Gestalt Coaching: Distinctive Features

ISBN-13: 9780367429812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 154 str.

Peter Bluckert

Opis

Gestalt Coaching: Distinctive Features makes Gestalt principles, values and philosophy accessible to coaches of all backgrounds and explains how to apply them in practice.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures Introduction Part 1. THEORY - Gestalt principles and key concepts 1. The emergence of a Gestalt coaching approach 2. The hallmarks of the Gestalt approach – Part 1 3. The hallmarks of the Gestalt approach – Part 2 4. Healthy self-regulation and creative adjustment 5. Figure and Ground 6. Staying with the ‘What is’ - the phenomenological approach in action 7. The Field perspective – the person in context 8. Context: balancing the strategic and intimate 9. The nature and power of unfinished situations 10. Awareness 11. Contact, and interruptions to contact 12. Ways we interrupt contact, and consequences – Part 1 13. Ways we interrupt contact, and consequences – Part 2 14. The Gestalt Cycle of Experience as an orienting framework SECTION 2. PRACTICE 15. Creating the conditions for deeper personal development and connection 16. The relational stance and dialogic attitude 17. Core principles in practice 18. Practitioner presence - the intentional use of self 19. Experimentation and improvisation in Gestalt coaching 20. Individual-focused Gestalt experiments 21. Experiments in group and team contexts 22. The unit of work as a team learning experiment 23. Structured approaches to awareness raising 24. Support, challenge and dealing with complexity 25. Gestalt-based vertical leadership development programmes 26. Resourcing the client: relational know-how for dialogue and deeper connection 27. Practice guidelines for the Gestalt coach - Part 1 28. Practice guidelines for the Gestalt coach - Part 2 29. Watch-outs for Gestalt coaches 30. The training and development of Gestalt coaches Notes Referencing

O autorze

Peter Bluckert is founder and chairman of Courage and Spark, a UK-based vertical leadership development consultancy.