Gestalt Coaching stance
Cultivate their coaching relationship through meaningful contact and a commitment to dialogue with curiosity, inquiry, and suspension of judgment;
Empower the client by building on their resources, strengths, and innate health; and using the client’s interest and energy to guide the coaching conversation;
Cultivate awareness of self, others, and the surrounding environment; seeing and attending to the whole of oneself and the client; encouraging experimental stance;
Focus on the present and on an unqualified embodied presence; attending to what is emerging in the here-and-now while being choiceful in the Use of Self and one’s presence as an instrument of awareness and change; and
Embrace an ethical practice adhering to the GIC’s, ICF’s and BCC’s ethical guidelines.