FOCUSING ATTITUDE: CARING FOR UNPLEASANT PARTS OF OURSELVES
THE FOCUSING ATTITUDE: CREATING A CARING FEELING PRESENCE INSIDE AND AS A FOCUSED LISTENER For this four weeks, we are working on perhaps the most essential aspect for successful…
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.
HAVING A PARADIGM SHIFT: COMPLETE FOCUSING SESSION INSTRUCTIONS
Gendlin's Six-Step Focusing Process: McGuire's PRISMS/S In Intuitive Focusing, first, you relax and find a felt sense, an "intuitive feel" that is before words and more than words.…
TELE-CLASSES IN LISTENING AND FOCUSING
With Ruth Hirsch, Creative Edge Associate, Inner Relationship Teacher, and Certified Focusing Professional and Certifying Coordinator: FROM THE BODY COMES OUR NEXT MOVES A quote from Eugene Gendlin, creator of…
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.
EVENTO DE CAMBIO MEDICO: DE UNA MIGRAÑA A LAGRIMAS DE SIGNIFICADO
Mientras que el Ajá Instantáneo # 4 Cinco-Minutos de Dolor se dirige específicamente a qué hacer si un paciente, amigo o compañero de trabajo comienza a llorar, el resumen de…
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.…
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…
CREATIVE EDGE EDUCATION RESPECTS DIFFERING GIFTS
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…
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,…