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We Are Nature. Focusing and Ecotherapy with guest Adrian Harris and host Greg Madison. Episode 31In this episode, Adrian and I share an intriguing conversation about how the body is our connection to the other-than-human and how this embodiment can lead to a deep form of eco-appreciation and activism. Adrian describes what he means by ecopaganism, ecopsychology and lists the 3 keys to ecotherapy self-practice. We also touch on the question of how therapy might expand if it is practiced in nature rather than within four walls. Adrian's work compliments Gendlin's statement, ‘In sensing ourselves, our bodies sense our physical environment and our inter-human situations' (Gendlin, 2003. p.101).Episode 31 with Adrian Harris: https://youtu.be/0xu6x9u0bl4?si=ruRtFeGq9iQ1m_lSThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links:https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLThe Living Process on the FOT Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx3FqA70kQWuHCHmEiZnkn1VcrRIPbcvkDr Adrian Harris is based in Exeter, UK, and works as a person-centred, FOT and Ecotherapist in person and online. He also has a blog, Bodymind Place and the podcast Embodied Pathways. He has worked as a psychedelic retreat facilitator, lead editor of The European Journal of Ecopsychology and has published numerous academic and popular articles. His PhD research was on The Wisdom of the Body: Embodied Knowing in Eco-Paganism and the Embodiment Resources website has more information on his academic work and his website below has information on courses and offerings. https://adrianharris.orgHarris, Adrian. 2013. ‘Gendlin and ecopsychology: focusing in nature' in Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Volume 12, Issue 4, 2013.Fisher, A., 2002. 'Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life'. State University of New York Press, Albany.Ecopsychology: restoring the earth, healing the mind, 1995, edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner. Sierra Club Books. San Francisco, CA.This book includes Robert Greenway's chapter: 'The Wilderness Effect and Ecopsychology' and Chellis Glendinning on 'Technology trauma and the wild'.Ollagnier-Beldame, M., (2025) 'Experiencing life and belonging to nature with Focusing', European Journal of Ecopsychology:https://ecopsychology-journal.eu/v9/EJE_v9_Ollagnier-Beldame.pdf'The Embodied Pathways of Connection' is Adrian's ongoing overview project:https://embodiedpathways.org/
Awakening to Embodied Living on The Living ProcessIn this episode Russell and I share a heartfelt discussion about the importance of the ‘physical body' and of going ‘beyond' it. Russell talks of the development of his teacher Moshe Feldenkrais, his method and how ‘freedom' was his main goal. Russell emphasised the important of ‘not-knowing' and how this helps to navigate the edge between Guided Inquiry, Feldenkrais, Zen meditation and their integration into the practice of The Embodied Life. This is a learning programme offered by Russell and his wife Linda, influenced by over 50 years of immersion in these practices and his direct relationship with Feldenkrais, Gendlin and principle teachers in the Zen tradition. Episode 30, The Living Process with guest Russell DelmanThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links:https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLThe Living Process on the FOT Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx3FqA70kQWuHCHmEiZnkn1VcrRIPbcvkRussell DelmanRussell Delman is a well-known and valued teacher within the disciplines of Zen Buddhist meditation and Feldenkrais. He is also known in the Focusing world as a unique embodiment practitioner who integrates all three of these practices in his international training of The Embodied Life. He and Gene Gendlin also shared a warm friendship and Focusing partnership for many years. Russell's exploration of the crucial importance of awareness in body/mind perspectives and psychology began in 1970 .His subsequent journey included gestalt, yoga, the first Feldenkrais trainings, work at The Esalen Institute, Focusing, and many mind-body experiences and teachings. Russell and his wife Linda introduced Feldenkrais method to India where they worked with Mother Teresa and brain-injured children at her Mission in Kolkata. Russell says his life learnings are greatly enhanced by his long and loving relationship with Linda his wife and their journey as parents to their daughter, Liliana. For more information on Russell's extensive training programmes see The Embodied Life: https://theembodiedlife.org
In this episode of Acid Horizon, Chuck LeBlanc, therapist and host of Couch to Couch, joins us to explore masculinity, loneliness, and mental health in an era of social alienation. We discuss the male loneliness epidemic, stoic ideals, and the harmful influence of figures like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson. Chuck shares insights from his therapeutic work, integrating Deleuze and Guattari, Hillman, and Gendlin. We examine the historical provider archetype, the performativity of male friendships, and social media's role in fostering disconnectedness. Chuck also introduces an active imagination exercise to help clients connect with their emotions. This episode highlights the importance of vulnerability, connection, and rethinking masculinity in contemporary society.Chuck's podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KHIRPerXEenEKOTV5X22nSupport the showSupport the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastJoin The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3QxnSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438 LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
Focusing during wartime with Dan Schachter on The Living Process with Greg Madison. E29 Welcome to this episode of The Living Process, following quite soon on the last episode because of the topical nature of my conversation with Dan. In our conversation, we speak mainly about the experience of living within the conflict between Israel and Palestine. We also talk about Dan's gradual transition from psychoanalysis to experiential therapy back in the early 1990s. Dan has trained in Somatic Experiencing and EMDR and works in a trauma clinic as well as privately. We touched on what it is like to work as a clinical psychologist with clients who might have a very different perspective on the war going on around them. What it is like to be living in a society that is undergoing such a deep crisis which all clients and therapists are affected by on a daily basis? Dan talks about how crucial felt sensing, TAE, and Gendlin's underlying experiential philosophy have been as a resource in his attempts to navigate the complexity of feelings and attitudes amongst Israelis. We acknowledge how difficult it is to hold the tension between one's own truth and wanting to remain open to the nuances of other opinions with an awareness that even in this podcast we are inevitably stepping into this minefield of judgment and criticism. Dan mentions his participation in PsychoActive, a mental health group for human rights opposed to the occupation of Palestinian territory, and how taking such a stance does not close him to being curious about other ways of experiencing all that is happening in his region of the world. Dan Schachter, Is originally from Norway and has lived in Israel for many years, speaking English, Hebrew, and Norwegian fluently. Dan is a Focusing coordinator, a Focusing Oriented Therapist, and a clinical psychologist in private practice. He teaches Focusing, TAE (Thinking at the Edge) and the philosophy of the implicit and is well known in the Focusing community for his contributions to various projects including the International Focusing Institute Certification Weeklong core faculty. You can contact Dan at: DanS545@gmail.com Episode 29 of The Living Process with guest, Dan Schachter. Focusing during wartime: https://youtu.be/-jOAy_vYgPE 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 #warzone #israel #gaza #existentialism #Experientialpractice #bodymind #thelivingprocess #psychotherapy #mindfulness
Focusing and Self-Discovery with Jeffrey Morrison on The Living Process with Greg Madison. Episode 28 In this episode, I welcome Jeffrey Morrison who is well-known in our community as a Focusing Oriented Therapist and Teacher of Focusing. Jeffrey and I outline his interesting journey from philosophy and theology through existential-phenomenological therapy into the world of Focusing and Gendlin's philosophy. We discuss the importance of structure when teaching a natural process, as well as psychedelics and the role of death awareness in developing spirituality. We touch on Jeffrey's interest in trauma, neuroscience, the role of the physical body, and also how Focusing can help us avoid joining the polarised conflicts that are plaguing our world. Jeffrey studied philosophy, and religion before concentrating on psychology after being exposed to Focusing. He has worked in various settings with adolescents, parents, and teachers. He has trained in Family System Therapy, Adlerian Psychology, meditation, aspects of Feldenkrais, Zen, and recently co-wrote a chapter on Polyvagal Theory and trauma. He operates his clinical practice as well as offering certifying courses in FOT in Seattle and Vashon Island, Washington, as well as online. He is a Certifying Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute. Episode 28, The Living Process with guest Jeffrey Morrison https://youtu.be/l9eLZ6pfg3k The Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/ 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 For more information on Jeffrey and his work: Seattle Focusing https://seattlefocusing.org Morrison Therapy https://morrisontherapy.com Focusing-Oriented Therapy for the Treatment of Trauma (Jeffrey Morrison and Riley Patterson) in the edited book Experiential Therapies for Treating Trauma (Eds. Senreich, Straussner, Dann, Routledge 2025). #somaticexperience#trauma#Focusing#Gendlin#Bodytherapy#Zen#Experientialpractice#bodymind #thelivingprocess#buddhist #psychotherapy#mindfulness #spiritualawakening #experientialpractice #thelivingprocess
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
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
Delighted to welcome Judy and Nikos to this, episode 23 of The Living Process. Our guests are well known for their achievement of editing Senses of Focusing Volume 1 and 2, two fantastic resources featuring new writing and diverse perspectives on Focusing and FOT. In this episode, we discuss critiques of focusing, what is coming next for them both, and positive developments they would like to see happen in therapy generally and in the Focusing world. In our 3-way conversation, we touch on the way that other approaches like the person-centered approach, Internal Family Systems, or Emotion Focus Therapy might incorporate focusing as a technique without fully integrating the fundamental importance of the experiential response, felt sensing, and carrying forward. We touched on different words and understandings for theories of the body, for eg the Ancient Greek terms like 'pathos' and the difference it offers if we allow ancient philosophy to be experienced freshly. We raised questions regarding what we can do to be better understood by other traditions and to translate some of our discoveries so that therapists from other orientations can think further with them. How do we in FOT deal with abrupt or cathartic changes? How do we engage with theories? How can we build bridges with other therapeutic communities and philosophies? What is our view of the person? Is there a spiritual context for our understanding of human being? Can we stay open to other ways of thinking so that they stay open to us? What is the future of FOT and therapy? How to keep developing FOT ourselves after the work of Gendlin… In response to this Judy and Nikos are planning a series of seminars or a symposium to welcome critical thinking and deeper exploration of Focusing, FOT and our relationship to other ways of understanding. Nikolaos Kypriotakis has studied Physics and has been trained in Person-Centred & Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Person-Centred Supervision and Children Focusing. He works as an FOT therapist and Focusing Trainer for the Hellenic Focusing Center and he is a Certifying Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute, New York. Together with Judy Moore he edited the collective work Senses of Focusing, Vol. I & II and has translated into Greek the book Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Εποχή-Epoché (Phenomenological Psychotherapies), for the issues n.1 to n.16. Judy Moore was originally trained in the classical Person-Centred Approach on the first PCA professional training in the UK. She taught on the postgraduate Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling at the University of East Anglia (UEA) throughout the 1990s before, thanks to the work of her colleague, Campbell Purton, finally discovering the extent of Gendlin's contribution to the development of Client-Centred/ Person-Centred Therapy. As Director of the Centre for Counselling Studies at UEA she worked with Campbell to develop Focusing and FOT training at UEA in the early 2000s. UEA also hosted several conferences, including colloquiums on Gendlin's philosophy. Judy is a Certifying Coordinator of The International Focusing Institute, working in private practice and as a freelance trainer and consultant. In 2021 she co-edited (with Nikolaos Kypriotakis) the two volumes of Senses of Focusing. https://sensesoffocusing.weebly.com Focusing book in Greek translation: https://bit.ly/3Y9BtwM #bodytherapy #focusing #gendlin #experientialpractice #somaticexperience #psychotherapy #counseling #psychology #personalgrowth #rodgers
Would you like to learn how to tap into and trust your inner wisdom? If so, Join Karina Muller, Lana Gendlin, and me on Wednesday, August 28th, from 10 AM - 11 AM CDT U.S. Our conversation will be about their remarkable life journey, their new book, “Pendulums and Intuition - Practical Advice for Trusting Your Inner Wisdom” and how we can ask our heart for guidance in all areas of our lives. Karina Muller and Lana Gendlin are co-founders of HeartCentric LLC, which includes two businesses: HeartCentric Divine Creations and HeartCentric Coaching Collaborative. They are certified life coaches, jewelry artisans, and entrepreneurs who turned their creative outlet and passion for making spiritual jewelry into a major component of their business strategy. Karina and Lana empower their coaching clients to look within and utilize their intuition to find the answers they seek for themselves. They realized that the pendulum is the perfect tool to help people authentically connect to the guidance already inside them—something that Karina and Lana honor and strive to teach their coaching clients. Anyone can learn to use a pendulum to access what is stored in their subconscious and bring it to the surface. Their mission is to empower people to connect to their intuition with the help of a pendulum. Pendulums and Intuition - Practical Advice for Trusting Your Inner Wisdom helps readers untangle indecision with answers on a string. The book helps you discover how to select or make your pendulum, care for it and yourself, and start your practice. Its user-friendly exercises and resources help you use a pendulum to access your intuition, achieve success, and live a decisively good life.
Karina Muller and Lana Gendlin are the co authors of, "Pendulums & Intuition."They join me on the show today to explain how to access your intuition quickly and effectively through these portable tools. They say, "Pendulums translate your intuitive wisdom into yes or no movements that can solve problems and get you unstuck from any situation. They tell their amazing story of immigrating to the United States from Russia when they were children. What a blessing that they met and connected in adult life, to create beautiful pendulums and to teach us how to use them properly. This is a fun and informative show! Visit Karina and Lana on their website http://www.HCDivineCreations.com. Visit Website http://www.PsychicForHumanity.com Book your appointment with Nancy Yearout for a Psychic Tarot Reading or an Energy Healing Session. As a Bonus, each session booked with Nancy will offer a complimentary guided connection with your own Guardian Angel.
