Level One Focusing: Encountering the Inner Relationship August 9-30, 2022
Level One Focusing with Marina Bergen Encountering the Inner Relationship August 9-30, 2022
Discussion pages where we continue to update the references and writing~ welcoming your comments and questions!
“Politics in Relation to Psychological and Spiritual Awareness”, Gendlin 1978, p. 1. SLIDE for Gisela 2022 07 04
“The realms of politics, personal growth/Focusing, and spiritual awareness are usually thought of separately, as three different realms.
But they must come together. Nor can any of them be reduced to the other two, however overarching each may be. Although different, [they are] in need of each other.”
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DISCUSSION July 11, 2022, Dave Young Liberation Focusing — Freedom from “unconscious social programming” as depicted by Gendlin
TEXT
Line by Line Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. University of Chicago Copyright © 2012 by Eugene T. Gendlin Published by the Focusing Institute
Gene’s Introduction, Books I and II [PDF] http://previous.focusing.org/aristotle/Ae_Bk_1-2.p…
TOC improved format ~ Table of Endnotes Line by Line Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima Eugene T. Gendlin,
THE BEAUTY OF FOCUSING
Resources & Study Pages
Gendlin, E.T. (1997) A Process Model
Climate in relation to the Philosophy of the Implicit
Experiential Philosophy ~ Gendlin Reading Group
Gendlin studies
Reading Group: Gendlin Line by Line Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima
Focusing was developed by Eugene Gendlin at the University of Chicago during the 1950s and 60s, under the guidance of Carl Rogers who is considered by many to be the founder of humanistic psychology. There are many different schools of Focusing. The foundation of our current teaching at Thinking in Movement Studio is four-fold. (please see our listings at the edge of this page)
Four-fold Nature & Our Classes
1/ Foundational Module
Descriptions Levels One to Four Inner Relationship Focusing (notes compiled by Katarina Halm)
Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF) is a step-wise syllabus created
by Ann Weiser Cornell (website) and Barbara McGavin.(podcast with David Battistella)
2/ Whole Body Focusing as furthered by Astrid Schillings
3/ Active Pause (AP), an application of Focusing developed by Serge Prengel
4/ Meditative Listening, a Focusing style created by Rob Foxcroft. Learn more about Rob’s work and his time with us in 2017 here.
Included is a Focusing teacher training program at Thinking in Movement Studio
developed by Katarina Halm which consists of a core module:
Focusing Basics and Teacher Training Syllabus
(Katarina Halm in collaboration with a Certifying Coordinator)
https://thinkinginmovement.ca/focusing/teacher-training/
Additional modules for exploration depend on each student’s interest:
- Gendlin/Ullman Dream Appreciation as pioneered by Janet Pfunder
- Experiential Philosophy ~ Gendlin Reading Group
- Focusing with Dreams: Patterns and Symbols
- Ginsburg Study, phenomenological crossings central to Focusing as depicted by Carl Ginsburg
- Combining Focusing and Feldenkrais
- Thinking at the Edge by Eugene Gendlin, a study project
- Focusing with the Spirit-body and Gestural Leads as developed by Glenn Fleisch.
Please click on the links above to learn more about each of the elements. If you are inspired we may create a program to suit your interests! You may even like to explore some of the ongoing courses at our listings and on our studio calendar