Gestalt Coaching: Distinctive Features makes Gestalt principles,
values, and philosophy accessible to coaches of all backgrounds and
explains how to apply them in practice.
Peter Bluckert introduces 30 distinctive features of this approach,
divided equally between theory and practice. The book provides concise
but clear summaries of core concepts such as awareness and contact, the
nature and power of unfinished situations, the Field perspective, the
phenomenological approach, The Gestalt Cycle of Experience, and the
nature of strategic and intimate interactions. Bluckert provides a set
of practice guidelines and watch-outs for the Gestalt coach, information
on training and development and several case examples to bring the
approach to life. Gestalt Coaching reveals how this approach can be
used in individual development, such as executive coaching, with groups
and teams, and in wider social and political contexts.
With a focus on personal growth and development and enhancing
co-operation, dialogue, and relationships, this book will be an
invaluable tool for coaches of all backgrounds in practice and in
training, academics and students of coaching, and anyone interested in
learning more about how to apply Gestalt principles in their personal
and professional life.