In this episode continuing our gestalt series, we take a closer look at two contact interruptions, or rather contact moderations: Confluence and deflection. Both have to do with the permeability of our boundaries, both are forms of creative adjustments, and as such are vital to our being-in-the-world, and both, when they become fixed and rigid forms of behaviour stand in our way of living freely in the here and now.

Sources reading:

Gestalt therapy, excitement and growth in the human personality by Fritz Perls, Paul Goodman and Ralph Hefferline.

When the body says no by Gabor Máté

Gestalt and process by Peter Dreitzel

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Presentation and production - Orí Harmelin

Bumper music - The tallest of Orders by Simon MacHale

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