
The Gestalt Coaching Program™
A six-month experiential journey beyond tools and techniques: presence, awareness, embodiment and intentional use of self, with mentoring and guided practice.
Learn to meet people, complexity and change with presence. We teach Gestalt-based coaching through lived experience, careful inquiry and conscious choice.


Rather than rushing to prescribe answers, Gestalt coaching creates conditions for seeing clearly, making contact, and choosing deliberately. It is practical, deeply human, and immediately relevant to leaders, coaches, teams and organizations.
Explore the Gestalt approachSeeing ourselves and the field more clearly.
Making intentional contact with what matters.
Discovering through experience and reflection.
Expanding choices that can become real.
Development experiences for coaches, leaders and professionals who want to work more effectively with individuals, teams and systems.

A six-month experiential journey beyond tools and techniques: presence, awareness, embodiment and intentional use of self, with mentoring and guided practice.

An in-person Gestalt learning experience for coaches, facilitators, consultants and leaders: working with group dynamics, stages of development, system levels and purposeful intervention.

An advanced hybrid journey for Gestalt Coaching Program graduates—four workshops, individual mentoring, Use of Self groups and two GCP observation opportunities.
A close-knit international faculty, committed to rigorous practice, personal inquiry and experienced guidance.

Pioneer of Gestalt Coaching, author of A Gestalt Coaching Primer and originator of Awareness Intelligence.

Turkey and Southeast Europe’s first ICF Master Certified Coach; founder of MareFidelis and author of Cesur Sorular.

Gestalt and somatic coach, expressive arts therapist and co-author of JOYBeing, with over three decades of experience.

The Path Toward Awareness Intelligence
2nd Edition
A practical guide to bringing Gestalt concepts into coaching. Dorothy explores awareness intelligence, presence and the intentional use of self to support learning and change.
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An invitation to find your own answers through 101 questions. Dost encourages readers to look closely at their lives, question familiar assumptions and discover new possibilities.
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Practices for bringing more joy, meaning and connection into everyday life. Gila and Ann explore ways of working with mindset, energy and wellbeing to nurture vitality.
Explore the bookOur programs are designed to connect theory, experience, practice and reflection—so learning becomes part of how you work and relate.
The deepest learning is not simply acquiring another technique. It is discovering new possibilities in how you meet yourself and others.
Articles, newsletters and conversations on Gestalt, leadership and learning.
An unusual phenomenon is happening as we are, for our own survival needs, being asked to engage in physical distancing (PD). Though it may feel better to say PD rather than saying social distancing, t
An interview with Dorothy Siminovitch, listed in the original Gestalt Center for Coaching archive.
In the magnificent Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand, a question is posed: “If and when you die, you are to be welcomed by all the great people who lived before you and made strong impacts on the…
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