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Feuerstein & Deloch, 2011, Kreativität
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Feuerstein & Deloch, 2010, Erlebensbezogen Denken
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Focusing Spaces: Beiträge zur 15. Internationalen Focusing Konferenz 2003 in Pforzheim Hohenwart (3,1 MB)
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Bundschuh: ”Es ist was es ist sagt die Liebe…”
Achtsamkeit und Akzeptanz in der Personzentrierten und Experientiellen Psychotherapie
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Deloch & Feuerstein, ECC-Experiential Concept Coaching – ein Mehrebenenansatz zur Begleitung kreativer und innovativer Prozesse auf der Basis von TAE
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Feuerstein, 2005: Focusing und Coaching
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Feuerstein: Erfühltes Leben: Eugene T. Gendlin und die Entwicklung des Focusing
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Feuerstein: Verändern durch Fühlen
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Feuerstein & Müller: Pain – an Experiential Exercise
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Feuerstein & Müller: Supervision als Prozess
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Feuerstein & Müller: Focusing und erlebensbezogene Methode – eine Einführung
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Feuerstein & Müller: Wege zur Klarheit
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Gendlin: Focusing – Philosophie und Praxis
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Gendlin: Über den Körper
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Gendlin – Über Begriffe / On Concepts
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Gendlin: On concepts
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Gendlin: Der Traum vom Pferd
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Greenberg – Feuerstein Interview 2007 Emotionsfokussierte Therapie
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Greenberg – Feuerstein Interview 2007 Emotionsfokussierte Therapie: englischer Originaltext
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Müller: Der Umgang mit Selbstkritik: vom Kritiker zum Kritisierten
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Müller: The Fifteen Mile-an-Hour Feeling
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Weitere Downloads

Führungsakademie “Focusing und Coaching”
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Deutsche Focusing Gesellschaft e.V.:

Antrag auf Mitgliedschaftonline-Formular zur Anmeldung der DFG-Mitgliedschaft

Antrag auf DFG-Mitgliedschaft
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GwG – Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Gesprächspsychotherapie e. V.

GF-Richtlinien GwG: Richtlinien und Durchführungsbestimmungen für die Weiterbildung in Klientzentrierter Gesprächsführung
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GF-InfoBlatt Klientzentrierte Gesprächsführung
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Focusing-Begleiter/-in (Basistraining und Aufbaustufe)
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AOK-Kurs Focusing – psychologische Hilfen bei körperlichem Schmerz
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DGSv- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Supervision e. V.

Weiterbildungsregister
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This page offers an overview on the material which is provided in English language. We will keep this site updated. If you have comments, questions or proposals, please let us know.
(Hejo Feuerstein & Dieter Müller – fzk@focusing.de)

Deloch & Feuerstein: ECC – Experiential Concept Coaching: A multilevel approach to further creative and innovtaive processes, based on TAE
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Focus on: Dieter Müller and Hejo Feuerstein
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Focusing Spaces – Proceedings of the 15th International Focusing Conference

IFC – 2003 Proceedings 15th IFC Documents, all documents in one. ZIP file.
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Armstrong, Harvey: Parents for Youth: Helping and supporting parents

Content: (document is derived from a Power Point Presentation): THE EXPERIENCES OF PARENTS – FACTS ABOUT PARENTS – OBSERVATIONS OF PARENTS – WHY GROUP THERAPY? – WHY FOCUSING? – WHY EMDR (EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZING AND REPROCESSING)? – PARENTS FOR YOUTH: ADVANTAGES (5 p.)

