The Just for Now story

Watch Jon’s interview with Karen Fried, creator of the ‘Just for Now’ series and international trainer and writer on the Violet Oaklander method. Karen Fried writes: The Just for Now story began in March of 2020, with an article on how to use...

Child therapy: the Oaklander method, London, April 2022

Clay: a wonderful medium for self-expression This ‘hands-on’ Gestalt workshop, now in its 18th iteration, caters for counsellors, psychotherapists, and for other professionals working with young people in education, health, social and pastoral services. It...
Goodbye to Violet

Goodbye to Violet

Violet Oaklander: 1927 to 2021 Violet Oaklander died aged 94 in Los Angeles on 21 September 2021. She was born in Massachusetts in 1927, the youngest of three children, to parents Joseph and Mollie Solomon, Jewish immigrants from Russia.[Footnote 1] Though Violet grew...

Working with children and adolescents: supervision group

This supervision group caters for educators, school counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, pastoral carers and health workers working directly with children and young people. When Term 1 23 January 202213 March 2022 Term 2 24 April 202212 June 2022 Term 3 24...