Integrative Gestalt Practice: Transforming Our Ways of Working with People

ISBN-13: 9781782202516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 236 str.

Mikael Sonne; Jan Tonnesvang

Opis

Integrative Gestalt Practice (IGP) is a new approach to understanding and working with complexity and wholeness in people's lives. Among the many published books on the market today focusing on the need for specialization and manualization, this book introduces an alternative approach to working professionally with people. By combining basic principles from the gestalt-approach with basic elements of integral theory introduced by Ken Wilber, IGP develops a frontline framework for integrating different forms of theoretical and practical knowledge of human life-processes. This, for instance, can sustain the integration of various psychotherapeutic approaches, and - on a more general level - raise a more common capacity for perspective taking and meaningful disagreements between people.

The book shows in various ways how concepts of field theory, self-regulation, contact, awareness and creative experimentation can be directly applied in working with people. The IGP model can be used in many different contexts: in therapy, organizational work, coaching and pedagogy. The book contains a rich combination of theoretical elaborations and practical exercises. It will provide new insights for students, professionals and others with an interest in understanding and working with people.

Spis treści

Introduction , The field , The organism , The gestalt process , Contact, awareness, and the experiment , Intervention practice , Discussion and perspectives , IGP awareness training and exercises , Integrative methodological pluralism

O autorze

Mikael Sonne