Abstract: This workshop informed and demonstrated techniques which can be combined to help parents become effective with their difficult youth. The Canadian Longitudinal Study of 22,500 Children and Adolescents has clearly demonstrated that “Ineffective Parenting” has an odds ratio of 37 in association with conduct disorder, the most common adolescent problem worldwide. No other factor studied had an odds ratio of more than 3.0. Ineffective parenting is therefore likely the most important factor associated with conduct disorder. This workshop provided a forum for discussion and teaching of Parents for Youth’s techniques in helping wounded ineffective parents to become effective. Video tapes, overheads, published papers, and parent manuals were used to teach the techniques. Participants learnt the role of parent’s previous trauma in their ineffective parenting, and how the three therapeutic techniques can be interwoven and used simultaneously and sequentially to build parents’ self esteem, lower their overwhelming stress levels, help them mourn, accept the child that they have, build attachment to the child, and recognize and deal with the traumatic emotions that make effective parenting impossible. Results of the treatment of 1,500 parents were presented and discussed.

Armstrong, Harvey: Parents for Youth: Helping and supporting parents
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Armstrong, Mary: What Keeps You From Being All That You Are?

Content: Gendlin’s Blueprint Theory – The Affect Bridge – The Critic – Bio (3 p.)

Abstract: This is one of a series of workshops I have prepared recently to explore how we can optimize well being through Focusing. The following notes discuss relevant Focusing theory and present some experiential exercises.

Armstrong, Mary: What Keeps You From Being All That You Are?
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Gasser, William M.” GUI”: Hypnotherapy and Focusing

Content: What is hypnotherapy anyway? – In what language does the subconscious talk? – How is a hypnotherapy session similar to a focusing session? – What skill sets are unique to focusing and to hypnotherapy? – What are some of the strengths of the different modalities? What are some of hypnotherapy’s strengths relative to focusing? – What are some of focusing strengths relative to hypnotherapy? – What could hypnotherapists learn from focusing? – What could focusers learn from hypnotherapy? Conclusion. (4 p.)

Conclusion: Both of these modalities are similar, yet different. However, in many ways, they tend to overlap. Each modality can learn from the other by analyzing strengths of each and usefulness across modality lines. By understanding both, we can serve our client better by giving them a richer secession each time they see us.

Gasser – Gui _ Hypnotherapy and Focusing
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Geiser, Christiane: Talking About Differences

Content: About the Use of Typologies – About Modalities – About structure bound patterns – Bonding Styles – Thinking Beyond the Individual – Biographical note (10 p.)

Abstract: As a client-centred and experiential therapist and teacher I am passionately interested in questions of growth and change. I am particularly fascinated by the differences between people and how we could describe them in order to learn more about the different worlds people live in. “There are as many “real worlds” as there are people”, Rogers said, and people’s basic assumptions, preferences, and habits in thinking, feeling and behaviour colour even the way they do focusing! In order to understand more about the precise way meaning may go from the implicit unknown to symbolization even in “difficult” focusing processes, I will give you some ideas about focusing modalities, character-structures and bonding-styles as we conceptualise them. (10p.)

Geiser, Christiane: Talking About Differences
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Greenberg, Leslie und Feuerstein, Hejo: Interview 2007 EFT

Leslie Greenberg – Hejo Feuerstein – Interview 2007 Emotion focused Therapie
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Franz Heintz: Einführung in die Theorie und Praxis der Energetischen Psychologie

Inhalt: “Kurzerklärung” – Inhalte der Präsentation – Stichwörter – Vertreter – Bücher und Adressen – Fazit – Kleine Geschichte der energetischen Psychologie Wie alles begann – Die Vorgehensweise – Erklärungen des Konzeptes der Psychischen Umkehrung (PU) – Adresse (7 Seiten)

