate the soul’s difficult and dangerous task of self-discovery and self-development in order to cross to the furthest shore, and to be transfigured and reborn anew.
Using the focus of the stages of the Hero/oine’s Journey, participants can expand their own awareness and understanding of this spiritual journey, and access deeper unconscious resources that support their own healing and psychological development. Each of the five weeks will have as a focus one or more of the stages identified by Joseph Campbell (Campbell 1968):
Week 1: Hearing the call;
Week 2: Setting out;
Week 3: Obstacles and helpers;
Week 4: Reaching the goal;
Week 5: Bringing back the gifts.
What is the process being used?
The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music
Developed by Helen Bonny in the seventies, the method is a music-centred, transformational therapy, which uses specifically programmed classical music to stimulate and support a dynamic unfolding of inner experiences
in service of physical, psychological and spiritual wholeness.
Participants in a relaxed state, listen to music, carefully chosen by the facilitator, which evokes and supports the emerging flow of images experienced by individual group members. This experience offers the individual participants the potential for creative problem solving, self-discovery, and personal growth. It is also encouraged that participants may wish to take their experience further through journaling, further art work or include it in their current therapy sessions.
Facilitator: Roman Ilgauskas is a psychotherapist in private practice registered as a Guided Imagery and Music Therapist, with a Graduate Diploma in Guided Imagery and Music from Melbourne University and diplomas in art therapy, transpersonal counselling and shamanic studies.
He is a clinical member of the Australian Counselling Association since 2006, a Fellow of the Music and Imagery Associations in the U.S. and Australia, a Professional Member of the Australian Association of Holistic and Transpersonal Counsellors and is currently a candidate for membership of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST) Zurich. ISST is affiliated with the C.G. Jung Institute where Roman attends intensive training in Jungian analytic psychology.
Since 2005 Roman continues working at the Phoenix Institute as a lecturer. He teaches expressive therapy using music, imagery, art, dreamwork, sandplay, and movement. He has facilitated dream groups at Phoenix for the last three years, and continues offering workshops in personal growth and development. Prior to teaching, his background included wilderness therapy, community development and peer support, and varied areas of Human Resources particularly management training and development.
Course Code: W12 MIHJ1
Dates: 23, 30 May & 6, 13, 20 June 2012
Time: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Venue: Phoenix Institute
of Australia
Cost: $315*
Note *10% discount for Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders
Limited to 20 participants
Course Code: W12 MIHJ2
Dates: 1,8,15,22 & 29 November 2012
Time: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Venue: Phoenix Institute
of Australia
Cost: $315*
Note *10% discount for Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders
Limited to 20 participants
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WORKSHOP: USING ART THERAPY WITH TRAUMA, PTSD & CHILD ABUSE – Understanding the Biological Nature of Trauma and Why the Body-Centered and Creative Therapies are so Important in Healing and Recovery from Trauma.
This two-day workshop will introduce participants to the growing and important field of trauma treatment and recovery, and the crucial role that art therapy should be playing in this field. The traumatic consequences of devastating experience are being increasingly recognised within the mental health field, but there is limited understanding of the mechanisms within the brain that make an experience ‘traumatic’ and why some go on to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This workshop will provide answers to those questions from the latest research in neuropsychology, and will demonstrate how and why the creative arts can assist in the healing process, especially when presented in a therapeutic context. Participants will learn some basic neurobiology and neuropsychology, to provide a foundation for understanding what survivors of trauma really need for recovery, after which practical exercises in art therapy will be demonstrated and practiced in a small group setting.
The workshop aims to provide:
• A basic understanding of brain anatomy
• A basic understanding of the neuroscience behind psychological trauma, including the brain’s memory system, central nervous system and information processing system
• Knowledge of the cause and symptoms of PTSD and Complex PTSD (childhood trauma and/or abuse)
• An understanding of the brain processes that are affected by performing creative activities and why this leads to healing
• Hands-on practice using art therapy techniques
This workshop is suitable for any student or therapist who is interested in learning about, and practicing, body-centered and sensory therapies, such as art therapy, creative arts therapies (movement, dance, drama, sandplay, music, art and narrative), emotional-release therapy, gestalt, expressive, or transpersonal therapies. Any therapist working in mental health will encounter the effects of trauma and/or abuse at some time.
