Author: Kathy McGuire

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GENDLIN’S FOCUSING AND COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING

Collaborative Edge Decision Making makes space for access to right-brain, intuitive, pre-verbal creativity by stopping interruptions and argument, replacing them with Focused Listening. Shared leadership equalizes power and responsibility. Concrete rules for groups.

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THE FOCUSING ATTITUDE: CARING FEELING PRESENCE INSIDE

The first step in learning Gendlin's Focusing is learning to turn toward your inner experience with a Caring Feeling Presence --- without judgment and with empathy. Here we practice an exercise where we imagine finding an abandoned baby and conveying to it that it is absolutely safe and welcome in this world.

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COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING MEETINGS: HAVING CREATIVE, EFFICIENT MEETINGS

Creative Edge Focusing Meetings make space for intuitive, right-brain input into decision making by prohibiting aggressive interruption and encouraging Active Listening responses. Simple "How To's" teach Shared Leadership and Creative Impasse Resolution using Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening.

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POSITIVE PARENTING: Listening to Your Child, Your Partner, and Yourself

Listening To Your Child: Developing An Inner Guide, Not Only Outer Authority Authoritarian child rearing was effective in producing the assembly-line workers needed by an industrializing society. Times have changed.…

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