Contact: What's In the Room Is Sometimes the World
As a gestalt therapist, I work from a here-and-now perspective with contact awareness. "Contact", in gestalt phenomenology, is described by one of my favorite contemporary gestalt writers, Hanne Hostrup, in the following way: "Organism and environment are interdependent. This interdependence is called contact." My mentors, Bob and Rita Resnick, often describe this interdependence as "what's in the room" or "what's fresh", and that can be with the client, with me, the space