{"title":"Working with whole intelligence in organisation development and change: making meaning, creating context, increasing impact","authors":"Kiran Chitta","doi":"10.53667/ipuj5484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/ipuj5484","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This article shares my perspective on Malcolm Parlett’s ‘five explorations’, described in his book Future Sense (2015). Parlett presents the concept of whole intelligence, or ‘whi’, as he has named it, as ‘an holistic and inclusive general concept, which attempts to gather together a number of valued human qualities and varieties of capability’ (p. 19). The five explorations help to reveal and nurture whole intelligence. As an organisational psycholo- gist using both theoretical and experiential lenses to reflect on Parlett’s ideas, I conclude that: 1. Whole intelligence has profound implications and potential for global impact within the context of organisational change – a thesis evidenced firstly by placing Parlett’s ideas alongside related theories and then placing the explorations within my practice. 2. For the five explorations to achieve impact within the world of work they need a supporting infrastructure, to be better codified and amplified in a hyper-competitive market for manage- ment concepts. Key words: Whole intelligence, five explorations, responding, interrelating, embodying, self- recognising, experimenting, organisation development, change.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128791968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dialogue and experiment","authors":"Gary M. Yontef, Friedemann Schulz","doi":"10.53667/rpae1714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/rpae1714","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This paper discusses the compatibility of Martin Buber’s dialogic method and active Gestalt therapy interventions, which are called experiments. The authors trace a brief history of the distinction between different psychotherapy systems which focus on the therapeutic relationship on the one hand or on active behavioural interventions on the other. They submit Gestalt therapy as a modality that integrates these seeming polarities, and they discuss the theoretical and practical consistency between the dialogic method, Gestalt therapy’s change theory (‘the paradoxical theory of change’), the phenomenological method, and Gestalt therapy experiments. It is the authors’ opinion that Gestalt therapy experiments do not aim for preset behavioural goals, but that they are in complete alignment with Gestalt therapy’s dialogic attitude. A definition of the term Gestalt therapy experiment is given, and its different uses are illustrated. The concept of resistance is examined in light of Gestalt therapy’s treatment philosophy. Indications as well as cautions regarding the use of Gestalt therapy experiments are outlined and different types of experiments, including specific examples, are provided. Key words: Gestalt therapy, dialogic method, experiments, paradoxical theory of change, contact, awareness.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124686996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What do Gestalt therapists do in the clinic? The expert consensus","authors":"M. Fogarty, S. Bhar, S. Theiler, L. O’Shea","doi":"10.53667/irfx7674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/irfx7674","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: What it is that Gestalt therapists do in the clinic that is different from other therapists? What is it, in other words, that makes Gestalt therapy Gestalt, and distinguishes it from other psychotherapeutic modalities? This article describes the process of finding an expert consensus about these questions as part of the process of developing a ‘fidelity scale’ for Gestalt therapy. Using a Delphi study, eight key concepts that characterise Gestalt therapy were identified, together with the therapist behaviours that reflect those concepts. Key words: Gestalt, fidelity scale, Delphi study, developing awareness, working relationally, working in the here and now, phenomenological practice, working with embodiment, field sensitive practice, contacting processes, experimental attitude.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128444359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The body as a ‘vehicle’ of our being in the world. Somatic experience in Gestalt therapy","authors":"Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb","doi":"10.53667/hsjk2292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/hsjk2292","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This article analyses somatic experience in the frame of reference of Gestalt epistemology, in its phenomenological, relational and aesthetic aspects. These ‘roots’ of the idea of somatic experience lead the therapist to focus his attention, on a therapeutic level, on the movement which the therapist and the client co-create with their complementary intentionalities. The article revisits concepts such as integration, self-function, holism, aggression, and support for the now-for-next in the light of somatic experience. It also provides clinical examples of the various forms of suffering of the body-in-contact, from anxiety disorders to desensitisation, and psychosomatic disturbances. Finally, it describes a few fundamental therapeutic competences which are needed for a successful Gestalt work on the body. Key words: body therapy, movement, Gestalt psychotherapy, phenomenology of the body-in- contact, anxiety disorders, desensitisation, psychosomatic disturbances, now-for-next.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121151005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can you let your dog into the room? Clinical zooanthroplogy and Gestalt Animal Assisted Psychotherapy","authors":"A. Merenda","doi":"10.53667/rjfx5262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/rjfx5262","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This article studies the system of interchange between human and animal and develops a clinical approach to it. Through two clinical vignettes, the article illustrates how the system of mediation between humans and animals is characterised and how it provides the basis for therapeutic contact. Each vignette reveals the therapeutic value of animals, and in particular dogs. The concluding remarks primarily involve ethical considerations concerning assisted therapy with animals and then clinical implications. Key words: zooanthropology, Gestalt Animal Assisted Psychotherapy, human–animal rela- tionship.