 Lecturer: Dr Hassanah Briedis (PhD, MCAT) is a clinical psychotherapist and Master of Creative Arts Therapy, working in private practice. She was a clinician at The Victoria Clinic psychiatric hospital, running the art therapy department and offering unique PTSD programs for survivors of adult trauma, and was the Project Officer managing the Childhood Abuse Collection at the Cunningham Dax Collection in Parkville. Hassanah has been working and researching in the field of trauma and abuse since the early 1990s, when researchers such as Bessel van der Kolk and colleagues first began to demonstrate the biological underpinnings of the human response to traumatic phenomena. Through public talks, videos, lectures and workshops, Hassanah works to educate the public about trauma and abuse, hoping to create a bridge between the medical/ psychiatric world and the more numinous spiritual areas of experience, through the medium of creativity.
Course Code: W12 UAT
Date: 2-3 June 2012
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: $315*
Note *10% discount for Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders
Limited to 15 participants
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WORKSHOP: MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
Mindfulness: science, practice and philosophy
These workshops over two sessions will cover a range of topics including:
1. An introductory presentation and discussion about the evidence and applications of mindfulness-based interventions
2. Practical experience of mindfulness meditation and tips on how to introduce it to clients
3. Exploration of a range of mindfulness-based cognitive strategies and how to apply them
4. Role plays and discussion on a consulting style, which is best suited to mindfulness-based interventions
Participants will be invited to personally apply a range of mindfulness-based practices between the workshops and experiences and insights will be used in the second workshop to help deepen the understanding of how to apply mindfulness personally and professionally.
 Facilitator: Dr Craig Hassed is a General Practitioner and Senior Lecturer at the Monash University Department of General Practice. His teaching, research and clinical interests include mindfulness-based stress management, mind-body medicine, meditation, holistic healthcare, health promotion, complementary therapies, and medical ethics. Craig is regularly invited to speak and run courses in Australia and overseas and is a regular media commentator on these issues. He also writes regularly for medical journals and has published four books; New frontiers in medicine (Volumes 1 and 2), a third book on mindfulness-based stress management entitled Know thyself, and a fourth on an holistic lifestyle approach to healthcare, The essence of health, and most recently a textbook co-authored with Kerryn Phelps, General practice: The integrative approach.
Course Code: W12 MM
Dates: 2 part workshop 30 June & 28 July 2012
Time: 9.30am - 4.00pm
Cost: $315 General Public, $270 Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders
Limited to 24 participants
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WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO GROUP THEORY AND PRACTICE
This 8 week workshop is a novice level introduction to the area of group work and is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of group practice. The program will cover the structural concerns such as how to set up a group and establish a clear working goal for group process. Students will receive real feed back regarding facilitation and process. This workshop will in no way give you a qualification pertaining to group therapy, but it will constitute a excellent introduction for those interested in the field. At the completion of this workshop students will have gained a basic understanding of group process, key stages and sign posts in group development, intake and population selections in group process and will gain a basic overview of various methods of group work and conceptualisation
 Facilitator: Tra-ill Dowie B.A (history ideas/ Socio), B.A (Philosophy), Dip Transpersonal Counselling, Dip Transpersonal Art Therapy, Grad Dip Psychology, Grad Dip Jungian Studies, Masters of Counselling, Master of Mind and Society. Currently Preparing Ph.D in Psychological Medicine. Cert IV Assessment and workplace Training. Tra-ill has worked of a number of years in various settings as a psychotherapist. Tra-ill’s Major practical interests have centered around and group psychotherapy and Existential approaches to therapy. Intellectually Tra-ill interests are broad covering topics such as the politics of therapy, the body in therapy, existential philosophy and phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Consciousness and applied Anthropology. Tra-ill’s Masters thesis was conducted on Nietzsche and Therapy and his Ph.D is exploring Merleau- Ponty’s phenomenology and its relationship to Immanence and psychotherapy.
