ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses several important collateral issues such as embodiment, extended cognition, and hermeneutic phenomenology. It covers the difference between conceptual self and embodied self and relates these to gestalt theory of self. It defines extended cognition in the tradition of Goldstein’s sense of the holistic person. It extends the treatment of the situated person by describing the situated mind as not only embodied, but also embedded, enacted, and extended, expanding on these terms that were brought up in Chapter 1. The chapter also contextualizes hermeneutic and existential phenomenology. Starting with the body, then moving to the mind, and then understanding that our sense of the situation is also an interpreted experience, can give a person pause to consider before reacting impulsively and regretting reactive behavior. These things give the gestalt therapist or coach steering cables with which to set the direction of the therapeutic process.
