Author: Carolyn

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INTUITIVE FOCUSING: FROM INTUITION TO CREATIVITY, TRANSFORMATION, PARADIGM SHIFTS.PHOTOS OF CHILD’S FIRST CHRISTMAS PRESENT ILLUSTRATE CLICK!

Intuitive Focusing, based on Gendlin's Focusing, is a six-step self-help process for going deeper into vague, bodily-felt discomforts, intuitions, gut instincts legitimated by Malcolm Gladwell in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. When just-right words and images are found for the "bodily-felt sense" of issues and ideas, "Ahah!" experiences, transformation, paradigm shifts follow. George Soros uses something like Intuitive Focusing in deciding when to rearrange his portfolio. Focusing can be used for problem solving at home and at work. A child's first exploration of a Christmas present makes a good visual image of this "going deeper" into the "implicit" information held in the "bodily-felt sense.

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THE CREATIVE EDGE FOCUSING PYRAMID IN BUSINESS SETTINGS: FOCUSING, LISTENING, AND COLLABORATIVE EDGE MEETINGS

The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid shows how to maximize creativity, innovation, and mutual support at every level in businesses and organizations. Simple self-help skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening allow the articulation of non-linear, right-brain solutions at every level of problem solving, with carry-over for conflict resolution, stress reduction, and emotional problem solving at home as well as at work.

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“WHY CRY?” PART TWO: VIDEOS OF MBTI “THINKER” VS. “FEELER”

Comparing a Thinker and a Feeler on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), we see videos of Eugene Gendlin, creator of Focusing, describing theory in a felt-sensing yet Thinking way, compared to video of Kelly Corrigan, being "touched" and "moved" as she describes "Women and Strength. Why are tears associated with moments of transcendence, awe, love?

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INTUITIVE FOCUSING: CAT DOING FOCUSING = “SITTING WITH” THE “INTUITIVE FEEL”

Intuitive Focusing involves noticing that there is "something more than words" inside and making the decision to stop, pause, and spend some time "sitting with" this "intuitive feel" until it is allowed to open and "carry forward" into new actions steps, solutions and ideas. Here, a cat models this "sitting with."

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FOCUSING AND BUSINESS: BUILDING COMMUNITY AT WORK

Creative Edge Organizations encourage creative, innovative problem solving from each individual's fresh, intuitive, right-brain thinking by teaching Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening as basic skills of "emotional and social intelligence." The exchange of Focusing/Listening turns builds feelings of "buy in" and "community" while encouraging innovation, creativity, and diversity.

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MICHELLE OBAMA DESIGNER JASON WU: MULTI-ETHNIC FASHION ROYALTY DOLLS

Obama Inaugural gown designer Jason Wu was the first to produce authentic multi-ethnic face sculpts for his Fashion Royalty 12-inch dolls. Constantly modifying hair and makeup and skin tone, Wu produces a wide variety of Hispanic, Asian, African American, East Indian, and Caucasian beauties in gorgeous fashions.

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