ABSTRACT
One might think that if change were constant, if things were constantly forming, evolving, emerging, then that constant differing would produce massive inequalities. Differences. But if change is so constant, then difference loses its potency. All things become equally different. For decades gestalt therapists have adhered to a theory of change elucidated in 1970 by Arnold Beisser. Beisser said, “change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not”. That dictum has been repeated over and over and is taught in gestalt therapy training programs around the world. Ironically, Beisser acknowledged field factors as motivation for figuring out a theory of change. Change will happen. People don’t have to make it happen. The sense of stuckness is an illusion. People may attempt to live in a preferable, static moment in time, but that is impossible. Personal change takes place in a world that is constantly moving.
