25th International Focusing Conference
May 29 to June 2 2013, Lucerne, Switzerland
Description of Presentations
Thursday May 30 9:30 to 10:30 am – Lectures 1h
Satoko Tokumaru
Japan
tokumarusatoko@yahoo.co.jp
TAE process and Conceptual metaphor
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Lecture 1h
In this presentation, I would like to discuss how conceptual metaphor functions in the TAE process.
In my last publication (Tokumaru 2012), I applied TAE to the data posted on the "e-bulletin board" for use
in Japanese language education from the website, “sakubun.org”.
Following the suggestion of TAE step 13, I questioned myself as to whether I could compare my grasp of
the data to something. Thereupon, I thought of the metaphor of an "orchard". Since my arriving at this
metaphor, I have come to feel that many kinds of structural patterns which the "orchard" had were
included in the “sakubun.org” as well. I understood “sakubun.org” as an "educational space" whose "time"
and "functions" proceeded under artificial control and design, in the same manner as the ability to grow
which human beings had by nature. This is an example of abstract reasoning, resulting from a conceptual
metaphor.
Professor, University of Miyazaki. Ph.D. in humanistics. Has been teaching university students and doing
research in Japanese composition/essay writing. Current interest is in applying TAE to essay-writing as
well as to Qualitative Research. Publications include A Workbook of Essay-Writing by Using TAE.
Elisabeth Wienemann
Deutschland
lisabeth.wienemann@wa.uni-hanover.de
www.wa.uni-hannover.de
Arbeits- und Büronomaden - Neue Flexibilitätsanforderungen und das Ende vertrauter
Arbeitsplatzumgebungen. Psychische Anforderungen neuer Arbeitskonzepte.
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Vortrag 1h
Neue Arbeitskonzepte sehen eine erhöhte Bereitschaft der Beschäftigten zur Mobilität und Flexibilität vor.
Der feste Arbeitsplatz an einem definierten Ort, an dem man zum Teil über Jahre in vertrauter Umgebung
tätig ist, wird immer seltener. Informations- und Kommunikationstechniken schaffen neue Möglichkeiten
des vernetzten örtlich ungebundenen Arbeitens an einem oder mehreren Projekten. Unter dem Begriff des
Arbeits- oder Büronomaden fasst man jene Beschäftigten, die sich in diesen flexiblen inhaltlichen und
räumlichen Strukturen bewegen (müssen). Ein hohes Maß an Selbststeuerung und sozialer Orientierung
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in unterschiedlichen sozialen Umgebungen gehören zu den psychischen Anforderung der neuen
Arbeitskonzepte.
Lehre, Forschung, Beratung im Bereich Arbeitswissenschaft und betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement
seit 1972; Studium:
Soziologie, Psychologie und Politik; weitere Ausbildungen: Organisationsberatung, NLP (Master),
Soziometrie, Körpertherapie (GFK), Psychodrama in der Supervision, Systemische Strukturaufstellungen,
Mediation und Konfliktberatung in Organisationen
Anna Magee
UK
A.Magee@uea.co.uk
An embodied sense of home: home is where the heart 'opens'
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Lecture 1h
This paper draws upon the findings of my doctoral research: An integral inquiry into the experiences of
belonging and not-belonging. The philosophical ground from which I base the current discussion of an
embodied sense of 'home' includes the thought of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Alfred North
Whitehead and Eugene Gendlin.
I explore the embodied experiences of 'home' and of 'home-less-ness' in terms of my developing
understanding of the related experience of belonging and not-belonging, which I present as fundamental
aspects of the dynamic of 'being and becoming'.
The body's own sense of 'being at home' has various cultural dimensions and implications according to
Csordas (1993) and Bourdieu (1977). However I suggest that the what the body 'knows' about home also
connects to a deeper-than-cultural (and therefore linguistic) level of belonging in that it is the commonground of our shared human experience.
Anna is currently in her third and final full time year of study for a doctorate at the University of East
Anglia. She is an integrative therapist with specialist interest and training in working with family systems
and the intergenerational effects of trauma.
Wilbert I.M. Wils
Netherlands
Wilb39@yahoo.com
www.mindbody-trauma-therapy.com
TAE and focusing are a big step in the evolution
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Lecture 1h
I followed a circuitous route mostly crafted by my body. From a hard scientist I became a focusing and
body oriented therapist. Looking back the essential nature of the tools I used all my life stayed fixed. The
core is “being present”. The “sobjects” varied from being explicit and hard to being implicit and vague,
from outside to inside and from simple to complex. Essential were: TAE, theory building, finding a natural
system (dynamics) context and checking for consistency. One repeatedly does a small step following the
internal process and next places what is found in a rational context and feeds this back to the process.
The path I followed has been very enriching spiritually. To me TAE is an important step in human
evolution making body knowledge available to consciousness and conscious analysis. There are
interesting parallels with the interaction of the two halves of the brain.
I came from mathematics and physics to focusing via the analysis of the dynamics of complex social
systems, consulting, bio-energetics, regression therapy, Taoism, (Qi Gong, meditation, massage), spiritual
studies and trauma therapy (Somatic Experiencing) and more focusing. I worked at top universities, in
various countries, started a consultancy and independently.
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Mary Jeanne Larrabee
USA
mlarrabe@depaul.edu
las.depaul.edu/pax/People/MaryJeanneLarrabeePhD/index.asp
Opening the Process, Processing the Opening: What is Open Process Focusing?
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Lecture 1h
This will be a brief presentation with discussion about "Open Process Focusing" which names practices
that concentrate on freeing up processes within persons, without a need to attend to the specific issues
that could come up (these can be taken into standard content-attentive focusing). It recognizes that
persons are a complex of interactional processings which contain both "life content" specific to the
individual and other broader or deeper processings that underlie or carry the content. Certain types of
focusing could be included under this title, for example, some aspects of WholeBody Focusing. Also it
would include focusing practices that intentionally aim at opening creative space within the person and
allowing whatever needs expression, where no other intention (like getting a problem in an essay solved)
is at stake, or at opening freer space between individuals as a possible form of community development.
MJ Larrabee is philosophy faculty at DePaul University, directing Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies.
She began Focusing in 1992 with Gene Gendlin, certified in the late 90s, and is training in WholeBody
Focusing. She brought Community Wellness Focusing to Haiti since 2010, with a combination of Open
Focusing Practices.
Kevin C Krycka
krycka@seattleu.edu
USA
www.focusingnorthwest.com, www.seattleu.edu/artsci/Inner.aspx?id=1452&t=dir
Bringing the precision of the body into the precision of doing practice-based research.E
Lecture+Experiencing 2h
The Focusing community in general has a great opportunity to impact the many ‘villages’ associated with
felt-sense literacy and advocacy. One primary way is to consider doing research. I believe it is critical to
the longevity of Focusing that we engage our professional organizations and communities in appropriate
ways, one way of which is conducting a systematic study of some aspect of Focusing as we employ it. I
refer to this as a form of engagement as practice-based research. We will work in small teams to first
talk/sense out our area of interest (what we want to know about Focusing and/or the way we utilize it) and
then follow our ideas toward an actionable plan. This workshop is open to those who have never
considered research as a germane part of their Focusing practice. I especially hope those having little or
no research experience. It’s much easier than you think!
I am Director of the Master of Arts in Existential-phenomenological psychology at Seattle University and a
Certifying Coordinator. My passion has been educating therapists in the Focusing tradition for over 20
years. Today I find my interests sharpening toward finding new avenues to help secure Focusing's place
in the world. In the past I have presented on the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, finding your world voice,
and my form of research called Implicit Inquiry,
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Thursday May 30 11:00 to 1:00 pm – Lectures & Workshops 2h
Esther Jost
Schweiz
futternapf@hispeed.ch
Im Bauch zu Hause - Focusing in der Ernährungsberatung
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Vortrag+Diskussion 2h
Bei der Ernährung spielt der Bauchraum mit all seinen Verdauungsorganen eine zentrale Rolle. Bei
Focusing passiert viel aus dem Bauchraum heraus. Menschen mit Ernährungsproblemen (Essstörungen,
Diabetes, Gastrointstinalerkrankungen...) denken viel über ihre Ernährung nach, gestatten es sich aber oft
nicht, den Bauchraum wahr zu nehmen.
So ist Focusing ein hilfreiches Instrument, um in der Ernährungsberatung den Bauch wieder als zu Hause
von Wahr-Nehmung zu entdecken.
Im Vortrag wird kurz aufgezeigt, wie Focusing in der Ernährungsberatung eingesetzt werden kann und wie
Weiterbildungen zu diesem Thema für Ernährungsberaterinnen gestaltet sind.
In der anschliessenden Diskussion besteht Raum für Klärung - Inspiration - Austausch.
Ausbildungen:
Arztgehilfin
Ernährungsberaterin FH
Focusingtrainerin seit 2004
Ausbildungsmangement ZHAW
Praktische Tätigkeiten mit Einbezug von Focusing:
Praxis für Ernährungsberatung von 1997 - 2008
Dozentin an der Fachhochschule für Ernährung und Diätetik 2004-2010
Projektleiterin Gesundes Körpergewicht Ob- und Nidwalden 2010 - 2011
Projektleiterin Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Ernährung ab 2012
Tine Swyngedouw
Belgium
tine.swyngedouw@gmail.com, tine.swyngedouw@myonline.be
Helping children to find their inner home.
www.focussenvlaanderen.be
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Lecture+Experiencing 2h
I want to explore how we can help children to find their inner home:
How do we look at children? What is our basic attitude towards them?
