About Us
Welcome!
We hope that you will find everything you need here to help you on your healing journey.
As you spend some time on the site you will see that we have a broad range of healing and wellness programs suitable for adults of all age groups. Whether you are looking for healing, or simply seeking to improve your own physical, emotional or spiritual wellbeing, The Gawler Foundation has much to offer you.
Our residential programs are conducted in the beautiful foothills of the Yarra Valley at our purpose built site – The Yarra Valley Living Centre – at Yarra Junction. The Centre enjoys all the simplicity and beauty that nature has to offer from resident kangaroos and koalas, to our biodynamic gardens and ornamental gardens set in natural bushland. We always welcome visitors and a simple phone call to our office will ensure a guided tour of the property. While you are here you may well like to browse through our specialist Resource Centre where we have a large and diverse collection of books, CDs and other items aimed to help you.
The Gawler Foundation is unique in that it has been working with people challenged by serious illness for over 25 years, long before terms such as ‘lifestyle’, ‘stress’ and ‘wellness’ made it into the general parlance. Our staff are qualified and trained to support you in your particular situation, either through one of our residential programs, through individual counselling sessions here or at our rooms in Hawthorn, or ihrough our variety of non-residential programs conducted in Melbourne.
The Gawler Foundation is an Endorsed Provider of Post-Graduate Medical Education through the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, QA and CPD Program. We are therefore able to offer a range of professional development programs to General Practitioners which attract CPD (Cat 2) points which in addition to informing and educating in the field of Mind-Body medicine, also contributes to their triennium quota in order to maintain Vocational Registration.
For whatever purpose you are visiting this site, we hope that we can be of assistance to you in some way.
Be well
Karin Knoester
Chief Executive