Memorabilia

Topic: Gestalt Practice and Offspring (Gestalt Awareness Practice, Relational Gestalt Practice, Open Floor…)

Photo credit: Steve Beck

• How did you meet gestalt practice? … or Gestalt Awareness Practice or Relational Gestalt Practice or Open Floor or…?
• What do you remember of that initial experience?
• What did you expect? How did your expectations compare with your experience?

• What has your relationship to this practice been since your first exposure?
• What is your relationship to this practice now?

• Is there any particular aspect of this approach that has been useful to you?
• Is there any piece of the practice or teaching phrase that you remember or refer to often?

• Is there any particular aspect of this approach that has been problematic for you?
• If yes, would you like to describe that?

• When you think of your experience with gestalt practice, is there any particular memory, snapshot, moment in time that comes to mind? Would you want to describe that?

Topic: Dick Price

• How did you meet Dick? Do you remember any first impressions?
• Did you come to that first meeting with any expectations, preformed impressions based on reputation, or others’ comments?
• If yes, how did your experience compare to your expectations?

• What was the nature of your relationship on a practical level? (in his group, introduced as a colleague, random meeting, worked at Esalen, etc.)
  

• When you think of Dick,
  • What behaviors or qualities come to mind? Is there a particular phrase that he used that you still remember?
  • Does a particular memory, snapshot, or moment come to mind? Would you want to describe that memory or moment?
  • How or when does he come to your mind now?

• Is there something more you want us to know?