DIVERSITY TRAINING: UNDERSTANDING PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES Within this strand on Interpersonal Focusing, I am going to place the emphasis upon Personality Style Instruments, coupled with Empathic, Focused Listening, as a method…
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES: PERSONALITY TESTS Differences So Vast You Can't Imagine People are so different in their basic personality and learning styles, talents, and goals that you simply cannot understand anyone…
Interactive Focusing: The Double Empathic "Golden Moment" PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT For four weeks, we practice an actual exercise in three different categories: An Instant "Ahah!" to integrate into your every…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
"CARING FEELING PRESENCE" AT WORK As our "Felt Sensing" exercise these four weeks we are practicing turning a Caring Feeling Presence toward whatever arises inside during our Focusing and…