Course Code: W12 GTP
Dates: Wednesdays 25th July - 12th September 2012 (weekly for 8 sessions) Time: 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Cost: $380 Limited to 12 participants
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WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO ART THERAPY
An experiential taster day of Phoenix Transpersonal Art Therapy practices; the where, how and use of Art Therapy.
An opportunity to experience:
• Art therapy processes by engaging with emerging imagery and symbols
• Use of ritual
• Reflection and integration of practices
• Time for your questions to be addressed
“Since ancient times, art has served as a means to repair and renew the self, and the world’s traditions have affirmed imagery as a remedy for what ails body and mind. In essence, imagination is both medicine for the
soul and a wellness practice that helps us create new ways of seeing and being in the world.”
Cathy Malchiodi
 Facilitator: Carla Temple Dip Trans Art Therapy, NLP, Dip Prim Teaching, Grad Dip Spec Ed, Cert IV Workplace Training
Carla has been in education for 25 years. In conjunction with her business partner she has run an educational consultancy practice for the last 10 years, designing and presenting workshops for students, parents and educators nationally and internationally. She is co-author of two books on education, and is a lecturer on Transpersonal Art Therapy at Phoenix Institute.
Course Code: W12 IAT
Date: 8 September 2012
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: $150
Limited to 20 Participants
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WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPERSONAL COUNSELLING
An experiential taster day of Phoenix Transpersonal Counselling practices. This workshop will explore:
• What is a transpersonal approach to therapy and how is it different from other therapeutic modalities
• Understanding the importance of symbols, myths, and metaphors in transpersonal work
• Transforming verses transcending. Looking into vision and meaning making that is grounded in a holistic approach
• The importance of psychotherapeutic exploration and its gift to all spiritual work
• Exploring why using experiential processes is both therapeutic and transpersonal
Participant will be required to bring with them to the workshop a symbol, object, picture, or ornament that inspires them and reflects qualities they value.
 Facilitator: Martin Peake BA, Dip Education, M.Ed, Dip Transpersonal Counselling, Dip Shamanic Studies, Dip Transpersonal Art Therapy, Cert lV Assessment and Workplace Training, ACA, AAHTC
Prior to this, Martin lectured and worked as a Senior Consultant at RMIT University and was a researcher for the Australian Drug Foundation. He has an interest in adolescent rites of passage, ethics, shamanism, cross-cultural work and psycho-spiritual approaches to mental health. He was co-founder of the Australian Centre for Archetypal Studies at La Trobe University where he is currently completing his Ph.D. in Transpersonal Counselling Theory and Practice.
Course Code: W12 ITPC
Date: 15 September 2012
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: $150
Limited to 26 Participants
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WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPY
This workshop is an introduction to hypnosis as applied in the therapeutic encounter. It is based on the proposition that we have two sides to our awareness, which can be metaphorically called the “right side” and the “left side”. We may refer to wakefulness, logic, rationality, thinking, intellectual understanding, and cognitive process as the right side. The left side refers to states of sleep and dreams; sensations of sensing, feeling, reflection, absorption and intuition; silent knowing and secondary process. Hypnosis (from hypnos = sleep) essentially utilises the field of left side awareness.
Our workshop will be conducted in two phases: 1) teachings for the right side and 2) teachings for the left side.
The first phase of the workshop will deal with a theoretical understanding of hypnosis, hypnoanalysis and hypnotherapy as it may be applied in therapy. What is hypnosis? When can it be used? What may I experience in hypnosis? Can anyone be hypnotised? Is it dangerous? What is its value in therapy? What is clinical hypnosis? Are there transpersonal applications in hypnotherapy? These and other questions will be explored in the right side.
The second phase of the workshop will be focussed on the left side. It deals with hypnotic process, direct suggestion and self-hypnosis. Learn how to hypnotise yourself successfully and safety. Apply specific suggestions for your growth and healing. This phase will mainly be conducted in left side awareness.
This workshop will be of great interest and value to people who may be considering enrolling for a Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy, or to counsellors and therapists who wish to learn about and experience hypnotherapeutic process.
