The Adventure of Response-ability
If the individual is totally responsible for their own experience, this lets other people off the hook for any consideration of the consequences of their behaviour.
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If the individual is totally responsible for their own experience, this lets other people off the hook for any consideration of the consequences of their behaviour.
This second part of a two-part article explores the self as the meeting of organism and environment, and the role of that self in Gestalt therapy.
Part one of this two-part article explores how attending to the relationship between the organism and its environment means that in one sense, Gestalt therapy is focused on the individual, while in another, it is not.
We climb down from the giants’ shoulders to act differently because of the vision we have had.
It seems to me that a good life is a mix of these three realms: the sensual enjoyment of the physical, the pleasure of discovering and expressing our uniqueness and the delight we take in what is beyond ourselves.
I’d like to say that it is an essential part of psychotherapy to contribute to making the world a better place.
The experiment is to get in touch with 100 years before and after your birth. Why 100 years? This is the time span that we are fairly directly personally connected to: from our grandparents to our grandchildren, roughly speaking.
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