Mid-January our community of alumni and students of Year Four and Five hosted the co-editor of the texts that inspired the paradigm shift to contemporary Gestalt. Poet, phenomenologist, creator of the language that speaks of what we do to the body and the heart, Gianni led a seminar on Panic Attacks and a seminar on […]
John Cleese assures us on his YouTube video that creativity is not something you do, it is a way of being. As Gestalt therapists we are gifted with a vocation that invites us at our best to be relaxed and open and available to play. (Our worst being when we get bound by our introjects […]
Four decades from the rebellious 60’s, we have learned from neuroscience, the close companion of Gestalt, that it is impossible to do, think, feel anything without impact on others and that what I do, think and feel is born of the impact of others on me. We share this world, this field, in the same way that fish share the waters, or pairs of children share the teeter totter, or dancers share the music and the beat.
Did you ever wonder why we become so dramatic when we are sharing our feelings? What we do with our emotions has a lot to do with the degree to which we failed to receive support or acknowledgment of our suffering. It is paradoxical that the bigger the drama the less we are able to feel our own suffering and the more our ability to be comforted by others is diminished.