Gendlin’s Focusing—taking time to feel what comes to mind, then finding satisfying words to describe it, strikes me as quite powerful.
Interesting. That’s the Litany of Gendlin Gendlin, isn’t it? His Wikipedia page about levels of knowing sounds a heck of a lot like some of what I’ve been teaching.
The wikipedia description of “focusing” sounds like a subset of what I teach with respect to RMI, since it describes only a “felt” sense, and SEEDs usually involve more than just a feeling. Still, I’ll agree with the part that describes there being a “something” that people do that is externally observable. I can certainly tell by a person’s voice tone, and I’ve learned to do it from word choices as well, so that I can read what someone emails me or posts on a forum and tell whether they’re doing it or not.
I’m definitely going to check out some of his work, as it sounds like there’s overlap and perhaps he’s found some things I missed. It also always helps to have other people’s books I can recommend, instead of having to figure out how to write them myself. ;-)
Gendlin’s Focusing—taking time to feel what comes to mind, then finding satisfying words to describe it, strikes me as quite powerful.
Interesting. That’s the Litany of Gendlin Gendlin, isn’t it? His Wikipedia page about levels of knowing sounds a heck of a lot like some of what I’ve been teaching.
The wikipedia description of “focusing” sounds like a subset of what I teach with respect to RMI, since it describes only a “felt” sense, and SEEDs usually involve more than just a feeling. Still, I’ll agree with the part that describes there being a “something” that people do that is externally observable. I can certainly tell by a person’s voice tone, and I’ve learned to do it from word choices as well, so that I can read what someone emails me or posts on a forum and tell whether they’re doing it or not.
I’m definitely going to check out some of his work, as it sounds like there’s overlap and perhaps he’s found some things I missed. It also always helps to have other people’s books I can recommend, instead of having to figure out how to write them myself. ;-)
Gendlin’s Thinking at the Edge takes Focusing into cognitive work.