{"id":620,"date":"2009-03-15T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T22:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=620"},"modified":"2009-03-15T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T22:07:25","slug":"the-creative-edge-focusing-pyramid-in-business-settings-focusing-listening-and-collaborative-edge-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/the-creative-edge-focusing-pyramid-in-business-settings-focusing-listening-and-collaborative-edge-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CREATIVE EDGE FOCUSING PYRAMID IN BUSINESS SETTINGS: FOCUSING, LISTENING, AND COLLABORATIVE EDGE MEETINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Creative Edge Focusing (TM) model, The Creative Edge is the bodily-felt, intuitive “something-more-than-words” that anyone can find if they simply pause, for at least a minute, paying attention in the center of their body for the “intuitive feel,” the “bodily-felt sense” of any issue or idea or problem to form. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The PRISMS\/S Focusing Process <\/a>\u00a0shows how Intuitive Focusing, often coupled with Focused Listening, can allow this non-linear, right-brain, intuitive knowing to unfold.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid<\/a>\u00a0shows how these simple self-help skills of Intuitive Focusing<\/a>\u00a0and Focused Listening<\/a>\u00a0can be incorporated into all levels within a company or organization, as well as for stress relief, conflict resolution, and emotional problem solving at home:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Focusing Alone <\/strong>for Personal Growth
\nFocusing Partnership <\/strong>for Ongoing Creativity
\nInterpersonal Focusing<\/strong> for Conflict Resolution
\nFocusing Group\/Team<\/strong> for Innovative Problem Solving
\nCollaborative Edge Focusing Decision Making <\/strong>for Win\/Win\u00a0 Meetings
\nFocusing Community <\/strong>To Facilitate Diversity and Mutual Support
\nCreative Edge Organization<\/strong> To Motivate People For Collaborative Action<\/p>\n

Creative Edge Organizations <\/a>\u00a0benefit from the innovation, creativity, commitment, and collegiality which come when each person is engaged at their own Creative Edge and sharing and supporting Creative Edge exploration in others. Read Creating At The Edge: The Culture of Creativity<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is feedback from a Certified Focusing Professional teaching Listening, Focusing, and Collaborative Edge Decision Making (CEDM) in two companies:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I am teaching two small companies focusing and I also have workshops and individual sessions for everyone interested. I have also done a few talks on focusing, and I want to develop that more. I want to develop everything more!!!
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\nI just want to tell you that the people at the companies, were really amazed about your method for decision making. I translated it all and made sheets for them to work with and it all went so well. We have done it twice in two different groups, and the next two weeks we will try it again.<\/p>\n

Afterwards one woman said: “I feel like I have a lot of energy after the meeting, usually I am all tired and out of energy.”<\/p>\n

Another one said: \u201cI am a slow person, and have often been told, just hurry and pick the word and say what you want. But I don\u2019t feel like doing that, it just makes me feel so stressed. I rather just stay quiet.\u201d And she really enjoyed this kind of meeting.<\/p>\n

I could \u201cfeel\u201d the stress disappear when everybody understood that they were going to have their piece of the time for saying what they wanted.<\/p>\n

And when I told them that they all had the same responsibility for creating a meaningful meeting, it sort of started twinkling in their eyes.<\/p>\n

Most amazing of all was that the ones that volunteered for the timekeeping both times we did this, were two people that usually have a hard time being on time (according to the others in the group). Strange, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

And more:<\/p>\n

“Thank you for the links you gave me here. I am thinking about translating both \u201c5 minutes of grieving\u201d <\/a>and \u201cActive Listening: Short-Circuit Angry Confrontations<\/a>\u201d, they are so good, and the people I work with do need something very \u201cresolute\u201d to get started with Focusing in their daily work … there is really a need for a tool that is respectful and very human. (that\u2019s a need everywhere of course!)”<\/p>\n

“The staff that I am teaching Focusing are more and more getting it in to their daily routines. They all say: When we start the morning with some Focusing, there is a calm feeling throughout the day! No matter how much stress they are facing.<\/p>\n

So now they are trying, at least in one of the companies, to have at least 10 minutes each in the morning, just Listening to what is inside them right now. And at least once a week they do a longer Listening\/Focusing turn two and two. And their meetings have really changed!”<\/p>\n

See my article, “Creative Edge Organizations: Businesses and Organizations As A ‘Kind’ Of Focusing Community”<\/a>\u00a0from The Folio: Thirtieth Anniversity Tribute edition at The Focusing Institute, www.focusing.org<\/a> .<\/p>\n

You can learn all about Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening with the many resources listed below:<\/p>\n

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

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

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":"

The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid shows how to maximize creativity, innovation, and mutual support at every level in businesses and organizations. Simple self-help skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening allow the articulation of non-linear, right-brain solutions at every level of problem solving, with carry-over for conflict resolution, stress reduction, and emotional problem solving at home as well as at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,45,15],"tags":[103,462,740,741,58,645,86,749,57,466,160,744,54,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}