Letting Go of the Dragon: 7 Keys to Effortless Speech by Anna Margolina

Author:Anna Margolina [Margolina, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

The Structure of Flow

As a scientist I feel thrilled when my random observations, musings, scientific data, and observations on real life start clicking together into a bigger picture. And that is exactly what happened when I attended a course called “Coaching from a Gestalt Perspective” with Gestalt coach Tunde Horvarth in 2014. As I sat in class listening to Tunde, I felt wheels in my head starting to turn, pulling together everything I’d learned about the experience of speech flow.

Gestalt is a modality developed by Fritz Perls. As you may remember, Perls was one of the “wizards” modeled by Dr. Richard Bandler. Perls was deeply dissatisfied with current psychotherapy, because he felt that it was too focused on finding out what was wrong with people, without establishing a clear picture of what a healthy, whole, and happy individual may look like.

Now, I will not delve deep into philosophy of Gestalt theory here. But there was something that resonated deeply with me due to my biological education: the Gestalt circle of experience.

My interpretation of it may be different from that of a Gestalt therapist. Yet, I believe that the concept is universal, that it flows nicely with what we know from biology, and that its applications are not limited to Gestalt therapy.

Imagine a biological system (for example, an amoeba or a mouse) that moves aimlessly through its environment as it suddenly senses something. All of a sudden, a part of the environment looks very interesting and well worth exploring. “Can I eat this, or can it eat me?” The diagram in figure 2 can represent the natural flow of this interaction.

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