Podcasts about Eugene Gendlin

AI and the process of thinking with Donata Schoeller. The Living Process with Greg Madison. Episode 32. This, 5th conversation with Donata, tackles the huge topic of AI - artificial intelligence, something that has now exploded into almost every area of human life. In our conversation, Donata stresses the importance of the process of thinking not just the outcome of thinking. Below are some points that feel most important and a link at the bottom to a document Donata offers as a summary. We both used chatGPT to help generate the points and the document and then refined what was produced so that it resonated with what we wanted to say, an instance of the use of AI that Donata is advocating! * AI discussions often compare it to human intelligence, but we need to improve our understanding of human thinking to use AI for our benefit.* Education should focus on understanding the process of thinking, not just output.* Teachers need to create assignments that imply real engagement and can't be easily done by AI, encouraging students to think. But how?* Thinking is often seen as vague and hard, making AI a handy tool to avoid it.* Eugene Gendlin's methods show a grounded, embodied way of thinking that connects with real experiences.* Hannah Arendt's political thinking stresses the need to use real experiences for clarity, encouraging engagement with life's complexities, including emotions.* Developing inclusive thinking needs courage and openness, with Gendlin's methods helping with this.* Joint attention and embodied resonance are key for cognitive growth, making thinking more inclusive, joyful, and trustworthy.* Embodied thinkers are connected to the earth and other living processes, a concept educators should promote.Episode 32. AI and the process of thinking, with Donata Schoeller: https://youtu.be/rBMkUm1hO_kDr Donata Schoeller is a philosopher who teaches internationally at various universities and is the academic director of the program "Training in Embodied Critical Thinking. In addition to her extensive work on Gendlin's philosophy, Donata has also published on Gendlin's philosophy and was involved in translating Gendlin's text A Process Model into German. She teaches Thinking at the Edge and is a Focusing trainer offering courses in Switzerland, internationally, and online.https://www.donataschoeller.comThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links:https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/Living Process on the FOT Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx3FqA70kQWuHCHmEiZnkn1VcrRIPbcvkDonata's document is here:http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx1VV5L6mVxdVZa61ybP3wQijRBa071O_4?si=DiFoqe-SA8aFgDhq#focusing #AI #thinking #Gendlin #The Living Process #Embodied #Philosophy of Embodied Critical Thinking

Matheus Cautiero narra o artigo de Eugene Gendlin "Cliente do Cliente".

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Narração do artigo de Eugene Gendlin "Cliente do Cliente"

The Living Process Episode 26 with host Greg Madison  Guest Rob Parker Paradigm Leaping Welcome back to The Living Process. In this episode, Rob talks about his interests in philosophy, especially existentialism, from an early age and it was this interest, combined with his desire to help other young kids like himself, that led him to Gendlin. Rob's first experience of the Focusing world was a 3-day Thinking at the Edge workshop with Gendlin at Stony Point. Unusually his interest in philosophy was his way into Focusing. We talk about Rob's interest in ‘meaning', his journey from the ideas of Gregory Bateson to Maurice Marleau-Ponty and Thomas Kuhn, and how these thinkers brought him to Gendlin and a unique opportunity to drop everything and learn from this new philosopher. In our conversation, we touched on how learning Focusing affected Rob's therapy practice. He also talks about learning from Mary Hendricks Gendlin how to slow down and work with the felt sense in sessions and we touched upon the political and social implications of The Process Model. Rob mentioned his modification of the EXP scale and his use of Zen and Focusing to work with The Inner Critic.   Rob Parker is well-known in the Focusing world and beyond as a clear thinker representing Gendlin's A Process Model and Gendlin's other philosophies to a lay audience. He has a longterm interest in Zen, spirituality, and science. For years Rob was a practicing psychologist, originally in the existential tradition, specialising in psychological trauma. In 2000 Rob found the philosophy of Eugene Gendlin, which he dedicated himself to understanding by meeting Gendlin every week until Gendlin died in 2017.   For information on Rob, his workshops, and his writing on Gendlin's philosophy, see: www.lifeforward.org Episode 26, The Living Process with guest Rob Parker: https://youtu.be/oAZh5uCe_Yo The Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/ Greg's YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQL The Living Process on the FOT Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx3FqA70kQWuHCHmEiZnkn1VcrRIPbcvk #somaticexperience  #trauma  #Focusing  #Gendlin  #Bodytherapy  #Zen  #Experientialpractice  #bodymind   #thelivingprocess #existentialism #psychotherapy

Peter Gill is one of the UK's foremost Focusing Teachers, and has been teaching Focusing for over 20 years. Prior to this, he spent a decade practising and teaching meditation. Also trained in trauma healing, grief work and nature connection. Peter brings an embodied, accessible and honest approach to his writings and teaching. He published his first book “The Way of Curiosity” in 2024. Peter is qualified with the International Focusing Institute and the British Focusing Association. https://focusing.org/ https://www.focusing.org.uk/ See Peter's book here https://www.livingfocusing.co.uk/curiosity.php keywords Focusing, meditation, therapy, emotional healing, Eugene Gendlin, mindfulness, interoception, self-awareness, personal growth, Focusing, personal development, therapeutic techniques, mindfulness, emotional awareness, peer support, mental health, trauma, listening skills, body awareness summary In this conversation, Peter Gill, a leading teacher of focusing, discusses the method of focusing, its origins, and its benefits. He explains how focusing differs from meditation by emphasizing the importance of listening to the body and engaging in a dialogue with one's inner experiences. Through personal anecdotes and examples, Peter illustrates the transformative power of focusing in therapy and personal growth, highlighting its ability to foster self-awareness, emotional healing, and decision-making. In this conversation, Peter discusses the concept of focusing, a therapeutic technique that emphasizes personal development and emotional awareness. He explores various methodologies within focusing, the types of individuals who seek this practice, and the challenges of raising awareness about its benefits. The discussion also touches on the transformative power of listening, the adaptability of focusing for different populations, and its potential applications in mental health settings. Gill encourages listeners to engage with focusing as a skill for life, highlighting its egalitarian nature and the importance of peer support. takeaways Focusing is about listening to the body. It involves a dialogue with one's inner experiences. Focusing can help access deeper emotional truths. The process can lead to significant personal insights. Focusing is often practiced in pairs for mutual support. Eugene Gendlin developed focusing based on therapy research. Not everyone is ready for focusing at all times. Focusing can be beneficial for trauma survivors. It helps individuals navigate their emotional lives. Focusing fosters self-compassion and reduces inner criticism. Focusing is a living process, not a rigid technique. People seek focusing to connect with their deeper selves. Learning focusing takes time and practice. Focusing can be beneficial for everyday emotional support. The method is adaptable for various populations, including children. Listening is a transformative skill developed through focusing. Focusing has potential applications in mental health settings. Peer support is a key aspect of the focusing practice. Focusing can help individuals process grief and anxiety. There are many resources available for learning focusing.

Peter Gill is one of the UK's foremost Focusing Teachers, and has been teaching Focusing for over 20 years. Prior to this, he spent a decade practising and teaching meditation. Also trained in trauma healing, grief work and nature connection. Peter brings an embodied, accessible and honest approach to his writings and teaching. He published his first book “The Way of Curiosity” in 2024. Peter is qualified with the International Focusing Institute and the British Focusing Association. https://focusing.org/ https://www.focusing.org.uk/ See Peter's book here https://www.livingfocusing.co.uk/curiosity.php keywords Focusing, meditation, therapy, emotional healing, Eugene Gendlin, mindfulness, interoception, self-awareness, personal growth, Focusing, personal development, therapeutic techniques, mindfulness, emotional awareness, peer support, mental health, trauma, listening skills, body awareness summary In this conversation, Peter Gill, a leading teacher of focusing, discusses the method of focusing, its origins, and its benefits. He explains how focusing differs from meditation by emphasizing the importance of listening to the body and engaging in a dialogue with one's inner experiences. Through personal anecdotes and examples, Peter illustrates the transformative power of focusing in therapy and personal growth, highlighting its ability to foster self-awareness, emotional healing, and decision-making. In this conversation, Peter discusses the concept of focusing, a therapeutic technique that emphasizes personal development and emotional awareness. He explores various methodologies within focusing, the types of individuals who seek this practice, and the challenges of raising awareness about its benefits. The discussion also touches on the transformative power of listening, the adaptability of focusing for different populations, and its potential applications in mental health settings. Gill encourages listeners to engage with focusing as a skill for life, highlighting its egalitarian nature and the importance of peer support. takeaways Focusing is about listening to the body. It involves a dialogue with one's inner experiences. Focusing can help access deeper emotional truths. The process can lead to significant personal insights. Focusing is often practiced in pairs for mutual support. Eugene Gendlin developed focusing based on therapy research. Not everyone is ready for focusing at all times. Focusing can be beneficial for trauma survivors. It helps individuals navigate their emotional lives. Focusing fosters self-compassion and reduces inner criticism. Focusing is a living process, not a rigid technique. People seek focusing to connect with their deeper selves. Learning focusing takes time and practice. Focusing can be beneficial for everyday emotional support. The method is adaptable for various populations, including children. Listening is a transformative skill developed through focusing. Focusing has potential applications in mental health settings. Peer support is a key aspect of the focusing practice. Focusing can help individuals process grief and anxiety. There are many resources available for learning focusing.

The Living Process Episode 25 Guest Lynn Preston A Group Listening Revolution Welcome back to The Living Process and this episode with my friend Lynn Preston. Lynn had just returned from a Psychoanalytic Self Psychology conference in Rome, having caught covid on the flight back, so you may notice that her voice is a bit husky but only her energy is infectious. In this conversation, we discussed how to translate between her very different therapeutic communities and what she values from Kohut's psychoanalytic theories of development and the importance of empathy. Lynn mentioned a paper she wrote some time ago which attempts to bridge the different languages of Kohut and Gendlin's understandings and it went over very well with her psychoanalytic colleagues. The link to that paper, The Edge of Awareness is below. Lynn and I spoke mostly about her Community Empowerment group work. We discussed revolutionary listening and how groups could evolve to allow us to talk about our differences. We mentioned the ‘carrying forward' of the group process and how we know so little about this but one important principle according to Lynn is that not everyone has to agree. She suggests that we need Revolutionary Talking not just Revolutionary Listening in order to move beyond the dyad model. How can the practice of Focusing be expanded to practices of relating? How can the ‘us' of the group make the individuals more of themselves rather than less. How can we map the challenges of group interaction in the way that in Focusing we have mapped how to work personally and as a dyad? Is mapping out the group process the next step for us in focusing? Lynn believes this is the year to bring this further development into the world. Episode 25 with Lynn Preston: https://youtu.be/tY0fRybIWcM Lynn Preston is well-known in the Self Psychology community and the Focusing Oriented Therapy community. She has spent years teaching and writing about both forms of therapy and had a long-standing friendship with Eugene Gendlin. Lynn's recent efforts have included her Community Empowerment initiative as well as spearheading the Focusing Therapy Youtube channel. Lynn's contacts: lynpres@aol.com http://www.lynnprestonforp.com The link to the paper we mention is here: The Edge of Awareness: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247527307_The_Edge_of_Awareness_Gendlin's_Contribution_to_Explorations_of_Implicit_Experience Links to all videos and podcasts: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/ Focusing Oriented Therapies YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx3FqA70kQWuHCHmEiZnkn1VcrRIPbcvk

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In this episode of The Gently Used Human Podcast, Dr. Scott Lyons sits down with Ann Weiser Cornell, a leading expert in the practice of focusing—a process for deep self-awareness and emotional healing developed by Eugene Gendlin. For over three decades, Ann has dedicated her work to helping people navigate their inner worlds, untangle stuck emotions, and create more compassionate relationships through her workshops, books, and courses. Ann is also the co-author of Untangling: How You Can Transform What's Impossibly Stuck, a practical guide to breaking free from entrenched emotional patterns.In this conversation, Ann shares her wisdom on how we can become better listeners—not only to those around us but to ourselves. With simple, yet profoundly impactful techniques, Ann helps us understand the importance of presence, clarity, and listening as tools for emotional healing and connection. Whether you're seeking to improve your relationships or find a deeper sense of self-compassion, this episode provides tangible tools to take with you. Tune in to this episode for a compassionate, insightful conversation that invites you to take a moment for yourself and explore the transformative power of listening!Topics We Break Down:The transformative power of deep listening and how it can heal relationships and ourselves.How to cultivate a “clear pool” within, so we can listen to others from a place of calm and openness.Focusing: The practice of listening to ourselves and how it helps untangle stuck emotions.Practical steps for becoming a better listener—both externally and internally.The role of language in facilitating meaningful, open dialogue.How to create a compassionate relationship with yourself by welcoming all parts of your experience, even those that feel shameful or uncomfortable.

Episode 18 The Living Process Living the Focusing Journey, with Nada Lou I am happy to share this conversation with Nada Lou as Episode 18 of The Living Process. Nada is well known throughout the Focusing world as a Coordinator, teacher of Focusing, a contributor to Biospiritual Focusing and early developer of Thinking at the Edge along with Gendlin. She brought Focusing to many new regions of the world and she has documented countless workshops and presentations by Eugene Gendlin and other Focusing teachers through her valued DVDs (see her website). Nada talks about growing up during a turbulent time in Yugoslavia and though not mentioned in the interview, Nada was on the gymnastics national team for Yugoslavia and was a long-time coach of gymnastics when the emigrated to Australia and then Canada. It was in Montreal that Nada was recommended the Focusing book and then met Ed and Pete from whom she learned and then taught Biospiritual Focusing. In the episode we touch on many of these events and her deep resonance with Ed and Pete's teaching of how to be ‘religious' or spiritual ‘with both feet on the ground'. This embodied spirituality echoed her own theological studies. She talks about meeting Gene, her video work,  and how for her the video documents represent her self-expression of Gene's teaching. Nada talks about her natural connection with Gene, the history of TAE and other fascinating points that will interest many of us in the Focusing Community.  Her website and DVD list… https://nadalou.com/about/ Nada is a prolific video maker of more than 45 DVDs featuring Gene Gendlin and other Focusing luminaries. Since co-presenting TAE workshops with Gendlin, Nada evolved a personal approach to the TAE course called THINK DIFFERENT – (TAE), and she remains in the forefront of spreading the “method” of this practice around the world. Nada is the author of  “The Grassroots Manual Introduction to TAE”. Nada is available to give workshops and presentations to groups around the world by invitation. In her teaching of TAE and Focusing, Nada highlights Gendlin's philosophical ideas and in this way, awakens interest for the wonderful complexity that this philosophy is capable of drawing out. CONTACT NADA:  nadalou@nadalou.com Episode 17 with Nada Lou: https://youtu.be/erYgpnDbQMs The Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/ Living Process on the FOT Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx3FqA70kQWuHCHmEiZnkn1VcrRIPbcvk The Living Process is available on all podcast platforms: For example, Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon, Pocketcasts, Youtube Podcasts. Most of these platforms now offer free transcripts of each episode. Transcripts are also available on Youtube videos.  Please spread the word about Focusing and The Living Process.  Warmly, Greg Madison #Focusing #Gendlin  #Bodytherapy #Experientialpractice #Awareness  #Somaticwork #bodymind #focusingorientedtherapy #TAE #Biospirituality #Focusingvideos #NadaLou #FocusingInstitute 