If I want to help them to find their inner home through focusing, what exactly is it that I want to teach
them?
What are the benefits if we teach them this skill?
What do we need for ourselves before and during this experience of teaching focusing to children?
The answers to these questions give us a framework for looking at what exercises feel right to do with
children. I will give some examples and we will do an exercise together to allow you to experience it.
Afterwards I want to discuss the principles I use for building up my framework, checking with you how you
(would like to) focus with children at home or in your job.
Special Remark:
The number of Participants is limited to 20 persons.
Tine Swyngedouw is working as a psychologist and experiential psychotherapist in her private practice for
20 years. She is a trainer and FOT (1995) and certifying coordinator (2012). She is chair of Focusing
Flanders, a group of people who want to bring focusing to the Dutch speaking part of Belgium.
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Martina Flavin
Ireland
martina@ithaca.ie
www.ithaca.ie
Well Hello You
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Workshop 2h
This workshop is about embracing our true nature and welcoming back parts of ourselves we may have
disowned. Our intention will be to come home to ourselves fully and completely. We will approach
ourselves with reverence and lightness of spirit, honouring who we are in our essence, and inviting our
inner beauty and goodness to unfold. We may become aware of unhealthful habits intended to
compensate for perceived unworthiness, and perhaps these can now be released. Approaching
ourselves with extreme gentleness and appreciation, who knows what hidden gifts may come to the fore!
Expect to be touched by your own magnificence, and see it reflected in others. We will honour the
sacredness of each person’s journey, knowing that the process can continue at its own pace and in its
own way after the workshop.
Special Remark:
The number of Participants is limited to 20 persons.
Martina Flavin is a Focusing teacher and practitioner, living in Ireland. For her, Focusing opens a doorway
to a vastness of intelligence and connection with Spirit. Her personal Focusing practice helps her be
grounded and true to herself. Martina also works as a Coach and Trainer in Personal Leadership.
MARIA TERESA BELGENIO
ITALY
MARIATERESA@BELGENIO.IT
Experiencing right hemisphere "presence" is coming home
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Workshop 2h
This workshop will provide opportunities to experientially explore connections between the six Focusing's
steps, neuroscience and spirituality.
The Focusing's steps are a process by whom we let ouselves to come back inner home each time. By
release and by inner sense of rightness we experience the felt shift. We became established and we
receive a chance to leave our old patterns, to "carrying life and thought forward". I will shortly talk about
features and connections between the two cerebral hemispheres. This will be based on the
neuroscience's researches. I intend to offer a direct opportunity to experience the process, putting care to
"asking and receiving". Then we'll share in pairs for those who wish.
Psychologist and Focusing Trainer. She lives in Naples. She is Doctor in Pedagogy and Psychology. She
follows holistic disciplines and practices meditation since 1998. She worked as teacher in high schools
and as counseling teacher.
She engaged herself to spread the Focusing philosophy and practices as an energetic precious resource
to integrate naturally each moment one's life.
Brigitte Domas
France
focusing@tiac.net
www.focusingparis.com
Human Beings/Being Human - Who am I and What is Love
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Workshop 2h
In this presentation we will approach and discuss around the concept of Human beings, the world, and
Love. It seems to me that in order to approach any sorts of concept, we need to go back to the
fundamental question of who am I.
Coming home to humanness.
Does humanness have to do with Love? What if from Love we do not know anything?
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Can we find out anything together?
brigitte domas coordinator of the focusing institute
Clinical psychologist for adults and children
Living and working in France after spending 20 years in the United States.
Teaching the Process of Focusing individually
Teaching Groups sometimes
Certified in 1995 in Chicago.
Silvia Boorsma
Schweiz
silvia_boorsma_boehm@yahoo.de
Focusing oder die Reise ins Unerwartete
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Workshop 2h
"Ich suche nicht, ich finde" sagt Picasso, und er trifft damit das Zentrale eines schöpferischen Prozesses,
der für die Kunst wie auch für Focusing seine Gültigkeit hat.
Finden ist das Neue, noch nicht Gewusste; alle Wege sind offen, und was gefunden wird ist unbekannt.
Finden im Focusing findet im Inneren statt. Nur wenn ich in mir zu Hause bin, kann ich spüren, ob das
Neue stimmig ist, sich richtig anfühlt, das Lebendige weiterträgt.
In diesem Workshop begleiten uns Kunst und Kreativität auf dem Weg unserer eigenen Spur nahe zu
kommen.
Ueber den Felt Sense gehen wir in einen Dialog mit dem, was Ausdruck werden kann, wir gestalten und
lassen uns gestalten von Wort, Farbe, Bild und mehr.
Geboren 1958, lebt in Rheinfelden bei Basel. Studium Kunst und Kunsttherapie, Weiterbildung in
personzentrierter Gesprächsarbeit. Focusing Trainerin FN.
Tätig in verschiedenen pädagogisch-therapeutischen und beratenden Bereichen. Langjährige Erfahrung
in Kliniken und psychosozialer Arbeit. Künstlerische Tätigkeit im eigenen Atelier, Ausstellungen.
Experimentelle Workshopseminare zu Kunst und Focusing.
Robert L. Lee
USA
robert@focusingnow.com
www.focusingnow.com
Building Character and Becoming a Character, a Mutually Implying Process
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Lecture+Experiencing 2h
I will lead exercises to explore character-building and character-becoming (becoming a unique person) in
your life.
From there you will consider how Focusing relates to your integrity and to others’?
Does Focusing build character? Does it contribute to moral development? Does it help people be more
ethical? Is it for the Good? Does it help people be more responsible to self, other, community and
world? Does it matter how Focusing is in relation to integrity? Does the Focusing community support
individuals toward the good, toward building character or is it mostly neutral?
If character becomes general and loses its living uniqueness and idiosyncracy, it loses its depth. If a
unique character is not balanced by a strong sense of integrity, it will give into opportunism.
Robert Lee, Ph.D. is a focusing theoretician and innovator. A licensed psychologist, he has developed a
new model for teaching focusing (Domain Focusing), he has developed a theory and practice for change
on the macro level for stubborn problems (Macroshifting). He is highly experienced in certifying focusing
professionals.
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Astrid Schillings
Deutschland
astrid.schillings@focusinginstitut.de
www.focusing-institut.de, www.wholebody-focusing.net
Wholebody Focusing - A Way of Being Home?
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Workshop 2h
Letting your Life carry forward – radically direct and consciously sensitive, person to person...
Sensing the conference-theme of „Coming Home“, I invite you to taste the liberating immediacy of
Wholebody Focusing.
In radically direct and sensitive ways of exploring we may sense a fresh hunch of how all life is
fundamentally inter-related in dynamic-awareness: We may sense ourselves more grounded in a wider
conscious sense of being all here.
In WBF we pause, listen into our aliveness with an accomodating attitude of „not-knowing“. In this space
of sustained awareness we can feel our body-life moving into consciously sensing itself, moving,
gesturing, posturing, finding surprising ways to carry forward, all by and from itself.
The WBF-Phases /Attitudes will be introduced, potentials for community-life, communication,
psychotherapy/medicine voiced. Wholebody Focusing-Awareness changes how we live, work and create
– every day. Is that „Coming Home“?
Astrid Schillings:
A psychologist/psychotherapist, TFI-Cordinator training psychotherapists/counsellors and laypersons in
Wholebody Focusing/FOT in several EU-countries/Cologne. Her WBF-approach is rooted in her extensive
background in Person-Centred-Therapy, western/eastern ways of “inner-directed” movement/Mindfulness,
phenomenological enquiry/Dialog, Somatic Experiencing, also in Kevin McEvenue`s warm support and
her ongoing conversaton with Gene on his extended understand of the living body.
Akira Ikemi
Japan
akiraikemi@me.com
www.akira-ikemi.net
Coming home into a clear space
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Workshop 2h
I find that I often use Clearing a Space (CAS) in therapy. I use it in several ways. I may combine CAS with
relaxation, but even without such a combination, I often do CAS during the whole therapy session, or
during the entire therapy course. Sometimes, the whole Focusing process happens within CAS. I also
notice that I use several different wordings in CAS. For instance, these can be “make a space for this”,
“let’s guide this felt sense, as if you were a concierge, to a place where it seems right to go”. I will
demonstrate these way I use CAS in therapy. I will then introduce CAS in relation to meditation. We will
pair up for this “CAS meditation”, for 10 to 12 minutes. Finally, I would like to discuss about the clear
space that is a home for all of us.
Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. is a professor of clinical psychology at Kansai University Graduate School of
Professional Clinical Psychology. He is a board member of the Focusing Institute, WAPCEPC and former
president of the Japan Focusing Association. He practices Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy and has
written numerous books and articles on the subject.
Julian A. Miller
USA
julian_miller@mac.com
A Focusing Approach To Tai Chi
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Workshop 2h
Tai Chi is an ancient art of transforming movement into consciousness, a practice in which the
everchanging body instructs the mind. Tai Chi is based on the notion of constant change in the universe.
