Opening To Grace
Opening to Grace welcomes you
Opening to Grace is an independent Gestalt, training, and healing centre based on the Central Coast of New South Wales.
Our professional, personal and spiritual development programs have been crafted to provide you with compassion and support throughout your learning and healing experience.
Grounded in the Gestalt approach and contemplative practice, our Opening to Grace healing and retreat programs, individual and group sessions, flow naturally from a synthesis of transpersonal healing practice underpinned with heart-centred Gestalt practice.
PLEASE NOTE: Opening to Grace was formerly known as the Terrigal Gestalt Institute. Originally focused on academic Gestalt training, TGI has transitioned to become a healing and Retreat Centre, offering individual Gestalt Therapy, Spiritual Direction, Clinical Supervision, Professional Development Gestalt training, Workshops, Seminars and Retreats.
Dinah Eades Buchanan
OTG Founder & Retreat Facilitator
Our Aim
The aim of Opening to Grace is to inspire our clients and participants to access and develop their own unique creativity, healing and wisdom, enriched by an unfolding growth journey of depth and compassion.
Our services include:
Opening To Grace Healing Retreat
Our Opening to Grace healing Retreat is an opportunity to come together to create a sacred space for healing, transformation and growth.
This Retreat combines the Gestalt approach with contemplative spiritual practice, as a way of entering a sacred healing space, where we acknowledge that we are already moving toward healing and wholeness. As facilitators, we have experienced and witnessed profound physical and emotional healing and change when the sacred is consciously acknowledged at the heart of the healing process, and the framework of Gestalt offers a vital and compelling backdrop to this healing work.
The Retreat offers participants a supportive space to experience profound healing and change, within a spiritual framework. We will also be exploring process from a practitioner perspective.
NOTE: Our next Healing Retreat is scheduled for early 2025
Facilitator: Dinah Eades Buchanan
To Register contact Dinah at dinahbuchanan18@gmail.com
Venue: TBC
Contact: Dinah on 0439 752 710 or dinahbuchanan18@gmail.com
Our Offerings
Gestalt for Healing
Our Opening to Grace healing Retreats provide an opportunity to come together to create a sacred space for healing, transformation and growth. You will experience the Transformational Gestalt approach which combines Gestalt Therapy & contemplative spirituality. Retreats are open to those in professional helping roles and anyone interested in healing and growth work through a spiritual lens. All spiritual faiths and beliefs are welcome and honoured in a spirit of deep community.
Individual Sessions
Individual Gestalt therapy and Gestalt Spiritual Direction sessions with Dinah are available Tuesday to Saturday.
Sessions are conducted within the foundational framework of Gestalt practice, with a focus on creativity and experimentation to help bring awareness and insight. Dinah’s practice has a relational focus and the work is grounded in compassion. Essentially, Dinah has a passion to share this life’s journey with others and build community in a deep and profound way.
Clinical & Professional Supervision
OTG currently offers Clinical Supervision for counselling and psychotherapy practitioners, and Professional Supervision for practitioners in all allied heath and educational contexts. The supervision space is a ‘brave space’ – facilitated to allow practitioners to examine and reflect on their work and vocational practices in a context of support and encouragement. Gaining awareness is key to good reflective practice and support for this process is essential. Please contact Dinah on 0439 752 710 to arrange a session.
Join our Community
This Prospectus outlines the online training in Transformational Gestalt Practice currently offered by Opening To Grace. This program has been developed to introduce practicing clinicians, and those in ministry, to an overview of the Gestalt modality through a spiritual framework, so that it can be integrated into existing practice and ministry. The program is personally tailored for each participant and delivered as a combination of online teaching and mentoring sessions, PDF teaching units, Readings and Handouts, and experiential tasks, over the duration of an individually tailored program (within a 6-12 month period).
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