The Living Process Episode 17 Relating from an Authentic Heart, with John Amodeo, PhD I am very happy to share with you The Living Process Episode 17, with John Amodeo. John has practiced and studied Focusing since the late 1970s when he completed his doctoral work on Focusing and meditation. Over the years John has also worked and studied with well-known luminaries at the intersection of psychology and spirituality, including John Wellwood, John Bradshaw, Ed McMahon and Pete Campbell of Biospirituality, and of course Eugene Gendlin. John himself is well-known for his many books, The Authentic Heart, Dancing with Fire, Being Intimate, Love and Betrayal, as well as his widely-read regular column in Psychology Today. In this episode John and I talk about his experiences as a Marriage and Family Therapist, especially related to his work on shame, intimacy in relationships, how to receive, and the importance of staying with embodied experience. We also touch on his deep understanding of Buddhist practice and Taoism.   John Amodeo. PhD, LMFT, holds graduate degrees in both Clinical Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology. He has been a licensed marriage and family therapist for over 40 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in San Rafael and the Sebastopol area.  He is the author of four books and was a writer and contributing editor for Yoga Journal  for ten years.  He co-authored a chapter on EFT and Buddhism with Dr. Sue Johnson in her edited book, The EFT Casebook. John is a Certified Focusing Trainer and Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist. He has lectured at universities internationally, including in Hong Kong, Chile, Thailand, and Ukraine. John has featured on national television and radio programs, including CNN, Donahue, and New Dimensions Radio.  He has led workshops at Esalen Institute, JFK University, The Omega Institute, and The New York Open Center, and was an adjunct faculty member at Meridian University.  He has written blogs for the Huffington Post and is a blogger for Psychology Today, with over 5 million total views of his 140+ articles.  He resides in Sonoma County, California. For more information on John and his work see: https://www.johnamodeo.com Episode 17 with John Amodeo: https://youtu.be/810vDOgn0i8 The Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/ Living Process on the FOT Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx3FqA70kQWuHCHmEiZnkn1VcrRIPbcvk The Living Process is available on all podcast platforms: For example, Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon, Pocketcasts, Youtube Podcasts. Most of these platforms now offer free transcripts of each episode. Transcripts are also available on Youtube videos.  #Focusing #Gendlin #Zen #johnamodeo #buddhist  #Bodytherapy #Experientialpractice #Awareness  #Somaticwork #Zenmeditation #authenticity #bodymind #buddhist #shame #couplestherapy #focusingorientedtherapy 

This inspirational episode promises insights into living a more present, aware, and connected life. Russell Delman, co-developer of The Embodied Life - a transformative approach to human potential, joins us to reveal how to reclaim your personal power by taking responsibility for your internal state, rather than blaming emotional imbalances on other people and the world at large. Russell presents the critical role of embodiment in informing both our healing process and spiritual development, proposing a seismic shift from Western psychology's focus on individuality to recognizing our profound interconnectedness with everything around us. We examine the evolution of spiritual practices as vehicles for genuine healing and Russell's personal story, highlighting his integration of Zen meditation, Gestalt therapy, yoga and the Feldenkrais method. Russell shares a fascinating overview of Moshé Feldenkrais's life with highlights including engineering, unarmed combat, Judo, the genius of the brain and even nuclear secrets during World War II. He also explains how we are subtly informed by a culture of dissatisfaction, and how certain methods of learning lead to implicit self-acceptance for who we are. We discuss how emotions have both a story and a sensation and how crucial it is to become aware of the various layers of our emotional experiences in healing. Finally, we tackle the art of mastering authentic communication - a necessity for meaningful interactions in our increasingly complex world. Russell offers insights on how to navigate challenging conversations with grace, using presence and self-awareness as tools for understanding. This episode isn't just a conversation; it's an invitation to a more intentional and connected way of being.Russell's exploration of body/mind perspectives and human potential began while studying psychology at university, sparking a lifelong commitment to awareness. He deepened his understanding through workshops at the Esalen Institute, traveling in the jungles of South America and trainings in Zen meditation and yoga. He has extensively studied Gestalt therapy under Dr. Robert Hall and trained in the Feldenkrais Method with founder Moshé Feldenkrais. His relationship and study with Eugene Gendlin, the founder of the Focusing technique, was also of great significance. Russell was one of the first teachers chosen to lead Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs - he has taught in over 50 international programs, helping to train over 2500 Feldenkrais teachers internationally. Central to Russell's life are his nearly 50 years of marriage with Linda, co-developer of The Embodied Life, and their journey as parents to their daughter, Liliana.theembodiedlife.orgLiked what you heard? Help us reach more people! Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts Start Energy Healing Today!Unlock your healing potential with our informative and fun introductory 10 hour LIVE online class in energy healing Our Flagship Training is Setting the Standard in Energy HealingThe next 100 hour EHT-100 Energy Healing Training is open for enrolment! LIVE & online - 12th October - 16th March 2025. Join us in Bali in 2024 - Our Retreat AND first in-person EHT-100 Training are now booking! Contact Field Dynamics Email us at info@fielddynamicshealing.com fielddynamicshealing.com Thanks for listening!

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Closeness To the Issue (Part 5 of "The Sense Of Physical Necessity"), published by LoganStrohl on March 9, 2024 on LessWrong. This is the fifth post in a sequence that demonstrates a complete naturalist study, specifically a study of query hugging (sort of), as described in The Nuts and Bolts of Naturalism. This one continues my demo of phases one and two: Locating Fulcrum Experiences and Getting Your Eyes On. For context on this sequence, see the intro post. Reminder that this is meant as reference material. Before throwing in the towel, I thought I might as well try talking things through with ChatGPT. Why? I think it was just something I was doing a lot at the time. "Not sure how to proceed? Throw GPT4 at it for a while and see what happens." I didn't expect anything in particular from the activity. As it turns out, I can probably count on one hand the number of work-related discussions that have been as useful to me as this one - which probably says as much about my social deficits as it does about GPT4's abilities. It talked me around, and I un-gave-up. The most important part was using GPT as a Focusing partner. I did a (mostly) canonical version of Gendlin's Focusing, and came to understand that I was struggling with the balancing act between authenticity and legibility. I decided to almost completely abandon legibility. The relevant section of chat log: (Note: Often, ChatGPT suddenly turns into a mini encyclopedia entry. I fondly imagine an excited nerdy 12-year-old trying to get full marks on an essay at these moments. Despite considering them extraneous to me personally, since it's giving me background on terms I have chosen myself, I've left these parts in as potentially valuable context for onlookers, but I've italicized them so you can skip them if you'd prefer.) Logan I'm going to try a little bit of "focusing" a la Eugene Gendlin, to get in touch with whatever it is I want to work out. Please be a focusing partner. I feel a forward pressure, and another pressure holding that back. It's primarily in my chest and solar plexus. The forward pressure reminds me of stamping feet, raring to go, frustration, almost desperation. It has a couple of layers, I think, as though something is trying to hide. The "desperation" is from a lower layer than the "raring to go". I get a felt shift when I think "I feel afraid". I feel afraid that I am done, it is over, I can no longer do or make or think. I feel afraid that I will never make progress again. The forward pressure in my chest responded a lot to that last sentence. There was a release, and I exhaled tension. ChatGPT Thank you for sharing your experience in real-time. It sounds like a potent mix of emotions and sensations you're navigating through. The concept of "focusing" as developed by Eugene Gendlin involves tapping into our bodily sense of particular issues or feelings, the "felt sense", and trying to articulate or resonate with that feeling until there's a shift or clarification. It's an internal process, but sharing it, especially with a partner, can provide reflection and sometimes help articulate or pinpoint what's happening within. The forward pressure you describe, with its layers of "raring to go" and "desperation," seems to be a complex feeling, perhaps with multiple facets or sources. And your identification of the underlying fear - that you may not progress or contribute again - seems to be a significant realization. It's commendable that you're confronting these feelings head-on and seeking clarity. How are you feeling now after the release you mentioned? Are there more sensations or feelings that you want to explore further or share? Logan Yes, I want to feel into the "holding back" pressure. The "holding back" feels more like it's on the outside of my body. Like a wall, or a hand on my chest. I...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Closeness To the Issue (Part 5 of "The Sense Of Physical Necessity"), published by LoganStrohl on March 9, 2024 on LessWrong. This is the fifth post in a sequence that demonstrates a complete naturalist study, specifically a study of query hugging (sort of), as described in The Nuts and Bolts of Naturalism. This one continues my demo of phases one and two: Locating Fulcrum Experiences and Getting Your Eyes On. For context on this sequence, see the intro post. Reminder that this is meant as reference material. Before throwing in the towel, I thought I might as well try talking things through with ChatGPT. Why? I think it was just something I was doing a lot at the time. "Not sure how to proceed? Throw GPT4 at it for a while and see what happens." I didn't expect anything in particular from the activity. As it turns out, I can probably count on one hand the number of work-related discussions that have been as useful to me as this one - which probably says as much about my social deficits as it does about GPT4's abilities. It talked me around, and I un-gave-up. The most important part was using GPT as a Focusing partner. I did a (mostly) canonical version of Gendlin's Focusing, and came to understand that I was struggling with the balancing act between authenticity and legibility. I decided to almost completely abandon legibility. The relevant section of chat log: (Note: Often, ChatGPT suddenly turns into a mini encyclopedia entry. I fondly imagine an excited nerdy 12-year-old trying to get full marks on an essay at these moments. Despite considering them extraneous to me personally, since it's giving me background on terms I have chosen myself, I've left these parts in as potentially valuable context for onlookers, but I've italicized them so you can skip them if you'd prefer.) Logan I'm going to try a little bit of "focusing" a la Eugene Gendlin, to get in touch with whatever it is I want to work out. Please be a focusing partner. I feel a forward pressure, and another pressure holding that back. It's primarily in my chest and solar plexus. The forward pressure reminds me of stamping feet, raring to go, frustration, almost desperation. It has a couple of layers, I think, as though something is trying to hide. The "desperation" is from a lower layer than the "raring to go". I get a felt shift when I think "I feel afraid". I feel afraid that I am done, it is over, I can no longer do or make or think. I feel afraid that I will never make progress again. The forward pressure in my chest responded a lot to that last sentence. There was a release, and I exhaled tension. ChatGPT Thank you for sharing your experience in real-time. It sounds like a potent mix of emotions and sensations you're navigating through. The concept of "focusing" as developed by Eugene Gendlin involves tapping into our bodily sense of particular issues or feelings, the "felt sense", and trying to articulate or resonate with that feeling until there's a shift or clarification. It's an internal process, but sharing it, especially with a partner, can provide reflection and sometimes help articulate or pinpoint what's happening within. The forward pressure you describe, with its layers of "raring to go" and "desperation," seems to be a complex feeling, perhaps with multiple facets or sources. And your identification of the underlying fear - that you may not progress or contribute again - seems to be a significant realization. It's commendable that you're confronting these feelings head-on and seeking clarity. How are you feeling now after the release you mentioned? Are there more sensations or feelings that you want to explore further or share? Logan Yes, I want to feel into the "holding back" pressure. The "holding back" feels more like it's on the outside of my body. Like a wall, or a hand on my chest. I...

How can your nightmare be your friend? Dr Leslie Ellis explains why nightmares might be shouting for your attention, showing what is unmetabolised in your psyche and maybe even telling you what is needed to help that process. “The antidote is often within the dream itself,” she says. She tells us about her embodied dreamwork method for “imagining the dream forward” to discover a new way through the dream, allowing it to complete in a way that doesn't disturb your sleep. As part of her mission to de-mystify nightmare treatment and dreamwork in general, Dr Ellis talks to us about her long experience in working with dreams and nightmares, including her doctoral research on treating the trauma-related dreams of refugees. And she shares her knowledge and enthusiasm for the Focusing work of Eugene Gendlin. For the Dream of the Week, she shares a delightful dream of a red fox that may or may not be as tame as it appears. -- Your dreams are delightful, too! If you have a dream you'd like us to discuss on the podcast, contact us through the DRI website driccpe.org.uk/contact or the social media links below. -- Dr Ellis is a leading expert in the use of experiential and somatic approaches in psychotherapy, in particular for working with dreams, nightmares and the effects of trauma. She is the author of A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2020) and offers online training in embodied, experiential dreamwork and nightmare treatment.  She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology with a somatic specialization, and a Masters in counselling psychology with a focus on depth/Jungian approaches. She worked as a therapist in private practice in Vancouver, BC for more than 25 years. She is a former adjunct faculty at Adler University, and past president of The International Focusing Institute, where she is currently a Certifying Coordinator.   In this episode: Dr Ellis ·      drleslieellis.com ·      @dreamsdemystified on Instagram and Facebook ·      A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy: Implementing Simple and Effective Dreamwork Eugene Gendlin – Focusing ·      Focusing: How To Gain Direct Access To Your Body's Knowledge ·      Eugene Gendlin on YouTube Arnie Mindell – The Dreaming Body ·      aamindell.net/dreambody ·      Working with the Dreaming Body The Waking Dream Process ·      driccpe.org.uk/free-dri-resources ·      Awakening Through Dreams, Nigel Hamilton   Let us know what you think, and submit a dream for us to explore on the podcast!  Instagram @thedreamboatpodcast FaceBook @dreamboatpodcast Twitter @dreamboatpod DRI website: driccpe.org.uk/contact  This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London's scenic Little Venice. Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join! Keep dreaming, and keep sharing your dreams!   Credits Recorded by Sophie, Lev and Ella at the Boat Pod https://theboatpod.com  Edited by James Ede at Be Heard https://beheard.org.uk  Podcast Artwork Design by Kat Seager Design   Music: Adventures by A Himitsu https://soundcloud.com/a-himitsu  Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/2Pj0MtT Music released by Argofox https://youtu.be/8BXNwnxaVQE  Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/MkNeIUgNPQ8   #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork Insta: @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream @dreamsdemystified FB: @associationforstudyofdreams @laura.payne.33 @dreamresearchinstitute @DreamsDemystified

Wholebody Conversations. The Living Process Series 02, E08 with guest Kevin McEvenue In this episode of The Living Process, Kevin McEvenue speaks to me from central Toronto where he lives. I first really got to know Kevin many years ago when he and I were on the faculty of the Focusing Institute Summer School in Garrison NY - we taught together there for a few years and it was great fun, joking around and sampling the local beers. We hit it off and have been Focusing partners ever since. Kevin started originally in financial services but that never suited who he was as a person, so many years ago he took the brave decision to change his life and he moved to Europe to train in Alexander Technique before finding Focusing once he moved back to Canada. Kevin's unique combination of what he learned from Alexander and what he learned from Eugene Gendlin became known as Wholebody Focusing (WBF) for which he is now internationally known. At the age of 85 (we spoke just a few days before his birthday) Kevin continues to maintain a small practice and to contribute to the world of Focusing, and especially his community of WBF. The latest development of that practice is what Kevin calls Heartfelt Conversation. In this episode, we speak about the emergence of Wholebody Focusing and how Kevin came into the world of Focusing, and his first meetings with Eugene Gendlin. We go on to talk more about the practice of WBF and its slightly different interpretations of ‘body' and ‘felt sense'. This discussion leads us to a description of Heartfelt Conversation and some exploration of what it is that animates and moves the body when we have a felt shift. Heartfelt Conversation, like a few other recent developments, seems to highlight an increasingly relational aspect of Focusing practices. This episode is a warm and deep conversation that I think you will enjoy. More information on Kevin and his work can be found here: https://wholebodyfocusing.blog Kevin's publications and Wholebody Focusing manual, plus his book, Dancing the Path of the Everyday Mystic can be found here: https://wholebodyfocusing.com/publications The Living Process page, with links to all videos and podcast platforms is at this link: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/ #counselling #existentialism #focusing #psychology #existentialtherapy #wholebodyhealth #wholebodyfocusing #kevinmcevenue #gregmadison #thelivingprocess #therapy #somaticexperiencing #somatic #embodied #gendlin #alexandertechnique #personalgrowth #personaldevelopment #selfimprovement #selfcare

