Gendlin’s Focusing – Page 7

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…

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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.

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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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POSITIVE PARENTING: GIVING CHOICES WITHIN LIMITS BUILDS CONFIDENCE

Raising Flexible, Resilient, Self-Confident Children ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, Sigmund Freud confirmed everyone's worst fears: Yes, human beings were voracious bundles of desires, ready to devour the world. Society…

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