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Impasse and Ending21/08/20269:30 AMThis workshop is a part of a series called "Meeting people where they love".  This workshop strengthens ethical practice by supporting therapists to work sensitively with relational impasse, decision-making, grief, and endings - contexts that require clarity, attunement, and a commitment to client autonomy. Ethical themes include supporting informed choice, avoiding coercion, navigating high emotional intensity, and maintaining appropriate boundaries. Diversity is addressed through exploration of how culture, identity, trauma histories, and systemic pressures influence how clients experience stuckness or separation. Emerging practice areas include working with embodied markers of resistance, conceptualising impasse as creative adjustment, and facilitating relational re-authoring with phenomenological awareness. Therapists learn to hold the complexity of endings with compassion and clinical steadiness. 21/08/20264:30 PMEXT Gestalt Therapy Australia Category A - 7 Hourshttps://n9.cl/ebavbw      This event is happening at : Elie - 27 Royal Parade Parkville, VIC 3052 AUSTRALIAVICActive ~/images/events/external/gta_h_cmyk_colour_350.pngEX26GTA7

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Impasse and Ending

This workshop is a part of a series called "Meeting people where they love".  This workshop strengthens ethical practice by supporting therapists to work sensitively with relational impasse, decision-making, grief, and endings - contexts that require clarity, attunement, and a commitment to client autonomy. Ethical themes include supporting informed choice, avoiding coercion, navigating high emotional intensity, and maintaining appropriate boundaries. Diversity is addressed through exploration of how culture, identity, trauma histories, and systemic pressures influence how clients experience stuckness or separation. Emerging practice areas include working with embodied markers of resistance, conceptualising impasse as creative adjustment, and facilitating relational re-authoring with phenomenological awareness. Therapists learn to hold the complexity of endings with compassion and clinical steadiness.

 


This workshop provides clinicians with a structured, relational approach to working with clients who are navigating impasse or facing relational endings. Drawing on Gestalt theory and contemporary relational practice, participants explore how stuckness and transition emerge in the therapeutic field, and how to support clients with clarity, compassion, and ethical sensitivity.

The workshop integrates theory, demonstration, and experiential learning to help therapists recognise impasse as a potential creative adjustment and to identify embodied and behavioural signs of resistance or overwhelm. Participants learn to support grief, ambivalence, relief, and transformation with attuned presence, and to facilitate decision-making processes that enhance agency and relational clarity.

Topics include navigating ambivalence, supporting clients through separation or re-negotiation, understanding developmental influences on stuckness, and engaging clients in re-authoring meaning and identity after endings.

Presenters:
Tom Trikojus
BA, AdvDipGestaltTherapy, MSW

Nicole Van Os 
AMHSW, AdvDipGestaltTherapy, MASSc [Couple Counselling]

  

Disclaimer:
The content of this endorsed CPD course is provided by the external course provider. Attendees are encouraged to approach the material with an open mind and consider diverse perspectives, particularly those from lived experiences related to the topics discussed. For feedback regarding the course, please contact the course provider directly.
When
21/08/2026 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Where
Parkville, VIC AUSTRALIA