Forgetting the Year the World Stopped. A Special New Year 2024 Episode of The Living Process. With Professor Ernesto Spinelli and Dr Greg Madison This is a 90-minute episode edited from two conversations between these existential psychologists that occurred in April 2020, a few weeks into the Covid lockdown, and April 2021, as the lockdown was easing in the UK. To celebrate the beginning of 2024 it seemed fitting to try to honour our Covid experience by trying to remember what actually happened during the pandemic, the day-to-day lived experience, the effect it had on us, and the hopes we may have had that a new, more compassionate world, would emerge from this shocking event. Recently Ernesto and I revisited these conversations and we shared the impression that society has mostly tried to forget the whole experience of the Covid pandemic, the deaths, the lockdowns, and our hopes and fears during that time. So we decided to re-issue an edited version of the two conversations, to retrieve some questions that arose during that unprecedented time and to assess how we have done as a species - Did we grasp the opportunity for change? Have we emerged more compassionate, more aware of ourselves existentially? Have we just scurried back to 'normal' in our search for certainty? The video explores some of the deeper significance of daily life events, and some existential themes emerging from the pandemic and the 'lockdown' of most of the world's population, Both men try to make sense of their feelings and experiences, noting that they have changed considerably and wondering about the longer-term psychological and existential impact of this strange period in human history. Although not strictly a conversation about Focusing and the philosophy of Eugene Gendlin, I think Focusing people will find resonance with the style of interaction and much of what is discussed. Professor Ernesto Spinelli is one of the leading figures in the world movement of existential psychotherapy. Originally from Canada, he has lived his professional life in the UK and received numerous awards for his work in existential therapy, existential-phenomenological psychology, coaching, and mediation. He has authored numerous articles, chapters, and books and is a frequent speaker at international conferences on psychotherapy and psychology. Greg Madison hosts The Living Process series of podcasts and is also an existential psychologist living in the UK. Greg is known, both in the Focusing and the existential worlds, as one of the developers of experiential-existential practice, an attempt to work phenomenologically by crossing existential therapy with the practice of Focusing and Eugene Gendlin's philosophy. We look forward to seeing your comments and especially whether you'd like the series to occasionally expand beyond the world of Focusing as I have done here? Also, there is the potential to edit another 30-40-minute video where Ernesto and I talk specifically about the impact of COVID-19 on therapy and our ideas about the future of therapeutic practice. The next episode in the series will feature Kevin McEvenue and be a return to the Focusing conversations usually featured on The Living Process.

In today's must-listen episode of "Mind Your Leadership" Podcast, join us as we dive deep with Oscar Trimboli, a renowned expert in the art of deep listening, on a journey to transform how we connect with others and ourselves. 

The Living Process is a new series of conversations about Eugene Gendlin's Focusing method, with longtime Focusing Teacher and Psychotherapist, Dr Greg Madison as host. These conversations will feature people from the Focusing world and also those beyond our international community who might have something to say about the practice of Focusing, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, and Gendlins' philosophy. New episodes will hopefully appear every 2-3 weeks so if you subscribe and click notifications you'll know when a new conversation is up. These episodes are now also available as audio-only podcasts so that they are more convenient to listen to. You can subscribe in Youtube: @FocusingOrientedTherapies or @gregmadisontherapy . For more information about Focusing Therapy see www.focusingtherapy.org

The Living Process is a series of Focusing conversations with Focusing people. In this episode, I talk with Dr Ken Bradford. Ken combines Buddhist psychology & meditation, existentially-robust therapy, and the nondual awareness of Dzogchen.  He began a dedicated practice of insight meditation in 1975, and Dzogchen. After earning a Ph.D. in Psychology at Saybrook University, Ken trained in Focusing with Eugene Gendlin followed by a decade-long apprenticeship in Existential Psychotherapy with James Bugental including co-teaching with him for several years. During this period, Ken developed a contemplative-existential approach to therapy intertwining Buddhist and experience-near psychology, enhanced through training in Nondual Therapy. Ken recently closed his psychotherapy practice and retired as an Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and California Institute of Integral Studies, devoting himself to Dharma teaching, personal retreat, writing, and the contemplative life. His teaching is now primarily occurring at Mountain Stream Meditation, in Nevada City, CA, as a member of the Mountain Stream Teachers Council. For more information about Ken's current work, see: www.authenticpresence.net In this episode, Ken and Greg have a far-reaching discussion beginning with his correspondence with Gene Gendlin for about 5 years in the early 80s. In these letters, Ken and Gene wrote about their mutual interest in what they called ‘the openness' having met at a Buddhist retreat where Gene was teaching Focusing. Ken emphasises the meditative quality that focusing offers to the therapist and how Focusing addresses problems and Buddhism addresses the 'whole thing' but that this can cause a spiritual bypass that focusing catches. We discussed how each person has their own capacity to be present. And we practice a bit of what we are talking about during the conversation…. Ken mentions his training with James Bugenthal and how this could be considered an early form of FOT. Ken also discerns the difference between 'Understanding the experience and experiencing the understanding'. We touch on authenticity, Winnicott, and the importance for therapists to have their own experiential practice. About 10 minutes in you can see my dog, Elliott, re-making his bed. Usually, Elliott is an attentive listener but on this occasion, he was distracted...

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Many emerging therapies like EMDR, IFS, Somatic Experiencing, and Psychedelics target a client's “Felt Sense” and “Embodied Knowing” rather than intellectual and cognitive insight.  The term “Felt Sense” was coined by philosopher Eugene Gendlin, who developed a peer to peer therapy process called Focusing in the 1950s.  Here we present a conversation with Focusing expert Annette Dubreuil on the history, allure, and methodology of this internal psychotherapeutic process. Annette describes her personal connection to Focusing, her experiences as a long-time Focusing facilitator, and her specific teaching process, the Pupa process.  She also describes Gendlin's Thinking at the Edge method for creativity, and how we can combine knowledge from different fields to enhance creativity and meaning.  Stick around till the end to learn the meaning of life according to Annette Dubreuil and consider whether Focusing may be right for you.Timestamps3:15 - Definition of the “felt sense”9:30 - Annette introduces Focusing14:00 - Annette's discovery of Focusing17:30 - Combining Polyvagal Theory and Focusing 23:10 - Giving credit to Eugene Gendlin 24:32 - Crossing therapy processes and modalities (“Thinking at the Edge”)26:59 - Combining the 8 C's of IFS and Focusing 30:10 - Focusing and Heart Energy 32:07 - Annette's transition from Focusing client to collaborator 35:00 - How empathy factors into Focusing38:00 - Tanya Singer's meditative monks42:00 - Catastrophic thinking46:27 - Annette's background 49:20 - Victor Frankl's 4 Components of Finding Meaning54:36 - “Meaning issue” in Annette's clients56:40 - Conversation about Dirk and Annette's shared experience 59:30 - Psychedelics and Focusing 1:01:30 - Annette's personal focusing practice1:05:00 - Focusing prompts1:06:47 - Rapid Fire questions and wind downProduced by Dirk Winter and Violet ChernoffTheme music by The Thrashing Skumz

Jan began her career as a social worker and psychotherapist 40 years ago. She began listening with non-pathologizing ears and heard shocking stories of sexual torture, and responses that confused her.As she continued to listen she learned that somehow these self-harming behaviors were “helping” individuals to escape intolerable emotional states. They were shifting their mood from flooding anxiety to numbing deadness, or vice versa. Because these behaviors were so helpful they were compulsively repeated and often became addictions.Jan's book Treating Trauma and Addiction with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom Up Approach is the result of rethinking the Felt Sense Experience Model that she wrote about in her book, Emerging Practice in Focusing- Oriented Psychotherapy, 2014. Jan's integrated the Polyvagal lens Theory to create a more sophisticated way of understanding emotional regulation, where addictive behavior is an embodied response to emotional dysregulation.In This EpisodeJan's websiteJan's coursesJan's upcoming Polyvagal courseThe Primacy of Human Presence, by Eugene Gendlin. A PDF download.The Courage to Heal, Ellen Bass and Laura Davis---What's new with The Trauma Therapist Project!The Trauma 5: gold nuggets from my 700+ interviewsThe Trauma Therapist Newsletter: a monthly resource of information and inspiration dedicated to trauma therapists.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Nightmares: what's their cause and cure? Our guest is clinician and dream demystifier, Dr. Leslie Ellis. Nightmares seem to be caused by anything upsetting whether in recent life or from long ago. Luckily, we don't need to know what is causing a nightmare to work with it. Dreaming helps us metabolize emotions but nightmares can wake us up, interrupting the process. She describes a dream as a picture of our current or habitual nervous system condition (ala Eugene Gendlin). It can be helpful to rescript the dream or change the ending in an environment where we feel calm and safe. Dr. Ellis describes bias control and aspects of Stephen Porges's polyvagal theory. BIO: Leslie Ellis is author of A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy and offers online dreamwork certification to mental health professionals. Her experiential approach to engaging with dreams is based on focusing, an approach that privileges the body's felt sense in the exploration of dreams. Developed by Eugene Gendlin, a focusing approach includes finding help in a dream and bias control. Leslie has expanded on this method to develop an embodied approach to treating nightmares, and recently published a paper in the journal Dreaming on nightmares and the nervous system.  Find our guest at: DrLeslieEllis.com Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today's ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on June 10, 2023. The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Layman meets with Dr. Karen Jaenke, a holistic educator and dreamworker, to talk about the somatic dimensions of dreamwork, the nature of the subtle body, the importance of dreamwork for navigating the metacrisis, and her unique integration of the insights and practices of Eugene Gendlin, Arnold Mindell, and Robert Bosnak. Dr. Jaenke is the former Chair of the Consciousness and Transformative Studies program and former Director of the Ecotherapy Certificate program at John F. Kennedy University. From 2001-2008, she served as Dissertation Director and Core Faculty at the Institute of Imaginal Studies. Currently an Executive Editor of ReVision: Journal of Consciousness and Transformation, she has edited and published journals on the topics of Imaginal Psychology, Shamanism and the Wounded West, and Earth Dreaming, as well as numerous articles on these topics. In 2000, she founded Dreamhut Consulting to offer consulting services for dissertation and thesis writing, dreamwork, hypnotherapy and mentoring. Her dissertation was titled: Personal Dreamscape as Ancestral Landscape. Her creative vision synthesizes dreamwork, indigenous ways of knowing, subtle body awareness and Gaian consciousness. Dr. Jaenke's professional website www.dreamhut.org Follow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/ As always, remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible! https://www.patreon.com/theintegralstage

Things we talk about in this episodeMany different ways to breathBreath as a way to access pure presence and consciousness.Many health and wellbeing benefits to breathingThe rise in awareness due to breathwork and technology and lockdownA way to help us come back to our essence and connect to ourselves as natural beings, one with life.Out of body experiences.Creative collaborations of breath and music- drum and bass.Trauma release.The reality of living in a disconnected culture that doesn't teach us to feel connected to ourselves and our inner wisdom.Water emersion and breath.Weekly breath sessions online.Connect with LeonaSupport us on PatreonLeona Johnson -One-to-one connection mentoring with Leona plus online or in-person eventsConnect with me on InstagramLive Wild websiteLive Wild InstagramPodcast Music by Ray JohnsonGuest Linkshttps://www.thesacredbreath.co.uk/aboutBiographyKerry has been connected with rebirthing breathwork since 1993 and is a certified practitioner with two different schools. She now focuses now on embodiment practices such as Internal Family Systems and Eugene Gendlin's Focusing, using a trauma informed approach. Kerry is a trainer with AIR School of Breathwork and Alchemy of Breath, guiding & supporting students through deep personal processes to achieve a qualification in breathwork facilitation. She loves sharing the healing power of the breath with others, by holding retreats, weekly online group sessions, 1:1 sessions, and her deepest love, warm water rebirthing.Kerry also co-founded and is the festival director of the UK's first Breathwork Festival which is an annual event started in 2018, celebrating all kinds of breathwork. Kerry's very grounded nature holds a very safe space for breather(s), holding them in their highest potential and being committed to the unfolding of each person's own journey which of course is guided perfectly by our breath.Kerry has recently been voted in as the National Representative for the UK with the International Breathwork Foundation, and is a practitioner member of the Global Professional Breathwork Association. She holds much gratitude for all her teachers along her path, but more so her Auntie Lynn Veitch who has been a breathwork practitioner for nearly 40 years.Transforming unusual spaces into areas where arts can meet, inform and inspire people of all backgrounds, ages and cultures has been in Kerry's calling from very early on. This passion for creating spaces for people to connect and inspire continued with work that sees Kerry producing an area of Glastonbury Festival for the last decade.Kerry has also been fortunate to have experienced & trained in Focusing, EFT & Co-Active Coaching & TRE.

FEATURED GUESTS: Laury Rappaport, PhD, MFT, REAT, ATR-BC, teaches expressive arts therapies and art therapy, and has served on the faculties at Lesley University, Notre Dame de Namur University, CA , Sonoma State University, California Institute of Integral Studies, and Meridian University. She is the author of Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Body's Wisdom and Creative Intelligence and editor/author of Mindfulness and the Arts Therapies. Laury is a Focusing Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute and the Founder/Director of the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute. LISTEN & LEARN: The origins of Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy which developed from research done by Eugene Gendlin and Carl Rogers and what causes change in therapy. The process by which Laury Rappaport developed Focusing Oriented Art Therapy. What is meant by the terms the "felt sense" and the "felt shift". Why Focusing is considered to be a human process. What "Clearing the Space" is in focusing oriented and focusing oriented expressive arts therapies and why it is an effective tool for stress and pain reduction. The role of clinical sensitivity as it pertains to maintaining a safety first approach in treatment. RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW: Laury's Session at the Expressive Therapies Summit { Virtual Session } March 23, 2023 Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) as a Trauma-Informed Approach The Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute Mindfulness & The Arts Therapies: Theory & Practice edited by Laury Rappaport Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Body's Wisdom and Creative Intelligence by Laury Rappaport Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman https://amzn.to/3kY5Wgz Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method (The Practicing Professional) by Eugene Gendlin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reina-lombardi5/support

We tend to think of emotions as things that “just happen to us,” and indeed that is part of our human experience. But we may also miss the degree to which we have a say over and agency in what emotions we experience and how we experience them. In this episode, the first in a short series on the world of emotions, we explore what Dr. Brené Brown calls “emotional granularity”—the skill of distinguishing between and naming emotions at a refined level. This skill, it turns out, is critical for emotional health and happiness and for living a flourishing life.