EPISODE 20 - "THE WORLD WE ARE", WITH DONATA SCHOELLER, PHD. THE LIVING PROCESS WITH GREG MADISON, PHD. I'm happy to announce The Living Process, Episode 20 with Donata Schoeller. This is the 4th, theme-based, conversation with Donata. This time we are picking up where we left our last conversation and talking about whether a person has an ‘inside'. Topics we cover include “what words do”, what is visible and invisible and how even the invisible can still be perceived. We touch on the interaction of symbols and body, the different spaces we live in, Gene's Process Model, the meaning of gestures, how this all works in the act of felt sensing. Later in the conversation we discuss how felt sensing is a dance and a primary process of making meaning. The general question we are exploring is whether people are separate? Donata expresses this in the beautiful statement: “we are immersed in a common world net”. Near the end, Donata asks, “What makes this practice so beautiful?” Where does the sincerity and integrity come from? We conclude the episode by agreeing on our topic for the next conversation. Episode 20: ‘The World We Are' with Donata Schoeller, PhD. https://youtu.be/n1k3LrwnUck Dr 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.com 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, with free transcripts of each episode. #focusing #meditation #mindfulness #experience #Gendlin #existential #therapy #somatic
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
Read the longform article at:https://gettherapybirmingham.com/healing-the-modern-soul-part-2/ The Philosophy of Psychotherapy The Corporatization of Healthcare and Academia: A Threat to the Future of Psychotherapy The field of psychotherapy is at a critical juncture, facing numerous challenges that threaten its ability to effectively address the complex realities of the human experience. Chief among these challenges is the growing influence of corporate interests and the trend towards hyper-specialization in academic psychology, which have led to a disconnect between the profession and its roots, as well as a lack of understanding of the physical reality of the body, anthropology, and the history of the field. In this article, we will explore the ways in which the corporatization of healthcare and academia is impacting psychotherapy, and argue that in order for the profession to remain relevant and effective, it must embrace a more holistic and integrative approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit. This requires a renewed commitment to developing a coherent concept of self, a shared language and understanding of implicit memory, and a vision of psychotherapy as a means of empowering individuals to become more effective at being themselves in the world and, in turn, better at transforming the world for the better. The Corporatization of Healthcare and Academia The influence of corporate interests on healthcare and academia has had a profound impact on the field of psychotherapy. The pressure to maximize profits and minimize costs has led to a shift away from comprehensive diagnosis and towards a reliance on quick fixes like medication and brief, manualized therapies. This trend is particularly evident in the way that psychiatry has evolved over the past few decades. Psychiatrists used to spend an entire hour with their patients doing psychotherapy, but now the majority of the profession relies solely on drug therapy. In fact, a staggering 89% of psychiatrists used only drug therapy in 2010, compared to just 54% in 1988 (Mojtabai & Olfson, 2008). Patients are often left feeling frustrated and unheard, with many giving up on medication after their psychiatrist writes a script in the first and last five minutes of their first session. The same forces are at work in academia, where the cost of education has skyrocketed and the focus has shifted towards producing "products" rather than fostering critical thinking and innovation. Adjunct professors, who often lack the expertise and experience to teach psychotherapy effectively, have replaced tenure-track faculty, and students are graduating with a narrow understanding of the field that is ill-suited to the realities of private practice (Collier, 2017). The result is a profession that is increasingly disconnected from its roots and the physical reality of the body. Anthropology, humanities and the history of the profession, which offer valuable insights into the nature of the human experience and the evolution of psychotherapy, are largely ignored in favor of a narrow focus on cognitive-behavioral interventions and symptom reduction pushed largely to help psychopharm companies' bottom lines (Frances, 2013). The current academic publishing system is also broken. Academics work hard to come up with original ideas and write papers, only to give their work away for free to publishers who make trillions of dollars in profits while the authors get no compensation (Buranyi, 2017). Peers often cite papers to support their own points without actually reading them in depth. And the "best" journals frequently publish absurd psychology articles that would make you laugh if you said their main point out loud, but hide their lack of substance behind academic jargon (Sokal, 2008). Meanwhile, students spend years in graduate school being forced to research what their advisor wants, not what's truly innovative or needed to advance the field. After a decade of study and compromise, the pinnacle achievement is often creating a new 30-question screener for something like anxiety, rather than developing therapists who can actually discern and treat anxiety without needing a questionnaire. The system fails to properly vet or pay therapists, assuming they can't be trusted to practice without rigid manuals and checklists. This hyper-rationality, the madness arising from too much logic rather than too little, is very useful to moneyed interests like the Department of Defense in how they want to fund and control research. Large language models and AI are the pinnacle of this - spreadsheets sorting data points to mimic human speech, created by people so disconnected from a real sense of self that they believe you can turn people into robots because they've turned themselves into robots (Weizenbaum, 1976). But psychology and therapy can't be reduced to hard science and pure empiricism the way fields like physics can (at least until you get to quantum physics and have to rely on metaphor again). We can't remove all intuition, subjective experience and uncertainty (Rogers, 1995). The reproducibility crisis in psychology research shows the folly of this over-rationality (Open Science Collaboration, 2015). Studies that throw out any participant who dropped out of CBT treatment because it wasn't helping them are not painting an accurate picture (Westen et al., 2004). Developing a Coherent Concept of Self A History of the Self Our understanding of the self has evolved throughout history: Ancient Greek Philosophy (6th century BCE - 3rd century CE) Socrates introduces the idea of the self as a distinct entity, emphasizing self-knowledge and introspection (Plato, trans. 2002). Plato's concept of the soul as the essence of the self, distinct from the physical body (Plato, trans. 1997). Aristotle's notion of the self as the unity of body and soul, with the soul being the form or essence of the individual (Aristotle, trans. 1986). Medieval Philosophy (5th century CE - 15th century CE) St. Augustine's concept of the self as a reflection of God, with the inner self being the source of truth and self-knowledge (Augustine, trans. 2002). St. Thomas Aquinas' synthesis of Aristotelian and Christian concepts of the self, emphasizing the soul as the form of the body (Aquinas, trans.1981). Renaissance and Enlightenment (16th century CE - 18th century CE) Descartes' famous "cogito ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am"), establishing the self as a thinking, conscious being (Descartes, trans. 1996). Locke's idea of the self as a blank slate shaped by experience and the continuity of consciousness (Locke, trans. 1975). Hume's skepticism about the self, arguing that it is merely a bundle of perceptions without a unified identity (Hume, trans. 2000). Romantic Era (late 18th century CE - mid-19th century CE) The self is seen as a creative, expressive force, with an emphasis on individuality and subjective experience (Berlin, 2013). The rise of the concept of the "self-made man" and the importance of personal growth and self-realization (Trilling, 1972). 20th Century Philosophy and Psychology Freud's psychoanalytic theory, which posits the self as composed of the id, ego, and superego, with unconscious drives and conflicts shaping behavior (Freud, trans.1989). Jung's concept of the self as the center of the psyche, integrating conscious and unconscious elements (Jung, 1959). Existentialism's emphasis on the self as a product of individual choices and actions, with the need to create meaning in a meaningless world (Sartre, trans. 1956). The rise of humanistic psychology, with its focus on self-actualization and the inherent potential of the individual (Maslow, 1968). Postmodernism's deconstruction of the self, challenging the idea of a unified, coherent identity (Jameson, 1991). Contemporary Developments (late 20th century CE - present) The influence of neuroscience and cognitive science on the understanding of the self as an emergent property of brain processes (LeDoux, 2002). The impact of social and cultural factors on the construction of the self, with the recognition of multiple, intersecting identities (Gergen, 1991). The rise of narrative theories of the self, emphasizing the role of storytelling in shaping personal identity (Bruner, 1990). The influence of Eastern philosophies and contemplative practices on Western concepts of the self, with an emphasis on mindfulness and interconnectedness (Epstein, 1995). Psychotherapy and the Concept of Self Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) - Psychoanalysis: Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, conceived of the self as being composed of three elements: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id represents the primitive, instinctual drives; the ego mediates between the demands of the id and the constraints of reality; and the superego represents the internalized moral standards and values of society. Freud believed that the goal of psychotherapy was to bring unconscious conflicts and desires into conscious awareness, allowing the ego to better manage the competing demands of the id and superego (Freud, trans. 1989). Carl Jung (1875-1961) - Analytical Psychology: Jung, a former collaborator of Freud, developed his own theory of the self, which he saw as the central archetype of the psyche. Jung believed that the self represented the unity and wholeness of the personality, and that the goal of psychotherapy was to help individuals achieve a state of self-realization or individuation. This involved integrating the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche, including the persona (the public face), the shadow (the repressed or hidden aspects of the self), and the anima/animus (the inner masculine or feminine) (Jung, 1959). Alfred Adler (1870-1937) - Individual Psychology: Adler, another former collaborator of Freud, emphasized the importance of social relationships and the drive for superiority in shaping the self. He believed that individuals develop a unique lifestyle or way of being in the world based on their early experiences and relationships, and that the goal of psychotherapy was to help individuals overcome feelings of inferiority and develop a healthy, socially-oriented way of living (Adler, trans. 1964). Fritz Perls (1893-1970) - Gestalt Therapy: Perls, the founder of Gestalt therapy, saw the self as an ongoing process of self-regulation and self-actualization. He believed that the goal of psychotherapy was to help individuals become more aware of their present-moment experience and to take responsibility for their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Perls emphasized the importance of contact between the self and the environment, and the need to integrate the different aspects of the self into a cohesive whole (Perls et al., 1951). Internal Family Systems (IFS) - Richard Schwartz (1950-present): IFS is a more recent approach that sees the self as being composed of multiple sub-personalities or "parts." These parts are seen as having their own unique qualities, desires, and beliefs, and the goal of IFS therapy is to help individuals develop a greater sense of self-leadership and inner harmony. The self is seen as the core of the personality, with the capacity to lead and integrate the different parts (Schwartz, 1995). As Schwartz writes in the introduction to his book on IFS, the model was heavily influenced by Gestalt therapy and the work of Carl Jung. Schwartz aimed to create a non-pathologizing approach that honored the complexity and wisdom of the psyche. IFS shares Jung's view of the self as the central organizing principle, surrounded by various archetypes or subpersonalities. It also draws on the Gestalt emphasis on present-moment awareness and the need for integration of different aspects of the self. However, IFS offers a more user-friendly language than classical Jungian analysis, without the need for extensive explanations of concepts like anima/animus. In IFS, a patient can quickly identify different "parts" - for example, a protector part that taps its foot and bites its nails to avoid painful feelings. By directly engaging with and embracing that part, the patient can access the vulnerable feelings and memories it is protecting against, fostering self-compassion and integration over time. The IFS model is an example of how contemporary approaches are building on the insights of depth psychology while offering more transparent, experience-near practices suitable for a wider range of patients and practitioners. It reflects an ongoing effort to develop a cohesive yet flexible understanding of the self that remains open to unconscious processes. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - Aaron Beck (1921-2021) and Albert Ellis (1913-2007): CBT, developed by Beck and Ellis, focuses on the role of thoughts and beliefs in shaping emotional and behavioral responses. CBT sees the self as being largely determined by the individual's cognitions, and the goal of therapy is to help individuals identify and modify maladaptive or irrational beliefs and thought patterns. CBT places less emphasis on the unconscious or intrapsychic aspects of the self, and more on the conscious, rational processes that shape behavior (Beck, 1979; Ellis & Harper, 1975). Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - B.F. Skinner (1904-1990): ABA, based on the work of Skinner and other behaviorists, sees the self as a product of environmental contingencies and reinforcement histories. ABA focuses on observable behaviors rather than internal states or processes, and the goal of therapy is to modify behavior through the systematic application of reinforcement and punishment. ABA has been widely used in the treatment of autism and other developmental disorders, but has been criticized for its lack of attention to the inner experience of the self (Skinner, 1953; Lovaas, 1987). What is Self? One of the key challenges facing psychotherapy today is the lack of a coherent concept of self. The self is a complex and dynamic entity that is shaped by a range of internal and external factors, including our experiences, relationships, and cultural context (Baumeister, 1987). Unfortunately, many contemporary models of therapy fail to adequately capture this complexity, instead relying on simplistic and reductionistic notions of the self as a collection of symptoms or behaviors to be modified (Wachtel, 1991). To develop a more coherent and holistic concept of self, psychotherapy must draw on insights from a range of disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and the humanities (Sass & Parnas, 2003). This requires a willingness to engage with the messy and often paradoxical nature of the human experience, recognizing that the self is not a fixed entity but rather a constantly evolving process of becoming (Gendlin, 1978). The psychoanalyst Carl Jung's concept of the self as the central archetype, connected to the divine and the greater unconscious, offers a useful starting point for this endeavor. Jung believed that by making the unconscious conscious and dealing with ego rigidity, individuals could embody a deeper sense of purpose and connection to the universe (Jung, 1959). While we may not need to fully embrace Jung's metaphysical language, his emphasis on the dynamic interplay between conscious and unconscious processes, as well as the importance of symbol, dream, and myth in shaping the self, remains highly relevant today (Hillman, 1975). Other approaches, such as Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and somatic experiencing, also offer valuable insights into the nature of the self. IFS sees the self as a core of compassion, curiosity, and confidence that is surrounded by protective parts that arise in response to trauma and other challenges. By working with these parts and fostering greater integration and self-leadership, individuals can develop a more coherent and authentic sense of self (Schwartz, 1995). Similarly, somatic experiencing emphasizes the role of the body in shaping the self, recognizing that trauma and other experiences are stored not just in the mind but also in the muscles, nerves, and other physical structures (Levine, 1997). Models like IFS, somatic experiencing, and lifespan integration are appealing