 Facilitator: Lloyd Volkwyn B Comm, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Dip Hyp CMAHA Transpersonal Counsellor, Dip TPC SNTR
For the past twelve years Lloyd has consulted to the Phoenix Institute on financial and organisational matters, and now joins the staff as Strategic Operations and Chief Financial Manager. Lloyd has worked in the field of accounting and business management for the past thirty years in Australia and overseas (USA and Canada), as financial controller, company secretary, general manager, and in systems and organisational development. He has a diverse range of accounting, business, interpersonal and management skills, which informs his business management and organisational excellence. Lloyd holds a Bachelor of Commerce with majors in accounting and business economics, and trained in best practice and total quality management.
Lloyd's interests include the field of human potential, motivation, behaviour and coaching, which provide a unique perspective to integrating the complexities of diverse growth needs with strategic business leadership to achieve desired outcomes. Lloyd also developed Ripple Networks as a business planning, management, and financial reporting system
Course Code: W12 IHY
Dates: 6 October 2012
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: $150
Limited to 20 participants
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WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO HOLISTIC COUNSELLING
This workshop introduces students to holistic counselling, particularly the theory and practice of working with clients from a holistic perspective. The workshop will be of great value to any person considering this type of counselling as a vocation or current professionals who may want to add to their existing practice. Participants will also be introduced to the Holistic Degree and the range of areas and subjects that will be covered over the three years.
This will be a very exciting and fulfilling workshop that will be both practical and conceptual. It will also challenge conventional healing modalities. Holistic and transpersonal work will become the counselling of the future.
Facilitator: Carla Van Laar is a committed advocate of the arts as healing, empowering and delighting for the body, mind and spirit. After studying fine arts (painting) as a young woman, Carla became interested in Community Arts and completed a number of public artworks and artist in residencies with local councils and schools. Carla's interest in the Arts in therapy was sparked by exposure to art therapy at the Royal Children's Hospital when visiting with her son. Carla completed her Master of Creative Arts Therapy in 2001 and since then has worked in full time positions in community, education, health and justice institutions as
a Project Co-ordinator, Clinician and Manager. Carla has co-authored chapters in "Healing the Inner City Child" (Jessica Kingsley Publishers) and "Knowing Differently - Arts based and collaborative research" (Nova Publishers) and is the author and illustrator of "Bereaved Mother's Heart", an arts therapy resource for working with loss and grief. Currently completing a Professional Doctorate at MIECAT and working in private practice based at her Brunswick Arts Therapy Studio 'aHa', Carla remains committed to the promotion of well-being and happiness through relationships and the arts.
Course Code: W12 IHC
Date: 22 September 2012
Time: 9:30-4:30pm
Cost: $150
Limited to 30 participants
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WORKSHOP: NATIVE DRUM MAKING WORKSHOP
Build your own 15" Native American Hand held drum. This one day workshop includes all materials and hands on instructions. The frames are hand crafted from NW American Cedar and the drum heads are made from deer hide. The workshop will be conducted in ceremony.
"March to the beat of your own drum"
 Facilitator: Sharon Byerly is of Alaskan Aleut descent. She is a seasoned traditional Native American Drum maker, drummer, singer, dancer and storey teller. Sharon has performed in these meduims nationally and internationally, sharing Native American cultural and spiritual traditions with millions of people throughout America, Australia and the Far East. The magic of Sharon's drum have led her around the world.
Course Code: W12 NDM
Date: 10 November 2012
Time: 9:30-4:30pm
Cost: $340
10% discount to students, grads & concessions
Limited to 15 participants
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WORKSHOPS: DREAM GROUPS
Phoenix Institute facilitates regular Dream Groups that explore in depth dream material using insightful and creative methods. The Dream Group is an experience in which all can participate and share their dreams in a safe, supportive and friendly environment.
"A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence;
understood it becomes a living experience". C.G. Jung
Dreams are a way of listening to the language of the soul. In working with our dreams, we begin an important inner journey into a new and different way of knowing. We are able to better integrate the psyche's message into our conscious life.
The Montague Ullman technique combines spiritual and psychological approaches. It does not intend to provide a substitute for in-depth analytical work, but allows the dreamer and the group to realise the full implications of the dream for themselves.
Facilitators: Roman Ilgauskas and Helen Plesar
Dream group operates in a 10 week cycle for 2 hours weekly.
