Ending & Beginnings in Life Stages, 2 day workshop, Sunshine Coast
Schedule
Sat, 31 Oct, 2026 at 09:30 am to Sun, 01 Nov, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC+10:00Location
Mantra Mooloolaba Beach | Mooloolaba, QL
About this Event
Welcome to Integrating Life Stages through your Adult Journey!
Come join Couple and Family Therapists Gabriela Salabert and Simon d'Orsogna for 2 days of self-discovery and growth in-person in Mooloolaba, Queensland. (Bio's below). This event is all about embracing the different stages of Life, and learning how to integrate them into your life seamlessly. In these days we bring our focus to internal and external systems for release, healing, and wholeness.
Event Details:
Date: Saturday 31st October to Sunday 1st of November, 2026
Time: 9:30am-6:00pm (60min lunch break, plus morning & afternoon breaks) Catered lunch and snacks.
Location: Mantra Mooloolabah, Queensland. Discounted accommodation available onsite (book with code separately).
Workshop Cost: AUD $550-650 plus $10 ticketing fee (Earlybird $550 till 30th June, then full amount applies).
Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and gain valuable insights into your own life journey. See you there!
Explore how the stages of your life shape your relationships, health, fulfilment and happiness. Together we’ll explore your life stages and journey into adulthood. We invite greater clarity about our inner and outer constraints using Family and Systemic Constellations, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and group-work.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and gain valuable insights into your own life journey.
Explore unfinished relationships, illness and health, as well as thwarted purpose and happiness to release what it's no longer helpful. We invite greater clarity about our constraints using Family and Systemic Constellations, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and group-work.
Here we look into loosening entanglements through resolving unfinished bonding, grief and conflict. Acknowledging our excluded emotions, inter-generational inheritances, thoughts and beliefs allow us new growth and perspectives.
Accepting and adjusting to new possibilities, honouring the past and welcoming the future allows the flow of life and love, and prepares us for our next steps. In this experiential workshop we discover what’s unfinished and take steps to release our places of stuckness. Join us for our quest to support deep transitions - searching for more truth, meaning and adult presence in a group of like-minded seekers.
In every life decision and purpose, we must select and leave aside what is no longer a primary need. In midlife people often become less impulsive, more thoughtful about their work, more open to life's complexities, and more aware of their intuitive feelings. It's a wonderful time to start a new project or clarify your direction!
Experiential work requires safety, warmth, and heat in the crucible for transformation, growth, and change. This intensity is our connection with Life. If you have this calling, want to amplify it, or are looking to reconnect with the flow of life and love, this intensity is how we connect with the Eros, sparkle, and energy of our unique path.
This is an in-person workshop with lunch, morning and afternoon tea. Limited to 20 persons plus the training team, preference and first invites to those having completed recent workshops with Gabriela and Simon, and those familiar with Constellations and IFS work.
WHEN
From Saturday 31st October to Sunday 1st of November, 2026
Program commences 930am, lunch for a 60min, and runs to 6pm with breaks.
WHERE
Mantra Mooloolaba (venue plus accommodation optional onsite)
7 Venning St, Mooloolaba, AU 4557, Queensland
15min taxi/shuttle to Sunshine Coast Airport (an Australian international airport) located in Marcoola, 10 km north of Maroochydore, roughly centrally located along the coast of the Sunshine Coast Region. Alternately ~75-90 min drive from Brisbane.
PARTICIPANTS
Limited to 20 persons, plus the training team.
COST
Fee (incl GST) for 2 days of workshop, materials, lunch and morning & afternoon tea. Deposit here ($150 plus $10 ticketing fee) will be followed with an invoice for the difference. Payment must be made within 30 days of invoice, unless a payment plan is agreed.
Early Bird - $550 (plus $10 ticketing fee) till 30th June
General - $650 (plus $10 ticketing fee) from 1st July
* daytime catering' includes morning and afternoon teas, and lunch.
GENERAL TICKET - TOTAL COST AUD $ 550-650 (plus $10 Eventbrite fee)
Includes GST, workshop, and daytime snacks.
Previous participants say...
"I will be forever grateful for attending Simon and Gabriela's workshop. I feel that I achieved in 4 days, what I could not in years of therapy. I since uncovered other family secrets and learnt more about my family ancestry. My family is talking more and my relationship with my husband deepened. I feel the love of my ancestors and I am so greatfull to be here. Thank you so much!"
"The workshop was so needed and was right for me. I also felt that participants also brought their self energy, openness, depth of wisdom and curiosity. I felt that the workshop provided a great place for them to meet and connect not only horizontally and very very vertically (through generations of love and life). I also realised the interplay between us, the venue, the staff at the centre, and the nature is so real and I appreciate that. Thank you, Simon and Gabriela!"
"A wonderful workshop. It was really amazing and inspiring."
"Releasing blocks holding us back in life, achieved with the support and love of the group, guidance of facilitators, wisdom of the body and having conversations with our ancestors. Transpersonal experience that travels in space and time and touches other family loved ones. It can't be described in words and must be experienced!"
"This workshop expanded my view to myself and people around me to the extend that it allowed the space for missing puzzles to come together."
"Important shifts in my family relationships started to be noticable after this workshop for me. It's mysterious. I can't say how helpful this has been!"
