Mastering Gestalt

Gestalt Mastery is an educational reference navigator for Gestalt therapy: concepts, practices and literature.
A structured database for systemic understanding of the method. Does not replace full study, personal therapy or supervision. Not a medical service.

Who it's for:
students and Gestalt therapists in training and practice; supervisors - as a tool for students' independent work; anyone interested in psychology.

What's inside:

Concepts
22 cards: awareness (three zones), contact boundary, cycle of contact, confluence, introjection, projection, retroflection, deflection, egotism, figure/ground, unfinished business, paradoxical theory of change (Beisser), I-Thou dialogue (Buber), field theory, inclusion, creative adjustment, experiment, Self as process, shame and belonging (Lee, Wheeler), aggression as contact, support, phenomenological method. Definitions, historical context, clinical manifestations, misunderstandings, self-reflection questions, key authors, readings.

Therapeutic scenarios
19 vignettes: client in confluence, sudden anger, chronic retroflector, silence, intellectualization, idealization, stuck client, shame work, rigid introject, edge of tears, sexualized field, narcissistic/borderline client, body work, termination, boundary testing, grief, dependent client, anxiety. Each includes: vignette, client process, therapist's awareness, Gestalt perspectives (classical, relational, field, dialogical, phenomenological), possible experiments, questions to stay with, traps, supervisor questions.

Capabilities
10 areas with stage-based guides: contact awareness, phenomenological sensitivity, dialogic presence, creative experimentation, self-awareness as instrument, tolerance for emptiness (fertile void), contact interruption recognition, field sensitivity, paradoxical stance, embodied awareness.

Books
26 titles with summaries: Perls/Hefferline/Goodman, Polster, Yontef, Zinker, Jacobs, Hycner, Spagnuolo Lobb, Wheeler, Kepner, Frank, Buber, Beisser, and more.

Session
pre-session presence preparation (focus areas, blind spots) and post-session reflection (contact boundary questions).

Journal
post-session notes: what happened, what I'm aware of, contact interruptions, field observations.

Growth
capability self-assessment, supervision prep.

What the app does not do
does not replace full training, personal therapy or supervision.