Dream Group 3 (W12 DG3) Roman Ilgauskas: Fridays, 28th September - 30th November, 6-8pm
Dream Group 4 (W12 DG4) Helen Plesar Wednesdays, 10th October - 12th December, 6-8pm
Course Codes: W12 DG3, W12 DG4
Cost: $350* for 10 sessions (to be paid in advance)
Note *10% discount for Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders Each Group is limited to 10 participants
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SUPERVISION
Phoenix offers supervision to current students and graduates in order to assist them with their client work and case study work. Supervision is conducted in groups of between 8-10 students for 2 hours per session. During this time, students and graduates share issues, problems, case study management and difficulties that may arise as students gain confidence working in a therapeutic setting. It is extremely rewarding and powerful work and it brings together the various techniques leant in the course.
During a Phoenix supervision session you can discuss recent sessions and have the opportunity to share information and utilise the group as a sounding board for ideas on how to work with clients.
The Phoenix Supervision Program is open to Phoenix Graduates as well as Students who have completed the first 9 modules of their course and wish to start supervision as part of the 1:1 placement category.
Please note each group requires a minimum of 8 people to run.
Fortnightly Supervision
Group 2 Dates: Tuesdays- 14th August, 28th August, 11th September, 25th September, 9th October
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Supervisor: Roman Ilgauskas
Venue: Phoenix Institute 314 Queen Street, Melbourne, 3000
Course Code: S12 G2
Cost: $180
Each Group is limited to 10 participants
Group 3 Dates: Fridays-7th September, 21st September, 5th October, 19th October, 2nd November
Time: 6pm-8pm
Supervisor: Julie Lacy
Venue: Phoenix Institute 314 Queen Street, Melbourne, 3000
Course Code: S12 G3
Cost: $180
Each Group is limited to 10 participants
Group 4 Dates: Wednesdays-10/10, 24/10, 7/11, 21/11, 5/12
Time: 6pm-8pm
Supervisor: Terry Larson
Venue: Phoenix Institute 314 Queen Street, Melbourne, 3000
Course Code: S12 G4
Cost: $180
Each Group is limited to 10 participants
Weekly Supervision
Group 5 Dates: Mondays-1st October, 8th October, 15th October, 22nd October, 29th October
Time: 6pm-8pm
Supervisor: Carla Van Laar
Venue: Phoenix Institute 314 Queen Street, Melbourne, 3000
Course Code: S12 G5
Cost: $180
Each Group is limited to 10 participants
Group 6 Dates: Mondays-5th November, 12th November, 19th November, 25th November, 3rd December
Time: 6pm-8pm
Supervisor: Carla Van Laar
Venue: Phoenix Institute 314 Queen Street, Melbourne, 3000
Course Code: S12 G6
Cost: $180
Each Group is limited to 10 participants
Group 7 Dates: Wednesdays- 7/11, 14/11, 21/11, 28/11, 5/12
Time: 6pm-8pm
Supervisor: Simona Weinstein
Venue: Phoenix Institute 314 Queen Street, Melbourne, 3000
Course Code: S12 G7
Cost: $180
Each Group is limited to 10 participants
Group 8 Dates: Thursdays- 15/11, 22/11, 29/11, 6/12, 13/12
Time: 6pm-8pm
Supervisor: Terry Larson
Venue: Phoenix Institute 314 Queen Street, Melbourne, 3000
Course Code: S12 G8
Cost: $180
Each Group is limited to 10 participants
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LECTURE: DREAMS, IMAGINATION & SOUND: WHEN SOUND TRANSFORMS IMAGES presented by Dr Sven Doehner
While working with dream images over the last 25 years, I have discovered four different vocal sound possibilities: (1) refining deep listening skills, (2) emitting the sounds that literally appear in a dream, (3) exploring the tones, accents, attitudes and rhythms that accompany the telling of a dream, (4) giving voice to certain emotionally charged moments in a dream by emitting –and thereby discovering– their sound. By allowing vibrations within us to take external form through sound, we stimulate the imagination, incite vivid experiences and discover new ways of knowing. The most challenging, fun and creative aspect of this work involves emitting sounds, inviting us to risk going beyond the familiar to discover the sounds that come with our images and when our images are transformed, so are we. The Friday evening presentation will include a brief introduction to dreams and the relevance of dreams to my work with images and sounds. I will then introduce ways of working with images from dreams, and from our daily lives, that show some of the benefits that come with developing a sensitivity to vocal, sound awareness.