"A fascinating dive into family constellation ideas and how they work in practice. Interesting group and lovely sense of connection."
BIO
Gabriela Salabert is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and supervisor with over thirty years of professional clinical experience in the public health sector of Sydney and private practice. She has worked extensively around complex trauma with different populations, using diverse treatment models and family interventions. Her integrative approach incorporates a holistic framework of evidence and practice-based psychotherapies: EMDR, Gestalt, Psychoanalysis, Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, Dance Movement, ACT, CBT, Grief Therapy, and Couples and Family Therapy. She has conducted ongoing clinical training in Systemic Family Therapy and Systemic Family Constellation Workshops since 2004, following studying in Buenos Aires with Bert Hellinger and other senior teachers.
Gabriela worked as a Senior Cross-Cultural Clinical Psychologist Consultant at NSW Health and, since 2018, as the Clinical Lead for Grief and Bereavement at HammondCare. She is an accredited supervisor with APHRA, providing individual and group supervision, and a member of the APS Clinical Psychologist College and the APS Sydney Committee.
BIO
Simon d’Orsogna is a psychotherapist, clinical trainer/facilitator, and systems-oriented coach with individual and couples clients. He completed a Clinical Masters of Systemic Family Therapy at the Bouverie Centre, and provides psychotherapy, process consultancy and adult developmental coaching. Based in Melbourne, Simon is a certified Kegan-Lahey Immunity to Change (adult developmental) coach, process consultant and integrative therapist, and an Associate Instructor with the US Coherence Psychology Institute teaching Memory Reconsolidation since 2011.
Simon facilitates experiential learning workshops, including through 2014-17 offered a training series introducing Internal Family Systems to Australia, and since 2017 brought the first IFS official trainings from Dr Richard Schwartz's US-based IFS Institute. He is IFSI's International Partner in Australia and New Zealand, and is a Level 3 IFS practitioner with training specializations working with couples and working with survivors of trauma. Simon has facilitated and arranged more than 500 days of Internal Family Systems trainings and workshops since 2014. He has organised and led trainings of Coherence Therapy, Dreamwork in Groups, Systemic Family and Group Constellations, Person Centred Experiential Therapies, and Polyvagal informed Clinical Practice in the region, and has presented at the US annual IFS Conference as well as in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, and across Australia and New Zealand. Simon runs an online practice, offering supervision and training for individuals and organisations.
In 2019 Simon founded the Mind Beyond Institute - see the website for more trainings and workshops in Australia and NZ to run in 2024-2025.
FAQS
Who will be responsible for me?
Confidentiality and safety will be discussed on the first day, and the expectation of self-care, responsibility, and support is key. Group norms will be discussed and agreed on the first day, and opportunity to participate in larger exercises will be offered - and is optional. We come together to learn-by-doing.
What should I bring to the workshop?
Bring curiosity, willingness to try things out ("Yes, and..."), a sense of humour, and a heart-oriented openness to the multiplicity of parts, Self, and what is mysterious in our Life. Preparedness to do your own work - "if you are feeling it, it's probably yours".
Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?
See the link at the bottom of the brief bio to the right .
Is my registration/ticket transferrable?
Tickets are not transferable, in accordance with the refund policy. Please advise if you do wish to withdraw or exchange tickets so we can update details.
What is the refund policy?
Due to the limited size of each course, a refund can only be issued if cancellation notification in writing is received 30 days prior to the workshop - less a $75.00 administration fee per person for the full course.
Existing registrants will be sent the refund, and should return any materials sent. We cannot reimburse any expenses you may have incurred. Courses must be pre-paid. We do not take money at the door.
We reserve the right to cancel due to insufficient registrations, or other reasons beyond our control at our discretion. Workshop fees will be reimbursed in full should cancellation be necessary.
(From the developer of Constellations) Bert Hellinger: New Paths
"The practitioners and the all the other participants experienced another consciousness, far beyond the relationships of ‘I’ and ‘You’. The ‘I’ that wanted something was carried along by an ‘We’, which meant it ceased being an ‘I’ in the usual sense, an ‘I’ that included ideas about good and bad, better and worse, even healthy and sick. These new ‘We’ constellations enthralled everybody present: everyone was drawn into the constellation in an individual way and learnt to take. Participants were reminded to take personal responsibility for their own actions and the consequences of those actions. The duality in our relationships: of helper and client, of knowledgeable and ignorant, was swept away by an all-embracing ‘We’. Everyone was able to, and had to, fit into a greater whole, but with a sense of self-responsibility intact. This was also true across the dimensions of our own health and illness, our happiness or misery.
Family constellations revealed that everyone is always present with several other people. Everyone lives different lives and in several places. Everyone is simultaneously taken into service for many others. By whom or what? By an all-embracing movement that decides over our welfare in a comprehensive way. Can anyone come between us and this movement? Are we not all taken in by the same creative power and guided on the path that serves our fate as has been decreed for us? This present time is also just one among many that we must live in and through, in order to become whole, increasingly freed and purified by this power."
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BW image (hands, top) photo by Liv Bruce on Unsplash
Photo of Mooloolaba beach, 2024 by Bernadetto Del Torre
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Where is it happening?
Mantra Mooloolaba Beach, 7 Venning St, Mooloolaba, AustraliaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
AUD 159.22