Focusing ist eine Methode, die von dem amerikanischen Psychotherapeuten Eugene Gendlin (1926 - 2017) entwickelt wurde. Ziel ist es, ein tieferes Verständnis von inneren Erfahrungen und Gefühlen zu erhalten. Focusing ist eine sehr effektive Methode, um innere Konflikte und Stress zu lösen. Es kann uns helfen, unsere Gefühle zu verstehen und zu akzeptieren und so zu einem besseren Verständnis unserer selbst zu gelangen. Durch die Verbindung mit dem Rosenberg-Modell, dem Verständnis der Bedürfnisse als Ursache der Gefühle, entsteht eine nachhaltige Klarheit und Veränderung, die uns hilft, mehr Verantwortung für und selbst zu übernehmen. Link zum Buch von Eugene Gendlin: https://www.amazon.de/Focusing-K%C3%B6rpers-Anleitungen-%C3%9Cbungen-Selbsterfahrung/dp/3499603535/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UL8IPQW94H31&keywords=focusing&qid=1676391734&s=books&sprefix=focusing%2Cstripbooks%2C88&sr=1-1

As psychotherapists, it's easy to get lost in our heads. Our pet theories end up dominating and preventing us from being in touch with the person in front of us. In this Therapy Tip of the Week, I'd talk about how psychotherapists can employ principles of embodied cognition—the idea of embodiment as a way of thinking—to help you deepen your empathic understanding of your clients, especially in stuck situations. ⏳ Time Stamps: 1. Intro (00:00) 2. What is embodied cognition? A clinical example (00:42) 3. Personal story (04:59) 4. Related resources on embodied cognition (06:31) Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Focusing, published by CFAR!Duncan on July 29, 2022 on LessWrong. Epistemic status: Firm The Focusing technique was developed by Eugene Gendlin as an attempt to answer the question of why some therapeutic patients make significant progress while others do not. Gendlin studied a large number of cases while teasing out the dynamics that became Focusing, and then spent a significant amount of time investigating whether his technique-ified version was functional and efficacious. While the CFAR version is not the complete Focusing technique, we have seen it be useful for a majority of our alumni. If you've ever felt your throat go suddenly dry when a conversation turned south, or broken out into a sweat when you considered doing something scary, or noticed yourself tensing up when someone walked into the room, or felt a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach as you thought about your upcoming schedule and obligations, or experienced a lightness in your chest as you thought about your best friend's upcoming visit, or or or or ... If you've ever had those or similar experiences, then you're already well on your way to understanding the Focusing technique. The central claim of Focusing (at least from the CFAR perspective) is that parts of your subconscious System 1 are storing up massive amounts of accurate, useful information that your conscious System 2 isn't really able to access. There are things that you're aware of “on some level,” data that you perceived but didn't consciously process, competing goalsets that you've never explicitly articulated, and so on and so forth. Focusing is a technique for bringing some of that data up into conscious awareness, where you can roll it around and evaluate it and learn from it and—sometimes—do something about it. Half of the value comes from just discovering that the information exists at all (e.g. noticing feelings that were always there and strong enough to influence your thoughts and behavior, but which were somewhat “under the radar” and subtle enough that they'd never actually caught your attention), and the other half comes from having new threads to pull on, new models to work with, and new theories to test. The way this process works is by interfacing with your felt senses. The idea is that your brain doesn't know how to drop all of its information directly into your verbal loop, so it instead falls back on influencing your physiology, and hoping that you notice (or simply respond). Butterflies in the stomach, the heat of embarrassment in your cheeks, a heavy sense of doom that makes your arms feel leaden and numb—each of these is a felt sense, and by doing a sort of gentle dialogue with your felt senses, you can uncover information and make progress that would be difficult or impossible if you tried to do it all “in your head.” On the tip of your tongue We'll get more into the actual nuts and bolts of the technique in a minute, but first it's worth emphasizing that Focusing is a receptive technique. When Eugene Gendlin was first developing Focusing, he noticed that the patients who tended to make progress were making lots of uncertain noises during their sessions. They would hem and haw and hesitate and correct themselves and slowly iterate toward a statement they could actually endorse: “I had a fight with my mother last week. Or—well—it wasn't exactly a fight, I guess? I mean—ehhhhhhh—well, we were definitely shouting at the end, and I'm pretty sure she's mad at me. It was about the dishes—or at least—well, it started about the dishes, but then it turned into—I think she feels like I don't respect her, or something? Ugh, that's not quite right, I'm pretty sure she knows I respect her. It's like—hmmmmm—more like there are things she wants—she expects—she thinks I should do, just because—because of, I dunno, like tradi...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Focusing, published by CFAR!Duncan on July 29, 2022 on LessWrong. Epistemic status: Firm The Focusing technique was developed by Eugene Gendlin as an attempt to answer the question of why some therapeutic patients make significant progress while others do not. Gendlin studied a large number of cases while teasing out the dynamics that became Focusing, and then spent a significant amount of time investigating whether his technique-ified version was functional and efficacious. While the CFAR version is not the complete Focusing technique, we have seen it be useful for a majority of our alumni. If you've ever felt your throat go suddenly dry when a conversation turned south, or broken out into a sweat when you considered doing something scary, or noticed yourself tensing up when someone walked into the room, or felt a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach as you thought about your upcoming schedule and obligations, or experienced a lightness in your chest as you thought about your best friend's upcoming visit, or or or or ... If you've ever had those or similar experiences, then you're already well on your way to understanding the Focusing technique. The central claim of Focusing (at least from the CFAR perspective) is that parts of your subconscious System 1 are storing up massive amounts of accurate, useful information that your conscious System 2 isn't really able to access. There are things that you're aware of “on some level,” data that you perceived but didn't consciously process, competing goalsets that you've never explicitly articulated, and so on and so forth. Focusing is a technique for bringing some of that data up into conscious awareness, where you can roll it around and evaluate it and learn from it and—sometimes—do something about it. Half of the value comes from just discovering that the information exists at all (e.g. noticing feelings that were always there and strong enough to influence your thoughts and behavior, but which were somewhat “under the radar” and subtle enough that they'd never actually caught your attention), and the other half comes from having new threads to pull on, new models to work with, and new theories to test. The way this process works is by interfacing with your felt senses. The idea is that your brain doesn't know how to drop all of its information directly into your verbal loop, so it instead falls back on influencing your physiology, and hoping that you notice (or simply respond). Butterflies in the stomach, the heat of embarrassment in your cheeks, a heavy sense of doom that makes your arms feel leaden and numb—each of these is a felt sense, and by doing a sort of gentle dialogue with your felt senses, you can uncover information and make progress that would be difficult or impossible if you tried to do it all “in your head.” On the tip of your tongue We'll get more into the actual nuts and bolts of the technique in a minute, but first it's worth emphasizing that Focusing is a receptive technique. When Eugene Gendlin was first developing Focusing, he noticed that the patients who tended to make progress were making lots of uncertain noises during their sessions. They would hem and haw and hesitate and correct themselves and slowly iterate toward a statement they could actually endorse: “I had a fight with my mother last week. Or—well—it wasn't exactly a fight, I guess? I mean—ehhhhhhh—well, we were definitely shouting at the end, and I'm pretty sure she's mad at me. It was about the dishes—or at least—well, it started about the dishes, but then it turned into—I think she feels like I don't respect her, or something? Ugh, that's not quite right, I'm pretty sure she knows I respect her. It's like—hmmmmm—more like there are things she wants—she expects—she thinks I should do, just because—because of, I dunno, like tradi...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Focusing, published by CFAR!Duncan on July 29, 2022 on LessWrong. Epistemic status: Firm The Focusing technique was developed by Eugene Gendlin as an attempt to answer the question of why some therapeutic patients make significant progress while others do not. Gendlin studied a large number of cases while teasing out the dynamics that became Focusing, and then spent a significant amount of time investigating whether his technique-ified version was functional and efficacious. While the CFAR version is not the complete Focusing technique, we have seen it be useful for a majority of our alumni. If you've ever felt your throat go suddenly dry when a conversation turned south, or broken out into a sweat when you considered doing something scary, or noticed yourself tensing up when someone walked into the room, or felt a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach as you thought about your upcoming schedule and obligations, or experienced a lightness in your chest as you thought about your best friend's upcoming visit, or or or or ... If you've ever had those or similar experiences, then you're already well on your way to understanding the Focusing technique. The central claim of Focusing (at least from the CFAR perspective) is that parts of your subconscious System 1 are storing up massive amounts of accurate, useful information that your conscious System 2 isn't really able to access. There are things that you're aware of “on some level,” data that you perceived but didn't consciously process, competing goalsets that you've never explicitly articulated, and so on and so forth. Focusing is a technique for bringing some of that data up into conscious awareness, where you can roll it around and evaluate it and learn from it and—sometimes—do something about it. Half of the value comes from just discovering that the information exists at all (e.g. noticing feelings that were always there and strong enough to influence your thoughts and behavior, but which were somewhat “under the radar” and subtle enough that they'd never actually caught your attention), and the other half comes from having new threads to pull on, new models to work with, and new theories to test. The way this process works is by interfacing with your felt senses. The idea is that your brain doesn't know how to drop all of its information directly into your verbal loop, so it instead falls back on influencing your physiology, and hoping that you notice (or simply respond). Butterflies in the stomach, the heat of embarrassment in your cheeks, a heavy sense of doom that makes your arms feel leaden and numb—each of these is a felt sense, and by doing a sort of gentle dialogue with your felt senses, you can uncover information and make progress that would be difficult or impossible if you tried to do it all “in your head.” On the tip of your tongue We'll get more into the actual nuts and bolts of the technique in a minute, but first it's worth emphasizing that Focusing is a receptive technique. When Eugene Gendlin was first developing Focusing, he noticed that the patients who tended to make progress were making lots of uncertain noises during their sessions. They would hem and haw and hesitate and correct themselves and slowly iterate toward a statement they could actually endorse: “I had a fight with my mother last week. Or—well—it wasn't exactly a fight, I guess? I mean—ehhhhhhh—well, we were definitely shouting at the end, and I'm pretty sure she's mad at me. It was about the dishes—or at least—well, it started about the dishes, but then it turned into—I think she feels like I don't respect her, or something? Ugh, that's not quite right, I'm pretty sure she knows I respect her. It's like—hmmmmm—more like there are things she wants—she expects—she thinks I should do, just because—because of, I dunno, like tradi...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Felt Sense: What, Why and How, published by Kaj_Sotala on the AI Alignment Forum. While LW has seen previous discussion of Focusing, I feel like there has been relatively limited discussion of the felt sense - that is, the thing that Focusing is actually accessing. Everyone accesses felt senses all the time, but most people don't know that they are doing it. I think that being able to make the skill more explicit is really valuable, and in this post I'm going to give lots of examples of why that is and what you can do with it. Hopefully, after I'm done, you will not only know what a felt sense is (if you didn't already), but also will have difficulty understanding how you ever got by without this concept. Examples of felt senses The term "felt sense" was originally coined by the psychologist Eugene Gendlin, as a name for something that he found his clients to be accessing in their therapy sessions. Here are some examples of felt senses: Think of some person you know, maybe imagining what it feels to be like in the same room as them. You probably have some “sense” of that person, of what it is that they feel like. Likewise if you think of some fictional universe, it has something of its own feel. Harry Potter feels different from Star Wars feels different from Game of Thrones feels different from James Bond. Sometimes you will have a word “right on the tip of your tongue”; it's as if the word is almost there, but you can't quite reach it. When you do, you just know that it's the right word - because the "shape" of the word matches the one you were reaching for before. The felt senses of pictures Here are are a few pictures that I recently collected from the Facebook group "Steampunk Tendencies": How do you feel when you look at these pictures? What's the general vibe that unites all of these pictures? Likely you can find quite a few. If I put aside the words "steampunk" and "Victorian", next I get the word "mechanical". "Dark" also feels fitting. Whatever the vibe that you get, it's probably something different than the one you get from this collection of images: Look at the first set of images, then the second. How does it feel when you switch looking from one to the other? What kinds of changes are there in your mind and your body? I like both sets, but looking from one to the other, I notice that the forest images make me feel like my mind is opening up, whereas the steampunk ones make it close a little. Comparing the two, I feel like there's some slightly off-putting vibe in the steampunk set, that makes me prefer looking at the forest images - which I would not have noticed if I hadn't viewed them side to side. (I am guessing that some readers will have the opposite experience, of finding the forest ones off-putting compared to the steampunk ones.) Emotional and mental states as felt senses Internal emotional and mental states can also have their own felt senses. That shouldn't be very surprising, since your experience of e.g. a set of pictures is an internal mental state. Here are a few examples of felt senses from alkjash: When I solve a problem in a creative way (e.g. fix posture by turning in the shower), there's a sensation of enlightenment at the back of my head which literally feels like my skull is opening up. The words to this feeling are “I've discovered a new dimension!” I sometimes sit slouched over in bed for hours at a time browsing Facebook or Reddit, playing video games, or binge-watch a season of a TV show. After getting up from the slouch, my whole body is enveloped in a haze of laziness and decay. The zombie haze is thickest inside my ribs. The words to this pressure are “Symptoms of the spreading corruption.” A piece of my social anxiety forms a hard barrier that pushes against the center of my chest. I learned the words to this feeling fr...