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Both Focusing and Tai Chi educate us to be in fully in the moment. Both teach us to never dispute the
Universe, but also never allow it to overwhelm us, to take everything in. One Tai Chi principle is called wei
wu wei or effortless effort. It requires sung (relaxation, acceptance) and chi (energy, intent) to work in
harmony with each other. In this workshop we will practice embodying Tai Chi principles rather than
talking about them, and also explore the similarities between this body-centric system and Focusing.
Come prepared to move and to discover your body freshly.
Julian Miller has been a Tai Chi instructor for 40 years, and a Focuser for 20 years. He celebrates the
synergy of these two practices. He has been a writer all his life, and his current passion is poetry and
memoir writing. He is the author of two books.
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Thursday May 30 3:00 to 6:30 pm – Workshops 3.5h
Friedgard Blob
Germany
friedgard.blob@email.de
www.focusing-netzwerk.de, www.focusing-service.de
Finding homeliness where there is homelessness
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Workshop 3.5h
In the early 1990s radical feminist theory set up the term "vagabonding" for the state of conscious
homelessness women experience in patriarchy. In postmodernism the term covers a descriptive metaphor
for both sexes. Ontologically men and women can't separate themselves from situational atmospheres.
This inseparability is intercultural and creates coherent experiencing. The focusing-oriented answer to
structural cultural homelessness might be a conscious shifting through the open space of atmospheres
while staying with the ongoing living process. Homeliness is a possible result of this kind of
“vagabonding”. To feel at-home-with where there is no chance to make our different worlds a home, is an
option we have. The workshop offers different opportunities to experience how our inseparably
atmospheric living works. Focusing towards our awareness of the body as a "body-space-in-space" we
refer to the classical instrument of self reflection of feminism, biographic writing, attuned to TAE
modalities.
Friedgard Blob is a person-centred psychotherapist with diploma degrees in psychology and educational
sciences. She is coordinator-in-training and cert. focusing professional of the TFI and member of the
German Focusing Network’s leading team FN since 2001. She works in private practise and does
research on experiential transpersonal learning.
Lucinda Hayden
USA
lucindahayden@me.com
lucinda@focusingresources.com
www.lighter-you.com
www.innergolf.com
The Power of Desire:Living Forward by Holding the Wanted Feeling
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Workshop 3.5h
Today's popular 'positive thinking' can lead us to push away thoughts that we perceive as negative. As
Focusers, we know that what is considered 'negative' can often hold rich possibility. Yet we're drawn to
methods that promise to help us manifest our desires. How to have both?
In this experiential workshop, we learn how to create an internal environment conducive to bringing our
dearest dreams into reality. We'll make contact with 'parts' of ourselves from a larger Self-in-Presence,
listening with empathy, first to what they are NOT wanting us to experience. Then we turn toward what
they ARE wanting for us. Self-in-Presence can take an active leadership role, providing a strong, stable
Presence that holds the larger intention of the Wanted Feeling. We do this, not in a simplistic goaloriented way because the outcome - no matter how desirable - is ultimately not the point. Rather, the
purpose is to discover from the felt-sense, the life-forward momentum of our lives as a whole.
Lucinda Hayden, M.A. is a warm, inspiring teacher who brings out the life-forward direction in her
students. In private practice since 1988, she is now working closely with Ann Weiser Cornell, teaching
Levels 1 & 2, as well as a longer version of this "Power of Desire" workshop for Focusing Resources. Her
current passion is combining focusing with Argentine tango.
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Mary Jeanne Larrabee
USA
mlarrabe@depaul.edu
las.depaul.edu/pax/People/MaryJeanneLarrabeePhD/index.asp
Open Process Focusing--Three Practices
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Workshop 3.5h
Open Process Focusing' is a name to mark those practices that concentrate on opening up some of the
broader/deeper processes of a person without needing to deal directly with the person's content-related
aspects connected with such processes. The practices are aimed at freeing up such processes and each
practice is followed by a reflective process to mark how any opening can be sensed and named by the
person. The three practices are: (1) open theatre circles with focusing—these foster interactivity of the
participants by engaging in laughter-causing and perhaps community-building games, (2) dualities
movement focusing—this invites participants into two contrasting exercises with music (slow/fast),
followed by an exercise asking the two “sides” of the experience to interact; (3) duality concept focusing—
similar to (2), but just with two contrasting concepts such as light/dark or happy/sad (chosen by
participants), each of which are invited into the felt sense.
MJ Larrabee is philosophy faculty at DePaul University, directing Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies.
She began Focusing in 1992 with Gene Gendlin, certified in the late 90s, and is training in WholeBody
Focusing. She brought Community Wellness Focusing to Haiti since 2010, with a combination of Open
Focusing Practices.
Peter Afford
UK
pjafford@dircon.co.uk
www.focusing.co.uk
Dialoguing on the felt edge
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Workshop 3.5h
Focusing tends to be done with the focuser going deeply inside, maybe with eyes closed and long
silences, and the listener simply reflecting. This is wonderful, but we can also use the felt sense to make
normal dialogue, that is less deep but more interpersonal, stimulating and enjoyable.
In this workshop, we will explore how to dialogue on the felt edge. How can we disagree while
acknowledging the other person's viewpoint? How can we challenge in a friendly way that is felt as
supportive? Can we think clearly and also respect each other's feelings? How can the listener express
what comes from their felt sense - that may cut across what the speaker has said?
There will be demonstrations, exercises and discussion about underlying principles. And, hopefully, some
fun and laughter.
I have been involved with Focusing for over 25 years, and worked as a therapist for most of that time.
Getting older and staying with Focusing have deepened my trust in what comes from my felt sense, and
enabled me to engage with others in less defensive ways.
Ulrich Schlünder, Ernst Juchli
Deutschland, Schweiz
u.schluender@pbz.de, ej@tbwil.ch
www.gfk-institut.ch
Heimat im Denken?
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Vortrag+Diskussion 2h
„Heimat muss kein Ort sein ...“ (Chr. Geiser)
Heimat kann ein Dorf sein, ein romantischer Sehnsuchtsort, eine Utopie sogar („...worin noch niemand
war...“, E. Bloch). Man mag sie in einer Passung in der Interaktion (G. Madison) erleben oder sie in einer
Sprache finden („Sprachheimat“). Kann es aber auch eine Denkheimat geben?
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Wir werden in unserem Vortrag eine Idee davon skizzieren, wie man sich Denken als Bewegung in
„Denkstilen“ vorstellen kann, so dass heimelige Qualitäten bei dieser scheinbar nur individuellen und nur
verkopften Modalität erkennbar werden können. Und wir möchten in Gestalt des „Zyklischen Denkens“
einen Denkstil vorstellen, der unserer Meinung nach besonders gut zu Theorie und Praxis des Focusing
passt. Unsere Denkheimat?
Ulrich Schlünder, *1951, Dipl. Psych., Psychologischer Psychotherapeut in eigener Praxis in D – Iserlohn;
Gesprächspsychotherapeut (GwG), Focusing – Therapeut und Ausbilder (FN), Klientzentrierter
Körperpsychotherapeut und Ausbilder (GFK), Ausbildungen in Systemischer Familientherapie und EMDR,
Achtsamkeitstraining; Nebenfachphilosoph, arbeitet u.a. mit C. Geiser und E. Juchli an Fragen des
Process Model und zum Zyklischen Denken; verheiratet, Großvater.
Ernst Juchli, geb. 1944 Zürich. Ausbildung zum Primarlehrer, Studium von Mathematik, Physik und
Astronomie, Ausbildung zum Psychotherapeuten mit speziellem Interesse an Körper- und
Denkprozessen, Mitbegründer des GFK, der Focusing Sommerschule und der Focusing Wochen
Achberg, Arbeit als Therapeut und Supervisor für Personen in verschiedenen Berufsfeldern. Verheiratet
mit Christiane Geiser.
Aaffien de Vries, Patricia Manessy
Netherlands and Canada
aaffien.de.vries@gmail.com, pmanessy@hotmail.com
YOUR BODY AS YOUR HOME
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Workshop 3.5h
In this experiential workshop, you will explore the felt meaning of your body as your home. You will be
invited to celebrate the joy around your body, the gratefulness for the possibilities of your body and/or to
gently accompany what may be in the way of your body truly feeling like home. Maybe there is something
that makes it feel unsafe? Maybe there is something that doesn’t want you to feel your body …..
Together, we will explore and acknowledge how we evade being in our bodies, our escape mechanisms,
how we 'skip the process'. And finally, we will allow possible resources to emerge, resources that show us
how to compassionately care for our bodies, and how to treat our Inner Home respectfully.
Patricia Manessy is a Certified Focusing Trainer (1999) and a Quebec Coordinator for TFI since 2002:
Focusing found its way into my life in 1988 when I was hopelessly lost. Since then it has been a
grounding life-line, teaching me about authentic inner and outer relationships. I passionately share the
Focusing way with everyone on my path and with my clients.
Aaffien de Vries is a Certified Focusing Trainer (1998) and a Dutch Coordinator: I learned Focusing in
1990, during a difficult period in my life. Focusing brought me more joy and gratitude for the beauty of life,
and helped me expand my courage to be honest with myself and others. In guiding and teaching, I love to
create space for the living-forward energy to emerge.
