Intuitive Focusing

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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Ten Ways of Bringing Creative Edge Focusing into Education

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…

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FOCUSING TURN DEMONSTRATION: BIG “FELT SHIFT” IN LIFE-LONG “SCRIPT”

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,…

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CONSCIOUS RELATIONSHIP: CREATING LOVE THROUGH FOCUSING PARTNERSHIPS

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…

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