{"id":141,"date":"2008-07-15T22:02:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T02:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-06-07T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T16:52:22","slug":"mini-focused-listening-e-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/mini-focused-listening-e-course\/","title":{"rendered":"MINI-FOCUSED LISTENING E-COURSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewing\/Previewing A Variety of Exercises to Strengthen Your Focused Listening Practice
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\nAnd, here, for old timers and newcomers alike, I will give you a suggested Mini-Course of Focused Listening exercises. The exercises are taken from the Creative Edge Focusing\u00a0website , the “Instant Ahah!s” Mini-Manual (download in English or Spanish from links below)\u00a0and the e-newsletter archives:
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\n1. Focused Listening Described: Four Basic Responses<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Active Listening examples: Short-Circuit Angry Confrontations
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\n3. Passive Listening exercise: Stop Arguments with Partners, Children, Co- workers <\/a><\/p>\n

4. An Angry Person Is A Hurting Person<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a05. Can Passive Listening Save the World?<\/a><\/p>\n

6. Five-Minute Grieving: What To Do When Someone Starts Crying<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Listening\/Focusing-Oriented Group Decision Making Meetings<\/a><\/p>\n

8. Verbal Abuse vs. Interpersonal Focusing Protocol
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\nStarting Your Own Listening\/Focusing Partnership or Group
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\nIn the weekly Felt Sensing newsletters of the last four-week cycle, I\u00a0 gave instruction (including free Chapter downloads from the manual Focusing In Community: Starting A Listening\/Focusing Support Group (Focusing en Comunidad)<\/a> and encouragement for starting your own, local Listening\/Focusing Practice Group.
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\nSee Week One: Starting A Listening\/Focusing Practice Group<\/a> if you haven’t already downloaded the free Introduction to the Self-Help manual, Focusing In Community, which tells you many ways to find a first person for a Listening\/Focusing Partnership and to expand into a core self-help practice group.
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\nWeek Two: Basic Listening\/Focusing Partnership Exchange<\/a> to find links to download Chapter Three, complete instructions for the first ten sessions of your practice groups (English and Spanish versions).
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\nWeek Three: The Focuser Is In Charge
\n<\/a>\u00a0to learn exactly what the Focuser does while being Listening To
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\nWeek Four: What The Listener Does<\/a> to see the Four Basic Types of Response used by the Listener in a Focusing Partnership turn.
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\nSpend the summer finding a Focusing Partner and building up a Focusing Practice Group!!!!!<\/p>\n

ADDITIONAL HELP IN TAKING THAT FIRST STEP TO START YOUR LISTENING\/FOCUSING PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP OR GROUP<\/strong>
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\nCLICK HERE <\/a>TO VIEW A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION AND TO CONSIDER PURCHASING THE ENTIRE SELF-HELP PACKAGE ,WITH MULTI-MEDIA SUPPORT.
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\nIt is my hope that, before the end of the summer, you will have found at least one other person to practice Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening with as the beginning of your own local practice group.
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\nThe manual gives many suggestions about how to find your first one or more people, how to present the idea, how to demonstrate the skills. It also includes Chapters on Why Supportive Community?, The Meaning of Feelings, Focusing Partnership Exchange, Focusing Alone, Interpersonal Focusing, and Collaborative Decision Making.
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\nAn additional 2 two-CD sets describe applications to Personal Transformation, Relationships, and Parenting, Men and Tears, and a two-hour DVD shows four actual demonstration Listening\/Focusing Sessions.
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\nBUT ONLY YOU CAN TAKE THAT FIRST STEP OF FINDING SOMEONE, JUST THAT ONE, FIRST PERSON. From then on, you and your partner can support each other in enlarging the group, if you want.
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\nYou can get online support and answers to your questions as you try to proceed in the Creative Edge Practice e-group at http:\/\/yahoogroups.com\/group\/creativeedgepractice<\/a> .<\/p>\n

\u00a0comment on this blog below\u00a0!<\/p>\n

CREATIVE EDGE FOCUSING(tm): \u00a0SELF-HELP SKILLS FOR HOME AND WORK<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Free Downloads:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d Mini-Manual<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

Complete Focusing Instructions Manual (17 pages)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAjas\u201d Instantaneos Mini-Manual<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Creative Edge Focusing (<\/strong>www.cefocusing.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a> )<\/strong> teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing<\/span><\/a> and Focused Listening<\/span><\/a>, which can be applied at home and at work through The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based upon Gendlin\u2019s Experiential Focusing (<\/strong>www.focusing.org<\/strong><\/span><\/a> )\u00a0and Rogers\u2019 Empathic Listening,<\/strong> our website is packed with Free Resources and instructions in these basic self-help skills. Learn\u00a0how to build Support Groups<\/span><\/a>, Conscious Relationships<\/span><\/a>, and Creative Edge Organizations <\/span><\/a>based upon these basic skills of emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n

You can try out\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>\u201cFocusing: Find Out What Is Bothering You.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to subscribe to\u00a0Creative Edge Focusing(TM)\u2019s \u00a0Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d e-newsletter and get the latest exercises first!!!<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Click here for a free Intuitive Focusing Mini-Course<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for a free Focused Listening Mini-Course<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0See \u00a0Core Concept: Conflict Resolution<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to find a complete mini-course on Interpersonal Focusing and Conflict Resolution, including Rosenberg\u2019s Non-Violent Communication, Blanchard\u2019s \u201cOne Minute Apology,\u201d Patricia Evan\u2019s books on Verbally Abuse and Controlling Relationships, McMahon\u2019s Beyond The Myth Of Dominance, <\/em>and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See\u00a0 Core Concept: Intimate Relationship<\/span><\/a> to find a complete mini-course on increasing intimacy and sexuality, including the \u201cSharing Your Day\u201d exercise, Listening\/Focusing Partnerships for The Way of Relationship, untangling and equalizing desire, tantric sexuality, and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Download complete Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d Mini-Manual, in <\/strong>English<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <\/strong>Spanish<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, from CEF Website, or download from links at top of this blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Find links to <\/strong>free articles, personality tests, multi-media\u00a0Self-Help training, Classes and workshops<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Kathy McGuire<\/span><\/a>, Director<\/p>\n

Creative Edge Focusing (TM)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

www.cefocusing.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Called it Reflective Listening, Active Listening, Empathic Listening, Deep Listening, or Focused Listening, Carl Rogers discovered the most powerful communication tool you can have: just saying back the words of the other, with emphasis upon the feeling tone. Here is a free mini-e-course showing how to use Listening to avoid or resolve conflict, have more productive meetings, be with someone who breaks down crying, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[103,371,700,83,57,51,370,160,744,372,373,100,233,50,230,756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}