ABSTRACT
The client’s situation is their unique experience of their field including how they are impacted by and how they impact their environment. Fritz Perls (1947; PHG, 1951) emphasized that humans endow meaning to aspects of their environment and that meaning will be unique to that individual at that point in time. Through dialogue, careful phenomenological inquiry and appreciation of the way the client reaches out to his world – and how his world touches him – with skill, emotional engagement and patience we can gain an impression of their situation, but we can never actually experience their situation.
