Opening To Grace
Opening to Grace welcomes you
OPENING TO GRACE (OTG) is an independent Gestalt therapy centre based on the Central Coast of New South Wales.
Opening to Grace began its journey in 2016 as the Terrigal Gestalt Institute, originally focused on academic Gestalt training. OTG now offers individual Gestalt Counselling & Therapy, Spiritual Direction, Clinical & Professional Supervision, Professional Development: Workshops & Seminars, and Healing Retreats.
Our professional, personal, and spiritual development programs provide you with compassion and support throughout your journey. Grounded in the Gestalt approach and contemplative practice, our OTG programs (individual and group sessions), flow naturally from a synthesis of contemplative practice underpinned with heart-centred Gestalt practice.
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 2027
Facilitator: Dinah Eades Buchanan
For further info contact Dinah at dinahbuchanan18@gmail.com or 0439 752 710
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 Counselling / Therapy / 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, pastoral, and educational contexts. The supervision space is a ‘brave space’ – facilitated to allow supervisees to examine and reflect on their work / vocational practice in a context of support, challenge, 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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