Main description:

This collection brings together some leading figures in Gestalt coaching to take stock of the field and consider how it might move forward. It covers the principles of Gestalt coaching and encourages practitioners to rethink the application of Gestalt in new ways and new settings - e.g. leadership, management and team development. Individual chapters also explore radical and personal perspectives on Gestalt coaching, from considering the place of embodiment to 'being' in coaching practice and looking at the transformational micro-moments of the client encounter.

Contents:

Acknowledgements. Preface. Francis and Parlett, Introduction. Denham Vaughan and Gawlinski, Field-Relational Coaching for Gestalt Beginners: The PAIR Model. Parlett, 'Whole Intelligence' in Coaching. Johnston, The Aesthetics of Transformational Gestalt Coaching: A Heartfelt Research Project. Farrands, Breakdown and Possibility in Managerial Work:Reflections for Coaches. Fairfield and Shelton, Resources for Relational Leadership. Congram, Working with the Imaginal Field. Carlson and Kolodny, Making the Relational Turn: Some New Perspectives on Coaching Groups. Wollants, The Bodying Forth of the Situation. Gaffney, The Art and Craft of the Field Attuner. Francis, 'Living Moments' in the Art of Coaching.