Unit Objectives
"Understand the use of experiment in Gestalt. Be able to discern where the use of experiment is appropriate. Be able to exercise all the skills involved in facilitating an experiment."
Understanding Theory
"Forms of experiment - Enactment , Directed behaviour , Fantasy , Dreamwork , Homework , Artwork , Movement , Exaggeration"
Personal Development
"Adventurousness , Inventiveness"
Practice Skills
Working with all the forms of experiment Experimentation -
inventiveness, taking safe risks, at appropriate level at which support is available, can shift gears, push at appropriate points, find energy buttons, allow confusion, work at the I-boundary, Formulate homework tasks that are helpful and achievable Scaling up and down experiments Rules of setting up experiment: sharpening the figure Work with different boundary distortions