SYDNEY ART THERAPY 2010
Fecha de publicación: 20-oct-2009 4:44:02
Felix Gomez is a Venezuelan Postgraduate Medical Behavioral Targeting member of the EMDR Association of Australia and the Latin American and Orientation Change In Behavior, trainer andinternational speaker with more than 2 decades of experience in handling groups in the area of Health and Brief Psychotherapy, currently its approach integrates EMDR, Ericksonian Hypnotherapy,,narrative therapy, art therapy, symbolic modeling and cognitive behavioral therapy, has worked in countries like El Salvador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Australia between other current approach is focused on groups of people with cancer and Cultural Shock trauma including immigrants and refugees in Australia, Development Projects in Venezuela for addressing many of nonviolence in communities in Venezuela introduced the model of Self Relations Dr Stephen Gilligan and Hypnotherapy in Solution Focused Brief owes much of its training O'Hannlon Bill Manuel Barroso, SalvadorCarrion, Stephen Gilligan, Steve Andreas and Michael now lives in Sydney Yapko Australia.
"Yesterday I finished one of the most interesting projects of the last three years living and working in Australia, "Sydney 2010 Art Therapy Project" supported by the Prince Charles Hospital and the Transcultural Mental Health Unit, for more than six months an alchemical process that involves research , creativity, meetings with artists, psychotherapists and creative view and reflect on experiences in different centers working with different communities in different background over a city the size of Sydney and then capture the experience that is sufficiently consistent to support people mostly women of Hispanic immigrant countries such as Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Guyana, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Australia mostly with psychological trauma, depression and anxiety disorders, the challenge was to create a therapeutic space but at the same time adapted to the needs, values, beliefs and behaviors where the beauty is that I could create techniques adapted to the needs of a complex over this gestation were many magical allies like Barbara O'connor a fantastic art therapist who works in Vancouver and with whom I exchanged a lot of information via phone and Internet, my friend Anne White and Trauma Transcultural psychologist specializing in loss and grief by Immigration in charge of this group therapy, Dr. Mirian Balvela who from his television show in the California Angels was pending, my good friend master music Angel Rada who developed algorythmic and fractal music that was created in Caracas and recorded in Newcastle England in recording studios (hence the birth of his last musical work called Neurosinergy) finally used in some of our work sessions".
"The use and integration of EMDR, NLP in particular logic levels and neurological methods of centering of Stephen Gilligan for the mind somatic if as many of the exercises of his last, book The Hero's journey, narrative therapy with David White approach and the integrated use of art therapy a powerful integrated clinical approach that took us all by a powerful river of emotions that went through the cloud forests of traumas and sufferings, hopes and promises waterfalls, valleys of resilience and hope in the middle of watercolors, paintings liters of liquid, long folds of colored paper, pastels, brushes, gloves, kilos of clay, brushes
of all sizes, masks, hundreds of magazines and postcards, notebooks, projectors, music, books and hundreds of Web pages converted into tools for the spirit and resilience if picked up my bags today and would return to Caracas pleased with the beautiful opportunity and privilege I have had to listen, support and help so many people so full of courage, generosity and determination to leave this world a little better such was the case with this wonderful group therapy to facilitate and went for more than 4 months all the light in them that always dance between you".
"The session began with group of nearly 25 people after a general introduction to group work began with two centering exercises taken from the model of relations between theself of Stephen Gilligan and a group meditation music album using Trancendalia Angel Rada.
The work of mind-body centering allowed to give instructions in an atmosphere of calm and deep relaxation where you work with clay, watercolors, scissors and knives modelingclay, the metaphor we used was the tree of life and using the work of the timelines of Tad James (NLP) in a series of memories of past times going back to the ancestors of theancestors ... focus now and we extend the lines of the future beyond the present generation that once focused been used to model the clay tree of life experience was a cascade of emotions, memories, insights, awoke something deep emotion in the group was transformed into 25 stories, metaphors and deep confessions always close to the archetypalfigure ever closure of a tree was a human circle in the background with the theme of the album Dance Ritual Mutual Neurosinergy Angel Rada"
FELIX GOMEZ M.D.
extracted and translated text of the blog Neurosinergia