because they see the self as a dynamic ecosystem that is always evolving and striving for integration and actualization (Boon et al., 2011; Ogden et al., 2006; Pace, 2012). They don't try to label and categorize everything, recognizing that sometimes we need to just sit with feelings and sensations without fully understanding them intellectually. Lifespan integration in particular views the self as a continuum of moments threaded together like pearls on a necklace. Traumatic experiences can cause certain "pearls" or ego states to become frozen in time, disconnected from the flow of the self-narrative. By imaginally revisiting these moments and "smashing them together" with resource states, lifespan integration aims to re-integrate the self across time, fostering a more coherent and flexible identity (Pace, 2012). In contrast, the more behavioral and manualized approaches like CBT and ABA have a much more limited and problematic view. They see the self as just a collection of cognitions and learned behaviors, minimizing the role of the unconscious and treating people more like programmable robots (Shedler, 2010). If taken to an extreme, this is frankly offensive and damaging. There has to be room for the parts of the self that we can feel and intuit but not fully articulate (Stern, 2004). Ultimately, developing a coherent concept of self requires a willingness to sit with the tensions and paradoxes of the human experience, recognizing that the self is always in communication with the world around us, and that our sense of who we are is constantly being shaped by implicit memory and other unconscious processes (Schore & Schore, 2008). It requires remaining open to uncertainty and realizing that the self is never static or finished, but always dynamically unfolding (Bromberg, 1996). Good therapy helps people get in touch with their authentic self, not just impose a set of techniques to modify surface-level symptoms (Fosha et al., 2009). Understanding Implicit Memory Another critical challenge facing psychotherapy today is the lack of a shared language and understanding of implicit memory. Implicit memory refers to the unconscious, automatic, and often somatic ways in which our past experiences shape our present thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (Schacter et al., 1993). While the concept of implicit memory has a long history in psychotherapy, dating back to Freud's notion of the unconscious and Jung's idea of the collective unconscious, it remains poorly understood and often overlooked in contemporary practice (Kihlstrom, 1987). This is due in part to the dominance of cognitive-behavioral approaches, which tend to focus on explicit, conscious processes rather than the deeper, more intuitive and embodied aspects of the self (Bucci, 1997). To effectively address the role of implicit memory in psychological distress and personal growth, psychotherapy must develop a shared language and framework for understanding and working with these unconscious processes (Greenberg, 2002). This requires a willingness to engage with the body and the somatic experience, recognizing that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are deeply rooted in our physical being (van der Kolk, 2014). One way to think about implicit memory is as a kind of "photoshop filter" that our brain is constantly running, even when we are not consciously aware of it. Just as the center of our visual field is filled in by our brain based on the surrounding context, our implicit memories are constantly shaping our perceptions and reactions to the world around us, even when we are not consciously aware of them. This is why it is so important for therapists to be attuned to the subtle cues and signals that patients give off, both verbally and nonverbally. A skilled therapist can often sense the presence of implicit memories and unconscious processes long before the patient is consciously aware of them, and can use this information to guide the therapeutic process in a more effective and meaningful direction (Schore, 2012). At the same time, it is important to recognize that implicit memories are not always negative or pathological. In fact, many of our most cherished and meaningful experiences are encoded in implicit memory, shaping our sense of self and our relationships with others in profound and often unconscious ways (Fosshage, 2005). The goal of therapy, then, is not necessarily to eliminate or "fix" implicit memories, but rather to help individuals develop a more conscious and intentional relationship with them, so that they can be integrated into a more coherent and authentic sense of self (Stern, 2004). The Future of the Unconscious Many of the most interesting thinkers in the history of psychology understood this symbolic dimension of implicit memory, even if their specific theories needed refinement. Freud recognized the dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious processes, and the way that repressed material could manifest in dreams, symptoms, and relational patterns (Freud, trans. 1989). Jung saw the unconscious as not just a repository of repressed personal material, but a deep well of collective wisdom and creative potential, populated by universal archetypes and accessed through dream, myth, and active imagination (Jung, 1968). Jung urged individuals to engage in a lifelong process of "individuation," differentiating the self from the collective while also integrating the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche (Jung, 1964). Reich connected chronic muscular tensions or "character armor" to blocked emotions and neurotic conflicts, pioneering body-based interventions aimed at restoring the free flow of life energy (Reich, 1980). While some of Reich's later work veered into pseudoscience, his core insights about the somatic basis of psychological experience were hugely influential on subsequent generations of clinicians (Young, 2006). More recently, emerging models such as sensorimotor psychotherapy (Ogden & Fisher, 2015), accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP; Fosha, 2000), and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR; Shapiro, 2017) aim to access and integrate implicit memories through body-based and imagistic techniques. By working with posture, sensation, movement, and breath, these approaches help patients bring nonverbal, affective material into conscious awareness and narrative coherence. Process-oriented therapies such as Arnold Mindell's process work (Mindell, 1985) offer another compelling framework for engaging implicit memory. Mindell suggests that the unconscious communicates through "channels" such as vision, audition, proprioception, kinesthesia, and relationship. By unfolding the process in each channel and following the flow of "sentient essence," therapists can help patients access and integrate implicit memories and in turn catalyze psychological and somatic healing. These contemporary approaches build on the insights of earlier clinicians while offering new maps and methods for navigating the realm of implicit memory. They point towards an understanding of the self as an ever-evolving matrix of conscious and unconscious, cognitive and somatic, personal and transpersonal processes. Engaging implicit memory is not about pathologizing the unconscious so much as learning its unique language and honoring its hidden wisdom. At the same time, this is tricky terrain to navigate, personally and professionally. As therapist and patient venture into the uncharted waters of the unconscious, it is crucial to maintain an attitude of humility, compassion, and ethical integrity (Stein, 2006). We must be mindful of the power dynamics and transference/countertransference currents that can arise in any therapeutic relationship, and work to create a safe, boundaried space for healing and transformation (Barnett et al., 2007). There is also a risk of getting lost in the fascinating world of the unconscious and losing sight of external reality. While depth psychology and experiential therapies offer valuable tools for self-exploration and meaning-making, they are not a replacement for practical skills, behavioral changes, and real-world action. We must be careful not to fall into the trap of "spiritual bypassing," using esoteric practices to avoid the hard work of embodying our insights and values in daily life (Welwood, 2000). Ultimately, the future of psychotherapy lies in integrating the best of what has come before while remaining open to new discoveries and directions. By combining scientific rigor with clinical artistry, cognitive understanding with experiential depth, and technical skill with ethical care, we can continue to expand our understanding of the self and the transformative potential of the therapeutic relationship. As we navigate the uncharted territories of the 21st century and beyond, we will need maps and methods that honor the full complexity and mystery of the human experience. Engaging with the unconscious and implicit dimensions of memory is not a luxury but a necessity if we are to rise to the challenges of our time with creativity, resilience, and wisdom. May we have the courage to venture into the depths, and the humility to be transformed by what we find there. Empowering Individuals to Be Themselves The ultimate goal of psychotherapy, in my view, is to empower individuals to become more effective at being themselves in the world and, in turn, better at transforming the world for the better. This requires a fundamental shift in the way that we think about mental health and well-being, moving beyond a narrow focus on symptom reduction and towards a more holistic and integrative approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit. To achieve this goal, psychotherapy must embrace a range of approaches and techniques that are tailored to the unique needs and experiences of each individual. This may include somatic therapies that work with the body to release trauma and promote healing, such as somatic experiencing, sensorimotor psychotherapy, or EMDR (Levine, 1997; Ogden & Fisher, 2015; Shapiro, 2017). It may also include depth psychologies that explore the unconscious and archetypal dimensions of the psyche, such as Jungian analysis, psychosynthesis, or archetypal psychology (Jung, 1968; Assagioli, 1965; Hillman, 1975). And it may include humanistic and experiential approaches that emphasize the inherent worth and potential of each person, such as person-centered therapy, gestalt therapy, or existential psychotherapy (Rogers, 1995; Perls et al., 1951; Yalom, 1980). At the same time, psychotherapy must also be grounded in a deep understanding of the social, cultural, and political contexts in which individuals live and work. This requires a willingness to engage with issues of power, privilege, and oppression, recognizing that mental health and well-being are intimately connected to the broader structures and systems that shape our lives (Prilleltensky, 1997). It also requires a recognition that the goal of therapy is not simply to help individuals adapt to the status quo, but rather to empower them to become agents of change in their own lives and in the world around them (Freire, 1970). Therapists as Agents of the Post-Secular Sacred One way to think about this is through the lens of what depth psychologist David Tacey calls the "post-secular sacred" (Tacey, 2004). Tacey argues that we are moving into a new era of spirituality that is grounded in a deep respect for science and reason, but also recognizes the importance of myth, symbol, and the unconscious in shaping our experience of the world. In this view, the goal of therapy is not to strip away our illusions and defenses in order to reveal some kind of objective truth, but rather to help individuals develop a more authentic and meaningful relationship with the mystery and complexity of existence. This requires a willingness to sit with the discomfort and uncertainty that often accompanies the process of growth and transformation. It also requires a recognition that the path to wholeness and healing is not always a straight line, but rather a winding and often circuitous journey that involves confronting our deepest fears and vulnerabilities (Jung, 1959). Therapists of Agents of the Post Secular Sacred Riddle in the Garden by Robert Penn Warren My mind is intact, but the shapes of the world change, the peach has released the bough and at last makes full confession, its pudeur had departed like peach-fuzz wiped off, and We now know how the hot sweet- ness of flesh and the juice-dark hug the rough peach-pit, we know its most suicidal yearnings, it wants to suffer extremely, it Loves God, and I warn you, do not touch that plum, it will burn you, a blister will be on your finger, and you will put the finger to your lips for relief—oh, do be careful not to break that soft Gray bulge of blister like fruit-skin, for exposing that inwardness will increase your pain, for you are part of this world. You think I am speaking in riddles. But I am not, for The world means only itself. In the image that Penn Warren creates in "Riddle in the Garden" is a labyrinth leading back to the birth of humans in the garden of Eden. Life itself is a swelling of inflammation from a wound or a need in both blisters and in peaches. You cannot have one part of the process without accepting all of it. The swelling in the growth of the fruit is also the swelling in the growth of a blister of pain. The peach must swell and become a sweet tempting blister or else no one would eat it and expose the "inwardness" of the seed to grow more trees. exists to be eaten to die. We eat the peach to grow the next one. Not to touch the “suicidal” peach is not to touch life itself. For to live is to be hurt and to grow. To touch the peach is to become part of the world like Adam and Eve found out. It hurts it blisters us turning us into fruit. For Penn Warren it is the separation of the self from the world of divine connection with nature that creates our need for meaning. This need is the reason that patients come to therapy. God tells us that “I am the lord your God” but Penn Warren tells us “I am not”. For “The world means only itself”. This process only has the meaning that we allow ourselves to give it. This is not a riddle, Penn Warren tells us. It is only something we have to deal with but cannot not solve. The world means only itself. There is no gimmick or solution to the problem of being human. In other words, the process of becoming more fully ourselves is not always easy or comfortable. It requires a willingness to confront the pain and suffering that is inherent in the human condition, and to recognize that growth and healing often involve an alchemical kind of death and rebirth. But it is precisely through this process of facing our fears and vulnerabilities that we can begin to develop a more authentic and meaningful relationship with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us. Ultimately, the goal of psychotherapy is not to provide answers or solutions, but rather to create a space in which individuals can begin to ask deeper questions about the nature of their existence and their place in the world. It is to help individuals develop the tools and capacities they need to navigate the complexities of life with greater courage, compassion, and wisdom. And it is to empower individuals to become more effective at being themselves in the world, so that they can contribute to the greater whole and help to create a more just, equitable, and sustainable future for all. The Future of Psychotherapy The corporatization of healthcare and academia poses a serious threat to the future of psychotherapy, undermining its ability to effectively address the complex realities of the human experience. To remain relevant and effective in the face of these challenges, the field must embrace a more holistic and integrative approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit. This requires a renewed commitment to developing a coherent concept of self, a shared language and understanding of implicit memory, and a vision of psychotherapy as a means of empowering individuals to become more effective at being themselves in the world and, in turn, better at transforming the world for the better. It also requires a willingness to engage with the full complexity and paradox of the human experience, recognizing that growth and healing often involve a kind of death and rebirth, and that the path to wholeness is not always a straight line. As the psychologist Carl Jung once wrote, "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." Psychotherapy and the Dialectic of Self and World As we have explored throughout this essay, the self does not exist in a vacuum, but is always in dynamic interaction with the world around it. Our sense of who we are, what we value, and what is possible for us is shaped by a complex interplay of internal and external factors, from our earliest experiences of attachment and attunement to the broader social, cultural, and political contexts in which we are embedded. In many ways, psychotherapy can be seen as a process of exploring and working with the dialectical tension between self and world, between our innermost longings, fears, and aspirations and the often harsh realities of the environments we find ourselves in. When we enter therapy, we bring with us not only our own unique histories, personality structures, and ways of being, but also the internalized messages, expectations, and constraints of the world around us. For many individuals, these internalized messages and constraints can feel suffocating, limiting their sense of possibility and agency in the world. They may find themselves feeling stuck, trapped, or