Following on from the Foundation programme where we touched on the Gestalt Cycle of Contact and Withdrawal we will go into this much greater depth and focus on the five Interruptions. 

The Gestalt Cycle of Experience maps out the route we go through as we engage with another person or the world at large. It has been broken into a number of steps with titles but these are not as important as having a clear experience of the real delight of the Contact/Withdrawal flow.

The primary focus is then on the internal tension we create when we block that flow.  Those blockages we call ‘Interruptions’ (rather than resistance) which are the habitual and unaware patterns that leave us unsatisfied and incomplete.  Gestalt coaching provides a language and framework for us to create interventions that undo those interruptions ie. ‘unblock’ the flow.