My previous review of this is in this older comment. Recap:
I tried teaching a variation of this exercise that was focused on observing your internal state (sort of as an alternative to “Focusing”. I forgot to include the “meta strategy” step, which upon reflection was super important (so important I independently derived it for another portion of the same workshop I was running at the time). The way I taught this exercise it fell flat, but I think this was probably in my presentation.
I did have people do the “practice observing things” (physical things, not abstract objects) in 1-1 conversations with them in between workshop sessions, and found that worked better, since I brought up the exercise right when it seemed actually relevant to them.
I plan to re-run this exercise soon and see how it goes. I feel optimistic about it at least being on the right track towards something good and important. Logan notes that they haven’t done it exactly the same way twice, so seems like they have a similar take?
My previous review of this is in this older comment. Recap:
I tried teaching a variation of this exercise that was focused on observing your internal state (sort of as an alternative to “Focusing”. I forgot to include the “meta strategy” step, which upon reflection was super important (so important I independently derived it for another portion of the same workshop I was running at the time). The way I taught this exercise it fell flat, but I think this was probably in my presentation.
I did have people do the “practice observing things” (physical things, not abstract objects) in 1-1 conversations with them in between workshop sessions, and found that worked better, since I brought up the exercise right when it seemed actually relevant to them.
I plan to re-run this exercise soon and see how it goes. I feel optimistic about it at least being on the right track towards something good and important. Logan notes that they haven’t done it exactly the same way twice, so seems like they have a similar take?