Articles and Resources on Focusing

A collection of articles, presentations, teaching approaches, and related materials on Focusing.

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Listening to What Calls Us -a 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
Focusing and Dreams - This form of presenting Gendlin's dreamwork allows participants to do some work on their own dream.
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 the entire 25-page article - this PDF version includes a diagram of factors that encourage recognizing subtle signals.

Three Other Ways to Teach Focusing -by 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.
Biases in Focusing - Several limitations and potential pitfalls in using the Focusing process. – Download file
Levels of Connecting with the Life Force - how 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 - created by Rosa Zubizarreta.
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."

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 -a longer, earlier version of the above article with scientific references and analogies. 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).

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 - edited 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.
- a video description with Serge Prengel exploring implications of that experience
-a another experience of "sharing systems" at a distance
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

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 on origin and components of Coherence Therapy. Fascinating and valuable concepts. Download file.

El escuchar a lo que más nos llama - Talleres 2004 Costa Rica, 2013 México...
El Focusing con los sueños - Taller de 2013 en México, interpretación de sueños según Gendlin...
Focusing para sanar al planeta - Cómo aplicar Focusing para ayudar a la Tierra.