Facilities

Multiple Campuses

East Coast Gestalt operates on several campuses: Lismore, Sydney, and Tweed Heads and the Gold Coast are possible sites if there is sufficient demand. All are equipped with trainng rooms and facilities; all students have access to the Institute Library

Library

The Institute has significant library holdings. You may dowload the library catalogue , and then order by emailing or phoning us your request.

Support services

Access and Equity

The Institute is aware of the kinds of obstacles faced by those wishing to study. It is committed to making the training accessible to people from all walks of life. This attitude is manifested in some of the following ways:

  • The premises has been made wheelchair accessible
  • A willingness to be flexible in negotiating fee payments.
  • An equal opportunity policy which supports diversity.

Fee-help

The government is now offering loans simliar to HECS to students of accredited Higher Education Providers. The institute has been approved to this status, and thus students can apply to have all their fees covered under this programme.

Students can elect to have all fees covered by Fee-Help. This covers training fees, includes personal therapy hours, residentials and library membership.

The only additional costs in a year are text books (approx $80).

Tuition Assurance Scheme

East Coast Gestalt is a member of the Tuition Assurance Scheme, which guarantees that students will have continuity of their training under any circumstance. Click here for a more detailed statement.

 

 

Fairness

  • East Coast Gestalt has a grievance procedure to ensure that all concerns are given due process. You may find this by clicking here>>

Code of Conduct

  • East Coast Gestalt enlists experienced and professional educators who are bound by a Code of Conduct
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Ethics

  • East Coast Gestalt adopts the GANZ ethics policy as its own, and all practitioners, trainers and other staff are required to agree to be bound by the code
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Student Handbook

  • Students are provided with important background information about the course, its operation and issues they are likely to encounter
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The Challenge

The course is not just about running up a certain number of hours, collecting a bag of skills, or being able to repeat the theory. The criteria for successful continuation and eventual completion is weighed primarily in terms of personal development and attitude, rather than solely through measures of objective knowledge.

What is looked for in the student is an eagerness to learn, to explore themselves, to stay with what is happening, to hang in with the difficult processes and flow with the joyful ones; in all, a commitment to one's own growth and a willingness to dialogue. The course is an invitation to plunge into ever more authentic living; this requires a certain type of courage.