The Practice of Action Learning: How the Gestalt Project Builds a Sustainable Learning Organization at Holo Solution Inc.

What is the "Gestalt Project"? It is an action learning experiment within the corporate environment, and also the core philosophy for Holo Solution to build a sustainable learning organization.

Gestalt psychology tells us that "filling in the blanks" (mental completion) is human nature. However, in corporate management, we often run counter to this very nature. Through standard operating procedures (SOPs), written documentation, and various other methods, we constantly try to explain everything with absolute clarity, aiming for total consistency between words and actions. In other words, we eliminate any room for our team to think creatively or fill in the blanks.

Humans inherently pursue freedom, creativity, and imagination. The shackles of rigid systems can never truly bind a group of talented people, making it essential to rethink the true essence of organizational teamwork.

Perhaps what people really need in the workplace is not a flawless, robotic copy, but an "unfinished masterpiece"—a shape with a missing piece—allowing others to proactively step in and complete it. What is hard to explain linearly is that this completion is not a mechanical, plug-and-play fix, but rather using a form of "open space" to embrace and fulfill everyone's individual capability gaps.

Specifically, an organization's vision and culture should not be precisely or dogmatically defined. Instead, under a certain degree of guidance, it should be shaped gradually through mutual alignment and continuous collaboration among all members. Even when that shape becomes distinct, you still cannot touch or see it, because as Gestalt theory teaches us, it is a unified form collectively completed in the minds of the team.

This is the origin of the "Gestalt Project" at Holo Solution. We hope to shape an ecosystem where people genuinely enjoy living, learning, working, and growing together. This ecosystem is not only vibrant internally but can also grow sustainably, eventually merging with neighboring sub-ecosystems—evolving from small saplings and honeybees into a vast, thriving forest.