Events and news
Working with children and adolescents (2025): a 9-month Gestalt arts intensive
When: 9 CPD days between January and October 2025
Find out more about this course
(The image shows the group that successfully completed the 2023 course).
A Boy and His Anger
Oaklander DVD presentation and clinical discussion. A joint fund raiser for UKAGP and the GTS bursary fund.
Where: Gazebo School, London W5
When: 6.45pm to 9pm, Wednesday 30 October 2024
Advanced child and adolescent Gestalt foundational training
A ‘hands on’ arts training for counsellors, psychotherapists and other professionals working with children.
Where: Gestalt Centre Wales, The Courtyard, Chepstow, South Wales, NP16 5HH
When: November 2024 to July 2025 – 7 weekends (Friday to Sunday, 10am to 4.30pm), a residential and a 4-day intermediate
Oaklander: projective arts-based work with young people
Keynote: The Oaklander approach to working with children and adolescents
Where: ‘Who I Really Am’ child therapy conference, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw
When: 29 and 30 March 2025
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.
Restoring the ‘Hum’ in Human!*
Watch Jon’s video bringing together participants from around the world in a Lifemusic session, part of the ‘Just For Now’ online seminar series hosted by Karen Fried.
On canine-assisted therapy – a talk for counsellors
Coming soon. Where possible, Coco my ‘co-therapist’ accompanies me for this talk on how animals may bring a healing presence to therapy with clients of all ages.
Past events
See some of my recent courses, workshops and presentations.