Einführung: Im Verlauf der Präsentation wird eine relativ neue Behandlungsmethode vorgestellt, welche sich gut mit Focusing verbinden lässt und eine gegenseitige Bereicherung ermöglicht. Diese Methode aus dem Bereich der Energetischen Psychologie (Energy Psychology) benutzt die östliche Weisheit der Meridianlehre, der Akupunktur/Akupressur (Klopfakupressur) und der eigenen (feinstofflichen) Körperenergie um auf bewährte Weise belastende Emotionen und unangenehme Gefühle schnell und anhaltend zu beseitigen bzw. aufzulösen. Die Theorie und die Praxis der Energetischen Psychologie (EP) beruht auf den Lehren der chinesischen Medizin. Es werden bestehende Blockaden aufgelöst bzw. gelöscht. Bei diesem Verfahren handelt es sich um eine energetische Behandlungsmethode, welche höchst effiziente und effektive Techniken entwickelt hat, welche Sie bei sich selbst anwenden und auch für sich selbst nutzen können. Außerdem können Sie diese Techniken auch in Ihren Focusingprozess mit einbauen. Neben der Behandlung von Ängsten und Depressionen eignen sich diese Verfahren auch dafür, sich oder andere von Schuldgefühlen, Traumata und sonstigen belastenden Erinnerungen und Emotionen zu befreien. In dieser Präsentation (Einführung) werden Sie praxisnahe Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von bewährten Behandlungstechniken gezeigt bekommen und erlernen können. Zusätzlich werden Sie einen Einblick in die theoretischen Hintergründe erhalten. Diese Verfahren bereichern jede weitere therapeutische Methode und lassen sich effizient und effektiv in jede therapeutische Arbeit mit einbeziehen.

Franz Heintz: Einführung in die Theorie und Praxis der Energetischen Psychologie
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Hendricks-Gendlin, Mary, Ph.D. (Director, The Focusing Institute) Focusing as a Force for Peace: The Revolutionary Pause

Content: Example – TAE process on “Wait a minute” – A Process Model Treatment of Pausing in order to form a felt sense – A felt sense is a bodily sense of how the whole wider situation is for us – The felt sense level implies a new ethics (8 p.)

Intro: Focusing is a force for peace because it frees people from being manipulated by external authority, cultural roles, ideologies and the internal oppression of self attacking and shame. This freeing has to do with an ability to pause the on-going situation and create a space in which a felt sense can form.

When we know how to focus we refuse to take ourselves or any other person as merely an instance of a culturally defined category or group. We don’t say, “I am good, you are bad.” Or, “I am a wife and mother” as though this defined the total of who I am. Or “You are the doctor, I am the patient” as though our interaction would then be governed only by the meanings of those roles. Or “I am a Christian or a Muslim” as though the ritual forms would then exhaustively define my spiritual life. We know there is always a rich detailed intricacy, a “more” in each person’s experience.

I will tell you a story about pausing the cultural role level of a situation so that a felt sense can form. You will see that this pausing allows “the patient” to break the culturally expected role behavior of unquestioned acceptance of the external authority of “the doctor.”

Hendricks-Gendlin – Marion Focusing as a force for peace.
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Ito, Yoshimi: How Do I Use Clearing a Space? : Application of Clearing a Space of Focusing to Children

Content: The BCS method of Focusing – The actual procedure is as follows – The standard of time distribution is as follows – Clearing a Space Using Tag Paper – Required material – Clearing a Space by posting labels (the first round) – The method of “tsubo of the heart” – Bodily tsubo – Tsubo of the heart – Biographical Note (4 p.)

Introduction: Here, it is reported how I use Clearing a S pace of Focusing in Japan. We have three kinds of methods of Clearing a Space. They are the BCS method, the method of using tag paper, and the method of tsubo of the heart. Tsubo is a kind of Japanese container. It is introduced how each is performed. Although especially they are performed for the children or the youths, they are possible to any ages in fact. The BCS method consists of body work, clearing a space, and sharing. A tag paper method utilizes three kinds of commercial tag papers. The method of tsubo of the heart is the way of utilizing a container.

