Webinar: Beyond the Binary: Exploring the diversity of gender, sexuality and relationships

Description:

How do we meet our clients and each other beyond the shadow of our socially sanctioned norms regarding gender, sexuality and relationships? 

This webinar is offered as a support to working with clients who identify outside of traditional norms of male/female, heterosexual and/or monogamous. This webinar offers a comprehensive exploration of what exists beyond the binary, creating a platform for open dialogue and introspective examination. 

Gestalt therapy is uniquely suited for working safely with diversity and responding to change: by being present to what is here and now, by understanding that nothing in this world is as simple as our binary thinking would have us believe. Phenomenology invites gestalt therapists to attend to our own bodies and somatic experiences as well as our client’s, this offers a unique perspective for gender diverse experiencing. Relational dynamics calls for us to be aware of our own internalised gendered stereotypes and biases and how we, like all humans, treat people differently based on the way we gender people in our thoughts. 

This webinar will be of benefit not only to our clients, colleagues, family and friends identifying outside of the traditional norms but to everyone we relate to including our relationship to ourselves, no matter how we identify. Living beyond the binary of our own lives can free up the felt sense of our own gendered bodies and sexual identification making us more available for authentic and meaningful relating.

About your Presenter:

Rochelle, Roch (she/they), is a PACFA Clinical psychotherapist for individuals, couples, and families. Roch is also an educator, trainer, group facilitator and supervisor. Roch has extensive training in Gender Affirming Practice from ACON, AusPath, and the University of Melbourne, and has had many years of training in and teaching gestalt psychotherapy. Roch has served as a faculty member at The Relational Institute Australia and studied at the Family Systems Institute, earning an Advanced Certificate in Couples and Family Therapy. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Youth Mental Health from the University of Melbourne. Rochelle currently operates a private practice in Potts Point, offering individual supervision, group supervision, and individual, couples and family therapy. Her specialization is in supporting sexuality, gender, and relationship diverse individuals, couples and families, with a particular focus on families with a young person transitioning gender. In addition, Roch is a counselor at the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School, where she facilitates group work to optimize creative collaborative practice and support ethically responsible media practices. Roch’s work is supported, influence and inspired by Professor Vikram Kolmannskog and Mark Fairfield LCSW.

Cost:

GANZ Members: $55. Non-GANZ Members: $95.

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