For background, read previous blogs on Creative Edge Education, especially for ADHD, or visit Interest Area: Education at Creative Edge Focusing (TM)'s website. Here are ten suggested first steps for bringing…
Creative Edge Education pays special attention to the needs of students with ADHD and other non-traditional learning styles. It joins with Juvenile Justice in prevention of school dropout and juvenile…
In business settings, there is great appreciation for the fact that teams need a balance of people with different skills, interests, and talents. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one…
This was such a paradigmatic example of Gendlin's Focusing self-help technique (Focusing, Bantam, 1981,1984) and McGuire's Intuitive Focusing, that I wanted to share it here. It includes Clearing A Space,…
Core Concepts 1. Educating for human literacy: “Emotional” and “Social” Intelligence Specific to the Creative Edge Focusing™ model, the core “human literacy” skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening can…
Love Relationships Perhaps there is no more important place for the use of Empathic Listening and Experiential Focusing skills than in love relationships. When we “fall in love,” we are…
The Way of Relationship Intimate relationships can be seen as a spiritual path, The Way of Relationship. Relationships can be a self-therapy. Relationships will point up your “blind spots” or…
This is my favorite question ever! What is "right" in terms of a Listening Response, a Reflection? I'd love it if everyone would jump in with their answer to this…
Time = Love With your significant other: Every day, and I mean religiously, set aside about 40 minutes to sit down and "share your day." Get a drink or…
Key Secret: It is weak coffee that is bitter! It is exactly putting too much water through too few grounds that sucks out the bitter acids in the coffee. So,…