Narrative therapy
Practices that attend to meaning, story, and the social construction of self in clinical work.
Resources
A learning commons — and a few trusted links.
Gestalt Therapy International's work is supported by a working library, case studies across twenty languages, and a small set of allied practitioners working in narrative therapy, futurism, and neo-humanism.
Learn Gestalt
The library.
The companion site — learngestalt.com — hosts a multilingual commons of Gestalt material:
- · 2,000+ books in the library
- · 200 international Gestalt institutes indexed
- · 200 case studies in 20 languages
- · 13 full-length demonstration sessions
- · 34 theory units with lectures and quizzes
- · 2,000+ supporting articles
- · The Fritz Perls video collection
- · Working notes on contemporary relational practice
Allied practitioners
A few trusted links.
Learning platform ↗
The Power Compass
A platform from Dr Steve Vinay Gunther and Dr Paul Donovan on the art of power, practised wisely — a podcast, a self-paced course, and consulting for individuals, teams, and organisations.
Futurism & foresight
Reading the longer arc — organisational and ecological futures, used carefully and with humility.
Neo-humanism
Frameworks for humanistic practice that hold open the questions of meaning, finitude, and the wider field.
Embodiment & somatics
Practices situating awareness in the body — alongside, not against, the cognitive and relational frames.
Critical social work
Anti-oppressive frameworks and the wider sociocultural context of clinical work.
Systems & cybernetics
Early insights from systems theory that continue to shape Gestalt field thinking.
Working papers
A working paper.
PDF
Working paper · 2026
Why Gestalt Matters for Contemporary Social Work
A short working paper on what contemporary relational Gestalt brings to social work — the dialogical frame, the embodied turn, attention to shame and the wider field, and the methodological discipline of staying with phenomena. Useful for clinical supervisors, faculty, and students considering Gestalt-integrated practice.
↓Download PDFWorking notes
Selected reading.
- Buber, M.I and Thou
- Perls, F., Hefferline, R., Goodman, P.Gestalt Therapy · Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
- Hycner, R.Between Person and Person · Toward a Dialogical Psychotherapy
- Yontef, G.Awareness, Dialogue, and Process · Essays on Gestalt Therapy
- Jacobs, L.Real Groups · An Innovative Approach to the Group-as-a-Whole
- Wheeler, G.Self and Soul in Gestalt Therapy
- Parlett, M.Reflections on Field Theory
- Bloom, D.Integrative Gestalt Therapy in Action
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