Gestalt Practice Next Generation

The practitioners featured here have incorporated gestalt practice into their work consistently and in significant ways while maintaining principles that were central to Dick Price’s approach:

• No coercion or forcing, whether by the leader/reflector or through the group context.
• ⁠Each person is respected as the expert on their own experience.
• The leader/reflector trusts and follows process rather than imposing an agenda.
• The person is not approached as someone to be analyzed, diagnosed, or explained. Gestalt practice itself is educational rather than medical or psychotherapeutic.

Each practitioner is invited to describe their experience with gestalt practice and how it has influenced and informed their work. Contributions may include personal memories as well as professional materials such as papers, lectures, session clips, and guided practices.

We are particularly interested in how people have brought Dick’s approach forward in different settings—with individuals and groups, in classrooms, clinics, private practices, agencies, organizations, communities, and large gatherings. We invite contributors to describe what they have carried forward from gestalt practice, how they have adapted it, and what is continuing to unfold in their work.