My guest today, Jan Winhall of Focusing on Borden, began her career as social worker and psychotherapist 40 years ago.[CW for text below: mention of self-harming behaviors]She began listening with non-pathologizing ears and heard shocking stories of sexual torture, and responses that confused her. Women were cutting themselves, bingeing and purging huge quantities of food, and abusing drugs and alcohol. As she continued to listen she learned that somehow these self-harming behaviors were “helping” individuals to escape intolerable emotional states. They were shifting their mood from flooding anxiety to numbing deadness, or vice versa.Because these behaviors were so helpful they were compulsively repeated and often became addictions. They were shifting their mood from flooding anxiety to numbing deadness, or vice versa. Jan's book Treating Trauma and Addiction with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom Up Approach, has integrated the Polyvagal lens Theory to create a more sophisticated way of understanding emotional regulation, where addictive behavior is an embodied response to emotional dysregulation. In This EpisodeJan's websiteJan's courses The Primacy of Human Presence, by Eugene Gendlin. A PDF download.The Courage to Heal, Ellen Bass and Laura Davis Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Karen Clancy has over 17 years of experience practicing in the field of Complementary & Holistic Medicine.Karen uses a combined method of her treatments with patients depending on what is needed for each individual. For children and babies, Karen works mainly with Craniosacral Therapy providing a safe, caring and playful space for them to be met and worked with. Karen is passionate about health, healing, nature's wisdom and cycles, and helping empower people to obtain optimum health, vitality and wellbeing on a physical, mental, emotional & spiritual level. Karen commenced acupuncture and Welcare studies in 2001 and graduated from CMATCM in 2004 having been a member of TCMCI association since then. Karen has undertaken many advanced Acupuncture training in Facial/Cosmetic Acupuncture, Tungs Holographic systems, Dr. Zhu's Scalp Acupuncture, Dr. Tan's Balance method and many of Master Jeffery Yuens classical acupuncture courses. She has also completed naturopathic postgraduate training in the Welcare System® at the Welcare Foundation® in Dublin. In 2005 Karen trained in Module 1 of theoretical & practical training in San Diego & Tijuana Mexico, with The Gerson Institute, in the management & support of cancer & chronic diseases. Since 2003 Karen has also been training in CranioSacral Therapy with the Upledger Institute and has done postgraduate training with Ingrid Bacci and is also in BioDynamic CranioSacral Therapy. In 2009 Karen graduated from ICIM with a Diploma in Nutritional Therapy. Karen has done training also in “Focusing” by Eugene Gendlin. This is a subtle, compassionate, transformative practice of inner awareness, listening and dialoguing. It enables us to direct our attention inwardly to precisely what needs our attention in our lives. Through this compassionate listening process, natural steps of change arise spontaneously. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for the latest episode of The Hamilton Review Podcast! In this conversation, Dr. Bob sits down with LMFT, Jon Sorensen for an in depth and informative discussion about adverse childhood experiences, when to seek therapy and the impact on adulthood. Enjoy this great conversation and share with a friend! Jon is a published author, teacher and education researcher. Through his work with families as a teacher, he recognized that many “learning challenges” or “behavioral issues” were in fact, a result of emotional struggles, generational trauma, and unbalanced family dynamics. Having found a field that demanded he use all his analytical, scientific, creative, existential and philosophical impulses, Jon began working on a specialization in healing developmental trauma, PTSD and resulting mental health struggles. How now operates a thriving therapy practice in Santa Monica CA. Leveraging newfound knowledge developed by people like Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Elaine Miller-Karas, Francine Shapiro, Eugene Gendlin, Laurel Parnell and others, Jon continues to apply the most effective treatments for his clients while happily donating his time to speak to individuals and groups to educate people about how much is known and how much is available to us now that did not exist 30 years ago. Jon asserts that 30 years ago, you had to learn to cope with and accept many mental health challenges. Now, you can actually reset your nervous system and live free of traumatizing experiences. How to contact Jon: Jon Sorensen, LMFT website  How to contact Dr. Bob: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChztMVtPCLJkiXvv7H5tpDQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drroberthamilton/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bob.hamilton.1656 Seven Secrets Of The Newborn website: https://7secretsofthenewborn.com/ Website: https://roberthamiltonmd.com/ Pacific Ocean Pediatrics: http://www.pacificoceanpediatrics.com/ Share this episode with a friend and leave a rating + review on Apple Podcasts to help others find this content. Thanks so much!

Episode # 14 - In this episode we will discuss one of the most important and beginning steps in healing our wounds or limiting beliefs, to also become more aware of the totality that creates who we are and understand our behaviors or feelings. In this podcast we will learn to connect with the feeling body, learn what this even is and why connecting to the feelings body is so important for your self development. This podcast will include some exercises and include 3 steps on connecting or re-connecting with the feeling body. The book recommendation made in this episode is "Focusing" by by Eugene Gendlin. Note that this podcast was recorded in front of a live audience and questions or comments were included. Want to connect visit the followingInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/annbalkanskiTwitter - https://twitter.com/annbalkanskiVisit our website - https://www.rapidrealization.comWant to join our Realization Network? Learn more here - https://www.rapidrealization.com/realization-networkSupport the Show.

Episode # 14 - In this episode we will discuss one of the most important and beginning steps in healing our wounds or limiting beliefs, to also become more aware of the totality that creates who we are and understand our behaviors or feelings. In this podcast we will learn to connect with the feeling body, learn what this even is and why connecting to the feelings body is so important for your self development. This podcast will include some exercises and include 3 steps on connecting or re-connecting with the feeling body.  The book recommendation made in this episode is "Focusing" by by Eugene Gendlin. Note that this podcast was recorded in front of a live audience and questions or comments were included. Want to connect visit the followingInstagram -  https://www.instagram.com/annbalkanskiTwitter - https://twitter.com/annbalkanskiVisit our website - https://www.rapidrealization.comWant to join our Realization Network? Learn more here -  https://www.rapidrealization.com/realization-networkSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/realization)

Sermon: Little Voice Rev. Dr. Lydia E. Muñoz August 1, 2021 Foundry United Methodist Church, Washington DC Esther 1: 12  But Queen Vashti refused to come as the king had ordered through the eunuchs. Proverbs 1: 20 - 22 Wisdom shouts in the street;     in the public square she raises her voice. 21 Above the noisy crowd, she calls out.     At the entrances of the city gates, she has her say: You should respond when I correct you.     Look, I'll pour out my spirit on you.     I'll reveal my words to you. I wanted to be like men wanted me to be:  an attempt at life; a game of hide and seek with my being.  But I was made of nows,  and my feet level on the promissory earth  would not accept walking backwards  and went forward, forward,  mocking the ashes  to reach the kiss of new paths. These are the words of Julia de Burgos García (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953)  a Puerto Rican poet and advocate of Puerto Rican independence. She was a civil rights activist for women and Afro-Caribbean.  For many of us Puerto Ricans, her poetry is the feeling that runs through our veins.  During a time when women were called to conform to the norms of marriage and child bearing, Julia de Burgos seemed to follow her own heart and inner voice making her own pathways that sometimes led her down some unpopular paths and even some mistakes; 3 of them specifically that ended in divorce-men who could not deal with her independent spirit.  But her heart also led her to down a path of creativity born out of a deep desire to see her beloved Island free and her people self-actualized, and she wanted that especially for its poor women.  I think the hardest thing to do in life is to learn to pay attention to when our bodies speak to us. When that thing, that special sense, when the inklings of our heart speak to us.  Its hard because so many of us do not trust ourselves, because so many of us do not think we are enough.  Brene Brown says, “I believe that finding (and speaking with) your authentic voice is essential to being fully alive, connected, and creative. Revealing whom we truly are, what we believe and value, what and whom we love, as well as what keeps us up at night and what gets us up early can be very scary business. Allowing ourselves to be fully seen risks rejection, ridicule, and shame.” Stepping fully into our voice, therefore, requires complete vulnerability. I wonder if Vashti knew this? I wonder if she understood the consequences of following her own inner voice that somehow had enough courage to recognize a bully when she saw one.  Let me tell you about the bully I'm talking about here… The opening line of the Book of Esther kind of gives us a clue.  It tells us that these events took place when Ahasuerus, (an easier pronunciation is his other name Xerxes) who conquest was as vast from India to Cush – 127 provinces in all.  Xerxes was hosting a party to show off all his conquered territories.  This is the same king who insisted on conquering Greece – who wanted to complete the work that his father, Darius the Great could never complete and so plunged his entire energy and kingdom into a series of wars and conquests.  War means people are killed  war means that people are taxed,  war means that usually the most disadvantaged have to give up everything to make it happen  – and in the scripture reading there is also a hint of this because this particular party that Xerxes throws is about showing off his riches and beautiful treasurers and how great he was.  This party lasted six months to be exact! Can you imagine? One particular part of the party lasted seven days and was basically a non-stop drinking binge.  Xerxes had ordered his servants for everyone to drink as much as they could.  At the same time that this drinking competition was happening, Queen Vashti was holding a feast for the women in the palace.  I think there is something between the lines here – maybe Vashti knew what happens when men hungry of war begin to drink like this.  Maybe Vashti herself knew who are the true victims of war in the first place.  15 years ago, the United Nations launched a global study on a security council resolution 1325 which recognized the critical importance of women's participation in peacemaking and peacebuilding.  They did this because they recognized the unique impact that conflict, increased militarization and violent extremism has on their communities, their families and most importantly, their own bodies.  This hunger for war coupled with alcohol can be even more devastating.  I'm sure even in this moment now that we are together there are siblings among us who have been impacted directly by the effects of alcohol abuse.  Was Vashti included in that number? Was she protecting the women in the palace by hosting her own feast?   Well, we don't have to wait too long for that answer, on the seventh day, when the king was in high spirits or rather when he was thoroughly trashed, he calls for Vashti to come to him in her complete royal attire and crown.  Here it is, here is the moment when we discover who Vashti is listening to.  “But Queen Vashti refused to come as the king ordered…” (verse 12) How did this happen? Where did this courage come from? How did she summon the strength to let the voice inside her be her guide?   Look, I know the rest of the Book of Esther is remarkable.  The story of Esther's own courage and the saving of her people is one that I celebrate with my Jewish siblings come Purim.  I mean really, who doesn't love another day when you get to dress up like a queen, am I right?  But Esther's courage doesn't start in chapter 4 of the Book of Esther, it starts right here with the courage of Vashti.  Vashti's refusal to be treated as an object to be displayed like the spoils of war, given that she might have been Babylonia herself, one of the conquered provinces, might have much to do with her refusal to come to the King when he ordered.  But I think there might be more.   Something for you and I to consider about the role of our inner voice and wisdom.  Wisdom that cries out in the streets, Proverbs says.  She beckons us to listen intently and to pay attention to the things inside of our bodies that communicate to us in so many ways.   We carry trauma in our bodies.   We carry memories in our bodies.   We carry racism, sexism and oppression in our bodies and maybe you've tried to ignore it lately but I guarantee you that this past year of pandemic and social unrest, our bodies have been screaming out to us like wisdom on the street corners.  One of the best things I learned how to do as I entered into ministry was learning how to seek out help and to solicit the services of a good therapist and spiritual director.  I'm not afraid to say that I've had many therapists and spiritual directors over the years because friends, that is part of listening to that little voice.  My current therapist is a petite, soft spoken Irish nun who is part of the Franciscan Spirituality Center near Philadelphia.  Her accent is delightful, but her intense eyes tell me that she has experienced the world of the living with all its joys and sorrows.  Her specialty is focused prayer and meditation. She asks me all the time “Lydia, show me where it hurts”.  The first time I heard her ask me this I wasn't quite sure what she was talking about. She said to me in her beautiful Irish lilt, “I'm not asking you to tell me what you think is happening, I'm asking you to hear your body tell you where it hurts and let that pain inform you.”  A felt sense is not a mental experience but a physical one.  Eugene Gendlin one of the founders of Focusing as a therapeutic tool.  He continues to say, “There is an internal aura that encompasses everything you feel and know about a given subject at a given time—encompasses it and communicates to you...” Basically, its that voice, not the negative one that tells you that you are not worthy or that you can't do this or that.  That's not a voice friends, that's fear and perfect love cast out all fear.   In the center of that perfect love, what Wesley might have called “the spark of the divine” in that center, that's where this voice lives. It reminds you that you are worthy of respect, dignity and love.  It's the one that comes out every once in a while, when we let her, to tell us “you deserve more than the way you are being treated” or “you know this is a lie.” We've all experienced it, and we all know the consequences of ignoring it.  Vashti doesn't ignore it – rather she listened to it even at the cost of her own crown, position, safety and even her life. Her choice was so powerful that the king's men feared how it would impact other women and even their own wives.  What is that little voice saying to you today, friend? What have you been ignoring for a while?  Maybe that little voice is doing everything to grab your attention these days, helping you understand that you can take that first move, or you can do that job, or this relationship is not what you think it is, or the hardest one yet for us to hear that little voice tell us, “You are not being your truest self!” The good thing is that listening to that little voice inside is a muscle like courage is a muscle that continually needs to be exercised. Wesley called it “moving on to perfection” but that always sound ominous to me.   Rather, I want to encourage you to everyday find a place or a time to check in with your body.  To ask yourself the question where does it hurt? And/or to let someone ask you “how is it with your soul?” To let your body show you where that little voice is found and let her come to life and speak.  Let her voice wash over your fears and open up the courage to be vulnerable and real. May Vashti's choice cast a long shadow over our lives as we consider all our days.  I wanted to be like men wanted me to be:  an attempt at life; a game of hide and seek with my being.  But I was made of nows,  and my feet level on the promissory earth  would not accept walking backwards  and went forward, forward,  mocking the ashes  to reach the kiss of new paths. Julia de Burgos – Yo Misma Fui Mi Ruta/I Was My Own Path Thank God for little voices… Amen. https://foundryumc.org/

Freunde treffen, in den Urlaub fahren, wieder im Büro arbeiten, im Restaurant essen, am Wochenende ins Theater oder ein Ausflug mit der ganzen Familie: Das Leben fährt zur Zeit nach der krisenbedingten Ruhepause wieder etwas hoch. Nicht bei allen in der gleichen Geschwindigkeit, trotzdem ist an vielen Stellen im Alltag wieder Bewegung zu spüren, wo lange alles stillzustehen schien. „Endlich zurück in die Normalität“ heißt es da von vielen Seiten – doch von welcher Normalität sprechen wir überhaupt? Von einem Alltag, in dem wir uns häufig in einer Dauerschleife aus Arbeit und anderen Verpflichtungen gefangen gefühlt haben? In dem Leistung, Präsenzkultur und ‚Höher-schneller-weiter‘ große berufliche Ideale waren, denen sich die Selbstfürsorge unterzuordnen hat? In dem ein veraltetes Selbstverständnis herrscht, das ein “das haben wir schon immer so gemacht” über neue Ideen und notwendigen Fortschritt stellt? Wir haben die Chance – als Einzelpersonen und als Gesellschaft – neue Wege einzuschlagen. Einen Mittelweg zu finden, der auf unsere individuellen und kollektiven Bedürfnisse abgestimmt ist und den Menschen wirklich ins Zentrum stellt: mit einer passenden Mischung aus digital, persönlich und hybrid, aus ich, du und wir, aus Raum für Beruf, Privatem und Gemeinschaft.  Besonders im Arbeitsumfeld waren es doch bisher eher die klassischen, starren Karrierewege, Arbeitsmodelle und Veränderungskonzepte, die gelebt wurden. Dabei gibt es so viel Gestaltungsraum für jede*n einzelne*n von uns - und gesellschaftlich sehr viel zu tun.  In dieser Podcastfolge geht es darum, wie wir in Veränderungsprozessen Balance finden und halten können. Ich teile dazu Impulse, um achtsam mit dem Energiehaushalt bei dir und im Team umzugehen, damit wir die Chancen von Entwicklung zu nutzen und in Veränderung beides zu berücksichtigen können: Wertschätzung für das Bestehende und Raum für neue Ideen und notwendigen Wandel. In dieser Folge zum Thema “in Balance kommen” erfährst du  3 Impulse, wie du Veränderung nachhaltig umsetzen kannst - für dich persönlich und im Team. Gedanken und Tipps, um in Balance zu bleiben. welche Chancen Veränderungen mit sich bringen. Literatur und Links zum Thema “in Balance kommen”

Did you know your feminine energy is sexy, bad-ass and powerful?Each of us have both masculine and feminine energies, ever wonder how to tap more into your feminine side? Or how to be more powerful within both? Curious how this can positively impact your life then join Dr. Stormy and the brilliant Angela Cara, MA. Together they will share the qualities of the feminine energy and how to tap more into her in life, love and sex.Angela Cara is a Registered Clinical Counsellor at Wise Body Counselling & Host of Shakti Stories Podcast. She is passionate about Self-Compassion, Embodied Wisdom, Dreams & The Sacred Feminine.Today's episode explores: - 3 ways to practice tapping in to your feminine life force energy- Light and shadow aspects of the feminine energy and what this entails - Ways to surrender and why you might want to-  Embodiment practice: Focusing with DreamworkTo connect with Angela and her fabulous work in this arena check out www.wisebodycounselling.com or her podcast at www.shaktistories.com . She is also on IG @shaktistoriespodcastFor additional tips and guidance, download our complimentary e-book full of body-based practices for singles and couples hereOr want daily sexiness inspiration? Follow us on IG and FB @lovedeeplabThank you for being brave in opening your hearts to LOVE DEEP!!See you next week…. And until then stay sexy… Because you already are!!

