This was such a paradigmatic example of Gendlin's Focusing self-help technique (Focusing, Bantam, 1981,1984) and McGuire's Intuitive Focusing, that I wanted to share it here. It includes Clearing A Space,…
Core Concepts 1. Educating for human literacy: “Emotional” and “Social” Intelligence Specific to the Creative Edge Focusing™ model, the core “human literacy” skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening can…
Love Relationships Perhaps there is no more important place for the use of Empathic Listening and Experiential Focusing skills than in love relationships. When we “fall in love,” we are…
The Way of Relationship Intimate relationships can be seen as a spiritual path, The Way of Relationship. Relationships can be a self-therapy. Relationships will point up your “blind spots” or…
This is my favorite question ever! What is "right" in terms of a Listening Response, a Reflection? I'd love it if everyone would jump in with their answer to this…
In the example below, taken from the Case Studies area at Creative Edge Focusing (TM), the Focuser goes from unspecified, work-related anxiety and sleeplessness to being able to name the problem…
With Ruth Hirsch, Creative Edge Associate and Certified Focusing Professional and Coordinator: FROM THE BODY COMES OUR NEXT MOVES A quote from Eugene Gendlin "The body is not just a…
ESCUCHA PASIVA: SOLAMENTE MANTENERSE EN SILENCIO, ¡NO INTERRUMPIR! Esto va a ser extremadamente básico...y tal vez ¡extremadamente difícil!!! Todo lo que Ud. va a hacer es intercambiar turnos de escucha pasiva con otras…
Please download the exercise from the sidebar at Creative Edge Focusing right now so you can read through. Consider whether, if everyone learned this simple structure for stopping arguments from birth,…
Community: Core Creative Edge Focusing ™ Concepts Sharing from The Creative Edge creates feelings of empathy, a deep understanding of the validity of the other person’s unique point of view…