Integrating and Healing Stages of Life, 4 days in Mooloolaba Qld

Welcome to Integrating Life Stages through your Adult Journey!

Come join Couple and Family Therapists Gabriela Salabert and Simon d'Orsogna for 4 days of self-discovery and growth in beautiful Mooloolaba, Queensland. (Bio's below). This event is all about embracing the different stages of Life, and learning how to integrate them into your life seamlessly. In these days we bring our focus to internal and external systems for release, healing, and wholeness.

Event Details:

Date: Thu 8th to Sun 11th of August, 2024

Time: 9:30am-6:00pm (90min catered lunch, plus breaks)

Location: Mantra Mooloolaba Beach Conference Centre

Workshop Cost: AUD $950-1150 ($350 deposit plus booking fee)

Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and gain valuable insights into your own life journey. See you there!

Explore how the stages of your life shape your relationships, health, fulfilment and happiness. Together we’ll explore your life stages and journey into adulthood. We invite greater clarity about our inner and outer constraints using Family and Systemic Constellations, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and group-work. Here we look into meeting our stage-appropriate needs, loosening entanglements through resolving unfinished bonding, grief and conflict. Acknowledging our excluded emotions, inter-generational inheritances, thoughts and knowings (often that were removed from awareness for our survival and stability) allows us new growth and perspectives.

Completing our childhood, teen, and adult journeys allows the flow of life and love, and prepares us for our end-of-life in this body. In this four-day experiential workshop at beautiful Mooloolaba, Queensland we discover what’s unfinished and take steps to release our places of stuckness and entanglement. Join us for our quest to support deep transitions - searching for more truth, meaning and adult presence in a group of like-minded seekers. In midlife people often become less impulsive, more thoughtful about their work, more open to life's complexities, and more aware of their intuitive feelings. It's a wonderful time to start a new project or clarify your direction!

Suitable for those seriously interested in personal growth. The sessions provide an opportunity for professional and personal growth in a supportive atmosphere. Confidentiality and safety will be discussed on the first day, and the expectation of self-care, self-responsibility and support is key. As this is not group or individual therapy we do not recommend attending if you are in crisis or active recovery, or find that groups over-activate your nervous system. If you are warmly intrigued and have curiousity about ongoing integration and elaboration of your adult self in well-held groups, please read on.

Experiential work requires safety, warmth, and heat in the crucible for transformation, growth, and change. This intensity is our connection with Life. If you have this calling, want to amplify it, or are looking to reconnect with the flow of life and love, this intensity is how we connect with the Eros, sparkle, and energy of our unique path.

This workshop will speak especially to those who love the ocean, as the Mantra Conference Centre is directly opposite the main beach. This is an in-person workshop with vegan, vegetarian, GF and dairy-free diets catered for lunches and morning-afternoon tea. Limited to 35 persons plus the training team, preference and first invites to those having completed recent workshops with Gabriela and Simon, and those familiar with Constellations work.

Evenings are unprogrammed, however initiatives from participants are welcome.

WHEN

From Thursday August 8th - Sunday 11th August 2024

Program commences 930am, lunch for 90min, and runs to 6pm with breaks.

WHERE

Mantra Mooloolaba Beach Conference Centre

Venning St Mooloolaba, QLD 4557

PARTICIPANTS

Limited to 35 persons, plus the training team.

COST

Fee (incl GST) for 4days of workshop, materials, and daytime catering*

Earlybird - $ 950 plus ticketing (till June 30th or sold out)

General - $1,150 plus ticketing
* daytime catering' includes morning and afternoon teas, and lunch. Participants will optionally self organise evening meals and breakfast.

The $350 Deposit upon registration (to be paid via Eventbrite here) will hold a place, and invoices will be sent for the difference. Places are confirmed only on full payment. Payment plans are available, fee applies.

EARLYBIRD TICKET - TOTAL COST AUD $ 950 (plus Eventbrite fee ~$20) till 30 June.

Includes GST, workshop, and daytime meals. Deposit of $350 payable at registration here, with the remainder to be invoiced. Payment plans available on request. Credit card attracts 3% fee.

GENERAL TICKET - TOTAL COST AUD $ 1,150 (plus Eventbrite fee ~$20) from 1st July (or from when Earlybird sells out)

Includes GST, workshop, and daytime meals. Deposit of $350 payable at registration here, with the remainder to be invoiced. Payment plans available on request. Credit card attracts 3% fee.

Accommodation is available with a conference attendee discount from the Mantra venue (from AUD $259/night additional). Our attendee accommodation rate is accessed once the deposit and registration is made, the discount form will be sent out with the invoice for the remainder. Otherwise there are plenty of alternate accommodation options with online booking platforms.

Previous participants say...

"Wow ! the energies of the group allowed the emergence of a gentle, contained, yet at times, confronting experiences akin to those found in deep meditative states and psilocybin states, however there was a sense of the consent of the seeker/explorer/client being repeatedly sought. Thus, there is an ongoing refinding of enough safety for the boundaries within and between different spaces to be noticed, named, held and cherished."

"I will be forever grateful for attending Simon and Gabriela's workshop. I feel that I achieved in 4 days, what I could not in years of therapy. I since uncovered other family secrets and learnt more about my family ancestry. My family is talking more and my relationship with my husband deepened. I feel the love of my ancestors and I am so greatfull to be here. Thank you so much!"

"The workshop was so needed and was right for me. I also felt that participants also brought their self energy, openness, depth of wisdom and curiosity. I felt that the workshop provided a great place for them to meet and connect not only horizontally and very very vertically (through generations of love and life). I also realised the interplay between us, the venue, the staff at the centre, and the nature is so real and I appreciate that. Thank you, Simon and Gabriela!"

