cycle of experience

The Cycle of Experience is a vehicle for examining both internal and external reality, and emphasizes the need to come full circle in order to fully integrate experience. A person (or group) approaches a new experience from a state of rest sensing multiple processes occurring internally and externally:

  • A sensation claims the attention
  • Awareness develops inducing anxiety/excitement, mobilizing energy for action
  • Action leads to contact with a new boundary, creating the conditions for change
  • Successful contact is followed by withdrawal and assimilation
  • Closure re-structures experience and a return to a state of rest
  


Read about the role of the
Cycle of Experience in Gestalt Coaching
 

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