Examples of Curriculum Christine Price Gestalt Awareness Practice

Part 1: GAP as : The Fundamentals of Awareness

• Good in the Beginning: Motivation • GAP as Art, Sport and Spiritual Practice • Basic Practice • Continuum of Awareness • Contact: The Development of the Witness • Working with Dreams Part One: Entering and Dialog • The Practice of Presence: as Initiator; as Reflector; as Witness • GAP and : Tonglen, Maitri and the Four Immeasurables

Part 2: GAP as Bodywork: The Body, the Senses and Perception

• Noticing and Supporting Sensation • The Four Expressions: Breathing, Sounding, Moving and Speaking • Working with Stimulation: Discharging and Containing • Perceiving the Outer Realm: Sensing and Our Environment • Facing, Feeling and Grounding • The Use of Touch in Gestalt Awareness Practice • The Basics, Again

Part 3: GAP as Psychology: The Past, the Future and the Now

• The Past: Message and Program from our Personal History • The Present: the Filter of Unfinished Business • The Future: Exploring New Possibilities • Befriending "What Is" • Working with Dreams Part Two: Ownership • The Basics, Yet Again

Part 4: GAP as : Trust Process, Follow Process, Get Out of the Way

• Working with Dreams Part Three: Opening to the Unknown • Trust, Trust, and More Trust • Being the Village Idiot as Initiator and Reflector • I Am That / Becoming Everything • Exploring our Relationship to Dying and Death • The Basics, One More Time

Part 5: The GAP Congregation: Life as Spiritual Community Practice

• GAP as Personal Practice • GAP as Peer Practice • The Limits of GAP • Good at the End: Dedication • The Basics, At Last • And Whatever Else Arises….

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Early Days of Gestalt at Esalen:

Dick Price’s Legacy: The shift from Hot Seat to Open Seat Work

Christine Price: Gestalt Practice and Buddhist Teachings

Values in Gestalt

Goals in Gestalt

Figure/ Ground

Communication Guidelines and Gestalt Language

Boundaries

How to Use a Group: Group Process

Gestalt Process: A Post Cartesian World View Affect Longings Safety/Danger Unconscious Organizing Principles

Developmental Process: The Emerging Self

Attachment Theory

Experiencing and Expressing Emotion: The Signal Value of Feelings

Developing an Emotional Vocabulary

Shame

Trauma

The Four Corners of Contact

Barriers to Contact

Working With Conflict

Drama Triangle vs. Self-Responsibility

Family Sculptures

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