ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a gestalt view of an organisational self and how this supports change practitioners in thinking about their interventions with people, groups and organisations. Gestalt similarly offers a different and useful perspective on organisations and change. This view emerges from the notion of self in gestalt theory and can inform the way leaders engage with organisations. The gestalt concept of self provides leaders with a relational framework for interacting with the world, one in which their impact on, and are impacted by, all what is around they. As complex systems, organisations — like individual people or groups — can also be meaningfully viewed through the lens of the gestalt theory of self. Organisational life is constantly being shaped at every moment by a multitude of influences both past and present, both internal and external to the perceived boundary of that organisation.