disconnected from their authentic selves, playing roles and wearing masks that no longer fit who they really are. In the face of external pressures to conform, to achieve, to fit in, the self can become fragmented, disempowered, or lost. The task of psychotherapy, then, is to help individuals rediscover and reclaim a sense of self that feels vital, authentic, and empowered, while also developing the skills and capacities needed to navigate the complexities of the world with greater flexibility, resilience, and integrity. This requires a delicate balance of supportive and challenging interventions, of validating the individual's unique experience while also gently questioning and expanding their assumptions about what is possible. On one end of the spectrum, an overly supportive or myopic approach to therapy can run the risk of enabling individuals to remain stuck in limiting patterns and beliefs, reinforcing a sense of helplessness or dependence on the therapist. While providing a warm, empathic, and nonjudgmental space is essential for building trust and safety in the therapeutic relationship, it is not sufficient for fostering real growth and change. Individuals need to be challenged to step outside their comfort zones, to experiment with new ways of being and relating, and to take responsibility for their choices and actions in the world. On the other end of the spectrum, an overly challenging or confrontational approach to therapy can be experienced as invalidating, shaming, or even retraumatizing, particularly for individuals with histories of abuse, neglect, or marginalization. Pushing individuals to "toughen up," to adapt to oppressive or toxic environments, or to simply accept the "reality" of their situation without questioning or resisting it can lead to a kind of false or forced adaptation, a loss of self that is no less harmful than remaining stuck. The key, then, is to find a middle path between these extremes, one that honors the individual's inherent worth, agency, and potential while also recognizing the very real constraints and challenges of the world they inhabit. This requires a deep understanding of the ways in which power, privilege, and oppression shape our experiences and identities, as well as a willingness to grapple with the existential questions of meaning, purpose, and authenticity that arise when we confront the gap between who we are and who we feel we ought to be. In practice, this might involve helping individuals to: Develop a clearer and more coherent sense of self, one that integrates the various parts of their personality, history, and identity in a way that feels authentic and meaningful to them. Identify and challenge limiting beliefs, assumptions, and patterns of behavior that keep them stuck or disconnected from their true desires and values. Cultivate greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-acceptance, learning to embrace the full range of their thoughts, feelings, and experiences with curiosity and kindness. Develop the skills and capacities needed to communicate effectively, set healthy boundaries, and navigate relationships and social situations with greater ease and confidence. Explore and experiment with new ways of being and relating in the world, taking risks and stepping outside their comfort zones in service of their growth and healing. Engage critically and creatively with the social, cultural, and political contexts that shape their lives, developing a sense of empowerment, agency, and social responsibility. Connect with a deeper sense of meaning, purpose, and spirituality, one that transcends the ego and connects them to something greater than themselves. Ultimately, the goal of psychotherapy is not simply to help individuals adapt to the world as it is, but to empower them to become active agents of change, both in their own lives and in the larger systems and structures that shape our collective reality. By developing a stronger, more integrated, and more authentic sense of self, individuals can begin to challenge and transform the limiting beliefs, oppressive power dynamics, and dehumanizing narratives that keep us all stuck and disconnected from our shared humanity. In this sense, psychotherapy is not just a personal journey of healing and self-discovery, but a deeply political and moral enterprise, one that calls us to envision and create a world that is more just, compassionate, and sustainable for all. As therapists, we have a unique opportunity and responsibility to support individuals in this process, to bear witness to their pain and their resilience, and to help them find the courage, clarity, and creativity needed to live a life of purpose, integrity, and connection. As the existential psychiatrist Viktor Frankl once wrote, "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." By creating a space for individuals to explore and expand their capacity to choose, to respond to the world with authenticity and agency, psychotherapy can play a vital role in the ongoing dialectic of self and world, of personal and collective transformation. 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"I've often heard people talk about The Work of Byron Katie as the "how"... there's the "what" of spiritual development... you know freedom, what it looks like... it's described so well in terms of Essence in the Enneagram. There are many ways to talk about it in many traditions. And there are many ways in terms of the how. But Byron Katie's is such a simple and accessible how. Like, take this step, follow this step, go through these little points... and there's often some evolution happening in just 20-30 minutes." Todd Smith is a facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie -- one of the most powerful methods of inner work I've encountered. We discuss what it is, demo it, and debrief. Enjoy. Todd's Links https://theworkasmeditation.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wiggle-room/id1612348594 The Enneagram School https://theenneagramschool.com/ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:21 Overview of The Work 6:22 Starting The Work -- Josh's stressful dinner 14:21 Unpacking the stressful moment - emotional interpretation, finding the right words 17:25 Judge Your Neighbor Worksheet Line 1 (there are 6 lines total) 20:49 Line 2 22:33 Line 3 28:27 Line 4 31:32 Line 5 33:35 Line 6 37:42 The 4 Questions - "Be in that moment" as you answer 39:21 Question 1 42:44 Question 3 44:37 Catching myself "performing" 55:19 The Turnarounds 56:47 Turnaround 1 1:02:14 Turnaround 2 1:11:06 Heart Center "Image" in the work 1:14:12 Turnaround 3 1:15:36 Summary of The Work 1:20:01 The Work is top practice but resisted; attachment to suffering 1:27:02 Todd's reflection on enneagram & the work 1:31:20 The 3 Centers & The Work 1:39:07 The Work & Gendlin's Focusing (finding the right words) 1:48:34 The power of allowing the tantrum 1:47:09 The practice vs "image" of having an open mind 1:51:13 Diagnosis not same as cure 1:56:23 The Work & Adult Ego Development 2:02:44 We approach inner work in the style of our type 2:09:45 Salutations 2:12:55 Plugs --- Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay Coma-Media: https://pixabay.com/users/coma-media-24399569/ Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/ --- #enneagram #enneagramtypes #thework #byronkatie #mindfulness #presence #innerwork
The Living Process Episode 16 Zen and Focusing as Personal Practice, with Christian Dillo I'm happy to announce The Living Process, Episode 16 with Christian Dillo. Christian and I were meeting for the first time in this episode. In this episode Christian and I speak about how he, even as an adolescent, would pause while speaking to say what he really meant and his later discovery of Gendlin's focusing and how it put into words a process that he was already engaged in. He was committed to authenticity and pausing and not talking in a way that alienated him from himself. He asks ‘What does the situation require from me' to carry itself forward. Christian's Focusing is self-taught - he Focuses has never taken a Focusing class or workshop. He has also studied Gendlin's philosophy and during the conversation, it's clear that he has a deep understanding of how the philosophy relates to the practice. Christian talks about why Zen practice was the way forward for him rather than going into the Focusing world and how he remains open to further collaboration with us. He also discusses his depression as a kind of shying away from intensity and how his Zen Buddhist practice was helpful in his discernment of ‘field' awareness and ‘focused' awareness. We touch on phenomenology as a transformative practice and both Focusing and Zen Buddhism as examples of that. We explore whether Focusing is a spiritual practice and about the possible drawbacks of thinking of Focusing as a ‘method'. Meeting Christian has made me wonder how many ‘Focusers' are out there on their own, without any connection to the larger community! Thank you to Iain Murdoch for suggesting Christian as a guest. Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the Resident Teacher at the Boulder Zen Center. He started his practice at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1996. For 20 years, he practiced monastically at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center. In 2013, he received dharma transmission from Zentatsu Baker Roshi. Since then, he has been the Boulder Zen Center Guiding Teacher. In 2020, he moved to Boulder full-time, where he now lives with his wife and son. Zenki Roshi teaches Zen on the understanding that, fundamentally, Buddhism is an embodied investigation of human experience with the intention of realizing liberation from suffering, wisdom, and compassion. He is the author of The Path of Aliveness: A Contemporary Zen Approach to Awakening Body and Mind (Shambhala, 2022). Episode 16 with Christian Dillo: https://youtu.be/AEXpOUkmLO8 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 #Focusing #Gendlin #Zen #ChristianDillo #buddhist #Bodytherapy #Experientialpractice #Awareness #Somaticwork #Zenmeditation #authenticity #bodymind
Sandy Jahmi Burg is a facilitator of Gendlin's Focusing -- the most powerful method of tapping into body intelligence that I've encountered. In this interview, we define it, demo it, and debrief. Enjoy. Sandy's Website https://learnfocusing.org/ The Enneagram School https://www.theenneagramschool.com/ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 3:46 What is Focusing? 6:30 The "felt-sense" implies "life-forward" movement 10:02 The importance of being "in relationship" with the felt sense 12:13 Making an invitation as you enter a Focusing session 13:35 Demo - Lead in & invitation, creating conditions for a felt sense to arrive 18:33 Demo - The first felt sense, "taking our understanding back" to our bodies 20:08 Demo - Making contact & letting it know you hear it, "Getting into relationship" 24:06 Demo - Acknowledging & getting "bigger than" 25:37 Demo - Responding to how it sees you 28:19 Demo - It's "message" for me 32:11 Wordless metabolizing; sitting in the "solution" state, not the problem 35:00 Setting an intention vs inhabiting a way of being 38:26 What the hell just happened? - The "steps" in a Focusing Journey 39:24 The grocery store analogy; Discovering, making contact, coming into relationship, experiencing shift 49:12 The leap of faith -- acknowledging what arises as sentient entities 51:00 Parts Work & the "Self" (capital S); on being merged with a part & getting "bigger than" it 54:58 The "result" of a focusing session: before, merged; after, in relationship 59:50 The facilitator's POV: tracking, giving prompts, helping Focuser get into relationship 1:08:29 On "checking back" with the body; when something feels understood and accepted for how it is now, that's what releases it to shift 1:11:56 when something feels understood and accepted for how it is now, that's what releases it to shift 1:20:15 How to work with Sandy 1:21:59 Plugs
The Living Process Episode 14, Series 2. The German Focusing Institute: How They Teach, with Klaus Renn. Klaus Renn, Director of the German Focusing Institute (Deutsches Focusing Institut DFI) describes details of how they teach FOTs. I am very grateful to Klaus for speaking with me in English. He put in a lot of generous effort to speak with me. The first Focusing Institute was formed in Germany and they hosted Gene Gendlin on many occasions. They started the first Focusing Summer Schools and they continue to run with large groups of participants. Most of our conversation explores the structure of their training and some of the exercises they do with their classes. For this reason, I suspect that the episode will be of special interest to FOTs and those of us who teach Focusing oriented Therapy classes. In this episode, we also talk about how Klaus first encountered Gendlin's work while engaged in his client-centred therapy training and he immediately knew that this was the right path for him. He pursued training in Focusing and then worked together with Dr Johannes Wiltksho. Due to the sound quality and difficulty in translation, I have added voice-overs to some sections so that the listener can get a clear sense of the important details Klaus is sharing with us. You might find that this episode is easier to enjoy with the video. Klaus has written a book “The Magic Moments - What Focusing Is”, but the only English version is via an online translation service. Their group also has an English translation of Gendlin's workshop teachings so many years ago, collated by Gerhard Cieslak. If you are interested in seeing either of these and perhaps helping to make them more widely available, contact Klaus. An excerpt from the book “The Magic Moments”, by Klaus Renn: “Writing this book has given me a lot of pleasure over 3 years. The book project gave me the opportunity to reflect on my 30 years of practice and teaching. I understood many things in a new and more essential way. Focusing inspired me while writing - so that the book actually wrote itself. With this book I want to let Gene Gendlin speak: his way of seeing and interpreting the world, experience, philosophy and psychotherapy. The rich treasure of his view goes far beyond my "carrying on" and interpreting. My wish is to point to him as an inspirer of new thinking…”https://youtu.be/MDssyD9ScgA https://www.deutsches-focusing-institut.de You can contact Klaus Renn directly at: k.renn@t-online.de 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. Most of these platforms now offer free transcripts of each episode.
This is Part 1 of Episode 13. Donata Schoeller and I are doing a series of these shorter episodes on specific topics in embodied thinking and experiential practice. Part one explores the kinds of thinking usually associated with philosophy and especially how we can welcome more embodied critical thinking into philosophy. Part two, which follows, is entitled 'What do we find when we Focus?' and explores questions of subjectivity and 'inside/outside'. In this episode Donata introduces Embodied critical thinking, and how to include more of our experiences into all that we are thinking. We learn positions, arguments, and texts, but it is harder to integrate into thinking what we are experiencing from our own living. We discuss how Focusing and TAE are revolutionary methods to enter into the experiential ground from which our thinking grows. But that move is considered to be private, subjective, or therapeutic. The philosophical culture does not readily allow this feeling of thinking. How can philosophy open up to the felt experience without being accused of becoming therapy? How do we soften the boundaries between the disciplines of philosophy and psychotherapy? Donata names three competencies for this embodied critical thinking. We need a kind of reflective care and experiential listening rather than critical thinking to process our deep thinking. Dr 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 work on Gendlin's philosophy, Donata has also worked in depth on Meister Eckhart. She has published extensively 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. She lives with her family in Switzerland and Germany. See Donata's website to keep up to date with her publications and courses: https://www.donataschoeller.com https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/
This is Part 2 of Episode 13. Donata Schoeller and I are doing a series of these shorter episodes on specific topics in embodied thinking and experiential practice. Part two explores questions of subjectivity and 'inside/outside' in our understanding of Focusing. In this episode, we address the misunderstanding of Focusing as merely a private and subjective practice. Donata offers an understanding of Focusing that is radically different from the old model of subjective/objective. This takes us towards our next topic of 'inside/outside' and whether the body can be thought of as having its own subjective 'inside' that is separate from the world. The episode is about 30 minutes and will, I think, be of relevance to anyone who focuses and how they understand their experience in fresh ways. Many thanks to Donata who proceeded with the episode despite struggling with the flu! Dr Donata Schoeller is a philosopher who teaches internationally and is the academic director of the program "Training in Embodied Critical Thinking". In addition to her work on Gendlin's philosophy, Donata 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. See Donata's website to keep up to date with her publications and courses: https://www.donataschoeller.com https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/
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...