Ito – Yoshimi _ How do I use clearing a space
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Jacobs; Fenneke: Exercises for Living Well and Happy and Joyful

Content: Personal motives – The Fan-Clubs: The background – The exercises – Literature – The Exercises: SENDING SUPPORT – THE SELF-EMPOWERMENT EXERCISE – A therapy example of the Self -Empowerment Exercise The Exercise for Living Well – THE STEPS OF THE SELF-EMPOWERMENT EXERCISE (text of Patent) – FIRST AID EXERCISE – THE EXERCISES FOR LIVING WELL – Example of a therapy session – THE EXERCISE FOR THE WISHPOT – Address (14 p.)

Introduction: I want to introduce some exercises that combine very well with focusing. Their character is more outspoken than focusing is by nature, but the basic attitude of unconditional positive regard (the Rogerian root of focusing) is the same. These exercises offer the possibility to be in contact with your personal feelings, and in spite of the turmoil of interactions with “the big world”, yet stay connected with “God” and the situation with the people in front of you as well. But maybe the biggest bonus they offer is this: these exercises turn your attention to your personal talent for living well and happy and joyful.

Jacobs – Fenneke _ Exrercises for living well
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Kira, Yasuyuki: Focusing for therapists

Content: The first step: Confirming feelings. The second step: Deciding a direction. The third step: Exploring a felt sense

Abstract: Focusing, which can improve the effectiveness of psychotherapy, is useful not only for the client, but also for the therapist.

Therapist-Focusing comprises three steps.

The first step is termed “confirming feelings”. In this first step, the focuser picks up some of his own feelings, one by one, which are directly concerned with his experience during the psychotherapy sessions with a client, and he then proceeds to confirm these feelings.

The second step is termed “deciding a direction”. In this second step, the guide asks the focuser what kind of feelings he want to focus on, thereby allowing the focuser to decide the direction of the Focusing session.

The third step is termed “exploring a felt sense”. In this third step, the focuser allows letting the felt sense come and he explores it. This enables him to find an experiential track of understanding the client, according to the felt sense. The process of this third step differs for each Focusing session. We have to move along a unique track in each session. However, we can only find these essential tracks, when we proceed according to the felt sense of the focuser.

Kira – Yasuyuki _ Focusing for therapists
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Kirschner, E., Focus on: Dieter and Heijo

Content: From Focusing Newsletter Spring 2003, The Focusing Institute New York

Heijo Feuerstein, coordinator, Focusing-Trainer, Psychotherapist, is Co-director of the Focusing Zentrum Karlsruhe and professor for applied psychology at the FH Kehl, University for Applied Sciences (Public Management).

Heinz-Joachim Feuerstein (Heijo) and Dieter Müller met in the late 1970s while training as Client-Centered therapists in Heidelberg, Germany. While they shared common interests in psychology and training, they were dissimilar in personality and style. They saw that their differences complemented each other, and that together they would make a strong team.

“My first experience with Focusing was really frustrating,” recalled Heijo. “In 1978 I read a German book on Client-Centered therapy in which one chapter dealt with Focusing.” Heijo tried out the instructions with a colleague and neither was very impressed. “But somehow,” said Heijo, “I did not give up.”

Dieter, meanwhile, had his first taste of Focusing in a workshop given by Linda Olson. “I had always felt that something was missing in Client-Centered therapy,” he said. When he experienced Focusing he felt right away that it filled the gap. “Sometimes in Client-Centered we got stuck in talking and did not get to the heart of the matter,” he explained. “Focusing provided a way in.”

Eager to learn Focusing at the source, Heijo and Dieter decided to find a way to go to Chicago. They approached the editor of the German edition of Psychology Today with a proposal to interview Gene, and he agreed. Dieter recalled their surprise when they arrived in Chicago in 1983. “I expected a big institute like the Client-Centered Institute in Germany,” he said, “but all we found was a mailbox!”

Their experience of Focusing, on the other hand, and of the way Gene worked with people, far exceeded their expectations. They were able to interview Gene in German, which enhanced their understanding.

“I was impressed by the clear and fascinating way to Focus on real occurring inner processes,” said Heijo, “not by exercises or playful devices, but really directly.”