We are both still struggling with moderation and self-mastery.
Tobias von Schulthess
Switzerland
tobias@ent-rollen.ch
www.ent-rollen.ch
Playback-Theatre and Focusing
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Workshop 3.5h
Playback-theatre is improvised theatre were actors play back spontaneously personal stories. Actors
transform a story into aesthetics and expressive scenes. This unfolds the essence of the personal story
and also its universal meaning.
For this special form of social dialog, the actors train their intuition and awareness. The actors follow their
felt senses, which arise during the embodiments of the stories. For this reason they stumble through a
process of many felt senses and shifts till the essence of the story has been played.
Topics of this workshop:
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- Embodiment of the felt sense and experiencing the carrying forward energy in playing back the essences
and qualities of a story.
- Listen with your whole body and then answer also by using your whole body.
- Get in touch with the rituals and possibilities of the playback-theatre.
Founder and Leader of the Playback-Theatre St. Gallen (founded in 2009)
cert. Playback-Theatre Practitioner
cert. Focusing Professional
Mediator SDM-FSM
Human Resource Manager
self-employed as coach, consultant and mediator
Nada Lou
Canada
nadalou@nadalou.com
www.nadalou.com
TAE - Thinking from your felt sense
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Workshop 3.5h
You will come to experience how THINKING from your felt sense is different from what you usually
understand by thinking. TAE takes you into felt sensing life forward edge of awareness and exploration of
many dimensions that are at play in every aspect of your daily living.
Some life experiences call for your attention because they hold a treasure that brings further knowing of
unforeseen ideas that you want to explore for your own development and to communicate to others.
Ideas you find at this Edge will move you deeper. You will learn a valuable relationship between the
awareness of "knowing" something and your felt sense inviting and nudging you to articulate and shape it.
Thinking from your felt sense will open a whole new way of experiencing life and communication.
Nada Lou is well known throughout the Focusing world through her double specialty in Thinking at the
Edge (TAE) and Focusing. A FI Coordinator certified to train those wishing to teach Focusing/TAE. She
presented TAE workshops with Dr. Gendlin she is in the forefront of spreading TAE worldwide
Randi Coray
Switzerland
randi.coray@ggaweb.ch
www.randi-coray.ch
Focusing and Music Therapy
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Workshop 3.5h
In this workshop we will experience the combination of Music Therapy and Focusing.
Contents:
- Introduction of the Method
- Body Perception and Voice
- Felt Sense and Sound
- Individual Work with Music and
Focusing within the Group
- Exploration and Group Discussion
- Sound and Felt Sense of "Coming Home"
Feeling the message of the body, we pay attention and we ask: How does it sound? Perceiving this
sound, we transfer the Felt Sense into music.
Randi Coray. Music Therapist SFMT and Teacher for Music Therapy
1995: Seminars with Anne Weiser in Zurich and Esalen, California
Presentations with Gendlin in Heidelberg and Zurich
Development of a method combining Music Therapy and Focusing
2012 Certification of Focusing facilitator, by Eveline Moor Züllig in Casa Civetta
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Poster Sessions – see anouncements
Denise Viswanathan
Switzerland
denise@devas-support.ch
www.usz.ch, www.devas-support.ch
Applied Focusing at the University Hospital, Zürich
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Poster Session
Focusing with our patients and employees is mostly guided by the need of an immediate intervention
because something is troubling the person or the team. The demand to have troubles solved, directions
cleared and actions taken in a short time is usually high.
Working without any therapeutic assignment, with resources restricted in time and in a highly complex
environment, these are the conditions under which we offer our service.
We aim at finding the first step into action that makes sense, clears and relaxes the current intensity of
tension, the tangles, the chaos, and that is leading into a direction and/or action that can be agreed upon
by the person or group of persons involved.
Focusing is an effective attitude aimed at facilitating this powerful first step into solutions that can be lived
by in highly distressed situations.
2003 - Psycho-spiritual Healing/Coaching
self employed
2006 - 60% University Hospital, Zurich,
Client/Employee Consulting
1988 - 2003 Devis Consulting AG, Zurich
Human Resources
Ann Weiser Cornell, Treasure Maps
Max Schuppbach, Teresa Dawson, TAE Seminars
Manuel Schoch, Healing with Energies
Stress Regulation Trainer
Focusing Trainer Teresa Dawson
Bio-/ Neurofeedback
Institute of Applied Communications
Heidrun Essler
Germany
essler@essler-seminare.de
www.essler-seminare.de
Children Focusing for all! It is an approach that can help everyone to focus.
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Poster Session
The wide variety of symbolization in drawing, collage, moving, dancing, sounding, making music, even in
listening to music we can use with children and adults. Expressing in spoken language is not so important
anymore. We can make this approach fit for people with all kind of handicaps and special needs. Children
Focusing provides little exercises that will open up the sensing into the body and expressing from that
place - in a big group as good as in Focusing alone.
Learn how you can use it in your setting and for your needs.
Focusing Coordinator for adults and children; giving training since 1989 in different companies and
administrations for all kind of employees and management levels; consulting institutions for children;
lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe for communication and body expression and working as conflict
consultant and coach on one to one base.
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Toshihiro KAWASAKI
Japan
tkawasaki1031@gmail.com
Evolving views of Reflective Listening
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Poster Session
Carl Rogers wrote that he discovered the efficacy of listening by accident. He “cringed” at the word
“reflection” and began to emphasize attitudes rather than skills. Eugene Gendlin returned to listening and
featured reflective listening centrally. Akira Ikemi suggested that listening elicits a “reflective mode of
consciousness” and brings clients into a reflexive mode. For this, accurate reflective listening is essential.
On the other hand, Ikemi also emphasizes that the therapist speak from the felt sense of the client,
building on Gendlin’s term crossing. From the above, some evolving views can be discerned. 1) Listening
may be departing from being an expression of therapist attitudes. 2) Interaction is increasingly
emphasized. 3) Listening may be seen as a mode of reflection. Kawasaki (2013), suggested that reflective
listening is most efficient when both clients and therapists become reflexive (co-reflexive), in carrying
forward both of their experiences.
Toshihiro Kawasaki, M.A. is doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at Kansai University. He is
a certified clinical psychologist (Japan). He works as a psychologist in a psychiatric hospital and in a
school. His current research interests are in the manner of experiencing, Experiencing (EXP) scales and
effect measurement.
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Friday May 31 9:30 to 10:30 am – Lectures 1h
Tom Geary
Ireland
GearyTom5@gmail.com
Rich Pickings' from the felts sense, implications for expanding self dialogue
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Lecture 1h
I recently researched the professional crux of ‘How facilitators of personal development in Counselling
Programmes stay in contact with their self- dialogue while facilitating the explicit and implicit dialogue of
students?’ I used Gendlin’s process of Thinking At the Edge to advance my exploration. This auto
ethnographic study explored how problematic it is to stay organically ‘at home with oneself’ as a facilitator
of personal development. The research highlights that there are ‘identities’ that are dominant within
oneself while others are lesser known or subservient. Stage 6/7 Gathering Facets and Crossing of TAE
brought me into deeper awareness of how I shut out some of my ‘identities’ and over expand others.
Being at home with all of one’s identities is integral to the discipline of counsellor training. Focusing and
TAE provide the creative capacity to bring me home to lesser well known ‘personal identities’ and open
rich and rewarding self- dialogue.
Tom Geary, Lecturer in Social Personal and Health Education, Course Director of the Diploma/MA in
Guidance Counselling, University of Limerick, Ireland. Graduate of University of Lancaster (Advanced
Diploma in Education, Guidance Counselling), Irish Gestalt Centre (Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy),
University of East Anglia (MA in Counselling). Research interests, autoethnographic inquiry into styles of
facilitator presence.
Christiane Geiser / Judy Moore
Switzerland / England
chr.geiser@bluewin.ch
christianegeiser.ch
Our very different interactional homes
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Lecture 1h
There are various kinds of „home-planets” on which we dwell and from which we make contact with
people and the world. There are other places, which relate more to our work, our ways of learning and
doing. Interestingly, we do not normally realise how different our familiar interactions are from those of
other people. Knowledge about these different styles of living could be very helpful when living together or
working in teams!
Another kind of “home” is even more interesting. It is a rather odd one: although we are drawn to it and
usually cannot resist following the pull to go there, it is not at all comfortable. There is a narrowing, a part
of us becomes a frozen whole, we are caught up in a structure-bound process which often brings
suffering. Knowledge about this "odd home" helps us to understand, to accept- and to learn to have a
choice as to whether we go there or not.
Christiane Geiser: person-centred and focusing-oriented psychotherapist in private practice in Zurich for
30 years. Certifying Coordinator TFI. Together with her husband, Ernst Juchli, she founded a training
institute (GFK) for person-centred and Focusing-oriented body-psychotherapy, in Switzerland. Currently
she is engaged in translating and developing her work into the English language, together with Judy
Moore.
Judy Moore: Director of Counseling at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. She has facilitated the
development of Focusing training at UEA over the past ten years as Director of the Centre for Counseliing
Studies and most recently through a project to develop the work of C. Geiser and E. Juchli on personality
difference in the English language. She is a Certifying Coordinator TFI.
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Hermann Gerber
Schweiz
gerberhermann@bluewin.ch
www.gh-h.ch
Wo ist die Homöopathie zu hause?
