REMEMBERING

20 YEARS OF GANZ

The Journey so far

1998 First committee

GANZ commenced

Blessed Off & running

Learning to talk walk

First Director of Trainings Meeting

Adolescences Making friends Birth Moving out

1996 1998 2000 2006

Committee roles & work well underway

Conferences & Networking

Finding our work & exploring

2010 2016

Where to from here?

First gathering in 1996

Some of GANZ’s first Architects in Australia and New Zealand

FOUNDING MEMBERS IN 1996

Names of GANZ Founders: Sydney 1996

Mike Reed Brenda Levien Alan Meara Alexia Lennon Margarete Koening Vinay Gunther Ari Badaines Philip Oldfield Rhonda Gibson-Long Anna Bernet Margaret Bannister Brian O’Neill Jenny O’Neill Judy Leung Ruth Dunn Jim Houston

Lois Lovell Tess Priddy Pauline Drosten Gabe Phillips Claire Taubert Dave Mutton Caroline Rose Linsey Howie Jeff Hood Barbara de Cambra Zish Ziembinski Claudia Rosenbach-Ziembinski Richard Hester Lynn Durham

First Council meeting 2000

We honour you for your contribution to the creation of GANZ

The Australian And New Zealand Pioneers And

Founding Elders

Dick Armstrong

Marion Armstrong

Barry Blicharski

Chris Campbell

Gill Caradoc-Davies

Bruce Chenoweth

Don Diespecker

Clive Duffy

Bru Furner

Anne Maclean

Peter McGeorge

Bill McLeod

Peter Mulholland

Patti Nolan-Oliver

James Oldham

Bert Potter

Yaro Starak

Marcel Seidler

Eileen Wright

Don Kaperick

Lewis Lowry

Larry Kalendar

Don Kaperick

Doug Stewart

Rob Green

We honour you for your contribution to the creation of GANZ

FIRST DOTS COMMITTEE

Passion for learning and education unites!

Hunter Beaumont

Len Bergantino

Charlie Bowman

Maya Brand

John Enright

Jon Frew

Harvey Friedmann

Morgan Goodlander

Fred Grosse

THE INTERNATIONAL VISITORS WHO SUPPORTED THE

DEVELOPMENT OF GESTALT IN AUSTRALIAN and NEW

ZEALAND

Walter Kempler

James Kepner

Tony Key

Gerry Kogan

Willie Kraus

Joel Latner

Bob Lee

Jennifer Mackewn

Eric Marcus

Steve Roberts

Jorge Rosner

Daniel Rosenblatt

Will Schultz

Cyndy Sheldon

Jim Simkin

Anne Simkin

Kath van Rau

Gordon Wheeler

Savine Wisemann

Ricky Wolfe

Lester Wyman

Gary Yontef

Joseph Zinker

Judith Hemming

David Hoban

Rich Hycner

Lynne Jacobs

Violet Oaklander

Erv Polster

Miriam Polster

Bob Resnick

Rita Resnick

Savine Wisemann

We honour you for your contribution to the creation of GANZ

Training Centres And Founders

1970 The Gestalt Institute of Australia. Founder: Howard Adams.

1975 Gestalt Associates in Dunedin. Founders: Don Kaperick, Peter McGeorge and Lewis Lowry

1979–2004 The Gestalt Institute of Melbourne. Founders: Larry Kalendar, James Oldham and Doug Stewart:

1980 The Brisbane Gestalt Centre was by Yaro Starak, and in partnership with Maria Vogt it developed into the

Brisbane Gestalt Institute (BGI)

1980–1990 The Gestalt Training Institute of Perth. Founders: Rob Green and Susie Drew evolved 1990-1994 to

Gestalt Institute of Perth

1980 The Wollongong Gestalt Centre. Founder: Don Diespecker

1982 The International Gestalt Institute (Australia). Founders: Jorge Rosner and Yaro Starak

1983-1988 The Gestalt Institute of Queensland. Founders: Yaro Starak and Peter Mullholland

1984 The Illawarra Gestalt Centre. Founder: Brian O’Neill1986 Sydney Gestalt Centre. Founders: Barry Blicharski

and Anna Bernet – evolved 2006 to the Sydney Gestalt Institute

1991 The Sydney Gestalt Training Institute. Founder: Anna Bernet

Training centres and founders – con’t

1991The Gestalt Therapy and Training Centre, later the Gestalt Association of Qld Inc. Founder: Mac Hamilton

1991 The Brisbane Gestalt Institute. Founder: Yaro Starak

1991 The Integrative Gestalt Centre in Christchurch. Founders: Rudolf Jarosewitsch, Sue Murray and Herbert Wolpert

1991 Gestalt Institute of New Zealand. Founders: Anne Maclean, Gill Caradoc-Davies and Fred Grosse

1993 The Gestalt Centre Tasmania. Founder: Barbara de Cambra

1994 The Gestalt Training Institute West Australia. Founders: Zish Ziembinski and Claudia Rosenbach-Ziembinski

199? Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute. Founder: Vinay Gunther

