INSTANT INTIMACY: SHARING YOUR DAY, FINDING YOUR PARTNER FASCINATING!
Catch up on this cycle: Instant Intimacy Introduction Week One blog Kathy's Experiences: So, this week my husband and I shared every day, using Instant "Ahah!" #8, as…
INSTANT INTIMACY, FINDING PARTNERS, DEEPENING SENSUALITY
Instant "Ahah!" #8: Instant Intimacy: Sharing Your Day This four weeks, the exercise is to be done between committed partners, friends, family members. It is a basis for keeping…
INTERPERSONAL FOCUSING: THE MYTH OF DOMINANCE
Replacing The Myth of Dominance With The Personal Power of Focusing In his book, Beyond The Myth Of Dominance: An Alternative To A Violent Society, Father Ed McMahon, co-founder…
VERBAL ABUSE VS. INTERPERSONAL FOCUSING
Verbally-Abusive Patterns of Speech: Dominance The Goal In her remarkable book, The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Patricia Evans walks us "blow-by-blow" through transcripts illustrating how an individual can use verbal…
INTERPERSONAL FOCUSING: ROSENBERG’S NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION
Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication provides a way for us to acknowledge that it is our own interpretation of another's behavior which leads to our personal emotional response, not the objective behavior itself. "Owning" one's own emotional response is a first step in non-defensive communication to another in a conflict situation.
COMPLETE FOCUSING EXERCISE: INTERPERSONAL SITUATION
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT This is the beginning of a new four week cycle. For four weeks, we practice an actual exercise in three different categories: An Instant "Ahah!" to…
INTERPERSONAL FOCUSING: THE “INTUITIVE FEEL” OF CONFLICTS
Download complete instructions on using Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening Turns to resolve interpersonal conflicts, turning conflict into creativity: Chapter Five: Interpersonal Focusing Capitulo Cinco El Proceso Interpersonal Order the…
INTERPERSONAL FOCUSING: THE CREATIVE EDGE OF CONFLICT
Honoring "Subjectivity": "This flower is beautiful TO ME" We tend to use pseudo- objectivity, pseudo-factualism, pseudo-logic to assert our view of the world over others, to "win" arguments: "Mine…
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.…
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…