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INTUITIVE FOCUSING: FROM INTUITION TO CREATIVITY, TRANSFORMATION, PARADIGM SHIFTS.PHOTOS OF CHILD’S FIRST CHRISTMAS PRESENT ILLUSTRATE CLICK!

Intuitive Focusing, based on Gendlin's Focusing, is a six-step self-help process for going deeper into vague, bodily-felt discomforts, intuitions, gut instincts legitimated by Malcolm Gladwell in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. When just-right words and images are found for the "bodily-felt sense" of issues and ideas, "Ahah!" experiences, transformation, paradigm shifts follow. George Soros uses something like Intuitive Focusing in deciding when to rearrange his portfolio. Focusing can be used for problem solving at home and at work. A child's first exploration of a Christmas present makes a good visual image of this "going deeper" into the "implicit" information held in the "bodily-felt sense.

Post author:Carolyn
Post category:Intuitive Focusing

INTUITIVE FOCUSING: RELIEVING STRESS OF INTERPERSONAL SITUATIONS

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.

Post author:Carolyn
Post category:Intuitive Focusing relationships self-help skills

CREATIVITY = THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX = PARADIGM SHIFTS

PRISMS/S PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS AND PARADIGM SHIFTS Creative genius includes thinking "outside the box," setting aside preconceived concepts and ideas and being able to "look at" a problem from a…

Post author:Kathy McGuire
Post category:Creativity

CREATIVITY, INTUITION, AND GLADWELL’S “BLINK THINKING”

INTUITIONS GUIDE CREATIVE DECISION MAKING "Blink Thinking" In his best-selling book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking(Little Brown, 2005), Malcolm Gladwell justified the importance of intuitive, "gut"…

Post author:Kathy McGuire
Post category:Creativity

COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING MEETINGS: HAVING CREATIVE, EFFICIENT MEETINGS

Creative Edge Focusing Meetings make space for intuitive, right-brain input into decision making by prohibiting aggressive interruption and encouraging Active Listening responses. Simple "How To's" teach Shared Leadership and Creative Impasse Resolution using Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening.

Post author:Kathy McGuire
Post category:Business collaboration conflict resolution Creativity Intuitive Focusing LISTENING