COACHING FOR AUTHENTICITY

“The idea of Gestalt therapy is to change paper people to real people. To make the whole man of our time come to life and to teach him to use his inborn potential to be ... a leader without being a rebel, having a center, instead of living lopsided. Fritz Perls (Eyewitness to Therapy, p. 120)

While it seems that the above quotation is about Gestalt Therapy, it is actually in the first NLP book. That was the book that Bandler transcribed and of which he became partially the editor of the book. It is also a book that contains a great many of later became NLP presuppositions and themes. In that book, you will read Perls’ passionate arguments about why not to ask ‘why,’ but to ask how. And the materials in that book were the foundation for the Gestalt Class that Bandler and Frank Pucelik began at the college—the class that figured out what we now call “The Meta- Model.”