” 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
January 13. 2018