Index
of Focusing Related Materials
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Articulos y Talleres en Español-
El escuchar a lo que más nos llama Un taller que ofrecimos en 2004 en Costa Rica, y en 2013
en Mexico. Un proceso para conectarnos más
profundamente con alguna actividad que nos llena de vida, y luego explorar cómo
esa energía puede expresarse en otros aspectos de nuestra vida.
El Focusing con
los sueños. Un taller que
ofrecimos en 2013 en México sobre cómo dejar que el cuerpo interprete nuestros
sueños. Está basado en el trabajo de sueños de Gene Gendlin,
con unos cambios adicionales para que más participantes puedan experimentar el
proceso durante del taller.
Focusing para sanar al planeta. Un artículo sobre cómo podemos utilizar la misma
atención y escucha profunda que le ofrecemos a alguien cuando está Focusing, para ayudar a la Tierra misma.
Articles and Workshops in English
–
Musical offerings:
It
isn’t Hocus Pocus. Rather than
reading all of these articles, you can get a summary of some new developments
in Focusing through this musical avenue!
Sensing Pause is
Coming to Town Teaches some Process Model and the role of the Pause. Right
click to see words and have MP3 file open in new window
Workshops
Focusing
and Dreams - One way to teach and do Gendlin's dreamwork as I have understood it. This form of presenting dreamwork allows all of the participants to do at least
some work on their own dream during the workshop, in addition to listening to a
presentation and observing a demonstration with one participant.
"Listening
to What Calls Us" - workshop from 2004 International and 2013 Winter
Retreat in Mexico. This is a Focusing-friendly Positive Psychology process that
helps one access something rich and powerful in one's life experience, and then
allow those energies to express themselves into other areas of our lives. This
is quite simple, but surprisingly powerful. Can be done in a Focusing
partnership.
How the
"Listening to What Calls Us" process was developed.
Focusing
upstream and downstream - a short article about different directions of
sensing - either downstream into a felt sense unfolding, or up towards the
source from which the sense originated. There is great value in being able to
direct Focusing in both directions. The Listening to What Calls Us process uses
Focusing upstream.
Teaching Focusing – different
approaches
Three
Other Ways to Teach Focusing This link opens to several articles, which
describe:
1) teaching Focusing by principles (non-experientially!),
2) by discrete separate modules,
3) and by a process called Instancing, where the Focusing that is already
occurring in the students' life experiences is at the center of the process.
Teaching
Focusing Applications through Instancing This is my original article on
instancing. This is carried forward
quite well in the
work of Bruce Gibbs.
Levels of
Connecting with the Life Force
An
article describing three paradigms, or levels that people can connect with and
relate to an intelligent energy that moves through the universe. Being aware of
the paradigm of the listener with regard to this, may help us interact with
them more constructively, and tailor our language more effectively.
Visual
representation of Core Aspects of Focusing by Rosa Zubizarreta.
Nice visual of some of the aspects of Focusing - relationships between
attention, space, felt sense…. GIF Format
Articles
"Focusing
and Health - Psychobiological Perspectives" 1999 FOLIO article - a
summary of Ernest Rossi's "The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing",
with a few implications for Focusing in the last two pages or so..
Downloadable
file
Expanded Possibilities for Focusing This
is a revised and edited version of the Zigzagging article (below), which expands
how Focusing can be understood, and new ways that it can be adapted.
There is a great diagram on page 5 of the Word version, which
doesn’t come up on this HTML version, but is here:
Revised Zigzagging article Word (docx) format.
(takes a little while to load, sorry) It is a summary of the kinds of factors
that encourage opening to, and receiving, input that is beyond our habitual
patterns. This includes learning how to sense into shared personal,
interpersonal, and transpersonal fields.
"Zigzagging
Our Way to Expanded Possibilities for Focusing" Original 2012 Folio article that includes
scientific references to physics and biology and some unusual research
findings. It is challenging to
read because of the amount of information included. However, if you wish to
access scientific references to support energy medicine and healing, there are
many included. Downloadable
file
Online
footnotes for Folio article
"Towards
a Diversity of Life Forward Processes"
This is a handout of a presentation from 2011 regarding 4 different
frequencies of life-forward processes. It contains:
- some ideas about differences
between felt sensing and disembodied intuition
- a distinction of "felt
recognition" as distinct from a felt sense, including some different
ways to work with it.
This is not easy to read, as it is just my outline, but the ideas
about felt recognition and distinctions between felt and disembodied intuition
are novel. These may be of value to build greater understanding and connection
with those who do channeling or meditation. Downloadable
file
Biases
in Focusing
This article discusses some of the potential
limitations and pitfalls in using the Focusing process. It describes
avoidable (and not-so-avoidable) biases in Focusing. This article is a first
attempt to bring some awareness to this important subject. downloadable RTF
version
Shared Interpersonal Fields -
in Focusing, in other processes
“He
Ain’t Heavy…”
A Folio article describing what began as a personal experience with a
partner, opened up in surprising ways, and is still informing my understanding…
Thoughts about
Shared Fields, and about what encourages coherence and connection to form in
groups Nina Joy Lawrence transcribed some notes
from a discussion on shared fields in Focusing, and added some of her own
wisdom based on decades of Quaker process. We handed this out to participants
in our 2015 Panel-Guided Experience in Seattle.
