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Supportive yet challenging, this volume contains 30 useful hints and reminders to help both students and professionals in counseling examine and improve key areas of ther work. Developing Gestalt Counseling encourages counselors to focus on areas that they feel need special attention by covering topics such as relationship and dialogue, assessment in the Gestalt approach; contact, awareness, proactivity, and responsibility; and experimental and creative methods. Author Jennifer Mackewn provides an easy-to-read and informative book for readers who are already familiar with the fundamentals of counseling and have begun work with clients in counseling psychology and social work settings.
Exploring and Developing Awareness and Contact
Exploring and Developing Awareness and Contact
Awareness
In the Gestalt sense, awareness is the holistic process of contact with and withdrawal from others in the field, of self regulation and meaning-making which takes place within our whole person, animates our being and changes us. It is noticing, recognising, being in touch with, and it involves our lived experience of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions of our self. It is a whole process engaging the total self in an exchange with the changing dimensions of the environment and it inevitably leads to growth. True awareness is therefore quite different from thinking, ruminating or introspecting, which are primarily cognitive processes that do not necessarily lead to the growth of the person. ...
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