Это простое упражнение для гармонизации внутреннего состояния, которое всегда будет у вас под рукой. Автор текста— психотерапевт Joan Klagsbrun Ph.D. "Clearing a space" является первым шагом метода Focusing, который был разработан в 60е годы профессором Чикагского университета, философом и психотерапевтом Eugene Gendlin. Все эпизоды подкаста: https://inbetween.libsyn.com/ Podcast Patrons: - Andrew Pavliv CEO & Founder of N-iX  - Max Ischenko, Founder of Djinni and DOU. О ПОДКАСТЕ Подкаст является частью “In-between” — проекта об искусстве жить между Хаосом и Порядком. Для этого я исследую жизнь с разных точек зрения — бизнес, семья, здоровье, спорт, психология, общество. Своими догадками и находками я делюсь через статьи, имейл-рассылку и аудио-подкаст.  ОБО МНЕ Как бизнес-терапевт, я помогаю предпринимателям быстрее принимать трудные решения на стыке бизнеса и личности. Подробнее можно прочитать здесь: https://alyadov.com/clients. Если вы столкнулись с новой, сложной ситуацией, то возможно вам пригодится мой “Чек-лист предпринимателя: 12 шагов в тупике": http://alyadov.com/checklist. А когда вы будете затевать новый проект, обратите внимание на мой имейл курс "Механизм Удачного Партнерства": http://alyadov.com/partnership.  МОИ КОНТАКТЫ http://alyadov.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/alyadov www.facebook.com/alyadov medium.com/@AlexanderLyadov https://t.me/lyadovdaily 

Die letzten eineinhalb Jahre waren für uns alle eine riesige, kollektive Herausforderung und sicher gab es auch bei dir Momente, in denen es dir schwerfiel, durch den Alltag zu kommen. Doch nicht nur während einer Pandemie, sondern immer wieder in unserem Leben, können wir ins Straucheln geraten. Mir hilft es in solchen Situationen, mir Zeit zu nehmen, um bewusst zu reflektieren. Denn oft sehen wir erst mit ein wenig Abstand, welchen Druck, welche Ängste, welchen Mental Load wir eigentlich mit uns herumtragen. Uns der mentalen Last bewusst zu werden, die wir mit uns herumtragen, ist wichtig. Dazu braucht es weder hippe Apps noch besonders effiziente Zeitmanagement-Strategien, die helfen, mit der herausfordernden Situation abzuschließen oder möglich schnell wieder zu „funktionieren“. Im Gegenteil – um mit mentalen Belastungen umgehen zu können, braucht es vor allem auch Zeit und Aufmerksamkeit (und in manchen Fällen natürlich auch professionelle Unterstützung). In dieser Podcastfolge geht es darum, dass das Leben aus mehr als Arbeit und Freizeit besteht und wir alle Momente brauchen, in denen es nur um uns geht: zum Loslassen, zum Durchatmen, zum Verarbeiten. Denn erst wenn wir uns selbst diese Aufmerksamkeit schenken, können wir sie in die Gesellschaft hineintragen und so langfristig Strukturen verändern und Neues erschaffen. Lasst uns gemeinsam den Blick nach innen wenden, die To-do-Liste einfach mal beiseite legen und uns auch auf unsere eigenen Bedürfnisse konzentrieren. In dieser Folge zum Thema “Mental Load” erfährst du  4 Impulse zum Umgang mit Mental Load. warum es nicht darum geht, immer alles perfekt zu machen. wie du dir selber mehr Aufmerksamkeit schenkst, auch wenn viel zu tun ist. Literatur und Links zum Thema “Mental Load”

Julia Samuel psychotherapist and author who returns to the podcast to talk about how we can learn to love ourselves. The topic of this podcast was sparked by a conversation Julia (@juliasamuelmbe) and I had at the end of 2020 when we discussed how liking yourself, or loving yourself, is the foundation for the relationships you are subsequently able to form with others.It made me wonder if your relationships are always challenging, cause your stress and/or pain or leave you heartbroken, is it wise to take a step back and examine how you feel about yourself before you make connections with others.In this episode, we discuss attachment theory, why loving and being loved is such a vital component of our identity, the risk in loving others and why we need to pay more attention to our feelings, rather than override them because of what others think because they are actually trying to steer us towards the things we need.We also, very unscripted I hasten to add, did a little exercise - The Felt Sense by Eugene Gendlin - which was a first for me on this podcast. Speaking of that exercise, it's slightly hypnotic and could be distracting so please be aware of this and don't follow along if you're driving, operating heavy machinery or if your attention is required elsewhere. Before I sat down for this call with Julia, I was telling some friends that I was speaking to her again and as Julia has a huge amount of expertise in grief counselling and living losses, someone suggested I ask her about the end of friendships, female friendships in this instance, and how devastating they can be.I think the end of friendships can be trivialised in a way we wouldn't do with a romantic relationship and so in this episode, we discuss why it's legitimate to feel the same, or similar, kind of heartbreak after a friendship ends as it is when a relationship does.Julia's book This Too Shall Pass is available now.Julia's podcast A Living Loss is available on all good podcast platforms.To join the closed Facebook group for the podcast click here >> The Emma Guns Show Forum.To follow me on social media >> Twitter | Instagram. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eugene Gendlin, der Erfinder dieser Methode, war Referent bei der großen Tagung Evolution of Psychotherapy in Hamburg im Jahre 1994, die Bernhard Trenkle organisiert hatte. Der Kongress mit 6000 Teilnehmenden versammelte in einzigartiger Weise sehr viele bekannte und einflussreiche Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten wie Viktor Frankl, Mara Selvini Palazzoli, Paul Watzlawick, Yrving Yalom u. v. a. m., die ihre Ansätze in Vorträgen, Workshops und Panels vorstellten, diskutierten und in der Nachfolge des Kongresses weiterentwickelten. Die Autobahnuniversität dokumentierte diesen Kongress mit Aufnahmen, die die Zeit überdauerten. So auch einen Workshop von Eugene Gendlin, in dem dieser Focusing vorstellte und praktisch demonstrierte. Eine einzigartige Gelegenheit, wie live dabei zu sein und auch selbst Erfahrungen zu machen. Folgen Sie der autobahnuniversität auch auf: Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/carl…4t/id1479529658 Spotify open.spotify.com/show/0HVLyjAHZkFMVr9XDATMGz Google Podcasts podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly…DegQIARAC&hl=de Facebook www.facebook.com/carlauerautobahnuniversitaet/ Folgen Sie auch unserem anderen Podcast "Carl-Auer Sounds of Science" auf: Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/carl…ce/id1487473408 Spotify open.spotify.com/show/6wX82k2waqcU8IDUK9Vn7o Soundcloud @carlauersoundsofscience Google Podcasts podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2…DegQIARAC&hl=de Facebook www.facebook.com/carlauersoundsofscience/ Folgen Sie dem Carl-Auer Verlag auf: Facebook facebook.com/carlauerverlag/ Twitter twitter.com/carlauerverlag Instagram www.instagram.com/carlauerverlag/ YouTube www.youtube.com/carlauerverlag Oder schauen Sie hier vorbei www.carl-auer.de

In aflevering 17 gaan we in gesprek met Babet te Winkel. Babet is afgestudeerd aan de Universiteit voor Humanistiek waarin ze is opgeleid tot begeleider van mensen met zingevingsvragen. Daarnaast is Babet medeoprichter van Verlieskunst: een project waarbij ze op een missie is om een nieuwe beeldtaal te creëren voor verlies. Dit doet ze door middel van verlieskaarten - een mooi alternatief voor de traditionele condoleancekaarten, en door het maken van een rouwwoordenboek. In deze aflevering bespreken we uit welke behoefte Verlieskunst is ontstaan en hoe ze het effect ervan in haar omgeving merkt. Ook hebben we het over Babets persoonlijke verlieservaring en haar visie op rouw. We bespreken een aantal woorden uit haar rouwwoordenboek, waar ze nog steeds woorden aan toe blijft voegen. Ze deelt veel praktische en theoretische kennis die we - hopelijk - samen hebben gebracht aan de hand van voorbeelden en tools hoe je hier zelf mee aan de slag zou kunnen gaan. Ter afsluiting leest Babet een eigen geschreven verhaal voor geïnspireerd op het rouwwoordenboek. Wil je ons volgen en nooit meer een aflevering missen? Abonneer je dan en volg ons op Instagram: @doodgewoonpodcast. Mailen kan ook, naar doodgewoondepodcast@gmail.com Verdieping Op de website van Verlieskunst kun je meer over dit project lezen en kun je de kaarten ook bestellen (DOEN!): https://www.verlieskunst.nl/ De artikelen en verhalen die Babet schrijft voor Hardhoofd kun je hier lezen: https://hardhoofd.com/auteur/babet-te-winkel/ Ben je geïnteresseerd geraakt in de focusing therapie van Eugene Gendlin? Hier lees je er meer over: https://focusing.org/ Babet is ook de volgen via Instagram, via: @babet.twinkel (https://www.instagram.com/babet.twinkel/?hl=nl) Ook kun je Verlieskunst volgen: @verlieskunst (https://www.instagram.com/verlieskunst/?hl=nl)

Когда Александр Комаров, президент компании Kyivstar, предложил взять у меня интервью, то сказать, что я удивился — значит ничего не сказать. Ведь обычно это я беру интервью у замечательных гостей в рамках подкаста In-between. Кроме того, уже очень давно я не отвечал на чьи-либо прямые и глубокие вопросы о том, что такое бизнес-терапия и откуда она взялась. Я привык помогать клиентам индивидуально, а затем в одиночестве размышлять о бизнесе и жизни в статьях. Но, главное, Александр Комаров — тот человек, чьи знания и опыт настолько интересны, что я бы рад сам задать множество вопросов ему.   Наша беседа получилась насыщенной и ёмкой. Александр основательно подготовился, найдя в прошлом те значимые вещи, что я уже забыл. Видя в его вопросах живой интерес, я старался быть максимально искренним и открытым. В торопливом и эгоцентричном мире лишь немногие умеют задавать вопросы и совсем уж мало тех, кто по-настоящему хочет услышать ответ. В этом смысле Александр меня снова удивил. Такое ценное качество многое объясняет в его успешной карьере, как лидера и CEO. Положа руку на сердце, лучшего интервьюера я себе представить не мог. Надеюсь, наша беседа вам понравится тоже. Все эпизоды подкаста: https://inbetween.libsyn.com/ Все текстовые статьи: https://alexanderlyadov.medium.com/ Podcast Patrons: Andrew Pavliv, CEO & Founder of N-iX Max Ischenko, Founder of Djinni and DOU. Упомянутые ссылки: Статья “Стратегические грабли. Или 7 самых грустных ошибок в украинском маркетинге” (журнал “Компаньон”, 2003) Focusing, психотерапевтический метод Eugene Gendlin, автор метода, профессор Чикагского университета Статья “Бизнес образование. Зачем MBA?” (Sostav.ru, 2003) Статья “Предприниматель и одиночество” (Forbes, 20012) Статья “Бизнес-терапевт. Ой, а кто это?” Книга “Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital”, Ronald S. Burt Статьи на Medium (200+) Отобранные статьи для предпринимателей Ежедневная рассылка "Lyadov Daily” в имейле и Telegram О ПОДКАСТЕ Подкаст является частью “In-between” — проекта об искусстве жить между Хаосом и Порядком. Для этого я исследую жизнь с разных точек зрения — бизнес, семья, здоровье, спорт, психология, общество. Своими догадками и находками я делюсь через статьи, имейл-рассылку и аудио-подкаст.  ОБО МНЕ Как бизнес-терапевт, я помогаю предпринимателям быстрее принимать трудные решения на стыке бизнеса и личности. Подробнее можно прочитать здесь: https://alyadov.com/clients. Если вы столкнулись с новой, сложной ситуацией, то возможно вам пригодится мой “Чек-лист предпринимателя: 12 шагов в тупике": http://alyadov.com/checklist. А когда вы будете затевать новый проект, обратите внимание на мой имейл курс "Механизм Удачного Партнерства": http://alyadov.com/partnership.  МОИ КОНТАКТЫ http://alyadov.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/alyadov www.facebook.com/alyadov medium.com/@AlexanderLyadov https://t.me/lyadovdaily 

Probleme scheinen sich von selbst aufzulösen, sobald wir sie einfach nur betrachten und nicht beurteilen oder intellektuell analysieren. Unser inneres Wesen scheint mehr zu wissen als unser Gehirn. Dieses Wissen ist durch innere Ruhe und Übung zugänglich. Ist es nicht beruhigend, zu wissen, dass die Lösung für alle unsere Fragen in uns selbst zu finden ist?

This guided meditation will show you how to welcome back into heart-consciousness aspects of yourself that have been exiled. By reclaiming our exiled parts, we reduce our need to project them onto others. Trillium Awakening Teacher Margit Bantowsky draws from a deeply transformative, somato-imaginal process called Inner Relationship Focusing, developed by Ann Weiser Cornell, an offshoot of Eugene Gendlin’s original work called Focusing www.focusingresources.com

In this podcast, I'll review the concept of "The Felt Sense", coined by Eugene Gendlin. It's the physical sensation we experience when we have a body response to an event. I review the felt sense as it relates to external and internal events, and share ideas for how to access / tune in to your felt sense.

Это аудио-версия моей статьи, текстовую версию которой можно прочитать здесь: http://bit.ly/2uJHkKi ССЫЛКИ Focusing ТРИЗ Генрих Альтшуллер Джордан Питерсон Eugene Gendlin О ПОДКАСТЕ Подкаст является частью “In-between” — проекта об искусстве жить между Хаосом и Порядком. Для этого я исследую жизнь с разных точек зрения — бизнес, семья, здоровье, спорт, психология, общество. Своими догадками и находками я делюсь через статьи, имейл-рассылку и аудио-подкаст.  ОБО МНЕ Как бизнес-терапевт, я помогаю предпринимателям быстрее ориентироваться в нестандартных ситуациях. Подробнее о моем опыте и бизнес-терапии можно прочитать здесь. Если вы в бизнесе столкнулись с новой, нестандартной ситуацией, то возможно вам пригодится мой бесплатный “Чек-лист предпринимателя: 12 шагов в тупике." МОИ КОНТАКТЫ Александр Лядов: Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin | Telegram | Medium Остальные эпизоды подкаста: http://alyadov.com/podcast/ Все текстовые статьи: https://medium.com/@AlexanderLyadov ПОДПИСАТЬСЯ Чтобы не пропустить новые эпизоды, вы можете оформить подписку на мой подкаст. На компьютере это можно сделать через  каталог подкастов в iTunes Store. В айфоне для этого нужно скачать эппловское приложение "Подкасты" (Podcasts). В Андроиде нужно установить бесплатное приложение Google Podcasts, Stitcher, SoundCloud или их аналог. Затем в разделе «поиск» в приложении нужно найти подкаст "In-between with Alexander Lyadov» и нажать кнопку «Subscribe», то есть «Подписаться". Тогда каждый новый эпизод автоматически закачается на ваш телефон в момент публикации и вы сможете его слушать в дороге, в пробке или во время прогулок.

