For those of you who are curious about Coaching or Gestalt, I am posting a very good article by John Leary-Joyce.
John L-J is an experienced Gestalt therapist and coach, he is the founder of the Academy of Executive Coaching located in London.
Excerpts:
If we threw a party and invited all the key influences on Gestalt we’d have interesting mixture of guests Freudian Analysis’s, Zen Buddhists, Gestalt Psychologists, Existential Philosophers, Psychiatrists, Anarchists & Social Constructivists. Drawn from a period of ego centric, individualistic US in the 50’s & 60’s, that was anti-establishment, discovering sexual liberalism and spiritual awakening aided by mind altering substances. You have the context for an unusual party, where it would be hard to imagine guests agreeing with each other and hosted by a radical couple called Fritz & Laura Perls.
Gestalt Principle 3 – Paradox of Change
Change happens when you become more of who you are
Rather than when you try to be what you are not.
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