ABSTRACT
In the coaching context, experiments are vehicles to explore the client’s experience through active, behavioural, and imaginative expression. They are not a substitute for conversational dialogue, but an extension of it. The aim of an experiment is to expand awareness, understanding, and insight. he co-creation of the experiment frees up the client to take the initiative whilst also changing the space for the coach to improvise, get creative, and use their imagination and intuition. Whilst they are often enacted within the holding space of an individual coaching session or group-based workshop, they can also be practiced in real-life situations. From a Gestalt perspective, change can occur by being more of who people are, and when people are fully in contact with ‘what is’, rather than trying to be different. Polarity theory begins with the proposition that every quality people possess is one end of a continuum, with the opposite quality residing at the other end.