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Vortrag 1h
Ein Homöopath soll im Idealfall den Arzt ersetzen, gleichzeitig den Menschen ganzheitlich erfassen und
behandeln. Sie sind weder Psychotherapeuten noch klassische Mediziner und sollten dennoch beides
sein. Die meisten, wenn nicht alle komplementär medizinischen Richtungen sind in ein Lebenskonzept,
eine Art Philosophie gebettet, welche für die Praktizierenden die Grundlagen, vielleicht sogar die nötige
Geborgenheit oder ein Stück Sicherheit bieten. Die Homöopathie kennt "nur" das Ähnlichkeitsgesetz und
viele weitere Paragraphen z.B. §6 (der vorurteilslose Beobachter), über die sich die meisten
Homöopathen nicht einmal einig sind. In diesem Vortrag gehen wir der Fragen nach, ob es auch für uns
Homöopathen eine Art Heimat gibt, aus der wir Kraft und Zuversicht schöpfen können für die tägliche
Arbeit in der Praxis.
-dipl. Homöopath SG
-seit 2005 selbständig in eigener Praxis
Focusing-Ausbildung bei Eveline Moor
-2011 certified Focusing Trainer / bei Christiane Geiser und Eveline Moor
-2012 Verfassen von Artikeln über Focusing und Homöopathie
-2012 Sveb1
-2011 +2012 Seminare über Homöopathie und Focusing
-2013 Ausführung und Leitung Basisseminar I Focusing
Alan Tidmarsh
England
agtidmarsh@btinternet.com
eastanglia.academia.edu/AlanTidmarsh
Focusing and addiction - Four key felt senses
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Lecture 1h
Focusing provides a very special way to work with compulsive behaviour and addictions. The session will
summarise the key lessons from recent research on therapy with drug and alcohol addictions. An
experiential part of the session will provide an opportunity to connect to four felt senses that can be
significant in compulsive behaviour, big or small. The session builds on papers presented to three
previous International Focusing Conferences.
Alan is a focusing-oriented therapist and supervisor working in Norwich, England and through Skype. He
is just completing a PhD at the University of East Anglia on Focusing-oriented Therapy for addictions.
Alan acts as space-holder on Focusing and Addictions for the Focusing Institute.
Donata Schoeller
Switzerland
dsr@gmx.ch
Ongoing Creativity - Meister Eckharts Mysticism and Gendlins Pragmatism
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Lecture 1h
According to Meister Eckhart, the true (home-)ground of a person is a movement, that transcends the
individual. His notion of humility is very connected to this ongoing creativity that each human being can
discover as the self's identity, carrying each person beyond the limits of self. Gendlin's thinking is rooted in
Pragmatistic thinking, that discovers creativity as a generative principle of everything. Gendlin - as we
know - carries this philosophy forward into a practice. Focusing and Thinking at the Edge bring to
awareness, how an experiential core of who we are is not static, but productive and creative. Gendlins
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description of this practice in the Process Model bears traits that are astonishingly similar to Meister
Eckharts characteristic of humility....
Donata Schoeller PhD, research fellow (Philosophy) at ETH Zurich, 2013/13 Visiting Scholar at University
of Chicago. She published a book on “ Humility” and now writes a book on "Clarifying Processes”. She
translates the Process Model into German with Christiane Geiser. Focusing Trainer and mother of three
daughters.
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Friday May 31 11:00 to 1:00 pm – Lectures & Workshops 2h
Chantal RESIBOIS-KEMP
Grand Duché de Luxemburg
chantal@resibois.lu
www.resibois.lu
EIN ZUHAUSE AUS DEN FUGEN - Focusing-orientierte Krisenintervention in der Familie
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Vortrag+Experiencing 2h
In diesem Vortrag möchte ich praxisnah und mit vielen Beispielen aufzeigen, wie ich Focusing in meine
alltägliche Arbeit als diplomierte Sozialpädagogin bei Families First Luxemburg (FFL) einer
Kriseninterventionsstelle des Roten Kreuzes integrieren konnte. Unsere Dienste werden angefragt als ein
Angebot für Familien, die sich in einer schweren Krise befinden und in der ein oder mehrere
Kinder/Jugendliche von einer Fremdunterbringung bedroht sind. Da in Krisen Menschen besonders bereit
sind zur Veränderung, werden in einem 8-wöchigen Einsatz im Haushalt der Familie versucht durch ein
konsequentes methodisches Vorgehen die Motivationen, Ressourcen und Fähigkeiten aller Beteiligter
zum Erhalt der Familie zu mobilisieren und zu aktivieren. Gemeinsam werden neue Ziele definiert und so
kann ein Stabilisierungsprozess eingeleitet werden. Focusing eignet sich ganz besonders, um die
einzelnen Familienmitgliedern wieder in Kontakt mit sich selbst und zueinander zu bringen, zudem hilft es
der Intervenierenden mit der Grundhaltung der inneren Achtsamkeit und Absichtslosigkeit den Familien zu
begegnen.
Dipl.-Soz.Päd. RÉSIBOIS-KEMP Chantal
Personzentrierte Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapeutin (GwG)
Personzentrierte Beraterin für Erwachsene (GwG)
Focusing - Trainerin (DAF)
Kinderfocusing - Trainerin (Focusing Institute of New York)
Arbeitet bei Families First Luxemburg, einer Kriseninterventionsstelle des Roten Kreuzes
Gemeinnützige kindertherapeutische Arbeit bei der Vereinigung "La Main Tendue" (2008 - 2011)
Leitung einer Kinderheimgruppe (bis 2003)
Mary Elaine Kiener
United States
me@askmehouse.com
www.stresswell.com
www.askmehouse.com
Discovering the Healing Power of Saying "No"
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Workshop 2h
Do you have trouble saying "no" without feeling guilty? Do you find yourself saying "yes" to others, while
saying "no" to yourself? Perhaps you’ll recognize (and identify with) the following song lyrics from the
Broadway musical Oklahoma.
"I’m just a girl who can’t say no
I’m in a terrible fix.
I always say "come on, let’s go"
Just when I oughta say nix ...
Though I can feel the undertow
I never make a complaint
Till it’s too late for restraint
Then when I want to I can’t
I can’t say no."
In this experiential workshop, I’ll invite you to begin to discover and explore the potential healing power of
saying "no" within your own life experiences.
Or, to paraphrase another hit song from another Broadway show, The King and I:
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Getting to know no
Getting to know all about it.
Getting to like no
Getting to hope it likes me...
As Creative Energy Officer at ASK ME House LLC, Mary Elaine, RN, PhD has designed a Focusingoriented virtual holistic nursing practice, offering programs such as Focused Self-CareTM and
StresswellTM. She has a special interest in helping both professional care-providers and family caregivers to bridge existing gaps in their own health and well-being.
Eveline Moor
Switzerland
focusing@casacivetta.ch
www.focusingausbildung.ch
Focusingorientierte Gesundheitskompetenz (FOG) Gesundheitsverhalten verändern – ja
aber wie?
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Vortrag+Experiencing 2h
Gute Vorsätze kennen wir alle. Dass sie oftmals scheitern und im Sand verlaufen, ist ebenfalls bekannt. In
meiner Masterarbeit (2012) ging ich der Frage nach, weshalb die Nachhaltigkeit von Verhaltensänderung
hin zu einem gesünderen Lebensstil so schwer zu realisieren ist. Im Alltag der Zivilisationsgesellschaften
sind gesunde wie kranke Menschen jeden Alters zunehmend mit dieser Thematik konfrontiert.
Der Workshop zeigt auf, wie theoretisches Wissen für eine Zielsetzung umgesetzt und praktisch nutzbar
wird. Dabei werden kognitives, emotives und subjektives Erleben zugänglich gemacht. Focusing ist in
Verbindung mit weiteren evidenzbasierten Methoden wie dem HAPA Modell (Health Action Process
Approach) eine von der medizinischen Fachwelt zunehmend beachtete Vorgehensweise. Die
Teilnehmenden lernen die Kriterien kennen, die eine Gesprächsführung berücksichtigen sollte, um
Menschen in einer focusingorientierten Gesundheitskompetenz (FOG) zu schulen.
Eveline Moor Züllig, 1962. Master of Advanced Studies in Prävention & Gesundheits-förderung FHZ/HSA
Luzern. Personzentrierte Prozessbegleiterin SGfK. Focusing Ausbilderin und Koordinatorin des
Internationalen Focusing Instituts N.Y. In der Focusing Aus- und Weiterbildung aktiv seit 1995. Praxis,
Seminartätigkeit und Focusing Schule im Tessin und in Zürich. Beruflicher Schwerpunkt:
Gesundheitsförderung, Gesundheitsverhalten, Burnout Prophylaxe, Empowerment
Ton Coffeng
The Netherlands
toncoffeng@planet.nl
Assisting clients with grief and trauma - basics
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Workshop 2h
In previous presentations, specifics were given of a therapy for clients who suffered a loss, and for those
with traumatic experiences. The approach was experiential and included focusing.
This time, conditions are discussed that are basic for the above therapy.
It is discussed in the group and we shall do some (focusing) exercises.
When time is left a video will be shown.