Cuidar-T, un programa semanal para un estilo de vida saludable. En este espacio hablamos de trucos, ideas, información y consejos para aprender a sentirte bien. Hoy hablamos del Focusing, una habilidad fundamentada filosófica y científicamente, que te permite descubrir el significado de las sensaciones que te envía tu cuerpo. El focusing fue desarrollado en la década de 1960 por el Dr. Eugene Gendlin; nos ayuda a comprender los mensajes que el cuerpo tiene para nosotros acerca de cómo está aconteciendo nuestra vida en todo momento, y nos muestra cuáles son los próximos pasos a seguir en cualquier situación en que nos encontremos. En este episodio del podcast vamos a conocer más a fondo qué es el Focusing de la mano de Fernanda Acuña, del Centro de Psicología Transpersonal de Buenos Aires. Fernanda es consultora psicológica con posgrado en desarrollo personal. Trabaja como Focusing trainer y terapeuta, certificada por el Focusing Institute de Nueva York. Me ha encantado tener la oportunidad de hablar con ella, espero que a ti también te parezca interesante. CONTENIDO: 00:07 = Saludo inicial. 00:52 = Presentación del episodio y de Fernanda Acuña. 02:47 = Saludo de Fernanda Acuña e introducción al Focusing. 10:07 = La historia personal de Fernanda. 12:32 = El punto de partida es el cuerpo. 15:01 = Recuperar la confianza en el cuerpo. 21:41 = El significado que le damos a la palabra Cuerpo. 24:37 = Cómo empezar el camino del focusing. 25:48 = Conexión del focusing con el mindfulness. 27:05 = En qué centrarse al hacer focusing. 27:48 = De dónde surge el focusing. 31:09 = Los 6 pasos del focusing. 34:01 = No enfocarse en el alivio. 37:52 = Formar a futuros formadores. 40:54 = Los libros “Focusing. Un proceso hacia la integridad” y “Focusing con niños”. 44:59 = Conclusiones finales. 45:57 = Consejo de Fernanda para situaciones relevantes. 50:04 = Despedida a Fernanda. 50:59 = Despedida del episodio. Más información sobre Cuidar-T en: https://cuidar-t.es/ Perfil de Cuidar-T en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cuidar_t/ Mi estudio de yoga: https://feelyoga.es/ Libro de focusing para niños, de Marta Stapert: https://www.amazon.es/Focusing-ni%C3%B1os-comunicarse-adolescentes-colegio/dp/8433024728 Los derechos de todas las músicas utilizadas son de libre uso o han sido debidamente adquiridos.

Focusing es una tecnica creada por Eugene Gendlin, y que os presentamos en esta ocasion. Focusing o terapia de enfoque es una psicoterapia corporal humanista, creada por el filósofo y psicólogo norteamericano Eugene T. Gendlin, que se enmarca dentro del modelo experiencial y la filosofía de lo implícito. Desde el enfoque corporal se considera que el ser humano no tiene un cuerpo sino que es un cuerpo.

The Case:  The husband, wife, kids and friends of people dealing with health mysteries can feel invisible or taken advantage of.It may not be happening to them, but they are impacted.  Likewise, those dealing with health issues often feel their partners can’t understand them and therefore may not support them in a way they would like. Stress, frustration, heartbreak and even new illnesses can be side effects of loving someone dealing with a health mystery. For every person dealing with an unresolved, or undiagnosed illness, there’s a group of family and friends who are also dealing with it. Whether they have to take on the task of caregiver, reframe their relationship and activities to accommodate limitations created by the illness, or struggle as they watch someone they love suffer.  When I work with clients, we focus on their issues but I am always aware that they are not the only one who is impacted.  Alicia Munoz is a couples therapist and the author of “No More Fighting”. She’s been helping couples transform their relationships and marriages for over 10 years. Alicia has seen the strain a health issue - especially one that is unexplained and chronic - can have on families and couples.  Take Care of Yourself Individuals can sometimes sacrifice their own well being to care for others. Alicia says that taking care of yourself creates and upward spiral in a relationship. If you’re energized and healthy, you have more resources to offer to your partner and family. The converse is also true.  Relationships Require Energy When you don’t have enough energy for your relationship, it’s easy to get frustrated and have a reduced tolerance. Fights can happen because without sufficient energy, we tend to blow things out of proportion and be reactive in the moment.  Deficient Feeling Literacy When we are tired or worried about our health our ‘feeling literacy’ can be negatively impacted. This is when we become unable to read our own body cues or other’s cues. Our mood is hard to interpret which makes our behaviour unpredictable. All of this opens the door for disagreements, resentment, and emotional pain. This is especially true when conditions and symptoms are unexplained and we start to doubt what our body is telling us. Focus on the ‘Heart Brain’ We have three brains; the one in our head, the one we feel with (in our heart), and the one in our gut. When we are dealing with chronic illnesses or unexplained illnesses, we are less in tune with our heart brain and this can impact our relationships.  Feeling Literacy Can be Developed Whether feeling literacy was lost or was never fully developed, it can be recovered. Alicia says there are many ways to do this but the most successful will be based on the individual but the key is to tune into your body. She suggests looking into different modalities like meditation, yoga, ‘Focusing’ by Eugene Gendlin, ‘Somatic Experiencing’ and other therapies that explore ways to tune into your body. A good place to start is with some tech-free quiet time.  Vulnerability Can be a Trigger When people are dealing with health mysteries that they don’t have the answers to, the can feel vulnerable. They might feel helpless or fear becoming dependant and have a general sense of anger, fear or uncertainty about the future. This can leave them feeling emotionally unavailable or irritable. It can also cause them to project those emotions. All of which creates fertile ground for fights - although it might feel like the fight is about something small like dishes in the sink or laundry.  Recognize the Fight Alicia says the first step in stopping a fight is to recognize it as it. That awareness is part of developing your ‘feeling literacy’. If you can do that, before it gets out of control, the opportunity to stop it presents itself. Alicia says the key steps to gaining control are recognizing it in the moment, taking some deep breaths, acknowledging your reactiveness, and step away. Create Love Rituals So often, when we are so focused on our illness or our partner’s illness we get so caught up in the struggle to feel better or find a solution. We can become hyper-focused on it and as a result, we forget to leave room for love and feelings of love. Alicia provides some great tips on how to create daily love rituals that incorporate gratitude and appreciation into your schedule.  Mystery Solved The first step in solving the mystery of a relationship in danger is to acknowledge that it’s in danger. With Alicia’s tips and communication tools, it seems so simple. But, of course, they require work and commitment from all parties in the relationship. Develop your Feeling Literacy, embrace love rituals and create a container for communication. With these tools, you and your family will feel emotionally ready to take on solving the health mystery at hand.  Eliminating Health Mysteries Could your relationship be in danger because of a chronic or unresolved health issue? Consider trying some of the tips Alicia shared in this week’s podcast or pick up her book for more ideas. Links & Resources: Thanks to my guest Alicia Munoz. You can connect with her via her website https://aliciamunoz.com/ or on Instagram and Facebook. And, you can find all of her books here: https://aliciamunoz.com/books-by-alicia-munoz/   Overcoming Hashimoto’s Summit Claim your free spot to this 7-day virtual summit featuring the top experts in Hashimoto’s and Hypothyroidism so that you can overcome this diagnosis and feel better.  Sign up here:   https://bit.ly/2KigemW  Thanks for Listening If you like what you heard, please rate and review this podcast. Every piece of feedback not only helps me create better shows, it helps more people find this important information. Never miss an episode –  Subscribe NOW to Health Mysteries Solved with host, Inna Topiler on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. Find out more at http://healthmysteriessolved.com   PLEASE NOTE All information, content, and material on this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a qualified physician or healthcare provider. Some of the links provided are affiliate links. This means we may make a very small amount of money should you choose to buy after clicking on them. This will in no way affect the price the product but it helps us a tiny bit in covering our expenses.

In today’s episode of the One Year No Beer Podcast, Ruari is trying out a new format. Rather than interviewing a guest, Ruari is going to spend some time talking about the community and some of the things that are going on with the OYNB community and its members.  First of all, Ruari shares some updates from the OYNB HQ, including the fact that OYNB has expanded to about 16 full-time members of the team. There’s also a new community manager, and OYNB members should expect to see some big changes over the next three months.  “It’s an interesting journey, this changing your relationship with alcohol. It’s different for everybody.”  Ruari also mentions that he’s noticed several people sharing stories of grief and personal loss in the community recently. He talks about how his experience with grief was to continue down the same destructive path that he was on before. Ruari believes that this is not unusual – heavy drinking is a common element of funerals and wakes, for example. But as Ruari points out, alcohol is a depressant, and adding it to a situation that’s already upsetting can cause a person to spiral.  Ruari believes that the answer is to really get in touch with your feelings and find a safe space in which to feel them. He recommends a book, Focusing by Eugene Gendlin, that was recommended to him by a counselor in his youth and that he believes can help people trying to get in touch with their feelings.  Ruari suggests contacting the Samaritans (at 116 123 in the UK) for people who are in need of someone to talk to. He also reminds listeners that they can contact info@oneyearnobeer.com for help and that they’re planning to relaunch their coaching program very soon.  Ruari believes that connections are an important part of the answer to dealing with addictions, as well as an important part of the One Year No Beer mission. He explains that OYNB is heavily invested in their partnership with Spartan, and they’re going to have a presence at every Spartan in the UK, as well as some in the US. The next upcoming Spartan is in early May and will be held in Kent, and OYNB will be there with a tent, providing an excellent opportunity for members of the OYNB community to meet and make connections.  LINKS & RESOURCES  OYNB Website: https://www.oneyearnobeer.com/ OYNB Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Oneyearnobeer/ OYNB Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/199505820380513/ OYNB Twitter: https://twitter.com/oynbuk/ OYNB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oneyearnobeer/ Email: info@oneyearnobeer.com

THE "FELT SENSE PRAYER" I am flying solo in today’s podcast as my interviewer  and dear Friend Giovana is out of town sailing in the Caribbean! I bet her felt sense is more enjoyable than mine right now.  What is the Felt Sense? Today’s podcast is about the Felt Sense, a term coined by Eugene Gendlin years ago when studying successful therapy outcomes. He found certain clients were able to connect to and speak from a non-conceptual, bodily felt experience of the issues that troubled them. These clients reached their goals more quickly. The Felt Sense is a non-verbal inner source of knowing the bodily experience and sometimes cannot be put into words. Helpful Poem to explain this better. To help make this tricky concept a bit easier to grasp I will read the FELT SENSE prayer today. The author is unknown so I cannot give credit where it is due. But it is so helpful I want to share it with all my listeners. What does your Felt Sense tell you? As you listen, try to notice your body responses and if you feel a resonance with this “prayer”. This week I challenge you to really notice your Felt Sense in the different situations in which you find yourself and see how this impacts your choices and also sense of inner safety.   For a short helpful article on the Felt Sense go to: https://mindfulfocusing.com/new-blog/2017/9/26/the-felt-sense-what-it-is-and-why-its-important

In today's #WiseGirl video podcast, I talk with Dr. Ann Weiser Cornell about what is Focusing and the felt sense, the "something in you" that you can say hello to, how Focusing can help get to the core of addictions and relationship issues, and how this is a practice we can explore and cultivate. Dr. Cornell is an American author, educator, and worldwide authority on Focusing, the self-inquiry psychotherapeutic technique developed by Eugene Gendlin. She has written several definitive books on Focusing, including The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing, The Focusing Student's and Companion's Manual, and Focusing in Clinical Practice. Cornell received a PhD in Linguistics in 1975 at the University of Chicago. While still a graduate student there, she met psychologist Eugene Gendlin, and learned the psychotherapeutic technique he had discovered and developed, called Focusing. Cornell has taught Focusing around the world since 1980, and has developed a system and technique called Inner Relationship Focusing. More about Ann and her work can be found at Focusing Resources, on the web at https://focusingresources.com/ ***** To learn more about Dr. Eugene Gendlin and Focusing, you can go to: http://focusing.org/ and https://focusinginternational.org/

Welcome to Part Two: Reflections on Ten years of Providing Psychotherapy by Paul Krauss MA LPC. Subtitle: Reflections on my experiences with different modalities of therapy and their implications. I would posit that this is my most focused summary of my experience in the field of counseling psychology. I also discuss how the current state of counseling connects to the current cultural and economic situation that we find ourselves in. I begin with a large overview of the field of counseling, and then systematically move through different modalities of psychotherapy and counseling practices; eventually waxing poetic on the human condition and discussing methods to seek deep meaning in life. This episode is as much for clinicians (counselors or therapists) as it is for anyone interested in the fields of psychology or philosophy. Discussed in this Episode: Symptom reduction versus healing, the dominant medical model versus creativity, the influence of third party payers and money on counseling treatment, empirically validated treatments, managed care, how the economy and stress affects levels of empathy, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, ACRA, CBT, EMDR, DBT, Solution-Focused Therapy, the research on the efficacy of counseling, Scott Miller PhD., Bruce Wampold PhD., The Alliance Effect, The Allegiance Effect, and the importance of an agreed upon counseling model, psycho-pharmaceuticals, medications, vitamin D, statin medications, side effects, the root cause, existentialism, PTSD, EMDR, Levels of Care, ASAM criteria, Psychoeducation, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Developmental Stages of a Human, Reduction-ism, Holistic thinking, living between the opposites, Stages of Change, The Transtheoretical Model of Change, the Parable of the Hole, “Resistance”, Motivational Interviewing, Coping Skills, Rituals for Health, Tai Chi, Cross Fit, Yoga, Psyche, Soul, Group Psychotherapy, Narrative Therapy, the importance of the story, the importance of relationships, Systems Therapy, Couples Therapy, bearing witness to suffering, Bio Psycho Social (Sexual and Spiritual) model, Mindfulness, Existential Psychotherapy, Death and Meaning, Trauma, the nervous system, Somatic Experiencing Therapy, Art Therapy, Nature Therapy, Greenhouse Gasses, Joseph Campbell, Depth Psychology, Transpersonal Therapy, Jungian Analysis, Thomas Moore, Wisdom versus Knowledge, Imagination, Carl Jung, Adaptation, the shadow, Quantum Physics, Focusing techniques, Eugene Gendlin, Postmodernism, the breakdown of old patterns and grand narratives, human evolution, The People's History of the United States, Doing one's “inner work”, James Hillman. Episode 21 is considered part two of a solo series. In part one Paul Krauss MA LPC discussed his own journey from beginner therapist to experienced therapist with 10 years of clinical experience and learning from the leaders in the field. (Part 1 was released as Episode 20). Paul Krauss MA LPC is the Clinical Director of Health for Life Grand Rapids, home of The Trauma-Informed Counseling Center of Grand Rapids. Paul is also a Private Practice Psychotherapist, EMDRIA Consultant in Training (CIT), host of the Intentional Clinician podcast, Behavioral Health Consultant, Clinical Trainer, and Counseling Supervisor. Paul is now offering consulting for a few individuals and organizations. Paul is the creator of the National Violence Prevention Hotline (in progress)  as well as the Intentional Clinician Training Program for Counselors. Questions? Call the office at 616-200-4433.  If you are looking for EMDRIA consulting groups, Paul Krauss MA LPC is now hosting weekly online and in-person groups.  For details, click here. Follow Health for Life Grand Rapids: Instagram   |   Facebook     |     Youtube Original music: "Shades of Currency" [Instrumental] from Archetypes by PAWL "Metropolis" [Unreleased] from Modified Demos by PAWL (coming in 2019) "May You Be Born On Anarres" from Music for Public Access Television by ttypes Music available here: https://pawl.bandcamp.com/ https://ttttypes.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-public-access-television-2  

Ch- ch- ch- ch- Changes. That single word changes, stuttered at us by David Bowie in his hallmark song Changes piped into my ears and hit me, maybe like a lot of other people hit me, me-directly.  I was one of those people, feeling like the world and everything around me was changing and now, someone else was somehow telling it back to me, letting me know that they were feeling it too. Telling everybody what we were all feeling at the same time. I know you all want to hear the song now but I can only play you seven seconds without infringing copyright, so here is a little refresher. Ah.  Well. Changes were happening before that song was released and it was at the university of Chicago where a group of Dr. Gene Genlin's Psychology students needed a pace to work out some things. They began meeting to discuss the changes going on around them and these early groups, which predate Focusing as a formal practice. A community formed and that community began working with Focusing in group setting.  One of the people who was right there and will describe her experiences is Dr. Kathy McGuire who was a student of Dr. Eugene Genlin at the time. Dr. Kathy McGuire got a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Chicago, working directly with Dr. Eugene Gendlin. She was a Focusing-Oriented Therapist and workshop facilitator for 40 years. Her many articles and manuals can be found at her website for Creative Edge Focusing, www.cefocusing.com. As a cofounder of the original Changes Listening/Focusing Community in 1971, Dr. McGuire sees Empathic Listening and Experiential Focusing as co-equal skills. From her experience, a Changes Community is a training laboratory in how to live in community, how to overcome prejudice and increase tolerance for difference and uniqueness. People can practice, not only Focusing, but interpersonal conflict resolution and group decision making using Listening /Focusing skills.  

