This book is embedded in what Peter Cole and Daisy Reese have called the “grand journey in a caravan peopled with seekers of truth, authenticity, and connection.” While carefully and extensively spelling out a range of the gestalt therapy principles, they humanize these principles by telling a story of the lives their therapy groups exemplify. Such attention given to ordinary human feelings and purposes takes the reader beyond the boundaries of psychopathology that often dominate the therapeutic literature. By vitalizing the breadth of personal existence, the authors create a fertile atmosphere of mutuality and discovery. They weave the life experiences of their group members in and out of theoretical guidelines. For the professional therapist, this lights up a recognizable pathway to help people recover displaced aspects of personal relationship. These principles provide a scaffold for reconstructing diminished personal effectiveness, stimulating people to revisit stories of miscast bargains they live with. The abundance of storyline gives immediacy to the struggle of people who have sacrificed vitality and relationship so as to soften the pain of contradiction and abandoned purpose.