Ton Coffeng is a psychiatrist and therapist, having a private practice. He is a trainer/ supervisor in Clientcentered Therapy, a coordinator/trainer of the Focusing Institute and a trainer of the Pre-Therapy Institute.
He wrote about Teaching Focusing, Integrating Focusing, Focusing and Grief, and about the Experiential
Approach of Complex Trauma.
He gave workshops in Austria, Scotland, Japan and the Netherlands.
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Julian A. Miller
USA
julian_miller@mac.com
Memoir-Writing Workshop
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Workshop 2h
Focusing is very much an artistic process--moving us towards what is surprising and revelatory. In this
workshop we will explore how memoir (freshly recollected history of one’s life) and Focusing (a way of
freshly revealing oneself to oneself) can work synergistically.
We will begin through simple prompts and 10 minute writing exercises to find fresh sentences that capture
stories, fragments and felt senses from our lives. Effortlessly, something new, enchanting or unexpected
will appear on the stage of your consciousness! We will practice finding new metaphors as a way to
enliven and enrich ourselves. Focusing acts as the bridge between the world of our imagination and the
world of conscious creation. By the end of the workshop I hope you will have astonished and delighted
yourself by discovering stories that want to be told. In sharing these stories we will delight and inspire
each other.
Julian Miller has been a Tai Chi instructor for 40 years, and a Focuser for 20 years. He celebrates the
synergy of these two practices. He has been a writer all his life, and his current passion is poetry and
memoir writing. He is the author of two books.
Marine de Fréminville
Canada
mdefreminville@gmail.com
COMING HOME THROUGH THE BACKGROUND FEELING EXPLORATION IN FOCUSINGE
Workshop 2h
Coming home by opening a special door giving access to what is implicitly there in us: our true nature.
“Many of us do not even know that the body carries unknown Background Feelings that can be identified,
listened to and explored. There may be a hidden ‘gift’ within an uncomfortable, recurrent Background
feeling”. See article in Folio 2008. Exploring what Gendlin calls the Background Feeling in Focusing, might
give access to old implicit connections and lead to some transformative and alleviating potentialities. This
theoretical and experiential workshop will invite participants to identify and pay attention to their
Background Feeling. They could explore how to be with something that could have been repressed or
related to old wounds or residual trauma that might even be vicarious (inherited from personal, family as
well as historical environment). They will discover an innovative way of working with this theme and further
development.
She is a clinical Psychologist in Montreal, a Certifying Coordinator of The Focusing Institute, presenting
and teaching Focusing for more than 25 years in Canada and Europe. She uses Focusing-Oriented
Therapy with Complex Trauma. As an EMDR practitioner, she uses Focusing with EMDR in dealing with
trauma and unresolved grief.
Jun Xu
China
780051225@qq.com
Ordinary Mind when we’re focusing
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Lecture+Discussion 2h
When we’re focusing, our body and mind interact in a naturally fluency way. So, if we can have an attitude
of chan when we treat the felt sense, we can create space and propel our felt sense more
naturally。Similarly, If the companion can have a Ordinary Mind and give up the attempt of propelling,
then the evolve of felt sense will be a more spontaneous process.
Key word: Ordinary Mind, focusing, chan
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Xu Jun
Certifying Coordinator
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist
Focusing Trainer
Clinical Training: Focusing-oriented Therapy Training/ Psychoanalytic-oriented Psychotherapy and Group
Psychoanalysis Therapy Training/ CBT Training
Licensed By: TFI/ DPV/ SAMHSA
FOT Specialty Areas: Adults, Body Psychotherapy, Pain management, Pastoral counseling
Other Specialty Areas: Stress/ Anxiety/ Depression/ Mild Personality Disorder/ Self-exploration/
Religious Problems
René Veugelers
The Netherlands
venv@online.nl
www.kinderfocussen.info
www.ftcz.nl
The Focusing SchoolProject
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Workshop 2h
The schoolproject is developed by Marta Stapert and Jos van den Brand. The aim is to integrate Focusing
skills and attitude into groups of children.The teacher/coach/day care worker/therapist learns how to use
focusing in the group together with the children by a focusing trainer. In addition 3 trainings will be given
for the teacher before, during and after the class programme. This will put the Focusing teacher in a
position to carry out the programme. Step by step the children integrate the Focusing attitude and skills
into their lives. The program is all written out in targets, skills, construction of the 10 weekly lessons and
exercises. There are also evaluation forms at the end of the project.
René has worked with this program (with teenagers and primary school), and wants to share their
experience. Participants will be given a variety of ideas and experiences with this project, so you can go
home with this project to integrate this into your work area.
René Veugelers certified Focusing Coordinator, Children Focusing Trainer and Art Therapist. He has
many years teaching experience and practice, working and being with children of all ages.
Joan Klagsbrun
USA
joanklag@mac.com
Focusing on what you Love: Bringing Positive Psychology into Everyday Life
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Workshop 2h
Most of us reflexively dwell on our problems and concerns. However, there is convincing recent research
that by placing attention on positive experiences and positive feelings (such as gratitude and enjoyment),
we can think more effectively and expansively. In addition, attending to the positive in one's life has been
shown to cultivate psychological resilience. People who have a higher ratio of "positivity" to "negativity"
have more energy and better health. In this workshop, we will explore how Focusing can be used to
enhance and deepen "positivity." We will reflect on the three types of experiences that constitute true
happiness. We will conclude by evoking our personal signature strengths and exploring ways to apply
those to places we don’t usually bring them.
Joan Klagsbrun, Ph.D, a practicing psychologist and certifying coordinator, teaches at Lesley University.
and has taught Focusing internationally to therapists and health care professionals for over three
decades. She has written articles on Focusing for professional journals, chapters for edited collections
and has a CD and DVD
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Soti Grafanaki / William Hernández
Canada/ Ecuador
sgrafanaki@ustpaul.ca, whernand@fecd.org.ec
www.fecd.org.ec, www.focusing.ec
‘COMING HOME’ WITH AND THROUGH THE PAUSE: LESSONS FROM HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
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Lecture+Experiencing 2h
Home is….. where the heart is”. Home is not simply a place, or a permanent structure, but a ‘felt sense’ of
being loved and supported. Home is being with the person(s) or in the place that we can be ourselves
without pretense or fear.
The presentation will highlight the healing and transformational power of the natural PAUSE in helping
people re-connect with their inner ‘home’ and find ways to heal wounds of violence, poverty and abuse.
We will share how the natural PAUSE can become the fastest and most direct doorway to our ‘felt sense’,
helping us connect with our deepest longings.
We will report on lessons learned from the implementation of human development projects and share how
through and with the PAUSE people and communities can find their way back ‘home’ to the place of inner
harmony, sense of belonging, connection and peace.
The experiential exercises will allow us to explore our personal meanings of ‘home’ through the PAUSE.
Our ‘home’ of peace, integration and connection that can never be destroyed or taken away.
Soti Grafanaki, Ph.D is an Associate professor at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada and a Certifying
Coordinator of the Focusing Institute. Soti is the Editor of Counselling and Spirituality and a member of the
Editorial Board for the Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies. She participates in the Felt
Sense Literacy Project (FSL).
William Hernández is the Focusing Coordinator for Ecuador. He has been the Executive Director of FECD
for the last 20 years and has worked with the poorest communities in Ecuador. For the last three years he
has worked in the development of the FSL project with Gene Gendlin and Mary Hendricks. He has
developed the Human Social development model with Focusing through the Pause.
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Friday May 31 3:00 to 6:30 pm – Workshops 3.5h
Sally Tadmor
Israel
sally.tadmor@gmail.com
http://tadmor.biz/english-home-page
How to make a living out of Focusing
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Workshop 3.5h
Synopsis:
Free people up to make a living out of teaching Focusing, or having a Focusing clinic. Give specific
practical ideas that people can start using today.
Program:
If you were completely present and free, and felt "at home" with marketing, what would your business and
marketing look like? What would you be doing?
Be specific:
- How much would you charge?
- How would you advertise?
- What courses exactly would you give? Teach individually?
- Who would you offer your services to? How? What would you say?
What is stopping you? Were don’t you feel at home? How do we feel about offering, getting ‘yes’ or ‘no’,
asking and charging money
How do we feel about people selling to you? paying for things?
What would you like people around us to know? What would you want to get through to them?
What is possible for you now?
Certified Focusing Trainer (2 year course) and Focusing Institute member
I learned Focusing with:
- Ann Weiser Cornell
- Gendlin
- Robert Lee
- Ganihar
Life Coach, member of the Israel Coaching Organization
B.Sc in Physics (Excellence program)
M.Sc in Computer Science (with honor)
Janet Beggs
Canada
janet.beggs@nic.bc.ca
Exploring Focusing style through a MBTI lens
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Workshop 3.5h
We know people come home to themselves through Focusing. Those familiar with Carl Jung’s personality
theory and the MBTI know we are more at home with ourselves when operating from our personality
preferences. This workshop explores patterns in our Focusing relating to extraversion/introversion and
other dimensions of personality. Variations noted might foster understanding and appreciation for diversity
in Focusing style. More specifically, patterns found could inform teaching and guiding Focusing to make it
most accessible. The session will start with a brief review of MBTI and some preliminary information on
connections between personality and Focusing. For most of the session, participants are invited to
discuss their Focusing experiences in light of each of their MBTI preferences. We’ll conclude by gathering
the information together. Findings will be collated and distributed to participants post-conference. To
benefit from this session, participants will need some familiarity with both Focusing and MBTI.