"A wonderful workshop. It was really amazing and inspiring."

"Releasing blocks holding us back in life, achieved with the support and love of the group, guidance of facilitators, wisdom of the body and having conversations with our ancestors. Transpersonal experience that travels in space and time and touches other family loved ones. It can't be described in words and must be experienced!"

"This workshop expanded my view to myself and people around me to the extend that it allowed the space for missing puzzles to come together."

"A fascinating dive into family constellation ideas and how they work in practice. Interesting group and lovely sense of connection."

BIO

Gabriela Salabert is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and supervisor with over thirty years of professional clinical experience in the public health sector of Sydney and private practice. She has worked extensively around complex trauma with different populations, using diverse treatment models and family interventions. Her integrative approach incorporates a holistic framework of evidence and practice-based psychotherapies: EMDR, Gestalt, Psychoanalysis, Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, Dance Movement, ACT, CBT, Grief Therapy, and Couples and Family Therapy. She has conducted ongoing clinical training in Systemic Family Therapy and Systemic Family Constellation Workshops since 2004, following studying in Buenos Aires with Bert Hellinger and other senior teachers.

Gabriela worked as a Senior Cross-Cultural Clinical Psychologist Consultant at NSW Health and, since 2018, as the Clinical Lead for Grief and Bereavement at HammondCare. She is an accredited supervisor with APHRA, providing individual and group supervision, and a member of the APS Clinical Psychologist College and the APS Sydney Committee.

BIO

Simon d’Orsogna is a psychotherapist, clinical trainer/facilitator, and systems-oriented coach with individual and couples clients. He completed a Clinical Masters of Systemic Family Therapy at the Bouverie Centre, and provides psychotherapy, process consultancy and adult developmental coaching. Based in Melbourne, Simon is a certified Kegan-Lahey Immunity to Change (adult developmental) coach, process consultant and integrative therapist, and an Associate Instructor with the US Coherence Psychology Institute teaching Memory Reconsolidation since 2011.

Simon facilitates experiential learning workshops, including through 2014-17 offered a training series introducing Internal Family Systems to Australia, and since 2017 brought the first IFS official trainings from Dr Richard Schwartz's US-based IFS Institute. He is IFSI's International Partner in Australia and New Zealand, and is a Level 3 IFS practitioner with training specializations working with couples and working with survivors of trauma. Simon has facilitated and arranged more than 450 days of Internal Family Systems trainings and workshops since 2014. He has organised and led trainings of Coherence Therapy, Dreamwork in Groups, Systemic Family and Group Constellations, Person Centred Experiential Therapies, and Polyvagal informed Clinical Practice in the region, and has presented at the US annual IFS Conference as well as in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and across Australia and New Zealand. Simon runs an online practice, offering supervision and training for individuals and organisations.

In 2019 Simon founded the Mind Beyond Institute - see the website for more trainings and workshops in Australia and NZ to run in 2024-2025.

FAQS

Who will be responsible for me?

Confidentiality and safety will be discussed on the first day, and the expectation of self-care, responsibility, and support is key. Group norms will be discussed and agreed on the first day, and opportunity to participate in larger exercises will be offered - and is optional. We come together to learn-by-doing.

What should I bring to the workshop?

Bring curiosity, willingness to try things out ("Yes, and..."), a sense of humour, and a heart-oriented openness to the multiplicity of parts, Self, and what is mysterious in our Life. Preparedness to do your own work - "if you are feeling it, it's probably yours".

Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?

See the link at the bottom of the brief bio to the right .

Is my registration/ticket transferrable?

Tickets are not transferable, in accordance with the refund policy. Please advise if you do wish to withdraw or exchange tickets so we can update details.

What is the refund policy?

Due to the limited size of each course, a refund can only be issued if cancellation notification in writing is received 30 days prior to the workshop - less a $75.00 administration fee per person for the full course.

Existing registrants will be sent the refund, and should return any materials sent. We cannot reimburse any expenses you may have incurred. Courses must be pre-paid. We do not take money at the door.

We reserve the right to cancel due to insufficient registrations, or other reasons beyond our control at our discretion. Workshop fees will be reimbursed in full should cancellation be necessary.

(From the developer of Constellations) Bert Hellinger: New Paths

"The practitioners and the all the other participants experienced another consciousness, far beyond the relationships of ‘I’ and ‘You’. The ‘I’ that wanted something was carried along by an ‘We’, which meant it ceased being an ‘I’ in the usual sense, an ‘I’ that included ideas about good and bad, better and worse, even healthy and sick. These new ‘We’ constellations enthralled everybody present: everyone was drawn into the constellation in an individual way and learnt to take. Participants were reminded to take personal responsibility for their own actions and the consequences of those actions. The duality in our relationships: of helper and client, of knowledgeable and ignorant, was swept away by an all-embracing ‘We’. Everyone was able to, and had to, fit into a greater whole, but with a sense of self-responsibility intact. This was also true across the dimensions of our own health and illness, our happiness or misery.

Family constellations revealed that everyone is always present with several other people. Everyone lives different lives and in several places. Everyone is simultaneously taken into service for many others. By whom or what? By an all-embracing movement that decides over our welfare in a comprehensive way. Can anyone come between us and this movement? Are we not all taken in by the same creative power and guided on the path that serves our fate as has been decreed for us? This present time is also just one among many that we must live in and through, in order to become whole, increasingly freed and purified by this power."

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BW image (hands, top) photo by Liv Bruce on Unsplash

Photo of Mooloolaba beach, 2024 by Bernadetto Del Torre

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