ABSTRACT
As the situation above changes, adjustments are made in relation to the changing environmental conditions. Although we are not constantly climbing mountains, we are constantly adjusting throughout our lives in relation to our ever-changing environment. In gestalt we call these creative adjustments to signify the active nature of the movement as we create new ways of being in response to new situations. All healthy creative adjustments require making contact with what is now, rather than relating to a past picture of how things were. We take in the new information and form a new gestalt, rather than reacting to a changed situation with outdated responses. ‘All contact is creative adjustment of the person and the environment’ (PHG, 1951: 230).
