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Welcome to our new Ikon staff.

Ella
Student  Experience (Melbourne)

I joined Ikon back on Halloween in 2022, a great first day, as a member of the Student Experience Team here in Melbourne! I have past experience working in higher education and am here to help you with any questions you may have. I have a passion for the ocean and all things marine biology, and I love to read and cook.

Maddison
Education Services Advisor (Sydney)

Hi, my name is Maddi, but people also call me Mads (or Scottie)! I’m the Education Services Advisor here at the Sydney campus! I joined Ikon in November of last year, and this is my first job in education, which is really exciting! I love reading, going to concerts, and cooking for friends. I really enjoy helping others and being part of such an amazing team!

Margot
Placement Support Officer (Sydney)

I am the new placement advisor I began at Ikon in December 2022.   I am very excited to be part of the Ikon team. I have a background in the Early Childhood sector working with children and supporting students completing their diploma and bachelor’s degrees. I love travelling, I have an interest in horses and football. I look forward to meeting and working with the rest of the team.

Inwha
Admissions Advisor (Sydney)

My name is Inhwa but I go by the name Ina. I joined the team last week as an admissions advisor, making me the newest addition to the team! I love doing yoga and I have recently started playing bass guitar. I am very excited to be on board and I look forward to working with you and getting to know you.

Industry News and Trends.

Clubs and Groups

Queer Club.

The Queer Club is not an exclusive club and EVERYONE is welcome.
Join us on the Melbourne Campus for events and get-togethers! We also have online resources and discussion forums where you can get to know other people in our Ikon Queer Community.

If you are interested in joining, contact Andy at andyfernie@icloud.com or 0438 338 853, or Ella and Prisca at events@ikon.edu.au

Hiking and Camping Club.

The Hiking and Camping Club is based in Melbourne, where students and staff can get together to explore nature and take a break from the city!

Hikes are organised every trimester and we are open to taking ideas from fellow nature lovers.

If you are interested in joining, contact Ella and Prisca at events@ikon.edu.au

Permaculture Club.

Are you interested in personal growth and learning, while also contributing to your community and the environment?

If so, we invite you to join our community of people working towards critical thinking as problem-solving and a commitment to sustainable gardening practices.

Run via Zoom, the Permaculture Club meets monthly to dialogue & discuss sources, swap tips, workshop collective dreams and get to know fellow thinkers (no prerequisite required just a passion to learn and grow). This will be a collaborative endeavor and will take shape by the efforts of the collective.

If you’re interested, please reach out to Gabby at gab.j.aston@gmail.com or Ella and Prisca at events@ikon.edu.au

Journaling Club.

Open to all campuses (Adelaide, Brisbane, Distance, Melbourne and Sydney), held Monday and Friday evenings between 6pm – 8pm (AEDT)

Come to a space dedicated to deep reflection and self-knowledge, and cultivate your journaling practices in a supportive community. Each week, the group will be guided through reflective activities such as writing prompts and contemplative listening. Attendees are then encouraged to spend time writing, creating, and reflecting for as long as needed. There will be two weekly meetings, held on Zoom, to ensure that this club is accessible to as many of us as possible!

If you are interested in joining, please email/message Eloise at eloise.nouvelle@outlook.com or 0407 135 156, or Ella and Prisca at events@ikon.edu.au

In the know.

Roman Ilgauskas shares his process of becoming a certified Jungian Sandplay Therapist and member of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy (Zurich, Switzerland).

Roman began his career as an art therapist, teacher and clinical supervisor in the late nineties and has accumulated 25 years of experience, training, and working as a psychotherapist in private practice. Jungian sandplay has as its roots in the collaboration between Margaret Lowenfeld and Dora Kalff in London in 1956. Together, they shared their ideas, approaches, and clinical techniques, to develop separately The World Technique by Lowenfeld at the Institute of Child Psychology clinic in London and Sandplay which was developed by Dora Kalff, a Swiss Jungian-oriented therapist.

The continued impact of these ideas in many instances were taken forward further by therapists from a range of different orientations such as play therapy, art therapy, sandtray therapy, the Erica Method, and the Dramatic Productions Test to name some. It was Melanie Klein who grasped the significance of toys and play as depicting or symbolising childrens’ profoundest emotions (for a detailed exposition see Mitchell, R. R., & Friedman, H. S. (1994). Sandplay: Past, Present and Future. Routledge.).

Central to the foundation of sandplay is the position that the client’s psyche carries an innate tendency to heal itself given a supportive environment. An aim of sandplay therapy is to activate the deep healing energies of the psyche by using a sand tray, water and figurines to convey the client’s inner world that is difficult intellectually to convey or understand.

The engagement of creating a Jungian sand tray through the creative play within a ‘free and protective’ space provided by the sandplay therapist, allows unconscious processes to become visible in a three-dimensional form for both children and adults. Just as in art therapy (diorama and art-using-a-box), a three-dimensional space provides an interior as well as exterior space to hold raw affect associated with loss, rejection, disconnection, shame or any number of complex expressions (Dean, 2016, p.156). As highlighted in the literature, sandplay provides a vehicle for the unconscious to let itself to be seen and known.

The Kalffian-Jungian sandplay method is characterised by the therapist providing the therapeutic space without interpretation of the tray and limited verbal interaction. The therapist does not make comments or ask questions while the client is making the tray. As part of a larger therapeutic experience, the method also includes other client-centred methods. The client creates trays over a period over time that provides a natural development or a sense of unification. The client ‘finishes’ making the tray in a session when it feels naturally completed. The therapist dismantles the finished tray after the client has left the therapy studio. The delayed interpretation and unpacking of the entire process, occurs some months after the client finishes their therapy process.

A central requirement for accreditation as a certified sandplay therapist requires the completion of one’s own sandplay process over a minimum of a year or longer, depending on the completion that unfolds naturally. It is important for the process to remain at a nonverbal, instinctive level, rather than at cognitive intellectual place, so that the unconscious can continue to be accessed without the therapist’s counter-transference. This makes visible and privileges the client’s internal symbolic images and world.

Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Practicing the Skills You Need to Change Your Life

One question to boost your motivation.

Everyone is familiar with the struggle to retain skills once learned. It’s a process that is ever present in psychotherapy, so unpacking how it works there can provide useful lessons for us all.