Guest Professor Mia Leijssen: The Subtle Energy of Embodied Awareness, E11S02 of The Living Process with Dr Greg Madison Our Guest this time is Mia Leijssen, Ph.D. - Professor (Emeritus) Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Prof. Leijssen learned Focusing early in her training many years ago at Leuven University. She is well known in the worlds of Focusing and Client-centred Psychotherapy as well as existential wellbeing and has published widely. Some of her best-known work is on Focusing microprocesses, spirituality, and professional ethics. She is a longtime Focusing Therapist, Teacher, and Coordinator for the International Focusing Institute. Mia is the academic director of the massive Open Online Course: Existential Well-being Counseling: A Person-centered Experiential Approach. You can discover more about this course and contact Mia at these addresses: https://www.edx.org/course/existential-well-being-counseling-person-kuleuvenx-ewbcx www.existentieelwelzijn.be https://existentialwellbeing.com In this episode, we talk about Mia's initial introduction to Focusing early in her training at Leuven U and how meeting Gendlin and participating in a demo with him was a turning point for her. Throughout our conversation, Mia emphasises the subtle energetic connection between the focuser and listener and the powerful impact this can have on the quality of the interaction. We explore the essence of living forward and its knowing of how we should develop, the art and discipline of therapy, and the issue of directivity in client-centred therapy. We also touched on the question of ‘parts' and not getting too concrete about parts and how living forward is asking for new organising, beyond structure. At the very end, we acknowledge the mystery of life itself in a way that respects its mystery. #existentialism #gendlin #psychology #counselling #existentialtherapy #personaldevelopment #focusing #selfcare
Experiential Wholebody Therapy with Glenn Fleisch, PhD. The Living Process S02E10 with Greg Madison, PhD. Dr. Glenn Fleisch has been a psychotherapist in private practice in California for over 35 years. Glenn trained with some of the leading figures in American existential and Buddhist psychology, including David Michael Levin, Rollo May, and John Wellwood. He also trained with some of the most experienced teachers in the Focusing world including Ann Weiser Cornell, Kevin McEvenue, Janet Klein and Gendlin himself. Glenn studied and teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies and remains active as an adjunct professor and supervisor in psychotherapy as well as a Wholebody Focusing trainer. In this episode, Glenn and I review how he encountered Focusing in his early 20s as part of his therapy training and then went on to learn Focusing in order to explore his own personal growth. He completed his training with Ann Weiser Cornell in Berkeley before studying and working with Kevin McEvenue for many years. He also learned Interactive Focusing with Janet Klein. Glenn talks about how his own practice and understanding of Focusing began to diverge from Gendlin's original descriptions. He goes into some detail in exploring his version of wholebody Focusing and how he offers it in a creative and expressive style with his clients. Glenn also shares many examples from his client work to show his attention to all bodily phenomena, his creative work with trauma, and his development of animistic psychology. I was glad to hear that we can look forward to a book outlining Glenn's work soon. Glenn offers online WBF seminars/classes for personal growth and professional development and trains other therapists to learn this method of therapy. For more information on his professional practice and courses, see: https://glennfleisch.com The Living Process can be accessed on Youtube as a video series or as audio podcasts at: Greg Madison's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@gregmadisontherapy/playlists The Focusing Oriented Therapy channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx3FqA70kQWuHCHmEiZnkn1VcrRIPbcvk Or search on any podcast channel if you prefer audio-only. If you have trouble finding it, all the links are here: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/ The Living Process is hosted by Greg Madison, PhD. An existential psychologist and Focusing Coordinator living and working in the UK. www.gregmadison.net
Dr 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 work on Gendlin's philosophy, Donata has also worked in depth on Meister Eckhart. She has published extensively 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. This is a shorter episode of The Living Process where Donata and I outline some of our mutual interests and especially some of her philosophical insights into Gendlin's work. She describes her experience of working with Gendlin on the translation of A Process Model and a little bit about the recent Gendlin Symposium which we both attended. Donata and I have laid out a series of topics that we think would be valuable to delve into more deeply and so we plan to offer a series of follow-up videos on these topics. Our hope is that offering a series of shorter videos rather than trying to pack too much into one episode, will help us to offer conversations that can act as outreach to people who are new to Focusing, Focusing Therapy, and Gendlin's philosophy. Keep an eye out for these upcoming offerings... For more on Donata's work see: https://www.donataschoeller.com
Dr. Siebrecht is a professor of clinical psychology at Leuven University in Belgium, where he teaches counselling and psychotherapy from a humanistic and experiential-existential perspective. He is the director of various programmes and active in research into existential and meaning-centred issues. Siebrecht is also Co-director of the Meaning and Existence Research Centre at the university. He s well known in the Focusing community and was in fact the first person to receive the Gendlin Research Grant from The International Focusing Institute. We start our conversation by discussing our experiences of the recent Gendlin online symposium where Siebrecht was presenting on the experiential-existential approach that he and I share. We spoke about making space for darker subjects within the Focusing world and how Gendlin did not emphasise these aspects of existence. We explored how Focusing might gain something from the existential emphasis and how existentialism can gain from being experientialised. We touched on issues of optimism and pessimism. Siebrecht briefly introduces the work of Taft and Rank and describes his journey into Focusing and how it resonated with who he is personally. He spoke about his work with prisoners and about interaction first as a therapeutic understanding. Siebrecht outlined their research projects into the therapist's experience during therapy and how therapists can shy away from working with shared existential concerns. We discussed therapist vulnerability and existential empathy and touched on trust and spirituality and how Gendlin avoided addressing that explicitly.
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Did you know your intuition is your superpower? Heartcentric Pendulum Pros, Lana Gendlin Brooks and Karina Muller, share a practical approach to pendulum work that will help you gain an understanding of how your intuition is always guiding you to live your best life. During this podcast, you will: Discover how a pendulum works with your energy and learn how to calibrate it for your personal “yes” and “no” movement Learn the art of asking questions to gain clarity on issues and concerns that you're facing Understand how intuitive guidance can transform your life so you live with joy, gratitude, love and laughter every day of your life Visit: HeartCentric Divine Creations website NewWorldWomen.com New World Women, a women's organization that helps women move beyond an old system built on separation, competition, exclusion, haves and have-nots and women settling for less (or nothing). New World Women co-founders Dawn Morningstar (founder of Venerable Women), Shawn Vougeot (founder of Empowering Women) and Mecca Page (founder of BreakAway Arts) collaborated to create a unique business model that shares profits with women to reward them for expanding their consciousness and nurturing themselves. The three are often overheard saying, “Collaboration is queen!' Sponsored by New World Women - http://www.NewWorldWomen.com
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
Im Seminar erforschen wir die gedankliche Grundstruktur von Gendlins "Ein Prozess-Modell". Dabei gehen Denken, Fühlen und kreativer Ausdruck fließend ineinander über. Wir erkunden die Denkpfade, auf die Gendlin uns einlädt, mit dem eigenen Gespür, entwickeln Resonanzen darauf und drücken diese in einem Tagebuch, knetend mit den eigenen Händen, tanzend mit Körperbewegungen und im achtsamen Zweiergespräch aus. Das Ziel ist es, die Essenz des Prozessmodells zu verinnerlichen und ein sicheres Gespür für seine Eigenlogik zu entwickeln. Anmeldung über das Deutsche Focusing-Institut: https://www.deutsches-focusing-institut.de/sommerschule/programm Ich freue mich, Dich persönlich kennenzulernen!
There is often so much happening for us in our lives that things get pushed into the background of our awareness. These experiences live in the cells of our body. "Focusing" is a technique that helps us get in touch with "what is going on" for us on a somatic level. Accessing this bodily intelligence contains so much wisdom about our "problems" and is the first step to dealing with them skillfully. 1. Close your eyes. Take a couple deep breaths. 2. Ask yourself, "what is going on for me right now in my life?" Notice what arises. It might be an image, body sensation, word, or phrase. 3. Stack all of your problems in front of you (like a pile of books). Don't go inside it, but put it in front of you. 4. Choose one problem to focus on. Where do you feel this in your body? What sensations do you notice? 5. Can you come up with a word or phrase to describe this problem? 6. Now you have a conscious "handle" on this issue, and can return to it skillfully as you go about your day. Adapted from Gendlin, E. (2007). Focusing. Bantam. Enjoying the podcast?? Leave a rating or review! This helps the show grow and allows it to be discovered by more people
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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: Applications are open for CFAR workshops in Prague this fall!, published by JohnSteidley on July 19, 2022 on LessWrong. tldr: CFAR's running updated versions of our mainline rationality workshop this fall in the Prague area. Apply here. CFAR workshops are back! After a nearly three-year hiatus during COVID, we're going to be running a series of four workshops this fall in the Czech Republic. So what is a CFAR workshop again? These workshops are four-and-a-half-day intensive retreats that are designed around the rationality techniques CFAR developed in its 10+ year history. These techniques vary: some we pulled straight from academic literature (looking at you TAPs), others we adapted from outside practices (Gendlin's Focusing), while some we developed wholesale (hello Double Crux, Goal Factoring, and all that which is still unnamed). Our goal with this workshop is to create an environment in which participants are able to gain new insight into their minds and their decision-making processes. Why would you come to a CFAR workshop? Because you want to! That's the most important part. But maybe also you've got a sense of stuckness, and a new frame or tool might help you shift. Maybe it's exactly the opposite of stuck; you're moving and changing, and you want to be deliberate about how you move forward. Maybe you're just intrigued and excited about this thing you've heard about from your friends. No guarantees from us on the result, but folks often walk away with insight, new fascinating friends, and some outstanding ideas. Most participants answer that they were glad they came (the only trick is figuring out how to select yourself into the correct reference class.) We think that the workshop would be particularly valuable if you: Are enthusiastic about rationality and you want to nerd out Have an exploratory/playful/experimental mindset - you like to try things! Are looking for an environment where you can have open and honest conversations about what you care about A caveat, about this workshop... It's experimental. Which, if you're familiar with CFAR's history, is true of much of our workshops. If the material isn't alive and real and practiced by our instructors, we don't believe it will be for participants. And since it's been a significant nearly-3-years since our last workshop, we and our beliefs have shifted a bit. It'll still be fairly recognizable for those familiar with our applied rationality, but we want to set your expectations. The most notable shift is we're saying goodbye to our problem-oriented approach (colloquially known as “bugs”) and focusing on the perspective of asking: what do you actually want and how can we move toward that? We'll also be incorporating a holistic approach to your goals and needs, an understanding of the limits of improved productivity, an orientation to uncertainty, and more. Where and when? There will be four workshops this fall in Prague, Czech Republic (precisely: in a village about 90 min from Prague). All workshops start at 6pm on arrival day and finish with breakfast at 9am on departure day. September 29 - October 4 October 20 - October 25 November 3 - November 8 November 16 - November 21 (to be confirmed) There's also going to be the Prague Fall Season (more info soon!), full of fun and interesting events that will be happening concurrently. Consider coming early or staying late if you want to spend some time taking part in that or just exploring. If going to Prague is too inconvenient or expensive for you, the odds of spring 2023 workshops in California are higher than ever (but no promises at this point). How do I get in on this? Apply here. We'll be processing applications on a rolling basis. We're aiming to get back to everyone within 2 weeks of their application. Depending on the demand, we might ask you to provide ...
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: Applications are open for CFAR workshops in Prague this fall, published by John Steidley on July 20, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. tldr: CFAR's running updated versions of our mainline rationality workshop this fall in the Prague area. Apply here. CFAR workshops are back! After a nearly three-year hiatus during COVID, we're going to be running a series of four workshops this fall in the Czech Republic. So what is a CFAR workshop again? These workshops are four-and-a-half-day intensive retreats that are designed around the rationality techniques CFAR developed in its 10+ year history. These techniques vary: some we pulled straight from academic literature (looking at you TAPs), others we adapted from outside practices (Gendlin's Focusing), while some we developed wholesale (hello Double Crux, Goal Factoring, and all that which is still unnamed). Our goal with this workshop is to create an environment in which participants are able to gain new insight into their minds and their decision-making processes. Why would you come to a CFAR workshop? Because you want to! That's the most important part. But maybe also you've got a sense of stuckness, and a new frame or tool might help you shift. Maybe it's exactly the opposite of stuck; you're moving and changing, and you want to be deliberate about how you move forward. Maybe you're just intrigued and excited about this thing you've heard about from your friends. No guarantees from us on the result, but folks often walk away with insight, new fascinating friends, and some outstanding ideas. Most participants answer that they were glad they came (the only trick is figuring out how to select yourself into the correct reference class.) We think that the workshop would be particularly valuable if you: Are enthusiastic about rationality and you want to nerd out Have an exploratory/playful/experimental mindset - you like to try things! Are looking for an environment where you can have open and honest conversations about what you care about A caveat, about this workshop... It's experimental. Which, if you're familiar with CFAR's history, is true of much of our workshops. If the material isn't alive and real and practiced by our instructors, we don't believe it will be for participants. And since it's been a significant nearly-3-years since our last workshop, we and our beliefs have shifted a bit. It'll still be fairly recognizable for those familiar with our applied rationality, but we want to set your expectations. The most notable shift is we're saying goodbye to our problem-oriented approach (colloquially known as “bugs”) and focusing on the perspective of asking: what do you actually want and how can we move toward that? We'll also be incorporating a holistic approach to your goals and needs, an understanding of the limits of improved productivity, an orientation to uncertainty, and more. Where and when? There will be four workshops this fall in Prague, Czech Republic (precisely: in a village about 90 min from Prague). All workshops start at 6pm on arrival day and finish with breakfast at 9am on departure day. September 29 - October 4 October 20 - October 25 November 3 - November 8 November 16 - November 21 (to be confirmed) There's also going to be the Prague Fall Season (more info soon!), full of fun and interesting events that will be happening concurrently. Consider coming early or staying late if you want to spend some time taking part in that or just exploring. If going to Prague is too inconvenient or expensive for you, the odds of spring 2023 workshops in California are higher than ever (but no promises at this point). How do I get in on this? Apply here. We'll be processing applications on a rolling basis. We're aiming to get back to everyone within 2 weeks of their application. Depending on the demand, we might ...
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: Applications are open for CFAR workshops in Prague this fall!, published by JohnSteidley on July 19, 2022 on LessWrong. tldr: CFAR's running updated versions of our mainline rationality workshop this fall in the Prague area. Apply here. CFAR workshops are back! After a nearly three-year hiatus during COVID, we're going to be running a series of four workshops this fall in the Czech Republic. So what is a CFAR workshop again? These workshops are four-and-a-half-day intensive retreats that are designed around the rationality techniques CFAR developed in its 10+ year history. These techniques vary: some we pulled straight from academic literature (looking at you TAPs), others we adapted from outside practices (Gendlin's Focusing), while some we developed wholesale (hello Double Crux, Goal Factoring, and all that which is still unnamed). Our goal with this workshop is to create an environment in which participants are able to gain new insight into their minds and their decision-making processes. Why would you come to a CFAR workshop? Because you want to! That's the most important part. But maybe also you've got a sense of stuckness, and a new frame or tool might help you shift. Maybe it's exactly the opposite of stuck; you're moving and changing, and you want to be deliberate about how you move forward. Maybe you're just intrigued and excited about this thing you've heard about from your friends. No guarantees from us on the result, but folks often walk away with insight, new fascinating friends, and some outstanding ideas. Most participants answer that they were glad they came (the only trick is figuring out how to select yourself into the correct reference class.) We think that the workshop would be particularly valuable if you: Are enthusiastic about rationality and you want to nerd out Have an exploratory/playful/experimental mindset - you like to try things! Are looking for an environment where you can have open and honest conversations about what you care about A caveat, about this workshop... It's experimental. Which, if you're familiar with CFAR's history, is true of much of our workshops. If the material isn't alive and real and practiced by our instructors, we don't believe it will be for participants. And since it's been a significant nearly-3-years since our last workshop, we and our beliefs have shifted a bit. It'll still be fairly recognizable for those familiar with our applied rationality, but we want to set your expectations. The most notable shift is we're saying goodbye to our problem-oriented approach (colloquially known as “bugs”) and focusing on the perspective of asking: what do you actually want and how can we move toward that? We'll also be incorporating a holistic approach to your goals and needs, an understanding of the limits of improved productivity, an orientation to uncertainty, and more. Where and when? There will be four workshops this fall in Prague, Czech Republic (precisely: in a village about 90 min from Prague). All workshops start at 6pm on arrival day and finish with breakfast at 9am on departure day. September 29 - October 4 October 20 - October 25 November 3 - November 8 November 16 - November 21 (to be confirmed) There's also going to be the Prague Fall Season (more info soon!), full of fun and interesting events that will be happening concurrently. Consider coming early or staying late if you want to spend some time taking part in that or just exploring. If going to Prague is too inconvenient or expensive for you, the odds of spring 2023 workshops in California are higher than ever (but no promises at this point). How do I get in on this? Apply here. We'll be processing applications on a rolling basis. We're aiming to get back to everyone within 2 weeks of their application. Depending on the demand, we might ask you to provide ...
