Intuitive Problem Solving – CE Focusing Blog

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
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FOCUSING AND BUSINESS: BUILDING COMMUNITY 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.

Post author:Carolyn
Post category:Business collaboration community building Creativity

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
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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
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CREATIVITY: FINDING YOUR UNIQUE “TOUCHSTONE”

See previous blog Creating At The Edge: Culture of Creativity for introduction. INTUITIVE FOCUSING EXERCISE: THE "TOUCHSTONE MISSION" So, let's modify the "One Small Thing" Focusing Exercise a little…

Post author:Kathy McGuire
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CREATING AT THE EDGE: THE CULTURE OF CREATIVITY

(To catch up with this topic, see Week One Empowerment Organization , Week Two Examples of "The One Small Thing") Motivation is a bottom-up, not top-down thing. Each…

Post author:Kathy McGuire
Post category:Business collaboration community building Creativity Intuitive Focusing LISTENING self-help skills

EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION : “One Small Thing” Examples — Corporate, Non-Profit, Grass Roots

Kathy's Experience: "One Small Thing" Focusing Exercise (see Week One Empowerment Organization for Introduction) I did the "One Small Thing" Focusing Exercise included below on my own problem/goal:…

Post author:Kathy McGuire
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EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION: MOTIVATING FROM THE BOTTOM UP

Motivation = Engagement : Apathy Is The Enemy! You are charged with finding that "one small thing" which will get every employee or volunteer or citizen fully engaged in your…

Post author:Kathy McGuire
Post category:Business collaboration community building Intuitive Focusing self-help skills