ABSTRACT
Awareness is our route into understanding ourselves, others, and the relationships between us. It’s the foundation of emotional intelligence, our capacity to self-manage and self-regulate. This means that the coach needs to appreciate the primary place of awareness-raising in the coaching process and how to facilitate it. A core Gestalt proposition is that heightened awareness is the key to learning, growth, and development. Growth and development occur when people expand what they can see, have choice about, and can act on. This empowering proposition is at the core of all personal development approaches and, from a Gestalt perspective, starts with sharpening awareness.
