HUMAN LITERACY: TEACHING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
The Prism: PRISMS/S Problem Solving Process
Would you like a predictable method for “Ahah!” Experiences?
Are you looking for the essence of ongoing growth and change?
The PRISMS/S Problem Solving Process (PDF: Proceso de Solucione de Problemas Prismas/s ), with its Core Skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening, allows “hunches” and “intuitions” to open into a spectrum of possibilities and “Ahah!” experiences.
For individuals, PRISMS/S provides personal and spiritual growth, creativity, conflict resolution , and intimate relationship.
For organizations, PRISMS/S provides the explicit “how to” for actualizing the goals of other approaches, such as Gladwell’s Blink Thinking, Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence, Total Quality Management, and Fish!
Our Collaborative Edge Decision Making Method incorporates PRISMS/S into task-oriented groups for creative thinking, conflict resolution and win/win decision making.
The Focal Point: Intuitive Focusing/Focused Listening
As the core of our PRISMS/S Problem Solving Method, Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening are the actual teachable skills which manifest as “emotional intelligence.” As basic “human literacy,” like reading and writing, they enhance problem solving across the board.
Intuitive Focusing integrates right- and left-brain problem solving. Focused Listening creates understanding of others. Together, these two Core Skills of “human literacy” allow individuals on their own and participants in problem solving meetings to tap into non-linear “intuitions,” the Creative Edge.
Reflecting, Not Reacting
Intuitive Focusing is a predictable method for going from confusion to Paradigm Shifts, the “Ahah!” experiences of true creative problem solving and change. We teach people that pausing for a moment of silence, and pondering the unclear “intuitive edge” of an idea or a situation, is the direct route to change and creativity.
Listening, Not Arguing
Focused Listening is a way to help people contribute from The Creative Edge of right-brain problem solving in interpersonal and group situations. We teach people that pausing for a moment to really “hear” another person is the best way to help that person contribute a creative idea and also the best way to avoid misunderstandings that become polarized conflicts in problem solving.
THE PYRAMID: Creative Edge Pyramid of Skills and Methods
Are you looking for one program which applies at every level of organization?
Through The Creative Edge Pyramid, we provide seven self-help methods which allow PRISMS/S to be integrated into every level of problem solving, from personal to interpersonal to group/team to community to organizations.
Using The Creative Edge Pyramid, in approximately 40 hours of training, students, parents, teachers, physicians, executives, managers, employees, or community members, can acquire the emotional intelligence skills to:
- Create new ideas
- Change problem behaviors
- Listen to another
- Resolve interpersonal conflicts
- Start a support group
- Build supportive community
- Create win/win decisions in groups
- Create innovative solutions
- Motivate others for collaborative action
THE SPARKLE: Free Resources
Instant “Ahah!”s
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You will progress even faster if you begin practicing Intuitive Focusing as a self-help skill immediately, today. You can click on FREE Focusing Instructions and e-support list right now to join our Creative Edge e-discussion/support group for ongoing training and support and to download a PDF file of Pre-Focusing and Focusing Instructions which you can begin using today.
Free Phone Consult Now!!!!!
You can email Dr. McGuire immediately to arrange a free twenty-minute phone consultation to describe your need or interest and receive her advice on the best way for you to proceed with
- Learning our self-help skills
- Integrating them into support groups and communities
- Bringing PRISMS/S and the Creative Edge Pyramid into your organization
- Joining our Creative Edge Consultant or Experiential Focusing Professional Training Programs
Click on Free Phone Consult and “Collaborative Edge Article” to email Kathy with a few words about your interest or concern and some best times to talk by phone. You can immediately download Dr. McGuire’s comprehensive article, “Collaborative Decision Making Method” telling you how to start running productive Creative Edge meetings TODAY!!!
About Us
Creative Edge Focusing
As an organization, Creative Edge Focusing™ models what we teach. We are a Creative Edge Organization, using the Pyramid of skills and methods throughout our organization to maximize creativity and productivity and to minimize conflict, including PRISMS/S for problem solving, Interpersonal Focusing for conflict resolution, and Collaborative Edge Decision Making for win/win decisions.
If you join our CE Focusing Consultant Training Program, you will learn about Creative Edge Organizations experientially as you work with us on our Interest Areas or your own projects.
In our Experiential Focusing Professional Training Program, you will learn how to integrate our “experientializing” core skills into your present work.
Dr. Kathy McGuire, Director
After being a natural leader since childhood, Dr. McGuire studied with Dr. Eugene Gendlin, creator of the Focusing skill (Focusing, Bantam, 1981), and received the Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago in 1975. She did her dissertation on Task-Oriented Group Decision Making, and her fascination with group decision making process and conflict resolution has continued for over thirty years.
She has had a private practice as an individual and couples therapist and an international workshop career. She has written numerous articles and manuals. She is a Certifying Coordinator for The Focusing Institute.
Dr. McGuire has founded Focusing Communities in a variety of cities and has brought PRISMS/S and the Creative Edge Pyramid to a number of non-profit organizations. Through the non-profit Human Literacy Center arm of Creative Edge Focusing, she continues her mission of making Listening and Focusing, for personal, interpersonal, and group problem solving, basic skills of human literacy throughout the world.
Her newest edge is bringing the complete Creative Edge Organization model, including PRISMS/S and The Creative Edge Pyramid of skills and methods, into large non-profit organizations and for-profit corporations, with the emphasis upon integrating the new skills at home as well as at work.
What Others Say About Us
Kathy is responsible for completely revitalizing our PTO and, really, our whole school. Parents, teachers, grandparents, neighbors, businesses have all become involved with the fundraising plan, and, out of that, with every aspect of the school.” Officer, PTO, elementary school
“These are the best Board meetings I have ever attended. They are time-limited, efficient, and creative. Everything gets done in the hour allotted.” Board member, non-profit organization
“Teaching students to work in teams, I often use the Myers-Briggs information in explaining individual differences to students and the listening skills to work out group conflicts.” Business professor, University
“I came out of each six-hour day of the workshop feeling more alert, alive, and energetic than when I went in. This was a unique experience for me amongst all the workshops I’ve attended” Counseling Intern, Medical Center
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These materials are offered purely as self-help skills. In providing them, Dr. McGuire is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.
