Architecture is revisioned through Susanka's Not So Big concept, design which starts with the wants and needs of owners. "Masculine" vs. "Feminine" struggle archetypically with house design. Gendlin's Focusing, and Active Listening look for compromise in designing from the inside (unique wants/needs/functions) out as well as the outside (site, location, artistic vision) in.
The Transition Town movement is an example of bottom-up empowerment, local community organization for global climate change. Political action and emotional growth and support are combined with conflict resolution skill training, so that Head, Heart, and Hands are all enlisted in common cause. Listening/Focusing Communities are one model of peer support that could be incorporated into Transition Towns.
The Creative Edge Organization model from Creative Edge Focusing (TM) includes the Interpersonal Focusing method, often with a Third Person Listening Facilitator, for the resolution of interpersonal conflicts. Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening skills are used, either in a separate session or right during a Collaboration Edge Decision Making Meeting. How do you teach Interpersonal Focusing in a business or organization, especially if there are not evident conflicts present? Free download of Interpersonal Focusing Chapter, as well as creative ideas for teaching.
The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid shows how to maximize creativity, innovation, and mutual support at every level in businesses and organizations. Simple self-help skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening allow the articulation of non-linear, right-brain solutions at every level of problem solving, with carry-over for conflict resolution, stress reduction, and emotional problem solving at home as well as at work.
Creative Edge Organizations encourage creative, innovative problem solving from each individual's fresh, intuitive, right-brain thinking by teaching Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening as basic skills of "emotional and social intelligence." The exchange of Focusing/Listening turns builds feelings of "buy in" and "community" while encouraging innovation, creativity, and diversity.
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Creative Edge Focusing teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening which can be applied at home and at work to increase creativity, decrease stress, resolve conflict, and facilitate innovative problem solving. Here we learn a specific exercise for reducing the stress left from interpersonal situations called "Getting A Felt Sense," accessing right-brain, intuitive knowledge.
Free Downloads: Complete Focusing Instructions Manual (17 pages) Instant “Ahah!” Mini-Manual “Ajas” Instantaneos Mini-Manual WHY PRACTICE FOCUSED LISTENING? So, yesterday I asked myself, "Why do I practice Intuitive Focusing?" and…
Free Downloads: Complete Focusing Instructions Manual (17 pages) Instant “Ahah!” Mini-Manual “Ajas” Instantaneos Mini-Manual WHAT IS CREATIVE EDGE FOCUSING ™? Dr. McGuire’s Creative Edge Focusing (TM), with her core skills…
Free Downloads: Complete Focusing Instructions Manual (17 pages) Instant “Ahah!” Mini-Manual “Ajas” Instantaneos Mini-Manual Okay, believe it our not, I found this in my AARP newsletter: gentle but sexy, educational…