We're joined by the wonderful Lulie Tanett to talk about effective altruism, pulling spouses out of burning buildings, and why you should prefer critical rationalism to Bayesianism for your mom's sake. Buckle up! We discuss: - Lulie's recent experience at EA Global - Bayesianism and how it differs from critical rationalism - Common arguments in favor of Bayesianism - Taking Children Seriously - What it was like for Lulie growing up without going to school - The Alexander Technique, Internal Family Systems, Gendlin's Focusing, and Belief Reporting References - EA Global (https://www.eaglobal.org/) - Taking Children Seriously (https://www.fitz-claridge.com/taking-children-seriously/) - Alexander Technique (https://expandingawareness.org/blog/what-is-the-alexander-technique/) - Internal Family Systems (https://ifs-institute.com/) - Gendlin Focusing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focusing_(psychotherapy)) Social Media Everywhere Follow Lulie on Twitter @reasonisfun. Follow us at @VadenMasrani, @BennyChugg, @IncrementsPod, or on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4wZzQyoW4s4ZuE4FY9DQQ). Report your beliefs and focus your Gendlin's at incrementspodcast@gmail.com. Special Guest: Lulie Tanett.
We speak about nightmares and the nervous system using an approach combining polyvagal theory and embodied experiential approaches including Gendlin's practice of Focusing. She argues that learning to find a sense of safety is not just necessary for treatment to proceed but that the sense of safety is the treatment itself. Dr. Ellis also speaks about her work on teaching clinicians to welcome their clients' dreams in therapy including why clinicians are so intimidated by dreams. These simple techniques can also be used when sharing dreams with friends and partners. Such dream-sharing has been shown to increase a sense of intimacy and trust in the relationship. We end with Leslie helping me to unpack my dream of being a zombie in a compound and seeing a dancing half-mechanical elephant. BIO: Dr. Leslie Ellis is a leading expert in embodied experiential approaches to working with dreams and nightmares. She is author of 'A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy' and offers a range of online and zoom classes for professionals wanting to deepen their skills in working with client dreams. She has written numerous book chapters and articles on dreams and focusing-oriented therapy, which is a gentle, yet profound way of inquiring into the body. She is currently vice president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Web: drleslieellis.com, IG: dreamsdemystified Join us at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. (The audio can be found sprinkled throughout the blog at NarrativeSpecies.wordpress.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 4, 2022. 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 in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms: Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher Spotify
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: 2020 Review Article, published by Vaniver on January 14, 2022 on LessWrong. A common thing in academia is to write ‘review articles' that attempt to summarize a whole field quickly, allowing researchers to see what's out there (while referring them to the actual articles for all of the details). This is my attempt to do something similar for the 2020 Review, focusing on posts that had sufficiently many votes (as all nominated posts was a few too many). I ended up clustering the posts into seven categories: rationality, gears, economics, history, current events, communication, and alignment. Rationality The site doesn't have a tagline anymore, but interest in rationality remains Less Wrong's defining feature. There were a handful of posts on rationality 'directly'. Anna Salamon looked at two sorts of puzzles: reality-masking and reality-revealing, or those which are about controlling yourself (and others) or about understanding non-agentic reality. Listing out examples (both internal and external) helped explain cognitive biases more simply. Kaj Sotala elaborated on the Felt Sense, a core component of Gendlin's Focusing. CFAR released its participant handbook. Jacob Falkovich wrote about the treacherous path to rationality, focusing on various obstacles in the way of developing more rationality. Personal productivity is a perennial topic on LW. alkjash identified a belief that ‘pain is the unit of effort', where caring is measured by suffering, and identifies an alternative, superior view. Lynette Bye gave five specific high-variance tips for productivity, and then later argued prioritization is a huge driver of productivity, and explained five ways to prioritize better. AllAmericanBreakfast elaborated on what it means to give something a Good Try. adamShimi wrote about how habits shape identity. Ben Kuhn repeated Byrne Hobart's claim that focus drives productivity, and argued that attention is your scarcest resource, and then talked about tools for keeping focused. alkjash pointed out some ways success can have downsides, and how to mitigate those downsides. orthonormal discussed the impact of zero points, and thus the importance of choosing yours. Jacob Falkovich argued against victim mentality. There was some progress on the project of 'slowly digest some maybe-woo things'. Kaj Sotala gives a non-mystical explanation of “no-self”, detailing some 'early insights' into what it means, as part of his sequence on multiagent models of mind. Ouroboros grapples with Valentine's Kensho. I write a post about how Circling (the social practice) focuses on updating based on experience in a way that makes it deeply empirical. Gears John Wentworth wrote a sequence, Gears Which Turn the World, which had six nominated posts. The first post discussed constraints, and how technology primarily acts by changing the constraints on behavior. Later posts then looked at different types of constraints, and examples where that constraint is the tight constraint / scarce resource: coordination, interfaces, and transportation. He argued that money cannot substitute for expertise on how to use money, twice. Other posts contained thoughts on how to develop better models and gearsy intuitions. While our intuitive sense of dimensionality is low-dimensional space, much of our decision-making and planning happens in high-dimensional space, where we benefit from applying heuristics trained on high-dimensional optimization and geometry. Ideas from statistical mechanics apply in many situations of uncertainty. Oliver Habryka and Eli Tyre described how to Fermi Model. Maxwell Peterson used animations to demonstrate how quickly the central limit theorem applies for some distributions. Mark Xu talked about why the first sample is the most informative when estimating a uncertain quantity. Scott Alexander w...
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: 2020 Review Article, published by Vaniver on January 14, 2022 on LessWrong. A common thing in academia is to write ‘review articles' that attempt to summarize a whole field quickly, allowing researchers to see what's out there (while referring them to the actual articles for all of the details). This is my attempt to do something similar for the 2020 Review, focusing on posts that had sufficiently many votes (as all nominated posts was a few too many). I ended up clustering the posts into seven categories: rationality, gears, economics, history, current events, communication, and alignment. Rationality The site doesn't have a tagline anymore, but interest in rationality remains Less Wrong's defining feature. There were a handful of posts on rationality 'directly'. Anna Salamon looked at two sorts of puzzles: reality-masking and reality-revealing, or those which are about controlling yourself (and others) or about understanding non-agentic reality. Listing out examples (both internal and external) helped explain cognitive biases more simply. Kaj Sotala elaborated on the Felt Sense, a core component of Gendlin's Focusing. CFAR released its participant handbook. Jacob Falkovich wrote about the treacherous path to rationality, focusing on various obstacles in the way of developing more rationality. Personal productivity is a perennial topic on LW. alkjash identified a belief that ‘pain is the unit of effort', where caring is measured by suffering, and identifies an alternative, superior view. Lynette Bye gave five specific high-variance tips for productivity, and then later argued prioritization is a huge driver of productivity, and explained five ways to prioritize better. AllAmericanBreakfast elaborated on what it means to give something a Good Try. adamShimi wrote about how habits shape identity. Ben Kuhn repeated Byrne Hobart's claim that focus drives productivity, and argued that attention is your scarcest resource, and then talked about tools for keeping focused. alkjash pointed out some ways success can have downsides, and how to mitigate those downsides. orthonormal discussed the impact of zero points, and thus the importance of choosing yours. Jacob Falkovich argued against victim mentality. There was some progress on the project of 'slowly digest some maybe-woo things'. Kaj Sotala gives a non-mystical explanation of “no-self”, detailing some 'early insights' into what it means, as part of his sequence on multiagent models of mind. Ouroboros grapples with Valentine's Kensho. I write a post about how Circling (the social practice) focuses on updating based on experience in a way that makes it deeply empirical. Gears John Wentworth wrote a sequence, Gears Which Turn the World, which had six nominated posts. The first post discussed constraints, and how technology primarily acts by changing the constraints on behavior. Later posts then looked at different types of constraints, and examples where that constraint is the tight constraint / scarce resource: coordination, interfaces, and transportation. He argued that money cannot substitute for expertise on how to use money, twice. Other posts contained thoughts on how to develop better models and gearsy intuitions. While our intuitive sense of dimensionality is low-dimensional space, much of our decision-making and planning happens in high-dimensional space, where we benefit from applying heuristics trained on high-dimensional optimization and geometry. Ideas from statistical mechanics apply in many situations of uncertainty. Oliver Habryka and Eli Tyre described how to Fermi Model. Maxwell Peterson used animations to demonstrate how quickly the central limit theorem applies for some distributions. Mark Xu talked about why the first sample is the most informative when estimating a uncertain quantity. Scott Alexander w...
Tasshin speaks with Lulie (@reasonisfun) about critical rationalism, Taking Children Seriously (TCS), Gendlin's Focusing, Internal Family Systems, the Alexander Technique, and art. Lulie's Philosophy Twitter Lulie's Social Twitter Lulie's Website If you enjoyed this episode, consider supporting Tasshin and the Reach Truth Podcast on Patreon.
In this episode, I speak with Rival Voices (@nosilverv) about posting on Twitter, spiritual practice, psychological work, Gendlin's Focusing, feedback loop diagrams, vibing, Awakening, and more. Rival on Twitter Rival's Vibing Diagram
Karina Muller is a certified life and executive coach and the founder of ClientCentric Consulting and coaching. From her early days in corporate America to founding ClientCentric Consulting & Coaching, she has been the go-to expert and trusted advisor for professionals and individuals who want to get the most out of life.Karina started her career at Accenture as a consultant where she gained her passion for helping others. After obtaining her MBA at University of Minnesota, she worked in marketing for companies such as General Mills and Honeywell before forming her own company.While in corporate, she managed businesses, with P&L responsibility, worth hundreds of millions in revenue and led teams that spanned the globe. Her years in leading global corporations gave her first-hand insight into the pace at which successful people today are expected to operate. She is passionate about helping professionals and individuals find ways to experience well-being despite the rigorous demands of work and everyday lives.Lana Gendlin Brooks is a certified life coach and creative wellness coach. Her story begins with an innate curiosity about people, their cultures, and shared stories. Growing up in a bilingual home, she had a world view and diverse upbringing that broadened her perspective on working with diverse communities. This provided her with a deep cross-cultural understanding that led to her early career in arts and culture organizations, including the Smithsonian Institution.Her experience spans many facets of nonprofit, corporate, and startup organizations, which has given her a wide lens into the complexities of working in various industries and business models. Working at fortune500s, Lana honed her marketing skills and launched products and services that drove high-revenue growth. From there, she helped launch a new 34,000 sq. ft. creativity center and then founded HeARTs Work Coaching and Consulting. Her HeARTs Work is to help you find yours. She is passionate about empowering individuals and teams to step into their power and move their lives forward to achieve their goals. She holds an MA from The George Washington University and Life Coach Certification from Learning Journeys (ICF accredited)Together, Lana and Karina started the HeartCentric Coaching Collaborative with a mission of changing this world one relationship at a time. Links From the EpisodeHeartCentric Coaching Website: https://heartcentriccoaching.com/Join the Twin Cities Wellness Collective™: https://www.tcwellnesscollective.com/
Der Versuch einer Zusammenfassung eines Aspekts aus dem Focusing. Eine Methode des bekannten, inzwischen verstorbenen, amerikanischen Therapeuten E. Gendlin.
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Dreams are a powerful tool for deep self-knowledge and inner guidance. Why dreams matter, the different kinds of dreams, dream interpretation, dream retention. Dr. Lourdes Viado is a Jungian psychotherapist with a private practice in Las Vegas NV, where she helps anxious, stressed out, sensitive women manage their lives without feeling like they're drowning. She is a Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator (MBTI) Certified Practitioner and integrates mindfulness, neuroscience, dreams, and astrology into her work with clients. She is also the host of the Women In-Depth Podcast: Conversations about the Inner Lives of Women, which has been downloaded over 350,000x in 96 countries.www.lourdesviado.com Here's her astrology and mentorship site for the show notes: www.reflectingsky.com From Lourdes: These are my favorite dream books and what I recommend to my clients. If I only had these books for working w/ dreams, I'm good. :) The Beginner's Guide to Dream Interpretation (CD only) Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. Inner Work: Using Dreams & Active Imagination for Personal Growth Robert A. JohnsonThe Book of Symbols: Reflecting on Archetypal Images by TaschenLet your Body Interpret Your Dreams Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. To leave comments, share episodes, please visit www.HSPpodcast.com To learn more about Julie Bjelland, and her HSP resources, including a free Sensitivity Quiz, visit www.juliebjelland.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/julie-bjelland/message
"Consider fictional Carol, who has convinced herself that she doesn't need to worry about the suffering of people who live far away. She works to improve her local community, and donates to her local church. She's a kind and loving woman, and she does her part, and (she reasons) that's all anyone can be expected to do. Now consider fictional Dave, who failed a job interview. When telling his friends the story, he emphasizes how the interviewers were biased against him, and how they asked stupid questions. Meanwhile, driven by hunger, a fox tries to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but is unable to, although he leaps with all his strength. As he goes away, he remarks "Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes." All of these reactions — and many others — share a common kernel. Carol, Dave, and the fox are all inventing reasons why an unpleasant state of affairs is acceptable. They're not inventing reasons why the world is good, by any means; but they are putting forth cognitive effort to make it seem tolerable." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/see-the-dark-world/ Allegory of the Dragon: https://anchor.fm/guilt/episodes/23-The-value-of-a-life-eja6s1 Remember the litany of Gendlin. See also: leaving yourself a line of retreat. Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms by Chad Crouch.
