I've always loved this idea that all of nature somehow has an innate sense of the approach of light, the dawn ... even in the dark! When we're not feeling good, when we're feeling flat or depressed, sick with grief or lost in any kind of loneliness or despair, it can feel like the darkness [...]
Compassion and Gestalt Therapy There is much written about growth and change that speaks to our desire to be different to how we are - to be better than we are, to be more than we are; because deep down we feel 'damaged', unworthy, left wanting somehow. But this is what I've learnt over many [...]
Why an "Opening to Grace" Healing Retreat? As an experienced Gestalt Therapist I have long held a desire to integrate Gestalt therapy with contemplative spirituality and to offer a new style of spiritual / healing Retreat. We call this new synthesis Transformational Gestalt and the main thrust of this contemplative perspective is working with embodied [...]
Mindfulness and the wise horse In equine assisted experiences (equine therapy), certain characteristics of horses are used to facilitate changes in perceptions of self and others, as well as the formation of new skills and approaches that can be taken into daily life. Horses are intensely social beings and exhibit a range of behaviours including those related [...]
Gestalt Therapy as Defined by Encyclopaedia Britannica Gestalt therapy, a humanistic method of psychotherapy that takes a holistic approach to human experience by stressing individual responsibility and awareness of present psychological and physical needs. Frederick (“Fritz”) S. Perls, a German-born psychiatrist, founded Gestalt therapy in the 1940s with his wife, Laura. Perls was trained in [...]
Gestalt Therapy - Empty Chair Technique Gestalt therapy focuses on you as a whole, interconnected with your environment, relationships and experiences. Emphasis is placed on the here and now, rather than what was, might be, or should be. The goal of gestalt therapy is to help you become aware of what you are doing and [...]