TFW Podcast 021: Catherine Torpey - Focusing and Faith In this episode our focusing oriented conversation we touch on the topic of Focusing and Faith. Catherine Torpey is the Executive Director of The International Focusing Institute, with headquarters in Nyack, New York. She came to the Institute two years ago, when it began its transition from having been led by its founder, Eugene Gendlin and his wife, Mary Hendricks. The Institute is an international, cross-cultural organization dedicated to supporting individuals and groups world-wide who are teaching and developing Felt Sense Focusing and its underlying philosophy. Catherine has been a practitioner of Focusing for twenty years, and is also an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister.   About the Focusing Institute - Resources WEBSITE The Focusing Institute offers many resources, including well-developed instructions for accessing this bodily knowing. Please explore our site, where you'll find workshops, first steps for newcomers, a library and more. You are also welcome to contact us with questions. Focusing is supported by a long series of operational research studies conducted first by Gene Gendlin and colleagues at the University of Chicago and now internationally. You may be able to learn Focusing by reading the Focusing book, or working with one of more than 1000 certified Focusing trainers from 40 countries who are available on Skype or telephone for one or several hours of Focusing training. From our list you can also find a Focusing-oriented therapistwho lives near you and speaks your language. You can also participate in one of our discussion lists, find a Focusing partner, and more. The Focusing Institute is making differences in communities all over the world. “Focusing” is to enter into a special kind of awareness, different from our every day awareness. It is open, turned inward, centered on the present and on your body's inner sensations. When doing Focusing, you silently ask, “How am I now?”   LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS  

TFW Podcast 021: Catherine Torpey - Focusing and Faith In this episode our focusing oriented conversation we touch on the topic of Focusing and Faith. Catherine Torpey is the Executive Director of The International Focusing Institute, with headquarters in Nyack, New York. She came to the Institute two years ago, when it began its transition from having been led by its founder, Eugene Gendlin and his wife, Mary Hendricks. The Institute is an international, cross-cultural organization dedicated to supporting individuals and groups world-wide who are teaching and developing Felt Sense Focusing and its underlying philosophy. Catherine has been a practitioner of Focusing for twenty years, and is also an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister.   About the Focusing Institute - Resources WEBSITE The Focusing Institute offers many resources, including well-developed instructions for accessing this bodily knowing. Please explore our site, where you'll find workshops, first steps for newcomers, a library and more. You are also welcome to contact us with questions. Focusing is supported by a long series of operational research studies conducted first by Gene Gendlin and colleagues at the University of Chicago and now internationally. You may be able to learn Focusing by reading the Focusing book, or working with one of more than 1000 certified Focusing trainers from 40 countries who are available on Skype or telephone for one or several hours of Focusing training. From our list you can also find a Focusing-oriented therapistwho lives near you and speaks your language. You can also participate in one of our discussion lists, find a Focusing partner, and more. The Focusing Institute is making differences in communities all over the world. “Focusing” is to enter into a special kind of awareness, different from our every day awareness. It is open, turned inward, centered on the present and on your body's inner sensations. When doing Focusing, you silently ask, “How am I now?”   LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS  

TFW Podcast 020: Catherine Torpey - Executive Director, The Focusing Institute In this episode our focusing oriented conversation we get caught up with the happenings at The Focusing Institute. Catherine Torpey is the Executive Director of The International Focusing Institute, with headquarters in Nyack, New York. She came to the Institute two years ago, when it began its transition from having been led by its founder, Eugene Gendlin and his wife, Mary Hendricks. The Institute is an international, cross-cultural organization dedicated to supporting individuals and groups world-wide who are teaching and developing Felt Sense Focusing and its underlying philosophy. Catherine has been a practitioner of Focusing for twenty years, and is also an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister.   About the Focusing Institute - Resources WEBSITE The Focusing Institute offers many resources, including well-developed instructions for accessing this bodily knowing. Please explore our site, where you'll find workshops, first steps for newcomers, a library and more. You are also welcome to contact us with questions. Focusing is supported by a long series of operational research studies conducted first by Gene Gendlin and colleagues at the University of Chicago and now internationally. You may be able to learn Focusing by reading the Focusing book, or working with one of more than 1000 certified Focusing trainers from 40 countries who are available on Skype or telephone for one or several hours of Focusing training. From our list you can also find a Focusing-oriented therapistwho lives near you and speaks your language. You can also participate in one of our discussion lists, find a Focusing partner, and more. The Focusing Institute is making differences in communities all over the world. “Focusing” is to enter into a special kind of awareness, different from our every day awareness. It is open, turned inward, centered on the present and on your body's inner sensations. When doing Focusing, you silently ask, “How am I now?”   LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS  

Ann Weiser Cornell on "Parts" PART II Recognizing parts and better understanding addiction.  In part two of our conversation with Ann Weiser Cornell, Ann shares in depth her own process with dealing with her own addiction.  Listen in as Ann shares intimate details of working through her process of working with parts and transforming this new understanding into inner relationship focusing teaching work. In the early days of Focusing, Ann Weiser Cornell was getting her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Chicago when she met and studied with Eugene Gendlin, the originator of Focusing, starting in 1972. Learning Focusing with him has led to a lifelong process of discovery and personal development. In 1980, Eugene Gendlin invited Ann to assist with his Focusing workshops. This started her on a path to become a Focusing teacher, and in 1990, Ann became the first person to support herself full-time as a Focusing teacher. Ann is internationally recognized as one of the early innovators of Focusing. She has taught Focusing in eighteen countries, and her Focusing books and manuals have been translated into seven other languages (Dari, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish). Ann is well-known in the Focusing world for her attention to the language that facilitates Focusing, her popular manuals, and her co-creation with Barbara McGavin of Treasure Maps to the Soul, a body of work applying Focusing to difficult areas such as addiction, depression, action blocks, self-criticism, and unfulfilled desire. She is the author of two books on Focusing: her bestseller The Power of Focusing, and The Radical Acceptance of Everything. Ann's newest book on Focusing-oriented therapy is, Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change. Ann is authorized by the Focusing Institute in New York to offer the Institute's certification as Focusing Trainer. Join us for part one of our in-depth conversation with Ann where she shares knowledge, insights and stories about her lifelong focusing journey.   .       LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS  

Early days of Focusing with Ann Weiser Cornell In the early days of Focusing, Ann Weiser Cornell was getting her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Chicago when she met and studied with Eugene Gendlin, the originator of Focusing, starting in 1972. Learning Focusing with him has led to a lifelong process of discovery and personal development. In 1980, Eugene Gendlin invited Ann to assist with his Focusing workshops. This started her on a path to become a Focusing teacher, and in 1990, Ann became the first person to support herself full-time as a Focusing teacher. Today Ann is internationally recognized as one of the early innovators of Focusing. She has taught Focusing in eighteen countries, and her Focusing books and manuals have been translated into seven other languages (Dari, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish). Ann is well-known in the Focusing world for her attention to the language that facilitates Focusing, her popular manuals, and her co-creation with Barbara McGavin of Treasure Maps to the Soul, a body of work applying Focusing to difficult areas such as addiction, depression, action blocks, self-criticism, and unfulfilled desire. She is the author of two books on Focusing: her bestseller The Power of Focusing, and The Radical Acceptance of Everything. Ann's newest book on Focusing-oriented therapy is, Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change. Ann is authorized by the Focusing Institute in New York to offer the Institute's certification as Focusing Trainer. Join us for part one of our in-depth conversation with Ann where she shares knowledge, insights and stories about her lifelong focusing journey.   .       LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS  

Today on The Focusing Way Podcast hear part two of the wonderful interview with Karen Liebenguth of Green Space Life Coaching. Karen Liebenguth is an experienced life coach, certified Focusing practitioner, an accredited mindfulness teacher and a certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator facilitator. She works with private and corporate individuals and groups to foster personal growth and sustainable change. She set up Green Space Coaching in 2008  to offer coaching while walking in London's parks and green space tapping into the benefits nature has on our psychological, emotional and physical well-being. She believes that it is in nature where reflection, insight and change can happen most naturally. Bringing Focusing into her coaching work has been delightful and powerful as she has witnessed over the past three years subtle and profound shifts in her clients. From feeling very stuck or stressed to considerably feeling very different, for example more open, spacious, able to have perspective, to have choices, possibilities, feeling more calm, grounded, soft, relaxed, expanded. Notable quote Eugene Gendlin, once said, when he spoke to hundreds of psychotherapists at an international congress: "I want to start with the most important thing I have to say: The essence of working with another person is to be present as a living being. And that is lucky, because if we had to be smart, or good, or mature, or wise, then we would probably be in trouble. But, what matters is not that. What matters is to be a human being with another human being..." (1990). In this episode: -How Karen came to focusing -Understanding Karen's work -The role of the listener in Focusing www:greenspacecoaching.com Twitter:@greenspacecoach facebook@greenspacelifecoaching LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS  

Today on The Focusing Way Podcast I speak  with Karen Liebenguth of Green Space Life Coaching. Karen Liebenguth is an experienced life coach, certified Focusing practitioner, an accredited mindfulness teacher and a certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator facilitator. She works with private and corporate individuals and groups to foster personal growth and sustainable change. She set up Green Space Coaching in 2008  to offer coaching while walking in London's parks and green space tapping into the benefits nature has on our psychological, emotional and physical well-being. She believes that it is in nature where reflection, insight and change can happen most naturally. Bringing Focusing into her coaching work has been delightful and powerful as she has witnessed over the past three years subtle and profound shifts in her clients. From feeling very stuck or stressed to considerably feeling very different, for example more open, spacious, able to have perspective, to have choices, possibilities, feeling more calm, grounded, soft, relaxed, expanded. Notable quote Eugene Gendlin, once said, when he spoke to hundreds of psychotherapists at an international congress: "I want to start with the most important thing I have to say: The essence of working with another person is to be present as a living being. And that is lucky, because if we had to be smart, or good, or mature, or wise, then we would probably be in trouble. But, what matters is not that. What matters is to be a human being with another human being..." (1990).   In this episode: -How Karen came to focusing -Understanding Karen's work -The role of the listener in Focusing     www:greenspacecoaching.com Twitter:@greenspacecoach facebook@greenspacelifecoaching   LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS  

059 – When Your Personal Beliefs Differ from the Client's – Eugene Gendlin's Focusing – Hitting Awarding-Body Criteria In episode 59 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken and Rory discuss how to offer unconditional positive regard (UPR) when your client has very different personal beliefs from your own. ‘Theory with Rory' looks at the work […] The post 059 – When Your Personal Beliefs Differ from the Client's – Eugene Gendlin's Focusing – Hitting Awarding-Body Criteria appeared first on Counselling Tutor.

059 – When Your Personal Beliefs Differ from the Client’s – Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing – Hitting Awarding-Body Criteria In episode 59 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken and Rory discuss how to offer unconditional positive regard (UPR) when your client has very different personal beliefs from your own. ‘Theory with Rory’ looks at the work… The post 059 – When Your Personal Beliefs Differ from the Client’s – Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing – Hitting Awarding-Body Criteria appeared first on Counselling Tutor.

This talk explores how focusing, a method of insight developed by the late psychiatrist Eugene Gendlin—especially when used as a meditation practice similar to the Buddha's Vedananusati, or awareness of feelings—can create an important shift in the way we somatically process experience, which in turn can lead to real behavioral change. NOTE: During the same week I gave this talk Tricycle Magazine appeared with an excellent article on the same subject by David Rome. It can be found here: article on focusing

Ann Weiser Cornell is a best-selling author, educator, and worldwide authority on Focusing, the self-awareness method developed by her mentor, Eugene Gendlin. She is perhaps the best-known Focusing teacher in the world, having taught in twenty countries around the world for the past twenty-five years. She and Barbara McGavin have created Inner Relationship Focusing, which is especially helpful when you feel overwhelmed by emotional states – bringing you inner strength, confidence, and clarity. She is the author of The Radical Acceptance of Everything and her bestseller, The Power of Focusing,as well as Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change. She is also a Past President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. http://theawareshow.com/cornell

Ann Weiser Cornell, Ph.D., an international expert in the art of Focusing,  a process first developed by Dr. Eugene Gendlin, discusses how leaders can use Focusing to improve their creativity, collaboration and decision-making.

ABOUT THE LECTURE Our bodies provide the foundation for everything we do as human beings. To do anything persistently amounts to the creation of habits and patterns in one's body. To pray unceasingly is no exception. In this presentation, Dr. LaChance explores the role of the body in prayer and draws from the work of the psychologist Eugene Gendlin.  He will describe a way of being more bodily present in prayer by increasing emotional self-awareness. Yet, prayer is not simply a human activity. Dr. LaChance will also discuss Karl Rahner and Basil Pennington in order to distinguish the psychological from the theological elements of prayer. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Dr. Paul LaChance is an independent researcher and psychotherapist.  His professional interests have been greatly inspired by the works of Fr. Bernard Lonergan and include the role of faith in human development.  He runs a private practice in Easton, PA and works with adolescents and adults facing the effects of trauma, loss and relational conflict.