In this conversation, you will learn how a felt sense functions in a Quaker Meeting's gathering circle. Harbert describes how his work with Gendlin's philosophy and Quaker practice came about in a Quaker meditation as a felt sense to map Quaker language into Gendlin's language. He looks at the underlying commonality between Focusing and Quaker […]
In this conversation, you will learn how a felt sense functions in a Quaker Meeting’s gathering circle. Harbert describes how his work with Gendlin’s philosophy and Quaker practice came about in a Quaker meditation as a felt sense to map Quaker language into Gendlin’s language. He looks at the underlying commonality between Focusing and Quaker […]
Ejercicio de focusing para que podais trabajar acerca de esta maravillosa técnica de Gendlin. FOCUS™ es un programa dirigido a la optimización de nuestros recursos atencionales en el tratamiento de los trastornos de ansiedad, con el fin de gestionarla de una manera eficaz. El programa ha sido elaborado por un equipo de psicólogos, psiquiatras y expertos en practicas meditativas. Dichos profesionales han estado trabajando de forma especializada con pacientes aquejados de ansiedad, y han desarrollado esta herramienta específicamente diseñada para aprender a manejar tanto la ansiedad aguda que se produce en los ataques de pánico como la ansiedad basal que se da en la mayoría de los trastornos de ansiedad (procesos fóbicos, TOC, TAG…).
Wolfgang Reinermann ist Therapeut für Psychosynthese. Wir sprechen darüber, was der Krieger in uns überhaupt ist und warum er im Dienste eines Herren stehen muss, um nützlich und kraftvoll zu sein. Wir analysieren die hellen und dunklen Seiten der Aggression und diskutieren, warum wir uns oft selbst im Weg stehen, manchmal sogar bis zum Burnout. Außerdem gibt es konkrete Empfehlungen, was jeder tun kann, um voll in seine Kraft zu kommen. Praxis Wolfgang Reinermann: https://www.psychosynthese.netBuch: Die Kunst des Krieges. Von Sunzi (bei Amazon)Buch: Focusing: Selbsthilfe bei der Lösung persönlicher Probleme. Von von Eugene T. Gendlin (bei Amazon)
This is part 2 of our series on free will! In this episode we reconcile how it is that we can feel like we have free will (even when we don't), give an evolutionary argument for why this might be the case and show how knowing this makes us more compassionate people who are (paradoxically) better at achieving our goals. Along the way, we explain what a Bayesian Network is (and why you should care about yours), and give an introduction to some of the key ideas and concepts in the field of Reinforcement Learning (a subfield of AI) and how we can use these concepts to clarify our view of ourselves and the world! --------------- Shownotes: --------------- Dan Dennett essay on Sam Harris's argument: https://samharris.org/reflections-on-free-will/ Sam Harris's response to Dennett: https://samharris.org/free-will-and-free-will/ Sam Harris's “Free Will: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13259270-free-will Good primer on the Libet experiments that preempted decision making: https://youtu.be/OjCt-L0Ph5o The original Libet publication [paywalled]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6640273 Details of more recent versions of the Libet experiments with 7 second preempting and some predictive capability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMDuakmEEV4 A recent “debunking” of the Libet results: https://www.pnas.org/content/109/42/e2904 A popular article on the Libet experiments in the light of the new model: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/ Radiolab Loops episode: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/radiolab-loops Litany of Gendlin on LessWrong: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Litany_of_Gendlin Julia Galef on Bayes Nets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFv5DvrLDCg Learn Bayes Nets post on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tp4rEtQqRshPavZsr/learn-bayes-nets Compatibilism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/ A good introductory courses on reinforcement learning for those interested: https://www.theschool.ai/courses/move-37-course/ Video of RL agent walking on the back of its legs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdTBqBnqhaQ Sean Carroll's podcast: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ How to Win Friends and Influence Reality (episode 9 of Bit of a Tangent): https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/009-how-to-win-friends-and-influence-reality/id1470855694?i=1000446168718
This episode explores the intersections of Trinitarian theology, psychology, epistemology, and embodiment. After we spend a few glorious moments pondering the potential advantages and dangers of providing alcohol to athletes, Ryan gives us a brief introduction to Thomas’ psychological analogy and its importance to systematic theology. This frames our discussion of how meaning is experienced by embodied, self-present, knowing subjects. The givenness of such experience is central to Jon’s 2016 article, “Insight is a Body-Feeling: Experiencing our Understanding,” and we spend the majority of our episode exploring the implications of Jon’s arguments in this essay. Ryan shares his Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye. Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT All referenced passages from Thomas’ Summa Theologiae are available in both Latin and English at https://dhspriory.org/thomas/summa/index.html Aristotle. “On the Soul.” In The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon, translated by J.A. Smith, Reprint Edition., 533–604. Modern Library Classics. New York: Modern Library, 2001. Doran, Robert M. Theology and the Dialectics of History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Doran, Robert M. The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume 1: Missions and Processions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Gendlin, Eugene. Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997. Heaps, Jonathan. “Insight Is a Body-Feeling: Experiencing Our Understanding.” Heythrop Journal 57 (2016): 461–72. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 1. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. The Triune God: Doctrines. 11th Revised Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 11. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. The Triune God: Systematics. Edited by Robert M. Doran and Daniel Monsour. Translated by Michael G. Shields. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 12. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. Vol. Volume 2. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by Donald Landes. New York: Routledge, 2014. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Misner, Paul. Social Catholicism in Europe: From the Onset of Industrialization to the First World War. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1991. O’Siadhail, Michael. The Five Quintets. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!
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
[caption id="attachment_712" align="alignnone" width="398"] Jack Blackburn and Anastasia Brencick[/caption] FOCUSING AND TOUCH ANASTASIA BRENCICK AND JACK BLACKBURN Today on the Focusing way Podcast, focusing and touch and we introduce you Anastasia Brencick and Jack Blackburn. Both are Focusing Trainers who are exploring new and interesting ways of including Focusing as part of their daily work. Customarily, in Focusing we do not associate physical touch with the practice. It would not “normally” be considered a part of a focusing exchange or partnership. Adding physical touch could break an implied “touch barrier” and could possibly infringe on the safety of the boundaries set out in Focusing practice and partnership as most of us understand it. Anastasia and Jack are both body workers. Anastasia holds a Master's in Applied Psychophysiology, an undergrad degree in social work. Jack holds Master's degree in counseling. Jack, among other things, is a teacher of body workers and other caregivers and Anastasia, among other things, teaches body workers and has a background as a social worker in domestic violence. Both are licensed massage practitioners and have taught professional classes combining touch and Focusing. What happens when the add Focusing to a bodywork practice and appropriate touch to a Focusing practice? Jack and Anastasia have come together to create Focusing courses for body workers and using Focusing to create a bridge between body workers and verbal therapists. Their goals are first, to enable more client empowerment and body-centered awareness… second, to use the principles of Focusing to support mutual understanding between the different caregiving professions. So, I invite you to sit back and enjoy this discussion on incorporating Focusing into body work and listen as Jack and Anastasia share the small miracles they have felt through their hands and their whole being by bringing “a focusing way” into their body healing practices. LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS
Download to listen later FOCUSING TOWARD A POSITIVE LIFE A thought about carrying forward If you understand focusing and if you have even done a bit of it yourself by now, you probably have realized that when you enter a focusing space within a focusing session, you eventually confront some tough situations. It certainly has been true for me. I have keenly centred my focused around many life situations, relationships, things I wanted to resolve and the answers and feelings around life's biggest questions. That is all fun and good and healthy. It is a journey I would encourage anyone to go on. The journey inside, the path toward self exploration can be daunting, but can also be very rewarding. Focusing has a special power as an adjunct to therapy and as a practice to assist with grief, deep trauma, depression, addiction and difficulties life throws our way. As I have explored the focusing world, I have come across all of these things and focused with many of them. It feels to me like focusing is at a moment. I'm not going to pinpoint an event or a circumstance, I am just going to say that Focusing has evolved, morphed at changed as it should and will. The “moment” I am talking about is just a sense I have, but it feels like it could be the time when focusing opens up to the world, becomes a bit more widely know and is well, for lack of a better term, mainstreamed. This is what I want for Focusing. I want focusing to be mainstream. I want it to be taught as a lifeskill in schools from an early age. I want more people to be talking about it, I want more people to be learning it and I want people to teach it to others so that they can engage in the types of wonderful egalitarian relationships which can develop over time. Why? Well, the reason is simple. If I was Frederick Banting and had invented insulin, I would also give it to the world without a patent around it. Focusing is that kind of gift. With a few simple techniques and tools people can be more tuned in, much more attentive and able to connect deep within themselves for answers and a sense of rightness. I want to be clear here, I'm not talking about “specialized” people, I am not talking about trained people, I am not talking about Certified people, I am talking about ordinary people who gather, nurture and evolve their focusing skills over time. The other thing I would love to see is a big shift to using Focusing, not only to get out of a jam or a misfortunes we come across, but to use it the way I have, to make your everyday encounters better. Now, I know many of you might be saying, well that isn't focusing, that is something else; that is mindfulness, attentiveness, awareness, but Focusing is all of that and more than all of those things in many ways. I know anyone listening to this has at some point come out of a focusing session with a major shift, an amazing feeling of change, a good feeling. That is what we want, right? Isn't that where we want to bring Focusing? Not just to heal our deepest wounds but the surface cuts along the way as well. So it is with this idea that I am asking all of you to share with me some really positive stories about focusing which I can share on the podcast. You can write me an e-mail and I will read it on the podcast and you can do that anonymously or attributed as well. I have a small request for all of you. Use me. Help me get the greatest focusing stories out there through this podcast. I want to invite you to share with me all you best success'. No story is to old, too boring too fantastical or too bold. I feel we have to share, in a big way, are you up to it? David LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS
Download to listen later [caption id="attachment_725" align="alignnone" width="589"] Barbara Dickinson[/caption] INTERACTIVE FOCUSING (IR) BARBARA DICKINSON Interactive Focusing teacher Barbara Dickinson finished a long career at the US Federal Reserve in 2010, and now consults on strategic organizational improvement. She has earned, among other credentials, certification as a Strengths Performance Coach from the Gallup Organization. In 2006, she learned the practice called Focusing, completing her certification as a Focusing Professional in 2009, and is now an enthusiastic learner and teacher of the many facets of focusing and the related practice, “Thinking at the Edge.” After volunteering her services to The Focusing Institute as a management consultant in 2011 and 2012, Barbara decided to share her expertise more widely as a strengths-oriented consultant interested in helping individuals and non-profit organizations innovate, think and work at their “edge,” improve emotional intelligence and build better teams. Interactive Focusing (IR) She is especially interested in applying the Interactive Focusing method to help people form healthier relationships at all levels. Barbara lives in New Jersey with Holly, her Jack Russell Terrier. A few Articles and further reading TAME – The Evolutionary Tale of How We Came to Work at Multiple Edges With Margaret Herrick, CFT The Folio, Volume 27, Number 1, 2016 Focusing with “Baby On Board” The Folio, Volume 24, Number 1, 2013 http://www.focusing.org/folio/Vol24No12013/TheFolio2013_web_Rev.pdf Emergence: A Glimpse of Life Beyond Sarcasm and Criticism by B. J. Dickinson, Focusing Connection, September 2010 (Vol. XXVII, No. 5) The Focusing Chair by B. J. Dickinson, Focusing Connection, January 2008 (Vol. XXV, No. 1) How I Spent My Summer School, by B. J. Dickinson (http://www.focusing.org/bulletinboard/insert-FISS.pdf) LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS
Download to listen later Wholebody Focusing founder Kevin McEvenue This episode takes us into the world of wholebody focusing with founder Kevin McEvenue. Kevin lives and works in Toronto's Cabbagetown district in the city's east end. Kevin's personal story of using focusing as a way to overcome physical challenges are a testament to how powerful a process focusing is. Kevin is a wholebody Focusing teacher What is most striking about Kevin McEvenue's approach to teaching is that it comes directly from his own embodied experience; so that what he shares is from his own authentic place of bodily knowing. Kevin loves sharing what he knows with others, and derives great joy in watching others grow and expand upon their own sense of knowing of who they are. In addition, he is a very intuitive and compassionate listener conveying strength of presence and heartfelt connection with anyone with whom he interacts. Kevin brings 35 years of experience having taught Wholebody Focusing globally including Canada, the United States, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan. For more see: wholebodyfocusing.com Wholebody Focusing Wholebody Focusing is a very natural process that invites the power of human consciousness to awaken the body's innate wisdom, a knowing that is at the heart of every one of us. Being physically grounded and connected to something beyond ourselves seems to offer the safety and containment we need to deepen that experience of ourselves that Focusing invites. [caption id="attachment_485" align="alignnone" width="960"] Kevin McEvenue[/caption] LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS
[caption id="attachment_725" align="alignnone" width="589"] Barbara Dickinson[/caption] INTERACTIVE FOCUSING (IR) BARBARA DICKINSON Interactive Focusing teacher Barbara Dickinson finished a long career at the US Federal Reserve in 2010, and now consults on strategic organizational improvement. She has earned, among other credentials, certification as a Strengths Performance Coach from the Gallup Organization. In 2006, she learned the practice called Focusing, completing her certification as a Focusing Professional in 2009, and is now an enthusiastic learner and teacher of the many facets of focusing and the related practice, “Thinking at the Edge.” After volunteering her services to The Focusing Institute as a management consultant in 2011 and 2012, Barbara decided to share her expertise more widely as a strengths-oriented consultant interested in helping individuals and non-profit organizations innovate, think and work at their “edge,” improve emotional intelligence and build better teams. Interactive Focusing (IR) She is especially interested in applying the Interactive Focusing method to help people form healthier relationships at all levels. Barbara lives in New Jersey with Holly, her Jack Russell Terrier. A few Articles and further reading TAME – The Evolutionary Tale of How We Came to Work at Multiple Edges With Margaret Herrick, CFT The Folio, Volume 27, Number 1, 2016 Focusing with “Baby On Board” The Folio, Volume 24, Number 1, 2013 http://www.focusing.org/folio/Vol24No12013/TheFolio2013_web_Rev.pdf Emergence: A Glimpse of Life Beyond Sarcasm and Criticism by B. J. Dickinson, Focusing Connection, September 2010 (Vol. XXVII, No. 5) The Focusing Chair by B. J. Dickinson, Focusing Connection, January 2008 (Vol. XXV, No. 1) How I Spent My Summer School, by B. J. Dickinson (http://www.focusing.org/bulletinboard/insert-FISS.pdf) LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS
Download to listen later [caption id="attachment_712" align="alignnone" width="398"] Jack Blackburn and Anastasia Brencick[/caption] FOCUSING AND TOUCH ANASTASIA BRENCICK AND JACK BLACKBURN Today on the Focusing way Podcast, focusing and touch and we introduce you Anastasia Brencick and Jack Blackburn. Both are Focusing Trainers who are exploring new and interesting ways of including Focusing as part of their daily work. Customarily, in Focusing we do not associate physical touch with the practice. It would not “normally” be considered a part of a focusing exchange or partnership. Adding physical touch could break an implied “touch barrier” and could possibly infringe on the safety of the boundaries set out in Focusing practice and partnership as most of us understand it. Anastasia and Jack are both body workers. Anastasia holds a Master's in Applied Psychophysiology, an undergrad degree in social work. Jack holds Master's degree in counseling. Jack, among other things, is a teacher of body workers and other caregivers and Anastasia, among other things, teaches body workers and has a background as a social worker in domestic violence. Both are licensed massage practitioners and have taught professional classes combining touch and Focusing. What happens when the add Focusing to a bodywork practice and appropriate touch to a Focusing practice? Jack and Anastasia have come together to create Focusing courses for body workers and using Focusing to create a bridge between body workers and verbal therapists. Their goals are first, to enable more client empowerment and body-centered awareness… second, to use the principles of Focusing to support mutual understanding between the different caregiving professions. So, I invite you to sit back and enjoy this discussion on incorporating Focusing into body work and listen as Jack and Anastasia share the small miracles they have felt through their hands and their whole being by bringing “a focusing way” into their body healing practices. LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS
Download to listen later Listen to part one of our in-depth and informative focusing oriented conversation with Robert Lee. Robert Lee, Ph.D. is a Focusing innovator. He is an international leader in developing Focusing trainers. He led the Advanced Certification Weeklong at the Focusing Institute in New York for 7 years. A licensed psychologist, Lee has developed a new model for teaching focusing (called Domain Focusing) and he has developed a theory and practice for overcoming stubborn problems (Changing the Unchangeable through Domain Focusing—also known as Macroshifting). He has developed a comprehensive practice for working with difficulties in felt sense formation (Elusive Felt Sensing). In psychotherapy, he has developed special methods for using Focusing with anxiety and depression and with couple and group psychotherapy. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="145"] Robert L. Lee[/caption] LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS
Download to listen later Are you the universe? Here is a quote from Gene Gendlin that allows us a tiny peek into his philosophy and an understanding of the depth and power of the focusing process. It's also a view into how the universe might lie right within us. In this episode, I thought I would take a simple paragraph from Gene Gendlin's original book on focusing and break it down into a few parts to help explain what we are talking about when in focusing we talk about "the body". First off, heres it the quote and then we will break it down. Gendlin from the his book - Focusing “When I use the word “body” I mean more than the physical machine. Not only do you physically live the circumstances around you but also those you only think of in your mind. Your physically felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people. In fact, the whole universe. This sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body and it is felt from inside.” Ok, so here goes. Gene starts this paragraph by letting us in on how he perceives the word body, both as it relates to the organism and focusing as a whole. Right off the bat he is expanding the idea of what most people think the body is. Some might divide the organism into parts, the body being one of them. But here Gene states. "When I use the word body I mean more that the physical machine. " It's an important distinction and a perspective shifting moment. I'll share a personal story of an experience I had with a cardiologist once. I had been reading a lot and following "Heartmath" a research institute in California dedicated to discovering heart intelligence. The initial thought was to connect the fact that the heart and brain develop at about the same pace in the fetus and that the heart has the second highest number of electrical impulse points compared to the brain. The overall idea is that the heart has its own intelligence that informs the body or own thoughts, emotions and sentiments. I was so excited to share this idea with a cardiologist I had met at a dinner party but I was left a bit shocked at the response. "bah," he said, "it's just a muscle, it's a pump, that's it. There is nothing else." I gasped and kept quiet. But, it was informative, because we humans can can use our analysis skills and rational thought process to form any kind of reality. Now, I happen to believe that the heart is a lot more than just a pump or a muscle, especially since I have had many focusing experience which generate directly from the heart space and the feeling, thoughts, images and sensations that come from that part of the body. So, this paragraph reminded me of that experience, here Gene is saying, "listen here, when I say body, I mean a lot more than a machine." He is opening us up to the whole, to more, to possibility. Next he adds, "Not only do you physically live the circumstances around you but also those you only think of in your mind." Here, I feel Gene is connecting things to the whole, he is bringing the body and our thoughts into one experience. He is also beginning to lay out a foundation, one that reminds us that we are connected to all things. Everything from Religion to Quantum Physics has been expounding on this idea in man's never ending search for identity. Here Gene reminds us that we live in the outside world and our inside world simultaneously, while reminding us that "circumstances" can also be a creation within our own thoughts or though patterns. Next sentence. Your physically felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people. Wow! That really expresses the wholeness of an individual and the way in which we, as individuals are part of what he describes as a "gigantic" system, one that spans time and space, "here and other places, now and other times". What a beautiful sentiment to lay down about the body, that the body, and we, are the sum of so many things, that we carry the wholeness of time, place and space inside ourselves. Here Gene might really be telling us about the possibility of the human life force and also he shares its capacity. We are GIGANTIC, which might not even be a word that expresses what we are largely enough. The idea that we are this container that is huge and ever expanding. Which leads us directly to: "In fact, the whole universe. This sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body and it is felt from inside.” Here we can connect whole whole universe to the being, but also Gene is expressing each individual as being, "bodily alive" within a "vast system" but at the same time he understands the individual and personal nature of this feeling because the experience is "felt from the inside". This is of course, just a small taste of what Gene has shared about his philosophy and in one paragraph he is expressing what the focusing experience can lead us to understand about our inner connections, our inner workings and the whole universe. We have the capacity to experience ALL OF THIS, from within the body, that carbon unit that we may sometimes believe is just meat and bones, and blood, muscle and nerve. Something tells me that we, that you are a lot more. He might even be giving us a glimpse into the thought that thing that ties it all together is us, or that the capacity for us to express and live through our body in this place, from this deep focusing well. Is this very fabric of the thing we like to refer to as the human experience. IN this one paragraph Gene implies so much about where, who and what we are, but it also allows us to approach our own focusing work from the realm of great personal capacity and limitless possibility. Five sentences, when strung together in this way, describes a philosophy and opens a doorway into the me. LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS Here is an interesting video about the heart - brain connection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8dKcvROnl4
Honor the Body In focusing we like to honor the body, or you might hear people talking about honoring the body. As we become empowered focusers this process becomes easier and easier. As you deepen your focusing process, It's easy to end a focusing session with gratitude, to be grateful to thank the body because we are constantly discovering with focusing that our sense of rightness lies directly within us. By entering into a focusing state and coming into relationship with the wisdom of our own body we change how we are in the world and that means we change how we carry forward and how we can be. Focusing gives us the time to check in with what is going on within ourselves and how we feel about what is going on with life situations or relationships. It's also a way to get inside and ask, to wander and explore and as a creative person this has been a real treat for me. Focusing can allow you to be the artist or the conductor of your own life in a way you might not think possible. But just back to how to honor the body for a moment. When we move from the slowing down and usefulness of focusing in a controlled setting to moving into living in a focusing way the concept of honoring the body begins to become one of several key aspects to living in a focusing way. The first and simplest way to live in a focusing way is to hone the body through what you put into it. Yes, I mean how you feed yourself and what you eat. The very food we eat and the three meals a day are great moments to pause and reflect. It's the moment to ask questions. I s this right for me right now? Is this what I want right now? How hungry am I really? what would be the right food and the right amount? All of these questions lead you right into a "focusing way of being" and it also means you are taking an important step toward honoring the body. Why? Because you are respecting your body enough to ask it's opinion. The body, in the end is you. You in the end are the body and there is a communion we can feel with our bodies when we are honoring it moment to moment. The body responds and listens and the body will tell you what to do, how to do it. It's all coming from within you and the feeling and sensations you are feeling in the body are the ones that carry that wisdom. You can imagine it as an organic super computer jammed into every cell and fiber. Everything is in relationship. All kinds of miraculous systems are in place to give YOU life, to let YOU walk through experiences. To let you live. So is it hard to honor the body? This body you have been given regulates so much for you it takes in air, move blood around and in your greatest stillness your body is moving millions of pieces around every second. When we step back and really sense into what the body provides along with the wisdom focusing helps you access, the "job" of listening to the body and honoring the body becomes more a joy than a chore, more gratitude sets in, deeper understanding. That's all housed in this wonderful living, breathing system that produces our experiences. How can we not honor that? LISTEN ON STITCHER SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES LEARN FOCUSING TAKE A LEVEL ONE FOCUSING CLASS LISTEN TO RADICAL GENTLENESS
"This is episode #375, and today’s guest is my buddy Stan Gendlin. Stan is the poster child for how to start and grow a real estate investing business, if you were to build out a blueprint. He started by learning the ropes working for someone else for a few years, then went out on his own. After he and his wife realized that their business was doing well…but THEY were doing everything, they built out a team which has allowed them to scale up. Building a team has allowed them to expand into new businesses like new construction, and commercial properties. In today’s show, we'll learn more about Stan’s evolution as an investor, and explained in a way where you can learn from his progression. It’s a great discussion…and I'm glad you're here to be a part of it! Please help me welcome Stan Gendlin to the show. For a limited time, access a FREE Master Class called the "Real Estate Millionaire Blueprint" HERE!"
"This is episode #375, and today’s guest is my buddy Stan Gendlin. Stan is the poster child for how to start and grow a real estate investing business, if you were to build out a blueprint. He started by learning the ropes working for someone else for a few years, then went out on his own. After he and his wife realized that their business was doing well…but THEY were doing everything, they built out a team which has allowed them to scale up. Building a team has allowed them to expand into new businesses like new construction, and commercial properties. In today’s show, we'll learn more about Stan’s evolution as an investor, and explained in a way where you can learn from his progression. It’s a great discussion…and I'm glad you're here to be a part of it! Please help me welcome Stan Gendlin to the show. For a limited time, access a FREE Master Class called the "Real Estate Millionaire Blueprint" HERE!"
"This is episode #327, and today’s guest is Stan Gendlin. Stan is a South Carolina based real estate investor, and totally crushing it in his market, but really cut his teeth in Acquisitions for CT Homes and Fortune Builders before going out on his own. Stan recently moved into a new market where he knew nobody…and out of the gate is doing almost 100 homes a year, including new builds, which soak up a lot of time. In order to grow your real estate investing business, you have to grow your team and build strategic relationships with others that can help you, and that’s exactly what we talk about today….how to grow through strategic relationships. As they say, “it takes a team to build the dream”. If you're looking to grow your business, you don't want to miss today’s episode. Please help me welcome Stan Gendlin to the show. For a limited time, access a FREE Master Class called the "Real Estate Millionaire Blueprint" HERE!
"This is episode #327, and today’s guest is Stan Gendlin. Stan is a South Carolina based real estate investor, and totally crushing it in his market, but really cut his teeth in Acquisitions for CT Homes and Fortune Builders before going out on his own. Stan recently moved into a new market where he knew nobody…and out of the gate is doing almost 100 homes a year, including new builds, which soak up a lot of time. In order to grow your real estate investing business, you have to grow your team and build strategic relationships with others that can help you, and that’s exactly what we talk about today….how to grow through strategic relationships. As they say, “it takes a team to build the dream”. If you're looking to grow your business, you don't want to miss today’s episode. Please help me welcome Stan Gendlin to the show. For a limited time, access a FREE Master Class called the "Real Estate Millionaire Blueprint" HERE!
Founder and owner of Law Business, Mr. Gendlin has more than ten years of experience in the legal industry as well as more than five years of experience in the following top companies: – Wolf Theiss RA (Head Business Development & Marketing). – Dorda Brugger Jordis RA (Head Business Development). – UBS, Zurich (Project Head of Marketing). – CREDIT SUISSE, Zurich (Head of Marketing within sector). – PricewaterhouseCoopers, Vienna (Consultant Management Services). Responsible for: – Business Development. – Submissions/Rankings. – Marketing & PR. – Business Models. – Project Management. – Process Management. – Inhouse Counsel Consulting. Together with the C. H. BECK, MANZ and the STÄMPFLI publishing houses, he has produced the first ever book about the Ranking industry titled, "Compass Law Firm Rankings," which is now available in English at Amazon. The book analyzes current Rankings and gives recommendations as to which target groups should use which Rankings and what kind of Rankings should be treated with less focus. Furthermore, the book also provides guidelines, templates and case studies on how to work successfully with Rankings.
This recording is very different from the rest of this series. Instead of an actual, spontaneous conversation, this 7-minute recording is a staged reading of the beginning of an article that Mary Hendricks Gendlin wrote. We did this as a memorial to Mary. In the article, she was explaining what she meant by “The Revolutionary Pause,” […]
This recording is very different from the rest of this series. Instead of an actual, spontaneous conversation, this 7-minute recording is a staged reading of the beginning of an article that Mary Hendricks Gendlin wrote. We did this as a memorial to Mary. In the article, she was explaining what she meant by “The Revolutionary Pause,” […]
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