What about this creative process?
What about this creative process? On Ariadne’s Thread Website there is a lot I write about being a creative process and I have been asked recently what this is. Gestalt therapy/ counselling has always been very much based in the present moment. Fritz Pearls, who was the founder, was very influenced by existentialism on the one hand and phenomenology on the other. Both are pointing to what is happening Now! Here in this moment. What is important in this meeting, this act of two people being in the same space together. Both bring something of themselves. All the experience and expertise about themselves. All that has happened and all that may happen. It is an encounter and at its best creates a situation of equality. Gestalt as with many of the foundational therapies were children of psychodynamic therapy (Think Sigmund Freud). At the time this was a very medical model of therapy. A person sat or lay on a couch and the analyst (the expert) sat behind them, perhaps umm...