Lecturer: SVEN DOEHNER, PhD., MFA., was born and lives in Mexico City. He is a depth psychotherapist trained in Archetypal Psychology with James Hillman. In addition to his private practice, he is a teacher and workshop facilitator and is currently writing about his work with sound and images. He founded the Instituto de Psicología Profunda en México in 1991, in order to introduce Junguian-Archetypal Psychology to México. He has guided workshops and training programs since 1981, in Mexico, Europe and North as well as South America, blending Junguian-Archeypal Psychology with ancestral native healing and spiritual practices. He innovates experiences that give unexpected form and transformation to images from dreams and life through vocal sound-work - generating ongoing somatic, emotional, mental and spiritual movements in the lives of those who work with him. In addition to an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Newport University, he participated in the training program of the C.G. Jung Institute – Boston, worked in Psychiatric Emergencies at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, trained in Alexander Lowen’s Bio-energetics, and as a Somatic Movement Educator in the School of Body Mind Movement. A founding member of the Consejo Interamericano de Espiritualidad Indígena, he has worked with native mayan, zapotec and miztec healers in southern Mexico since 1986.
Course Code: L12 DIS
Dates: 27 April 2012
Time: 7.00pm - 8.30pm
Cost: $20
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LECTURE: ART THERAPY WITHIN THE MEDICAL MODEL - How to Communicate with Knowledge & Authority about the Practice of Creative Arts Therapies presented by Dr Hassanah Briedis
Art therapists need to be familiar with some medical-model language, but can discuss their craft on their own terms if they understand some of the neuroscience behind creative therapy. Brain science (neuroscience) is beginning to validate the work art therapists have been doing for decades but which has been devalued as non-medical and therefore unscientific!
Using trauma and its effects on the brain as an exemplar, the lecture will • demonstrate how and why art therapy can assist in dealing with severe stress and its aftermath
• provide you with language and terminologies that will be understood by the medical establishment
• inform you on the value of creative processes in mental health treatment
Effective communication between the various fields of allied health may improve the standing of therapists who practice with an arts/creativity orientation.
Lecturer: Dr Hassanah Briedis (PhD, MCAT) is a clinical psychotherapist and Master of Creative Arts Therapy, working in private practice. She was a clinician at The Victoria Clinic psychiatric hospital, running the art therapy department and offering unique PTSD programs for survivors of adult trauma. Currently she is the Project Officer managing the Childhood Abuse Collection at the Cunningham Dax Collection in Parkville. Hassanah has been working and researching in the field of trauma and abuse since the early 1990s, when researchers such as Bessel van der Kolk and colleagues first began to demonstrate the biological underpinnings of the human response to traumatic phenomena. Through public talks, videos, lectures and workshops, Hassanah works to educate the public about trauma and abuse, hoping to create a bridge between the medical/ psychiatric world and the more numinous spiritual areas of experience, through the medium of creativity.
Course Code: L12 HB1
Dates: 1 May 2012
Time: 7.00pm - 8.30pm
Cost: $25 for Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders /$30 Public
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LECTURE: GODS IN THE WORKPLACE presented by Dr. Bernie Neville
Carl Jung had several different ways of talking about archetypes. Sometimes he spoke of them as transcendent realities, which are manifested in the world as we experience it, including their manifestations in human behaviour. Sometimes he spoke of them as patterns of behaviour, which are hard-wired in our bodies. However he explained them, he was impressed by the evidence that our behavior is patterned, and that these patterns persist across history and across cultures. He pointed out that these archetypal patterns, energies and value systems have been personalised as gods by many cultures.
Just as an individual’s experience and behaviour may be dominated by one or other of these archetypes, we can also see them dominating the experience and behaviour of groups, whether they be families, corporations, nations or mobs. We can use the same language of gods in distinguishing between the cultures of organisations and workplaces. We can examine a patriarchal organisation and label it the way the ancient Greeks would have — as on organisation dominated by Zeus. Or we can imagine another group to be dominated by Apollo, the god of science, law and clear thinking.
