INTUITIVE FOCUSING FREE MINI-E-COURSE
Summer E-newsletter Slow-Down/Fall Complete E-Course Starts
The e-newsletters are slowing down for a summer rest period! In the Fall, the entire year of e-newsletters will recycle as an e-course, three practice opportunities per week, a walk through the Instant “Ahah!” Mini-Manual and The Complete Focusing Instruction free downloads, and an interweaving of the Creative Edge Focusing (TM) website materials with the work of others within the Focusing community and also in the larger world.
If you are just joining us and have never learned Focusing, probably best to start by reading the introduction to Instant “Ahah!” #1: Focusing — Find Out What Is Bothering You, which lays out Gendlin’s basic six steps of Focusing.
SUMMER MINI-FOCUSING E-COURSE
Reviewing/Previewing A Variety of Exercises to Strengthen Your Focusing Practice
And, here, for old timers and newcomers alike, I will give you a suggested Mini-Course of exercises from The Complete Focusing Instructions and Instant “Ahah!”s free downloads available at www.cefocusing.com under Free Resources, then Articles (or downloaded after signing up for this e-newsletter and for e-support group). The exercises are taken from the e-newsletter archives:
Relaxation Exercise: Just Noticing
Relaxation Exercise: “At The Beach”
“Clearing A Space” and Finding Peace
Complete Focusing: “How Am I Today?”
Getting A “Felt Sense”: Finding the “Intuitive Feel” of A Situation
Getting A “Felt Sense”: Unraveling “Situation Pile-Ups and Negative Spirals
Holiday Fun and Stress Relief?: Free Personality Tests and Focusing Reminders
Getting A “Felt Sense”: Creating A Caring, Feeling Presence Inside
Getting A “Felt Sense”: Caring For Unpleasant Parts of Ourself
Getting A “Felt Sense”: Dealing with Inner Abusers, Inner Critics
Getting A “Felt Sense”: Focusing about Unresolved Interpersonal Situations
Complete Focusing: “Sitting With” The Creative Edge of an Interpersonal Situation
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Free Downloads:
Complete Focusing Instructions Manual (17 pages)
“Ajas” Instantaneos Mini-Manual
Creative Edge Focusing (www.cefocusing.com ) teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening, which can be applied at home and at work through The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid.
Based upon Gendlin’s Experiential Focusing (www.focusing.org ) and Rogers’ Empathic Listening, our website is packed with Free Resources and instructions in these basic self-help skills. Learn how to build Support Groups, Conscious Relationships, and Creative Edge Organizations based upon these basic skills of emotional intelligence.
You can try out “Focusing: Find Out What Is Bothering You.”
Click here for a free Intuitive Focusing Mini-Course
Click here for a free Focused Listening Mini-Course
See Core Concept: Conflict Resolution to find a complete mini-course on Interpersonal Focusing and Conflict Resolution, including Rosenberg’s Non-Violent Communication, Blanchard’s “One Minute Apology,” Patricia Evan’s books on Verbally Abuse and Controlling Relationships, McMahon’s Beyond The Myth Of Dominance, and much more.
See Core Concept: Intimate Relationship to find a complete mini-course on increasing intimacy and sexuality, including the “Sharing Your Day” exercise, Listening/Focusing Partnerships for The Way of Relationship, untangling and equalizing desire, tantric sexuality, and much more.
Download complete Instant “Ahah!” Mini-Manual, in English and Spanish, from CEF Website, or download from links at top of this blog.
Find links to free articles, personality tests, multi-media Self-Help training, Classes and workshops
Dr. Kathy McGuire, Director
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