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Focusing is essential to Janet’s personal and work life. Whilst living in Australia, she trained as a Focusing
Professional with Nada Lou. Now in BC, Canada, she is a counsellor at North Island College. After the
conference Janet will be walking the woods and downs of her homeland, England.
Bala Jaison
Canada
balaj@sympatico.ca
Living Focusing In Group Process: Making Groups Process Work - Better!
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Workshop 3.5h
Group work can be challenging. The process involves hard work, time, and energy. The experience of
group-work can be thrilling – especially when you see the outcome of your efforts appreciated by others. It
can also be very challenging: people don’t always agree, different points of view can feel interesting and
uplifting, or very stressful – especially when you are convinced that your point of view is the ‘right’ one!
These days, many of us are called upon to work in groups for assorted projects. Using the various
concrete tools of Focusing to enhance group dynamics, plus discussion, dialogue, and experiential breakout groups, we will explore the components for successful group interactions, especially exploring what
works – and what doesn’t! – in order to find the most harmonious paths toward a successful group
process.
Bala Jaison, Ph.D. is a Coordinator with the Focusing Institute, a psychotherapist for individuals, couples
and families in Toronto, and author of INTEGRATING EXPERIENTIAL AND BRIEF THERAPY: How To
Do Deep Therapy – Briefly, and How To Do Brief Therapy - Deeply.
Contact info: balaj@sympatico.ca or (416) 482-6689
Atsmaout Perlstein
Israel
atsmaout@gmail.com
www.focusing.co.il
Stewardship in FOT: Healing Anxiety and Complex Trauma Experiences
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Workshop 3.5h
Can the client learn in couple sessions to become the guardian and empathic best friend to his living
organism? Can the client practice stewardship, being in service of the healing process from the first
therapy session? YES!
This workshop offers a framework and different ways to help the client experience and integrate these
attitudes that are especially challenging in treating anxiety and complex trauma. We will explore, practice
and experience the lecturer's innovative approach to these challenges.
Participants will also practice how to use therapeutic cards and KOL-BE (a human figure that facilitates
and transforms the implicit into the explicit beyond words) to facilitate the focusing healing process.
Special Remark:
The number of Participants is limited to 15 persons.
Dr. Atsmaout Perlstein is a clinical psychologist with a private practice treating individuals, couples and
families in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is a Focusing Oriented psychologist who uses Dr. Gendlin's philosophical
principles as her framework. Dr. Perlstein specializes in treating anxiety, depression and complex trauma.
She has lectured and led Focusing Oriented Therapy workshops extensively around the world. At present
she is involved in training senior Israeli educational psychologists at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and
nationally.
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Erna de Bruijn and Christine Langeveld
The Netherlands
focuscentrum.denhaag@planet.nl
www.focussen.nl
Innere Kritiker und Kinder Innendrin, Willkommen! Welcome Home!
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Workshop 3.5h
Innere Kritiker und Kinder innendrin haben vieles gemeinsam. Sie sind es nicht gerade gewöhnt, viel
Aufmerksamkeit und Respekt zu erfahren, und dabei haben sie doch so viel zu bieten!
Alle haben sie ihre Auffassung darüber, wie wir unser Leben zu gestalten hätten – und das führt oft zu
Konflikten.
In diesem Workshop geht es darum, wie wir ihnen respektvoll begegnen können, jedem nach seiner Art,
und auch wie wir eine neue, bereichernde Beziehung zu ihnen aufbauen können. Dazu werden wir eine
kurze Beschreibung geben der Hintergründe und Inhalte unseres zweitägigen Workshops zu diesem
Thema, und gemeinsam einige der Übungen durchführen, wie wir sie in über 20 Jahren der
Focusingtrainung entwickelt haben.
Erna de Bruijn, ehemalige praktische Ärztin, ist heutzutage eine allmählich zurücktretende Focusing
Trainerin und Certifying Coordinator. In 1991 gründete sie Focuscentrum DenHaag, zusammen mit
Christine Langeveld. Die Arbeit am ‘Kind Innendrin’ ist ihr am liebsten.
Christine Langeveld, ehemalige Schulrätin, heutzutage eine allmählich zurücktretende Focustrainerin
jedoch aktive Certifying Coordinator, arbeitet zusammen mit Erna de Bruijn in Focuscentrum DenHaag.
Spezialtalent: Verbindungen machen. Sie ist Mitgründerin des 'Focusnetwerk Nederland & België'.
Spezialinteresse: Focusierendes umgehen mit Schmerzen.
Shimpei OKAMURA, Tomoko HIRANO
Japan
cafe-pierrot@ktf.biglobe.ne.jp, tmk.hirano@gmail.com
Coming Home to our Experiencing through Experiential Collage Work and Journaling E
Workshop 3.5h
This workshop will introduce the processes of Experiential Collage Work (ECW: Ikemi, et al 2007) and
Journaling (Ikemi et al 2012, Nakajima & Ikemi, 2013). ECW is a focusing-oriented art-work, consisting of
two parts. Part1 is collage-making. The collage makers attend to their bodily felt senses, and cut and
paste clippings from magazines that fit their felt senses. In Part 2, the collage maker explores and focuses
on the meaning of the collage with a partner. Journaling can be added as Part 3. Journaling is written
dialogue with an object of art. The three processes function to carry forward the experiencing of the
collage maker. We would like to us all to share the experience of coming home to the body through
collage-making and dialoging with a partner, and with our bodily felt senses.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PARTICIPLANTS: Please bring a few magazines with lots of pictures, glue and
scissors.
Shimpei Okamura, M.A. is a doctoral school student in the clinical psychology program at Kansai
University in Japan. He is a Certified Clinical Psychologist (Japan). He has a strong interest in philosophy,
and has written an award-winning BA theses on the function of metaphors in Experiential Collage Work.
Tomoko Hirano, M.A. is a doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at Kansai University. She is
a Certified Clinical Psychologist and a Focusing-Oriented Therapist. Her current interests are in the area
of supporting human service professionals and caring for patients and their families suffering from cancer
and chronic diseases with Focusing.
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Teresa Dawson
Switzerland
teresadawson@sunrise.ch, focusingforum@bluewin.ch
www.focusingforum.ch, (z. Zt. verwarlost)
Träume / Nach Hause kommen - nach Hause gehen.
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Workshop 2h
Nach Hause kommen - nach Hause gehen. Jede Nacht wechselt das Zuhause: Wir verlassen mit dem
Schlaf das äussere weltliche, treten ein in das innere seelische. Und mit dem Erwachen geschieht das
Umgekehrte. Beide Zuhause-Formen könnten miteinander leben, ineinander verwoben sein. Sie treffen
sich natürlicherweise in den Träumen. Der Verstand trennt sie wieder. Focusing hilft dieser Fusion, ins
Tagesbewusstsein zu treten. Unser Lebensgefühl gewinnt an Gewissheit, nicht von sich selbst getrennt
zu sein. Angst nimmt ab, Leichtigkeit zu. Dann sind wir wirklich Zuhause angekommen.
Teresa Dawson / Schweizer Focusing-Koordinatorin. Auf Traumarbeit "spezialisiert", in FocusingEinzelsitzungen wie in Traum-Focusing-Kursen. Langjährige Lehrtätigkeit in Zusammenarbeit mit dem
Internationalen Focusing-Institut in der Schweiz, in Deutschland und in New York.Lebt auf der Rigi,leitet
das buddhistische Meditationszentrum mit Tierschutzstelle 'Felsentor', reduzierte Praxistätigkeit in Zürich.
Ann Weiser Cornell
USA
ann@focusingresources.com
www.focusingresources.com
Finding Life Energy in the Dark Places
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Workshop 3.5h
There are no enemies inside. Nothing in you wants to hurt you. Everything in you is trying to save you
from hurt and carry your life forward.
If it is true that there are no enemies inside, why do we have inner war and stuckness?
How can we shift things so that life energy moves forward instead of being stuck?
This experiential presentation shows how we can start with trauma and, using Focusing, find life-forward
movement in the dark places.
Includes paired practice.
Ann Weiser Cornell is the author of The Radical Acceptance of Everything, soon to be published in
German as Die Kunst des Annehmens, and the forthcoming book Focusing in Clinical Practice, the
Essence of Change.
Elizabeth English (Locana)
England, UK
elizabeth@Lifeatwork.co.uk
www.lifeatwork.co.uk
Coming Home to Joy - Laughing our way into presence
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Workshop 3.5h
What if joy is always present, as part of the cosmos – and also part of us? What if pure laughter and love
are the same thing? What if tuning in to laughter increases our Focusing powers?
Some years ago, I had the extraordinary experience of unstoppable spontaneous laughter erupting into
my focusing space. More recently, I have discovered “Laughter Yoga” – an approach to health and peace
which rests on our natural ability to laugh for no reason, with the pure joy of being. “Laughter Yoga” draws
on the scientifically-proven fact that the body cannot tell the difference between real laughter and “fake”
laughter – our bodies respond in the same way, receiving the same physical and emotional benefits. As
we light up with genuine laughter, we may find ourselves bathed with fresh perspectives and wisdom.
