Gestalt Empty Chair Work

<p><strong>At the heart of this book is the author's personal journey of psychological intellectual and career growth including a description of how he has brought his unique self into his counseling work with students and community groups from ethnically and socially diverse backgrounds</strong>. The personal development work illustrates how Gestalt Therapy methods can support people learning to know their deep emotional thinking and behaving selves by using awareness of the ongoing connection between body awareness in constructing a unique psychological self. What one will find in this book is an honest practical and educated teaching of what it means to get to know yourself and how to build a personality that reflects your true self what the author calls our Hand-on-Heart Self. The author shares his own personal development and his counseling of others explaining key principles that govern Gestalt personal development work and how these can be employed to free individuals from an <em>unaware past</em> to an <em>aware and enlivened present and future</em>. The book includes a chapter summarizing many of the psychological books that have been instrumental in the author's understanding of what it means to develop or complete oneself. The author also shares how he has translated his doctoral studies in counseling psychology into a concrete method The 0-100% Competence Method and Circle of Development for assisting persons to become aware of their unique self as well as how to assess structure and monitor their on-going personal development.</p>