Gestalt has liked metaphors since the time of its founder Fritz Perls. In his book Gestalt approach he named the chapter on one's own growth and development Peeling the Onion – from the first frontage layer, cliché, socially desirable self-image, to the very true, authentic layer or the core self where is the source of our essential energy and vitality.
We invite you to peel the onion with us in various ways and various modalities.
onion (n.)
early 12c., from Anglo-French union, Old French oignon "onion" (formerly also oingnon), and directly from Latin unionem (nominative unio), colloquial rustic Roman for "a kind of onion," also "pearl" (via notion of a string of onions), literally "one, unity;" sense connection is the successive layers of an onion, in contrast with garlic or cloves.
We invite you to peel the onion with us in various ways and various modalities.
onion (n.)
early 12c., from Anglo-French union, Old French oignon "onion" (formerly also oingnon), and directly from Latin unionem (nominative unio), colloquial rustic Roman for "a kind of onion," also "pearl" (via notion of a string of onions), literally "one, unity;" sense connection is the successive layers of an onion, in contrast with garlic or cloves.
