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Gestalt Institute
of Ann Arbor
The Gestalt Cycle of Experience is a process description of the phases an individual/couple/family/system moves through in developing an aroused state of tension, and the behavioral and psychological creative adjustments produced to reduce the tension through need fulfillment. It is a conceptual tool used to view an ongoing event, incident, or interaction while the experience in process. Chronic interruption of this process constitutes thematic "stuckness".
(Gestalt Institute of Cleveland)
energy/YAY!
The Gestalt Cycle of Experience
action/Let's try it!
contact/By George, I think we've got it!
assimilation/
ahhhhh...
equillibrim/
OM...OM...OM
sensation/
hmmm...?
awareness/
ah-HAH!
