An Introduction to Gestalt

Charlotte Sills
Phil Lapworth
Billy Desmond
An Introduction to Gestalt
November 2012 | 208 pages | Sage UK
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This thoroughly revised edition of Gestalt Counselling introduces the fundamental concepts of Gestalt and systematically demonstrates how to apply and use these in practice. Taking a relational perspective, the expert authors explore how Gestalt can be used in a wide variety of 'helping conversations' from counseling, psychotherapy and coaching to mentoring, managing, consulting and guiding. After placing Gestalt in its current socio-political context, each chapter

  • Defines a major concept
  • Provides everyday examples and illustrative vignettes from a variety of settings to bring the theory to life and suggest how that concept may be usefully applied
  • Includes exercises for readers to practice themselves and with their clients

A 'running case study' featuring ongoing coaching work moves throughout the book, and boxed summaries, diagrams, checklists and sources of further reading make this the ideal text for use in training. The accessible, engaging writing style will appeal to undergraduates and graduates alike.

This book is essential reading for Gestalt-based Counseling & Psychotherapy graduate degrees, as well as for any course in the allied health professions where Gestalt is the foundation.

Contents

PART ONE: BACKGROUND

  • A Brief History of Gestalt
  • An Overview of Gestalt Principles and Recent Developments

PART TWO: GESTALT THEORY

  • The Relationship in Gestalt Practice
  • Awareness
  • Embodiment
  • Wholeness
  • The InterConnectedness and the Field

PART THREE: GESTALT PRACTICE

  • Assessment and the Process of Change
  • Phenomenology and Awareness
  • Working in the Dialogic Relationship
  • Promoting Healthy Process
  • Experiments
  • With the Gestalt Counsellor: A Case Example
  • Gestalt in Organizations: The Gestaltist as Coach or Consultant

Description

This thoroughly revised edition of Gestalt Counselling introduces the fundamental concepts of Gestalt and systematically demonstrates how to apply and use these in practice. Taking a relational perspective, the expert authors explore how Gestalt can be used in a wide variety of 'helping conversations' from counseling, psychotherapy and coaching to mentoring, managing, consulting and guiding. After placing Gestalt in its current socio-political context, each chapter

  • Defines a major concept
  • Provides everyday examples and illustrative vignettes from a variety of settings to bring the theory to life and suggest how that concept may be usefully applied
  • Includes exercises for readers to practice themselves and with their clients

A 'running case study' featuring ongoing coaching work moves throughout the book, and boxed summaries, diagrams, checklists and sources of further reading make this the ideal text for use in training. The accessible, engaging writing style will appeal to undergraduates and graduates alike.

This book is essential reading for Gestalt-based Counseling & Psychotherapy graduate degrees, as well as for any course in the allied health professions where Gestalt is the foundation.

Contents

PART ONE: BACKGROUND

  • A Brief History of Gestalt
  • An Overview of Gestalt Principles and Recent Developments

PART TWO: GESTALT THEORY

  • The Relationship in Gestalt Practice
  • Awareness
  • Embodiment
  • Wholeness
  • The InterConnectedness and the Field

PART THREE: GESTALT PRACTICE

  • Assessment and the Process of Change
  • Phenomenology and Awareness
  • Working in the Dialogic Relationship
  • Promoting Healthy Process
  • Experiments
  • With the Gestalt Counsellor: A Case Example
  • Gestalt in Organizations: The Gestaltist as Coach or Consultant
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An Introduction to Gestalt

Charlotte Sills , Phil Lapworth , Billy Desmond
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November 2012 | 208 pages | Sage UK

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This thoroughly revised edition of Gestalt Counselling introduces the fundamental concepts of Gestalt and systematically demonstrates how to apply and use these in practice. Taking a relational perspective, the expert authors explore how Gestalt can be used in a wide variety of 'helping conversations' from counseling, psychotherapy and coaching to mentoring, managing, consulting and guiding. After placing Gestalt in its current socio-political context, each chapter

  • Defines a major concept
  • Provides everyday examples and illustrative vignettes from a variety of settings to bring the theory to life and suggest how that concept may be usefully applied
  • Includes exercises for readers to practice themselves and with their clients

A 'running case study' featuring ongoing coaching work moves throughout the book, and boxed summaries, diagrams, checklists and sources of further reading make this the ideal text for use in training. The accessible, engaging writing style will appeal to undergraduates and graduates alike.

This book is essential reading for Gestalt-based Counseling & Psychotherapy graduate degrees, as well as for any course in the allied health professions where Gestalt is the foundation.


Table Of Contents:

  • PART ONE: BACKGROUND
  • A Brief History of Gestalt
  • An Overview of Gestalt Principles and Recent Developments
  • PART TWO: GESTALT THEORY
  • The Relationship in Gestalt Practice
  • Awareness
  • Embodiment
  • Wholeness
  • The InterConnectedness and the Field
  • PART THREE: GESTALT PRACTICE
  • Assessment and the Process of Change
  • Phenomenology and Awareness
  • Working in the Dialogic Relationship
  • Promoting Healthy Process
  • Experiments
  • With the Gestalt Counsellor: A Case Example
  • Gestalt in Organizations: The Gestaltist as Coach or Consultant

Recent Product Reviews:

'As the authors mentioned, Gestalt is nowadays - and in fact, has always been - a vibrating mix of practical ideas, psychological concepts and philosophical movements - ranging from theory of perception, through phenomenology and existentialism to Zen Buddhism. Authors kept very well with this tradition. [...] At the very end of the book you can find practical templates for working with clients - ready to use! Also additional readings after almost every chapter provide useful resource for further exploration of the key Gestalt themes. I highly recommend An Introduction to Gestalt as useful and inspirational toolbox for both coaches and therapists'
Dr. Robert Riethof, Czech Republic, The International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching
'This is an extremely clear and accessible introduction for students of counselling, as well as an increasing number of coaches and organisation consultants. The authors have succeeded not only in setting out the core principles of a Gestalt orientation, but bring these to life with case examples of Gestalt 'in use' - Simon Cavicchia is an APECS Accredited Executive Coach, UK registered Gestalt Psychotherapist and Joint Programme Leader MSc in Coaching Psychology

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