This talk will examine workplaces from an archetypal perspective, focusing on sixteen different gods which are openly or secretly worshipped in different workplaces.
 Lecturer: Dr. Bernie Neville is Adjunct Professor of Education at La Trobe University where he has been involved for many years in the professional education of both teachers and counsellors. He is the author of Educating psyche: Emotion, imagination and the unconscious in learning and Olympus Inc: Intervening for cultural change in organizations and numerous papers on education and counselling. He is president of the Australian Association for Holistic and Transpersonal Counselling.
Course Code: L12 BN1
Dates: 18 July 2012
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Cost: $25 for Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders /$30 Public
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LECTURE: STORYTELLING
Sharon was the first person to intern with one of the thirteen indigenous grandmothers. During her intern she lived on the Cheyenne Indian reservation with Red Spider Woman (Margaret Behan). On the reservation she helped grandmother Margaret council young women with the sweat lodge ceremony. She also embraced the power of the all night prayer peyote meetings. Join Sharon Byerly and hear her amazing spiritual journey during one evening of storytelling.
Facilitator: Sharon Byerly is of Alaskan Aleut descent. She is a seasoned traditional Native American Drum maker, drummer, singer, dancer and storey teller. Sharon has performed in these meduims nationally and internationally, sharing Native American cultural and spiritual traditions with millions of people throughout America, Australia and the Far East. The magic of Sharon's drum have led her around the world.
Course Code: L12 SB1
Dates: 9 November 2012
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Cost: $25 for Phoenix students, ex-students and Government concession card holders /$30 Public
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How to Book
**Please note For all AAHTC workshops held at Phoenix, please contact AAHTC directly for enquiries and bookings on the following email: workshops@aahtc.org.au**
No reservations can be made for Phoenix workshops. Payment in full is required to secure a place. To book a place in a workshop or lecture, the full amount must be paid via:
• Credit card - over the phone. Call 03 9510 4264. Please have your credit card details and the course code at hand.
• Online payment - please pay by debit/credit card via the secure online payment button or enrol online button on this website.
• Cheque - payable to Phoenix Institute of Australia. Please call or email Phoenix to inform them you have sent your cheque. Send your cheque to Phoenix Institute of Australia, 314 Queen Street, Melbourne 3000, Australia, with your name, postal and email addresses and mobile number. Please send a separate cheque for each workshop.
GOVERNMENT CONCESSION CARDS If you are claiming a discount for having a Government Concession card, please fax or email a copy of your concesion card remembering to state your full name, the workshop or lecture code when you make your payment to Phoenix,
Fax: (03) 85060182
Email: info@phoenixinstitute.com.au
Refunds are available for cancellations according to our refund policy, listed below. All fees in $AUD.
Refund Policy Professional Development Refund Form must be completed and submitted for all refund requests.
Fees for Professional Development activities will only be refunded in the following circumstances:
1. A full refund of fees will be made: (a) If the Institute cancels the nominated workshop or lecture; or (b) If a cancellation is received up to fourteen (14) days prior to the workshop commencement date.
2. A refund of 50% of the fees will be made where a cancellation is received up to seven (7) days prior to the workshop or lecture commencement date.
3. A transfer of the full fee to a substitute workshop or lecture can be made if a student withdraws from the workshop up to seven (7) days prior to the workshop commencement date.
4. No refund fees will be made: (a) If a cancellation is received within seven (7) days of the workshop commencement date. (b) Once the workshop or lecture has commenced
5. In any other circumstance, a refund may be made at the sole discretion of the Institute Director.
The date which the Institute receives the Refund Application Form is the effective date for the purposes of calculating the refund paid.
Who the refund is paid to:
The refund will be paid to the applicant, unless otherwise requested in writing by the applicant.
The refund may be paid by cheque and sent to the student’s address (unless otherwise specified in writing), or credited to your credit card as specified ont he Refund Form.
All refunds will be paid within four (4) weeks of receipt of the written refund application.
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