Concept
Awareness
In Gestalt therapy, ever since Perls, Hefferline and Goodman (1951/2019), ‘awareness’ has not meant reflecting on oneself, but rather the alert, bodily anchored attention to the present experience at the boundary of contact.
Excerpted verbatim from the thesis · Ch. 3.1 — 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance
Related concepts
Self-resonanceLeib / lived body5E cognitionContact boundary
Occurrences in the text
- Ch. 1.3 1.3 Objective
… emonstrate, building on this foundation, that Gestalt therapeutic concepts such as bodily awareness, working within the intersubjective field at the boundary of contact, and immediate prese …
- Ch. 2.3 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)
The third stage is iterative empathy: mutual awareness. ‘I feel that you are feeling with me, and you feel that I sense this.’ Both know from th …
- Ch. 3 3 Gestalt therapy as relational medicine in practice
The primary core concept of Gestalt therapy is the development of awareness: noticing what a person does otherwise unnoticed, how they perceive , how they interpret, …
- Ch. 3 3 Gestalt therapy as relational medicine in practice
… an empirical study from the German-speaking integrative training context, which derives ‘awareness’, ‘dialogical and phenomenological approaches’ and ‘experience-orientation in the here an …
- Ch. 3 3 Gestalt therapy as relational medicine in practice
… tention to the first of these three perspectives, the ’with what’: physical and emotional awareness.
- Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance
In Gestalt therapy, ever since Perls, Hefferline and Goodman (1951/2019), ‘awareness’ has not meant reflecting on oneself, but rather the alert, bodily anchored attention to …
- Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance
In this context, ‘awareness’ always refers simultaneously to three zones: the outer zone (perception of the environme …
- Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance
… al. shift their terminology from working with embodiment (2016) to working with embodied awareness (2020, p. 496), thereby emphasising that bodily awareness remains constantly linked to th …
- Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance
… important diagnostic tool in the therapeutic process. This ‘self-resonance’ refers to the awareness of one’s own physical reaction to what the client brings into the therapeutic space: tens …
- Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance
… or resonance into the training programme: aesthetic relational knowledge comprises bodily awareness, resonance and empathy. Her observation regarding malleability is noteworthy: bodily awar …
- Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance
… s, particularly in the bodily-relational competences such as presence, responsiveness and awareness of bodily processes, which this chapter describes (Grillmeier-Rehder, 2020, p. 123).
- Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance
… ), assumes that this organism possesses an inherent tendency towards ‘good Gestalt’. Once awareness is restored, this self-regulation can resume of its own accord. This concept has its own …
- Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance
Awareness and bodily self-resonance train perception, and in the person-to-person encounter, throug …
- Ch. 3.2 3.2 Embedded & Extended: The Contact Boundary and the Field
… hilst simultaneously maintaining a separate sense of self (Yontef, 1993). It is only this awareness of separateness that makes contact possible.
- Ch. 3.2 3.2 Embedded & Extended: The Contact Boundary and the Field
… erapist thus recognises themselves as a ‘function of a field’ and interprets their bodily awareness as information about the current field constellation (Fogarty et al., 2016, p. 39).
- Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now
… o change, but to embrace as fully as possible all aspects of an experience, by increasing awareness of that experience’ (Fogarty et al., 2016, p. 37). Change follows acceptance, not intenti …
- Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now
… ch, 2022, p. 99). He breaks this step down into eight ideal-typical phases, ranging from ‘awareness’ to ‘gathering’ (Feuerbach, 2022, p. 98). He does not view the giving of impulses and the …
- Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now
… s reason that something truly new can emerge: ’a fresh figure of clarity’, a new, clearer awareness (Fogarty et al., 2016, p. 40).
- Ch. 4.2 4.2 The missing contact boundary: simulation instead of encounter
… to digital animism. With the empty chair, the illusion never completely shatters because awareness of the fiction is maintained: the client knows that they are projecting. With AI, it is p …
- Ch. 5.1 5.1 Effectiveness, Areas of Application and the Concept of a Tool
… lour, the discarding and starting afresh are part of the experience and thus material for awareness (cf. Chapter 3.1). The generated image, by contrast, is a product without its own act of …
- Ch. 6.1 6.1 Interpretation of the results
… training, therapists develop a reflective, physically felt capacity for resonance through awareness and self-resonance in relation to themselves. And in therapy itself, the aim is to foster …
- Ch. 6.2 6.2 Recommendations for Action
… rapy work with projections provides the tools for this. The aim is to restore the ‘as-if’ awareness, which is naturally preserved at the empty chair (Chapters 4.2, 5.1): to know that one is …
- Ch. 6.2 6.2 Recommendations for Action
… . Chapter 3.1) demonstrates that this competence can be described and taught. Bodily self-awareness and resonance can be systematically practised and are therefore teachable. However, they …
- Ch. 6.2 6.2 Recommendations for Action
… t cannot be acquired retrospectively, but arises through self-experience and supervision. Awareness and self-resonance work therefore do not belong on the periphery of training, but at its …