ABSTRACT
The contact boundary is where we meet and withdraw from our environment. Examples of our contact boundaries can be seen as our skin and our senses. However, if we limit ourselves to such a definition we do not take into account less easily defined ways of contacting such as intuition, sensing and spiritual contact. We also run the risk of giving the impression that the process of making contact is always initiated by us when the process of gestalt formation, making sense of our world, comes from the whole situation – both the person and the environment (PHG, 1951). It is in this process of meeting and withdrawing at our contact boundary that we creatively adjust in relation to our environment.