Some
Neurobiology of Shared Fields. Some
of the neurobiology of how we interaffect each other
directly, conceptual and research notes around shared fields, attunement, and
different kinds of interactive spaces, with some implications for healing.
This was handed out at several of the Shared Field offerings that
Bruce Gibbs and I led in Seattle in 2015. It includes some of Dr Daniel Siegel’s Interpersonal Neurobiology, brainwave
research, and some of the work of Otto Scharmer. I
highly recommend reading Scharmer’s article, so you
can see the links and read his fine work.
Ways
of Grouping Practical guidance by Rosa Zubizarreta,
published in the Folio. She describes several Focusing-compatible group
processes, and suggests the kinds of situations that you may want to use each
one in. about different kinds of groups. Awareness of the different kinds of
groups leads to more efficiency, better design choices, and less frustration
and misunderstanding. RTF downloadable
version here…
Shared Transpersonal Fields
Introduction
to Resonant Sensing for Peace. This offers some of the conceptual notes of
the process, and how it developed. This is what I present when I introduce this
process to a new group. More on this, and on Subtle Activism, here.
If interested in this, feel free to contact
us
Focusing
and Healing the Planet a long and winding article that discusses the role
of loving attention in helping things emerge, describes Focusing in the context
of a "faith practice", and suggests a way to offer spacious loving
listening to what wants to emerge for the planet as if it were a Focusing
partner, to help it find its own next steps. This article led to the Resonant
Sensing for Peace process
Sharing
Luminous Personal Experiences With Others Through Resonating and Entering-Into
– Conceptual Notes This includes some notes as to the
rationale of this process, based on indigenous teachings, interpersonal
neurobiology, Gendlin’s dreamwork,
and brainwave coherent attunement. The actual “how to” of this process will be
added later.
There is a diagram on
page 5 of the article here:
Revised Zigzagging article Word (docx) format.
(takes a little while to load, sorry) It is a summary of the kinds of factors
that encourage opening to, and receiving, input that is beyond our habitual
patterns. This includes learning how to
sense into shared personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal fields.
Index of Thinking at the Edge
and Process Model-related materials
Sensing
Pause is Coming to Town a cute song based on Process Model and the role of
the Pause. Right click to see words and have MP3 file open in new window
Using
the TAE movements to help bring 'dreams' to life Classic TAE teaches that
one needs to have experience with something to work with it from a felt sense.
This is accurate, if one starts with a felt sense. However, reversing the order
of the first two movements of TAE allows us a way of working with "felt
recognition" - something you feel has meaning, but has not yet jelled into
a full felt sense.(see Diversity of
Life-Forward Process article.) This can help us to work with
"whisperings" - the sense of something more, barely acknowledged
longings and dreams
Offering
Presence to the Electorate through TAE and Focusing An article written
during the 2004 election, that uses TAE questions such as "what do you
want your vote for xxx to mean?" to help reverse the collapse of the
possibility field and profound loss of creativity and increased conflict that
can occur in a two party, binary, yes/no form of advocating for what we want
Articles by others:
Articles
by Dave Young This links to two very powerful articles on The Power of
Focusing; the Power of NVC. In them, Dave discusses what is needed for each of
these processes to reach their full potential. There is also an article about
family systems with a moving case history.
Transcript of interview of Bruce
Ecker, describing how he came up with Coherence Therapy, and some of its
essential components. Fascinating and valuable material. Downloadable RTF file here
Articles
by Glenn Fleisch
These are four articles which
deal with the subjects of crossing improvisation with Focusing (including
allowing energies to play themselves out, akin to Gendlin’s
dream work), and the role of interpersonal resonance in the context of Wholebody Focusing and psychotherapy.
OTHER LINKS
Focusing Resources
website of Ann Weiser Cornell
Diapraxis Rosa Zubizarreta
has experience with numerous small and large group emergent processes. She has
some resources and links to workshops here
"Focusing in Focus"
website of Nada Lou. Many Focusing and TAE-related videos available.
Antheosophia
site of Kye Nelson. Contains TAE-related resources
and discussion lists
Restoring
Connection Elizabeth Lehmann's website which includes some audio material,
and links.
Inner Empathy Jerry
Donoghue's website. Very good articles, free first chapter of his book geared
to NVC or to meditators. His process is a blend of NVC, Internal Family
Systems, Coherence Therapy, and more.
Created on ... March 07, 2013