Dieter commutes between Germany and Greece. These lines are from a favorite poem which express his feeling about Greece. “Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you are destined for. But do not hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you are old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.” by C. P. Cavafy

From then on they returned every year to week-long trainings and conferences. In 1986 they were certified as trainers, and the following year, with Reinhard Fuchs (who died prematurely in 1991) they founded their center, the Focusing Zentrum Karlsruhe (FZK). In 1994 they organized the first International Conference to be held outside of Chicago in Pforzheim, Germany. It was held there again in 1997 and 2000 and will return there this spring. Over the past 16 years, Dieter and Heijo have taught more that 1000 people to Focus. With Hans Jürgen Heringer, a linguist at the University of Augsburg, they developed CD-ROMS on Dreamwork, Coping with Chronic Pain, Decision Making, and guided imagery to further intercultural empathy.

The main focus at the FZK is to cross the experiential approach with traditional concepts and psychological methods. It is not enough simply to add Focusing to other approaches, they explained. The goal is to redesign and rethink the traditional forms of the profession from the experiential viewpoint. For example, instead of Counselling, Coaching, Supervision and Focusing the FZK offers Experiential Supervision, Experiential Coaching, and Experiential Counselling. Dieter and Heijo have always encouraged their trainees to create their own concepts. One graduate uses Focusing as part of a basic training for actors. Another has applied it to Speaking Circles. A new approach integrating Focusing with “hippo therapy” (therapy on horseback for hyperactive children) was developed by FZK graduate Kurt Schley. Kurt brought his horses to the last International in Germany to present his work.

“My roots in Focusing go back to my initial client-centred training,” said Heijo. “I got to know the depths of the experiential approach in steps. The vague concept of organismic valuing, which I knew from Carl Rogers, became very concise. The intensive experience with Focusing –as both client and therapist – transformed my understanding of change and relationship in all kinds of psychological work including therapy, supervision, coaching, training, and consulting.

“Moreover, Gene’s process concept of the felt sense was an example of something of general interest for me: how can we make a kind of concept that allows us to make precise use of psychological concepts in practice and every day life – not the naïve way that simple rules are made for everyone at anytime like certain rigid religious laws, but the art of bringing general concepts back into the specific experienced person-in-situation constellation, re-animating the canned life experience and making change by making sense? The felt body as the missing link between general concepts and the person-in-situation completes the process of pro-life change. This experiential approach has proven as helpful in my personal life as in my professional work

Said Dieter, “Focusing is the core method for me, something that is always present, whether I am acting as therapist or supervisor. Other methods are used, but Focusing is the most important. For any big decisions in my life I have checked with Focusing. And the Focusing community is very special. In other scientific communities there is very much discussion and mind stuff. The Focusing community is more complete. Not only is there mind and thinking, but feelings, connection and friendships — everything.

Lee, Robert L. PhD.: Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy: A New Kind of Orientation

Content: History and Research – Four Faces of Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy (FOT) – Face 1: FOT as an elaboration of Rogerian psychotherapy – Face 2: FOT as focusing Interacting With – Face 3: FOT as “In action” Focusing – Face 4: FOT as psychotherapy combining with Focusing Partnership Training – Stages of Development of Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy – Stage 1-Tool – Stage 2-Elaboration – Stage 3-Fundamental – Stages of therapist use of FOT in the Four Faces – Face 1: FOT as an elaboration of Rogerian psychotherapy – Face 2: FOT as Focusing Interacting With – Face 3: FOT as Focusing by the Psychotherapist – Face 4: FOT as psychotherapy combining with Focusing Partnership Training – Eugene T.Gendlin and the philosophical background – An example of felt sensing despite cultural limitations -Bibliography – Bio (8p.)

