ABSTRACT
Historically, Gestalt Therapy stems from an attempt to revise psychoanalysis, and the first American Gestaltists mainly used Gestalt in individual therapeutic settings. The first groups were didactic groups, used for demonstrations or training. It was only later, in the 60s, that workshops and regular groups became widespread, followed still later by Gestalt interventions in educational, social and medical institutions, businesses, and even in communities. Gestalt facilitates movement, in executives as much as in professional managers and employees, towards ideas based on experience such as mutual respect of individual potential, rhythm, exchange and contact. It highlights the possibility of positively utilizing certain conflicts, rather than lamenting them or fighting in vain; it stresses the importance of informal relationships, a vital source in the enterprise; it insists on the necessity of including the ideological dimension, which cements the organization's culture. Competence offers permanent widening of a whole spectrum of possibilities, via concrete experimentation, and not only based on theoretical laboratory research.
