Gene Gendlin: The Politics of Rogers Focusing and The Future of Listening

With appreciation:

Lynn Preston’s youtube channel where recordings continue to be published: https://www.youtube.com/c/FocusingRelationalPsychotherapy

Help for Helper’s youtube channel with recordings of the meetings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRc14k8fFbFCdrbrPzjLwOg

October, November, December 2023

October 2023

2nd

9th Alastair Farrugia, Focusing On What Is Going Well

16th

23nd

30th

November 2023

7th

14th

21st

28th

November or December 2023 or even 2024

Gisela Uhl Charles Herr, PART THREE: Finding pathways from a competitive, exploitative society

toward creating a collaborative human society.

“Developing ALL our resources to transform an exploitative society, Focusing being but ONE—very important but not sufficient alone—resource. Staying as wide open as possible.” —Charles

“Beyond Focusing, beyond the individual; it cannot be felt into within the individual Focusing space; we need to expand this space into our societal space. We need the political and spiritual as well as individual.” — Gisela.

July, August, September 2023

August 2023

7th: Lynn Preston, Contemplative Writing

14th: Yaotunde Obiora Focusing and the Art of Haiku

21st: Ann Dowsett Johnston, The Healing Power of Memoir: Using the Felt Sense to Mine Our Memories https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com

28th: Sondra Perl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Perl# Sondra Perl is a Professor Emerita of English at Lehman College and director of the Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the founder and former director of the New York City Writing Project. She writes about the composing process as well as pedagogical approaches to implementing composition theories into writing practices in the classroom.

September 2023

4th: Liz Margoshes “Hiding In Plain Sight: The Shame, Terror, and (Sometimes) Joy of Writing a Graphic Memoir [And Talking About It In a Zoom Meeting Attended by a Group of People You Barely Know]”

11th: Dave Young Sept 11th. Freeing Ourselves from Social Programming, “We create conformity when we do not realize how deeply socially programmed our bodies are” — Gene Gendlin

18th: Alastair Farrugia, Focusing On What Is Going Well

25th: Mary Jennings, What is patience? A reflection on how I gained an understanding of what patience is or can be by observing a man with his child who had a disability. It does not fit the standard definition of what patience is, but when I felt-sensed what was going on, a deeper meaning emerged.

January, February, March 2024

“We took it out of the therapy context, and we are now calling it “listening”, but we found this has the importance of specificity” …

– Gene Gendlin: The Politics of Rogers Focusing and The Future of Listening (1986)

In a Nutshell – Help for Helpers & Studio Discussion

August 2023

** August 21st: Ann Dowsett Johnston, The Healing Power of Memoir: Using the Felt Sense to Mine Our Memories https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com

** August 28th: Sondra Perl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Perl# Sondra Perl is a Professor Emerita of English at Lehman College and director of the Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the founder and former director of the New York City Writing Project. She writes about the composing process as well as pedagogical approaches to implementing composition theories into writing practices in the classroom.

* Charles Herr and Gisela Uhl July 24 & July 31, 2023 with a Part 3 yet to follow

Help for Helpers Charles Herr and Gisela Uhl July 24 & July 31 & Nov or Dec 2023 or in 2024

Finding pathways from a competitive, exploitative society toward creating a collaborative human society.

Part 1 Monday, July 24, 2023
Part 2 Monday, July 31, 2023

Part 3 A Monday in November or December 2023 or perhaps in 2024

DESCRIPTION …

* “Developing ALL our resources to transform an exploitative society, Focusing being but ONE—very important but not sufficient alone—resource. Staying as wide open as possible.” —Charles

* ” Beyond Focusing, beyond the individual; it cannot be felt into within the individual Focusing space; we need to expand this space into our societal space…… “we need the political and spiritual as well as individual.” — Gisela

* General statement: We need a revolution that transforms relations and the structure of domination into relations and the structure of cooperation (transforming power over into power with). That may require the protective use of force, but ultimately the quality of relating will need to change. WE NEED NEW PATHWAYS TO A NON-DOMINATING SOCIETY without illusion.

* Help for Helpers’ Playlist

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Help for Helper’s youtube channel with recordings of the meetings:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRc14k8fFbFCdrbrPzjLwOg

Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIFGjfFRNXb_6Uj8UHeRq1azCjvffW-nw

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* Lynn Preston’s youtube channel

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Lynn Preston’s youtube channel, where recordings continue to be published:

https://www.youtube.com/c/FocusingRelationalPsychotherapy

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* Help for Helpers Zoom Link

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Monday at 8:15 New York time:

ZOOM LINK Help for Helpers: with Lynn Preston https://us02web.zoom.us/j/91630143362?pwd=OUNQaDQ0NnVCcG92dkp0TkwzUExldz09

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* Gene Gendlin: The Politics of Rogers Focusing and The Future of Listening

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* Gene Gendlin: The Politics of Rogers Focusing and The Future of Listening

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* Studio Discussion Pages

SLIDE:

“Politics in Relation to Psychological and Spiritual Awareness,” Gendlin 1978, p. 1. SLIDE for Gisela 2022 07 04 and 2023 07 24

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STUDIO PAGES:
Below are links to videos and discussion pages where we continue to update the references and writing~ we welcome your comments and questions!

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* July 4, 2022, The Concept of Life with Gisela Uhl
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ura2IO33LWc

Gisela Uhl “The concept of Life — with comments about Aristotle, Gendlin’s Process Model, and Human Life as inherently political”J
Discussion page https://thinkinginmovement.ca/gisela-uhl-life-aristotle-gendlin-2022/

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* July 11, 2022, Liberation Focusing with Dave Young
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBo6D4r7qN0
Discussion page https://thinkinginmovement.ca/dave-young-liberation-focusing-2022/

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* August 1, 2022, Mike McCullough “Self Organizing of Growing and Perceiving” Gendlin-Aristotle /A Complexity Theory of Power
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnp3p8-YqN4
Discussion page https://thinkinginmovement.ca/mike-mccullough-self-organizing-of-growing-and-perceiving-2022/

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TEXT GENDLIN-ARISTOTLE

Introduction, Books I and II

[PDF] NEW TEXT LINK https://focusing.org/sites/default/files/upload/2022-11/Book%201%20and%202%20-%20Line%20By%20Line%20Commentary%20On%20Aristotle%27s%20De%20Anima.pdf

Informal TOC (KH)~ Table of Endnotes Line by Line Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima Eugene T. Gendlin,

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We welcome you to join us for Help for Helpers every Monday at 8:15 New York time:

ZOOM LINK Help for Helpers: with Lynn Preston https://us02web.zoom.us/j/91630143362?pwd=OUNQaDQ0NnVCcG92dkp0TkwzUExldz09