1995 Gestalt Therapy Australia. Founders: Claire Taubert and Gabe Phillips

2003 The Gestalt Institute of South Australia. Founders: Brian O’Neill and Jenny O’Neill

2004 Gestalt Practitioners Training Sydney. Founders: Mike Reed and Judy Leung

2005 Terrigal Gestalt Institute. Founders: Yaro Starak and Tanya Field

2007 Gestalt Therapy Brisbane (GTB). Founders: Maria Vogt and Dr Greer White

2010 Gestalt Therapy Sydney (GTS). Founders: Ashleigh Power and Maria Dolenc

2015 The Relational Institute Australia (TRIA). Founders: Ashleigh Power and Forrest James

GANZ speaks to us through journals & newsletters

First Journal published in May 1997 So Far Newsletters aplenty Now we now on facebook !

Communication has flourished

Facebooking you now!!!

Conferences and Gatherings

1st Conference “Down Under”. Fremantle – September 1998

2nd Conference “Dreaming the Future” Brisbane - August 2000

3rd Conference “Matters of the Heart” Christchurch, NZ. September 2002

4th Conference “Weaving the fabric of community” Manly, NSW - May 2004

5th Conference “Then – Now - Next” Melbourne, Vic - Sept 2006.

6th Conference “To be is to with” Ballina, NSW - Sept 2008

7th Conference “A part of the whole, a part to play” Queenstown, NZ -Sept 2010

8th Conference “Elements of Change: context, connection, complexity.” Melb Sept 2012

9th Conference “Present at the edge.” Brisbane, Qld - Sept 2014

Some memories from

our gatherings

3rd Conference In Christchurch

4th

Conference In The Harbour City

Turning 10 at the Hilton with some help!

7TH

CONFERENCE….OVER THE DITCH

Beautiful Queenstown

MELBOURNE 2012

With : Dr. Mark McConville Ernesto Spinelli Jeff Young Mark Fairfield Dr. Lynda Osborne With many other generous speakers

BRISBANE 2014

Our 10th

Conference In

Canberra 2016

Ganz journal editors

• Inaugural editors November 2004: Anne Maclean (NZ) and Leanne O’Shea. Editorial Board: Jon Batros, Linsey Howie, Leanne O’Shea, Rudolf Jarosewitsch, Anne Maclean.

• May 2006: Nickei Falconer (NZ) and Leanne O’Shea • November 2006: Nickei Falconer (NZ) and Richie

Robertson and Brenda • May 2008: Greer White joined the editorial board. • May 2009: Richie Robertson as sole editor. • November 2009: Virginia Edmond (NZ) and Dean

Smith joined as Associate Editors • November 2012: Alan Meara replaced Richie

Robertson. • November 2013: Dean Smith’s final edition.

November 2014: Virginia Edmond’s final edition. Alan Meara Editor to present, assisted by Reg Andersen

Our thanks to our wordsmiths

ROLL CALL - GANZ PRESIDENTS

Michael Reed from 1996 to 2000

Brenda Levien from 2000 to 2004

Alan Meara - from 2004 to 2010

Leanne O’Shea – from 2010 to 2012

Kath McCarthy - from 2012 to 2016

Our thanks and admiration for your leadership

Year Name Role

1998 Michael Reed (Inaugural Council) President

1998 Brenda Levien (Inaugural Council) Secretary

1998 Zish Ziembinski (Inaugural Council) Treasurer

1998 Geoff Bucket (Inaugrual Council) NZ Rep

1998 Brian O’Neill (Inaugrual Council) NSW rep

1998 Yaro Starak (Inaugrual Council) QLD Rep

1998 Claire Taubert (Inaugrual Council) Vic rep

1998 Olivia Roy ( Inaugrual Council) WA Rep

1998 Sabin Fernbacher (Inaugrual Council) Student Rep

1998 Noel MacDonald (Inaugural Council) Student Rep

ROLL CALL – COUNCIL MEMBERS

Date Name Role

2016 Kathy McCarthy President

2016 Phoebe Riches Chair Ethics

2016 Trevor Good Chair Memberships

2016 Eva Deligiannis Secretary

2016 Elizabeth Denton International Relations

2016 Leila Davis Chair Liaison and Community

Development

2016 Leanne O’Shea Chair communications

2016 David Murray Treasurer

2016 Greer White Chair Training & Standards

Now 2016 Then 1998

MEMBERSHIP GROWTH

Year Members

1999 – Start as an association 90

2000 180

2002 186

2003 237

2008 201

2012 275

2013 280

2014 284

2014 285

2016 233

GANZ Happy Birthday to you Here’s to a New beginning and the

next 20 years