Articles and Resources on Focusing

Musical Offerings

Sensing Pause is Coming to Town – Teaches Process Model and role of the Pause.

It isn’t Hocus Pocus

Presentations and Workshops

Focusing and Dreams This form of presenting Gendlin's dreamwork allows participants to do some work on their own dream.

Listening to What Calls Us - Focusing-friendly process to access something in our life experience, and allows that to express itself into other areas of our lives. Presented at 2004 International Conference and at 2013 Winter Retreat

How the LWCU process was developed

A Diversity of Life-Forward Processes" 2011 presentation handout on 4 different frequencies of life-forward processes, including differences between felt sensing and disembodied intuition, and "felt recognition" as distinct from a felt sense Download

Teaching Focusing – Alternative and Novel Approaches

Three Other Ways to Teach Focusing Principles, Instancing, and Discrete Modules

Teaching Focusing Through Instancing Notes from Bruce Gibbs' 10-week class in this format

My original article on instancing Concepts that inspired Bruce Gibbs to create his course.

Levels of Connecting with the Life Force Being aware of the operating level of the listener helps us communicate and tailor our language more effectively.

Visual representation of Core Aspects of Focusing

Focusing upstream and downstream - Sensing downstream into a felt sense unfolding, or up towards the source from which the sense originated. Listening to What Calls Us involves "Focusing upstream."

Biases in Focusing Several limitations and potential pitfalls in using the Focusing process.– Download file

Articles Published in Focusing Folio

Focusing and Health – Psychobiological Perspectives Relating Ernest Rossi's "The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing" to several implications for Focusing Download file

Expanded Possibilities for Focusing Various and new ways that Focusing can be understood, developed and explored.

Zigzagging Our Way to Expanded Possibilities in Focusing Longer version of above article with scientific references Download file--- Online footnotes

Ways of Grouping Practical guidance by Rosa Zubizarreta, describing various Focusing-compatible group processes and suggestions for when to use each.

Folio article on Resonant Sensing for Peace Origin of Resonant Sensing for Peace and some early session excerpts (2013–2015).

Shared Interpersonal & Transpersonal Fields in Focusing and other processes

Ways of Grouping Practical guidance by Rosa Zubizarreta, describing various Focusing-compatible group processes and suggestions for when to use each.

Thoughts about Shared Fields Thoughts from Nina Joy Lawrence on what encourages coherence and connection in shared fields. Handout for 2015 Panel-Guided Experience in Seattle.

Some Neurobiology of Shared Fields Conceptual and research notes around shared fields, attunement, and interactive spaces,

Notes on Marta Stapert’s process of Focusing with babies Focusing Discussion List post from 2002; an inspiration for Shared Field Focusing and the RSP process.

“He Ain’t Heavy…” A Focusing experience that opened up in surprising ways

Focusing and Healing the Planet Exploring the role of loving attention in helping things emerge, and suggesting a way to offer spacious loving listening to what wants to emerge for the planet

Introduction to Resonant Sensing for Peace Conceptual notes on the process, and how it developed

More on Resonant Sensing for Peace and Subtle Activism

Good Articles by Others

Articles by Dave Young Profound and complex articles on The Power of Focusing and The Power of NVC and what is needed for each of these to reach their full potential

Four Articles by Glenn Fleisch Crossing Focusing with improv and interpersonal resonance in Wholebody Focusing and psychotherapy

Bruce Ecker and Coherence Therapy Transcript of interview of origin and components of Coherence Therapy. Fascinating and valuable concepts Download file

Artículos y Talleres en Español

El escuchar a lo que más nos llama – Talleres 2004 Costa Rica, 2013 México...

El Focusing con los sueños – Taller 2013 México, interpretación de sueños según Gendlin...

Focusing para sanar al planeta – Cómo aplicar Focusing para ayudar a la Tierra.