He is offering informal training through workshops throughout New Zealand. The students of both Institutes connected through the Gestalt Club. This club was offered to anybody in the region interested in using the concepts of Gestalt therapy - in counselling, therapy, business, at home or at work. Anne Maclean and George Sweet started the club in 1994, seeing the group as a means of networking, exchanging ideas, meeting new people and continually presenting different aspects of Gestalt and other active process therapies. The meetings are held for an hour and a half on the first Friday of each month at 5.30 p.m. and start with a cup of tea or coffee before an hour's presentation.
Attendance varies from a dozen or so to over thirty.
There is also a place for people to put out information and material about their work for others to take away. Workshops were offered 1994 and 1995 in Auckland. Gestalt Therapy arrived in Australia around 1971. The University of New England at Armidale sponsored overseas leaders to come and introduce to their student body and the public at large the innovations in psychotherapy that were sweeping North America. Although he never acknowledged himself as a Gestalt therapist, Dr Schutz did demonstrate Gestalt Awareness techniques and methods in his encounter workshops at Armidale.