ABSTRACT
Expressing feelings as they happen with a client underpins the coaching model. This technique is inspired by the Gestalt approach where the whole of a person’s experience is considered important: thoughts, feelings and body sensations. The Gestalt approach focuses on the ‘here and now’ – what is happening moment by moment. Staying with present experience allows the coachee to become more aware. ‘Unfinished business’ from the past that causes fixed ways of being can emerge and be completed. Different aspects of one’s own self come into awareness, allowing more fulfilling relationships and a freer way of functioning in the world.