Introduction: “Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy is an emerging family of psychotherapies inspired by focusing and its roots in the philosophy of the implicit (Eugene Gendlin), psychotherapy outcome research, and Rogerian psychotherapy. Fundamental to this orientation is the explicit attending to a bodily felt sense of an issue (focusing). It is the body sense which carries the whole of a situation. New information emerges from this felt sense and resonates with the body such that meaning is lived further (not just known). Further steps of change are possible from this new opening. Because content does not define the methodology, the unique aspects of the person in the client and in the therapist become more central to the psychotherapeutic process.”

Lee – Robert _ Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy1
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Leijssen Mia, Nagels Auke, Dekeyser Mathias: Body-oriented Interventions in Psychotherapy. Demarcation of a Research Object

Content: The body in psychotherapy (Mia Leijssen) – The theoretical approach of the body in Experiential psychotherapies (Auke Nagels) – Introduction – Client- Centered psychotherapy: – Carl Rogers – Gary Prouty – Natalie Rogers – Focusing-Oriented psychotherapy – Existential psychotherapy – Interpersonal psychotherapy – Gestalt therapy – Psychodrama – Pesso-therapy – An integrative model of experience – Demarcation of a research object (Mathias Dekeyser) – Introduction – Definition – Observational perspectives in psychotherapy research – An empirical, inclusive approach of body-oriented behavior (9 p.)

Introduction: Experiential psychotherapies have a common ground; not only do they recognize the importance of the relation, they also recognize that the expressions of the client should be lived through, or felt through the body. That doesn’t mean that in practice all experiential psychotherapies pay an even amount of attention to interventions in which the body is actively involved, and there is often a confusion of tongues when talked about “the body” in psychotherapy.

Leijssen – Nagels – Deckeyser _ Body -oriented interventions in psychotherapy
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Lou, Nada: Thinking at the Edge – TAE

Content: Introduction – Models – Implicit Entry – Thinking – Tapping in – Difference between Focusing and TAE -Language – TAE Steps – Handout: Steps 1-5 – TAE Partnership – A report on the Presentation after the Conference – Video Tapes – DVD – Biographical Note (9 p.)

Introduction: Thinking at the Edge is a philosophical practice. It is the second philosophical practice that comes out of Eugene T. Gendlin’s Philosophy of Entry into the Implicit. The first one is of course Focusing which most of us are already familiar with. Although Dr. Gendlin taught general outline of this practice to his Philosophy students at the University of Chicago for many years, it was first presented under the name of “Thinking at the Edge” at a workshop in 1998. Since then there were 5 workshops in English and 3 in German language.

Dr. Gendlin is a Philosopher. Both practices Focusing and TAE are imbedded into his Philosophy. I will touch on some of his thought, but since we have only 3 hours for this workshop and I planned to balance my presentation with experiential work, I will be able to reflect only briefly onto it. I would like to touch on those issues which will help me to explain TAE

Lou – Nada _ Thinking at the edge – TAE
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Raue – Konietzny, Beatrice: Support-Training: The Tools for strengthen your Inner Power daily

Content: Introduction – Social Education – The Holistic Diagram – My personal motivation – Support-Training – Overview – Personal Note – Address (5 p.)

Introduction: Support-Training is a brand new Self-support-Training, with which you can observe and guide your inner awareness through the chaos of emotions, thoughts, physical sensations and energetic ups and downs.

Four tools will help (switching, being present, collecting and unfolding), strengthen your power in every situation inside and outside of you. After bringing your attention to one of this tool, may be with painting the symbol, you will notice the felt sense about it. I will give you these symbolic paintings as a self-support tool. I see it also like driving your vehicle with step and throttle down the gas and handling the break, until you can drive with your automatic consciously.

Raue – Konietzny – Beatrice _ Support Training
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RINGWELSKI, BEATE: FOCUSING AND SOMATIC DISEASES

Content: Instruction for a process – The perception of felt sense – Basic conflicts – Example of gastritis and the regulation of organs – Treatment – The model of maps – The connections of brain and body during focusing.

Introduction: During focusing we can frequently feel a pain in our body. Then we focus our attention on this pain. to find out what happens. The pain is a handle of the felt sense. That’s what happens with focusing. However as a doctor I see patients every day with pain in their bodies without any idea about focusing. As a doctor I examine him to make a diagnosis. I am a doctor and a psychotherapist too, so I have combined my knowledge about diseases and focusing and I have started to treat many somatic diseases, especially chronic diseases with focusing. But before I will explain to you how to do it and how it is working, I like to try a short focusing-process with you about a pain, either one that you have just now or you have recurrent or a pain which is gone, but which you can remember well. It can be a pain, also an itchiness or weakness in your body. I will refer to all these discomforts as pain.

Ringwelski – Beate _ Focusing and somatic diseases
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Todres, Les: The wound that connects: a consideration of ‘narcissism’ and the creation of soulful space.

Content: Here is a list of my overhead slides. The completed paper will be submitted to a journal.
Abstract: This presentation shared some thoughts about an inquiry that I continue to find enriching and developmental that of the phenomenon that has been called the ‘narcissistic wound’. I used a number of thinkers on the subject as ‘touchstones’ to help me unfold a view in which ‘narcissism’ is seen as a universal capacity that is potentially the source and depth of human compassion. In the spirit of the ‘treasure maps to the soul’ workshops developed by Barbara McGavin and Ann Weiser Cornell, this view sees our bodily presence in the world as caring deeply for all the ways that abandonment happens. What has been called the ‘narcissistic wound’ sings the song of separation and longing…..and the body (whatever that is altogether) re-members both connection and separation: a soulful space where we can deeply meet.

Todres – Les _ The wound that connects – narcissism
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Tsuchie, Shoji & Hikasa, Mako : Our Internal Weather: A Way of Symbolizing our experiencing

Content: What is Our Internal weather? – Examples (pictures) – Exercise or Experiential work – The method of drawing internal weather (8 p.)

Introduction: “Our internal weather,” a way of introducing and facilitating Focusing, was born from my own experience. I know that any human being has a Sun inside his or her body. When the power of sun is strong, the experiencing process is carried forward through felt shifts. When the power is down, you can get and feel the felt senses but it hardly changes spontaneously. The power of sun in a depressed person might be so weak that their internal sky was dark with thick clouds and would not change easily.”

Tsuchie – Hikasa _ Our internal weather
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Wild-Missong, Agnes: SHAMANISTIC JOURNEY IN COMPARISON WITH FOCUSING

Content: My first contact with Shamanism. – Focusing. – Let us consider Shamanism now. . The world-view of Shamanism. – The Shamanistic healing practices – Focusing only happens on a client-centered foundation. – Focusing and Shamanic journeys – TABLE: Focusing – Shamanism – Biographical Note (14 p.)

Introduction: “The discovery of the great similarity between Focusing and Shamanism led me to the following question: whether or not the wisdom of early times may be systematized and verified with our modern scientific means. To be able to combine the two systems I must give you a short introduction to Focusing and those aspects of Shamanism which are relevant here.”

Wild-Missong – Agnes _ Shamanastic jorney
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Winhall, Jan M.S.W. & Falls, Nancy Ed. D.: Focusing Oriented Therapy and Trauma – a brief outline.

Content: Key concepts: What is Trauma? – Types of Trauma – Indicators of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Neurobiological Responses – Impact of Memory; Disruptions in Self Regulation – F.O.T. as an approach to treating trauma – The disruption in self-regulation – The Felt Sense Experience Model – Biographical Note

Abstract: The workshop presented by Jan and Nancy at the International outlined a model for integrating the body into trauma treatment with the use of Focusing Oriented Therapy (F.O.T.). The following is a brief outline of the areas discussed.

Winhall J – Falls N Focusing oriented Therapy and trauma.
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Documents on Conference Organization

Seven Spaces
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List of Presentations 15th IFC 2003
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16th International Focusing Conference 2004 in Cost Rica
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Weeklong draft
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