Gestalt coaching takes the present moment seriously. The coach attends both to the client’s experience and to their own presence, noticing emerging needs, patterns of contact, interruptions and possibilities for action. Inquiry and experiment create conditions for practical learning, rather than forcing a predefined solution.
Presence
Ground yourself and meet the client with clarity, curiosity and responsiveness.
Awareness
Notice what happens within the client, within yourself and between you.
Use of self
Work intentionally with your presence, perception and responses in service of the client.
Embodiment
Integrate cognitive, emotional and somatic information into the coaching process.
Experimentation
Create safe, relevant experiments that open possibilities beyond familiar patterns.
Systems
Attend to relationships, roles, teams and organizational context—not only the individual.