Experience Organization Therapy™ (EOT) is an innovative approach to working with and engaging the challenges
faced by professionals active in the mental health field. EOT builds upon Experience Organization Practice (EOP),
and its roots in Gestalt Therapy and context dynamics, offering a powerful, easy to understand
experiential framework for clinicians.
Experience Organization Therapy (EOT) differs from Experience Organization Practice (EOP)
Primarily by the focus on the therapeutic context and individuals and groups that are faced with
significant life challenges or diminished capacity to cope with general life stressors.
Experience Organization Therapy has a greater focus on compassion and support rather than
optimal states of performance and fulfillment.
Experience Organization Therapy (EOT) is based on an integration of an existential -panpsychism and
experiential-constructivism which emphasizes the individual's ability to make choices in the context of a
fundamental layer of consciousness. EOT works to identify the live moment-to-moment "Organizations of
Experience" that occurs within client's consciousness as they face their lived experience in real time.
Experience Organization Therapy (EOT) resituates elements from Gestalt Therapy (holism, existentialism, and phenomenology)
into a consciousness-based model emphasizing that human experience is not only organismic, but largely metaphysical. This expanded
frame of reference gives Experience Organization Therapy a more solid and extendable base while still being rooted in
ongoing moment-to-moment observations, tracking how individuals select and
organize their experiences in relationship to the therapist and the world.
Experience Organization Therapy (EOT) is a multidimensional and integrative approach, combining existential,
psychological, and philosophical insights. It offers a unique perspective on how individuals perceive,
interpret, and interact with the world.
The foundational presuppositions of Experience Organization Therapy are: