I find this CFAR version of Focusing surprising. It seems to skip steps 3 and 4 of Gendlin’s version. I had a well-developed felt sense before Focusing but I was poor at naming emotions.
Doing Focusing with Gendlin’s process allowed me new access to emotions.
A few days ago, we were talking about the ability to read others emotions at an LW event. Together we had an idea of how Alice could make progress on an issue by getting better at reading the emotions on other people.
Bob asked Alice to guess his emotions.
For myself “curious to mind in addition to being excited. Bob then also used the word curious to describe his state emotional state. Curious wouldn’t have been a word that my system II would have used given situation to mentally model Bob’s state. It still matched Bob own sense of what he felt. Before I did Focusing I just had an ability to perceive the body of the other person well and could use that information to model their emotional state but I had no direct access to emotions as entities like curiosity or sadness.
The exercise described here is one application of Focusing, for finding bugs. At CFAR workshops we do something like this in the class on Hamming problems.
The CFAR class on Focusing is more similar to Conor’s post and puts a lot more emphasis on searching for a handle that fits.
I find this CFAR version of Focusing surprising. It seems to skip steps 3 and 4 of Gendlin’s version. I had a well-developed felt sense before Focusing but I was poor at naming emotions.
Doing Focusing with Gendlin’s process allowed me new access to emotions.
A few days ago, we were talking about the ability to read others emotions at an LW event. Together we had an idea of how Alice could make progress on an issue by getting better at reading the emotions on other people.
Bob asked Alice to guess his emotions.
For myself “curious to mind in addition to being excited. Bob then also used the word curious to describe his state emotional state. Curious wouldn’t have been a word that my system II would have used given situation to mentally model Bob’s state. It still matched Bob own sense of what he felt. Before I did Focusing I just had an ability to perceive the body of the other person well and could use that information to model their emotional state but I had no direct access to emotions as entities like curiosity or sadness.
Good noticing.
The exercise described here is one application of Focusing, for finding bugs. At CFAR workshops we do something like this in the class on Hamming problems.
The CFAR class on Focusing is more similar to Conor’s post and puts a lot more emphasis on searching for a handle that fits.