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116728722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The healing encounter of dance, Gestalt, and art based on Anna Halprin’s Life/Art Process","authors":"Ursula Schorn","doi":"10.53667/ppxw4748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/ppxw4748","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: Anna Halprin, influential American dancer and artist, in her search for new ways to activate the transformative potential in dance, integrated Fritz Perls’ approach to Gestalt therapy in her work, called Life/Art Process. Gestalt principles of awareness in the ‘here and now’ find a structure in the Principles of the Creative Process, a central theoretical model of the Life/Art Process offering a holistic approach to creativity. The experience of physical, emotional, and mental awareness through movement extends into the field of artistic expression in dance and visual arts. The creative encounter between dance and art follows guidelines of the Psychokinetic Visualisation Process as applied to therapeutic settings. Key words: transformative potential of dance, Gestalt and dance, Principles of the Creative Process, Psychokinetic Visualisation Process, from the narrative to the abstract, the intelli- gence of the body.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128811144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Healing our dissociation from body and nature: Gestalt, Levinas, and earth’s ethical call","authors":"William W. Adams","doi":"10.53667/tpbn9719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/tpbn9719","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: We human animals have always lived in intimate rapport with the rest of nature, until recently that is. Alas, now, a crisis of consciousness and culture is creating a rupture in this essential relationship, thereby impoverishing humankind and the natural world together. Especially disturbing is an escalating tendency to live as if separated from our body and from nature. The present article explicates these reciprocal forms of dissociation (with the help of Paul Goodman’s notion of ‘egoism’), and considers how an embodied relational Gestalt approach can help heal these dreadful splits. When we are more sensitively attuned to our own bodies, we become more compassionately responsive to the bodies of others, human and otherwise. Correlatively, when we welcome direct contact with the beings and presences of nature, our bodies are awakened and enlivened and our well-being is enhanced. Guided by Emmanuel Levinas’ startling phenomenological philosophy, the article explores an especially salient (but often unnoticed) phenomenon in our direct encounters with nature: namely, a distinctive ethical summons to responsibility that our vulnerable body(self) feels prior to any free choice or consent. Events from daily life and from psychotherapy are pondered by way of Goodman’s and Levinas’ views. Key words: compassion, culture, ecological, ecopsychology, embodiment, other, phenomen- ology, psychotherapy, responsibility, self.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116747871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking a triangular perspective: co-parenting and Gestalt therapy","authors":"A. Merenda","doi":"10.53667/vqvu1157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/vqvu1157","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The aim of this article is to go beyond dyadic observational units to consider the parent–child relationship starting from a primary triad formed by parents1 and the child. This triad could be analysed as an interactive matrix within the many possible combinations of new families (e.g. step families, childfree and LAT couples). In Gestalt therapy, the extension of this framework may promote an effective connection between research and clinical work: new units of observation could be processed through contact boundaries between parents with their children, as well as other family members. Key words: co-parenting, triadic assessment procedures, new family figures, Gestalt therapy.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115938396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shyness: an everyday life concept","authors":"P. Díaz","doi":"10.53667/hebs8431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/hebs8431","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: Shyness is a universal experience that is familiar in everyday life and yet it seems largely neglected in the literature. It can be described as a continuum of experience that ranges from mild fear at the presence of a stranger or a new situation, to extreme cases of neurotic shyness. The present work explores the experience of shyness and offers a Gestalt therapy approach to this exploration. Although Gestalt therapy has not dedicated particular attention to shyness, it does offer the conceptual frame to explore the understanding of shyness, as its interest is the situation: the self emerging in the contact with the environment. As such, shyness can be described as an experience that occurs at the contact boundary affecting the relationship. Shyness and shame can be entwined in a close cycle; shyness preventing feeling shamed and shame of being shy. Shyness can be conceptualised as a creative adjustment where the organism, lacking support from the field, inhibits its aggression to the environment where his initial interest was, retroflecting this energy towards himself. This adjustment can be perpetuated in fixed gestalts. He organises himself to fit his ideation of the world instead of organising the environment; his initial interests/needs recede unaware to the background and his experience of life gets rigid. Key words: shyness, shame, shying, shy, fixed gestalt, creative adjustment, child develop- ment.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126008885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large groups, collective gestalts and prejudices – autoethnographic reflections on attending large groups in training","authors":"Adam Kincel","doi":"10.53667/szgj4044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/szgj4044","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This is a single case study on attending large groups in psychotherapy training using autoethnographic theory. Originating in a description of the personal experiences of the author attending large groups, this article presents an introduction to a wide range of large groups across different therapeutic modalities and examines an application of Gestalt therapy theory to understanding large group processes. A proposition is made to consider collective gestalts in working with large groups and to understand them as an ongoing dialogue among often opposing social forces. It is suggested that openness towards one’s own prejudices, and a rejection of finality create supportive conditions for attending to collective gestalts when participating and facilitating large groups. The article concludes with describing outcomes of large groups in three areas: diversity, learning therapeutic skills, and community building. Key words: large groups, autoethnography, prejudices, diversity, groups, psychotherapy training.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134569079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}