” The Gestalt is the original, undistorted and natural approach to life,
that is, to mankind’s thinking, acting and feeling.”
“Here and Now”
Gestalt Therapy is focusing on the present moment, the now, here and now.
The idea of the now and the immediate moment in terms of content and structure of present experience is the most important principle of Gestalt Therapy.
The now contains experience, awareness and reality.
NOW=EXPERIENCE=AWARENESS = REALITY
“Contact”
Contacting is the way we change and grow. It is the way we grasp our lives and organize our environment for the best achievement and solutions that will support individual growth.
“Goals of Gestalt Therapy”
Making healthy contact, Becoming aware of your feelings and body, taking ownership of experiences ,Taking ownership of actions and consequences that follows them, acquiring new skills for satisfying self, empowering and mobilizing passive energies, handling anxiety, stress, fear, excitement and anger, Polishing self-esteem and
confidence, valuing and appreciating self, Finishing any unfinished business, Rediscovering self, and indeed reaching to desired closure.
Individual’s desire to change is any perspective of determines the goals of therapy session in which individual could achieve own desired feeling of comfort, achievement, success and list goes on according to individual.
“Awareness” Most often, it is thought that awareness is an indiscriminate, random process that can be processed by our eyes or ears. This kind of awareness is only a portion of the characteristics of awareness.
A Gestalt Therapist considers awareness as an interplay in which both the person and the environment participate. To become aware and alert needs to identify the sensations and feelings.
Of course the willingness is the essential element in this process and how often or how much you are willing to be aware of your actions and reactions or your needs and your desires.
Awareness is a joint point between body and mind. Being aware of self’s physicality and mentality is identifying contact boundary.
Awareness is continuing process which is available all the times that individual can achieve insight and experiences the life events in present time constantly.
Gestaltist approach through varieties of experiments, are unique. The functional behaviour of individual in terms of projection, introjection and retroflection will be viewed through, behaviour, language, rational and irrational core belief system, culture, religion and even political view.
Polarities and conflicts will considered in terms of integration of split part into identifiable and unified whole.
Growth process, problem solving skills and learning style are the elements that will help to understand creative adjustment for process of growth.
Gestalt Ottawa
Jan 2.2021