In this session, we explore joy as a route into presence. We create a playful, accepting space, in which
laughter ignites easily through gentle exercises (no yogic postures), yoga-based breathing and laughter
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meditation. With a good-length focusing session, we then absorb the magical, mysterious effects of
laughter, and explore its relationship with presence.
Languages: Broken English, fluent Gibberish – and laughter going beyond words altogether...
Elizabeth (Locana) is coach and trainer in Focusing (and WBF), Nonviolent Communication,, Mindfulness
and Laughter Yoga – and is currently writing books on communication combining these approaches. A
doctoral graduate from Oxford, and Buddhist practitioner for thirty years, she now runs her own company
(Life at Work).
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Poster Sessions – see above Thursday Mai 30
Friday May 31 2:00 to 6:00 pm - Special Event
Hanspeter Mühlethaler
Switzerland
hmuehlethaler@postmail.ch
www.hpm-focusing.ch
Wandern und Focusing
Mountain Hiking and Focusing
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Wandern in den Bergen war immer schon meine zweite Passion neben Focusing. In meiner Erfahrung
verbinden sich die beiden Tätigkeiten stark. Ich denke dabei an die Frage, wie ich den Freiraum während
eines steilen Aufstiegs halten kann oder an den starken Kontakt mit meinem bewegten Körper.
Wir werden unsere Erfahrungen austauschen, die wir auf Wanderungen oder bei anderen körperlichen
Aktivitäten gemacht haben. Auf einer Wanderung in der wunderbaren Umgebung des Konferenzzentrums
werden wir damit experimentieren – auch nicht geübte WanderInnen sind willkommen!
Die Durchführung der Workshops hängt vom Wetter ab. Gute Schuhe und regenfeste Kleidung sind
empfohlen.
Hiking in the mountains has been my second passion besides Focusing. In my own experience, they
highly connect. I think of keeping the space free during climbing a steep mountain, being in close contact
with my moving body etc.
We will exchange our experience we made at hikes or other physical activities and experiment on a hike
in the wonderful surroundings of the Conference Center. Non experienced hikers are welcome.
It depends on the weather, if the Workshop will take place. Please bring good shoes and a waterproof
jacket.
Hanspeter Muehlethaler ist promovierter Physiker und zertifizierter Focusingtrainer TFI. Er arbeitete vor
seiner Pensionierung im Jahr 2010 im Eisenbahnbereich. Er praktiziert seit mehr als 20 Jahren Focusing
und TAE und unterrichtet heute TAE an der Universität Zürich und über Telefon. Er bietet zudem
Coaching an.
Hanspeter Muehlethaler holds a Ph.D. in Physics and is a Certified Focusing Professional TFI. He retired
in 2010 from a career in railway engineering. He has been practicing Focusing and TAE for more than 20
years and presently teaches TAE in telephone classes and at universities in Zurich and offers one to one
coaching using Focusing and TAE.
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Saturday June 1st 9:30 to 10:30 am – Lectures 1h
Marcella Calabi
USA
mc@clarityworks.net
clarityworks.net, marcellacalabi.com
Home is Across the River: Focusing and How We Wish to Be in the World
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Lecture 1h
Decision Science has matured, but Focusers have always known that “I want” is more layered than
economists’ concepts of “utility.” One issue is Parts’ babel about wanting. Another is the “what” we
understand ourselves to want. Desired outcomes may be a state, achievement, action (a job, security,
bigger house, get unstuck, publish). Focusers know there is a feeling in those: we are looking for –
motivated by –forward life energy. Still, something visible happens; in “let go of the outcome,” those are
the outcomes to let go of. Using a grid inspired by Pascal’s Dilemma, I speak to how Focusing can reveal
outcomes invisibly aligned with “being” rather than “having” or “doing.” Choice-making in that alignment
changes everything. Much discussed, it is radical, rare. It’s like moving house across the river – a place
nearby but profoundly different, where we have less vulnerability, more agency, so grounded that we are
at home.
Outside-the-box thinker helping people find their truest voice. As a singer and teacher of singing/speaking
she has befriended Parts that may silence us and helps others do the same; she applies deep reflective
listening as a consultant in decision-making, negotiation, conflict-resolution. Degrees: Harvard, SUNYStony Brook; Teaching: Harvard, SUNY-SB, Vassar, private; Clarityworks.com since 1999
Li Li(Lily)
China
pangper@hotmail.com
www.psychelily.com
Focusing take me home
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Lecture 1h
In this lecture, I am going to answer these questions: What does home mean to me? What does coming
home mean to me? What doee coming to Switzerland and making a lecture mean to me?
I will share my learning process of Focusing training and some self-focusing experences, and then unfold
the topic into some theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine. At last, I try to bring up my opinion—our body
is our home.
I am a psychotherapist with 10 years experence, live in Shanghai, private practice, work with child and
adult, keep learning psychodynamic psychotherapy, and learned Focusing from Dr.Cambell Purton since
2008. I love dreaming,travelling and working.
Eveline Moor, Christiane Geiser
Schweiz
info@casacivetta.ch, chr.geiser@bluewin.ch
www.focusingausbildung.ch/eveline-moor, christianegeiser.ch
Unsere seltsame Heimat: strukturgebundenes Erleben
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Vortrag 1h
Wir kennen meist die uns vertraute Art und Weise, in der wir mit uns selber und anderen in Kontakt treten.
Was wir oft nicht wissen oder unterschätzen: wie unglaublich unterschiedlich die eigenen Vorlieben und
„Sensibilitäten“ von denen anderer Menschen sind.
Und was ein noch grösseres Rätsel ist: wieso diese vertrauten Interaktionen so oft „gestoppte Prozesse“
werden, einfrieren, immer gleich vor sich gehen und uns und anderen Leiden bereiten. Wenn wir genauer
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hinspüren, gibt es sogar eine Art „Zug“ oder „Sog“ in dieses strukturgebundene Erleben hinein, obwohl wir
merken, dass dort alles andere als eine angenehme „Heimat“ ist.
Wir wollen in unserem Vortrag diese innere Dynamik näher beschreiben und zu verstehen versuchen, wie
sie unsere Focusing-Prozesse oder die unserer KlientInnen einengt. Wenn wir auch dort zu einem
carrying forward kommen wollen, bedeutet das oft, unsere vertraute Heimat zu verlassen resp. eine Wahl
zu haben, wo wir auch noch „wohnen“ könnten.
Eveline Moor Züllig, 1962. Master of Advanced Studies in Prävention & Gesundheitsförderung FHZ/HSA
Luzern. Personzentrierte Prozessbegleiterin SGfK. Focusing Ausbilderin und Koordinatorin des
Internationalen Focusing Instituts N.Y. In der Focusing Aus- und Weiterbildung tätig seit 1995. Praxis,
Seminarleitung und Focusing Schule im Tessin und in Zürich. „Focusing Advanced“ Weiter-bildungsSeminare zum Thema „Gestoppte Prozesse weiterbringen“ in Zusammenarbeit mit Christiane Geiser.
www.evelinemoor.ch
Christiane Geiser, seit 30 Jahren personzentrierte und focusingorientierte Psychotherapeutin/
Supervisorin in freier Praxis in Zürich. Mitbegründerin (zusammen mit Ernst Juchli) des
Ausbildungsinstituts GFK und des Focusing Netzwerks. Zur Zeit Zusammenarbeit mit Judy
Moore(Universität East Anglia, Norwich) und Eveline Moor (Casa Civetta, Tessin) zum
Themenschwerpunkt „Strukturgebundene Prozesse“. Zertifizierende Koordinatorin TFI.
www.christianegeiser.ch
Frans Depestele
Belgium
frans.depestele@skynet.be
How to make therapy experiential when the client is far from the experiential level
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Lecture 1h
A client is far from the experiential level, for example when s/he is only describing happenings in the
outside world, or only keeps asking reassurance from the therapist, or wants the therapist in the position
of leader. The client brings his/her personality difficulties into the relationship with the therapist. We must
get to know as good as possible the different non-experiential ways of being and speaking (blockages,
stoppages, structure-bound experiencing) in therapy. In this presentation I want to examine the blockages
at the relationship level. The main characteristic of these blockages is that the client is not reflective. And
focusing requires first of all the ability to be reflective. We must get to know how to make the process
experiential. The solution is not simply to offer focusing sessions, but to try to bring the client gradually
closer to the reflective attitude, and from there to the experientially reflective attitude.
Frans Depestele, MD, MA philosophy, is a psychiatrist-psychotherapist in private practice. He has
published about experiential theory and practice. He offers individual psychotherapy, as a psychiatrist,
with clients referred by family doctors. He tries to do therapy with each client. Many of them start therapy
far from their experiencing.
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Saturday June 1st 11:00 to 1:00 pm – Lectures & Workshops 2h
Monica Gomez Galaz
Mexico
monica@coachingmg.com
www.focusinginstitutemexico.com
Giving your felt sense a playful sense of humour.
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Workshop 2h
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
In this little workshop we will experience how to use Focusing in a playful way that will make us laugh with
ourselves and take life in a lighter way. During a trip I found a blue puppet that made me laugh, since then
I use my puppet to introduce Focusing. It facilitates to welcome "something in me" that feels angry for
example, and translated to the puppet and start having a conversation with it. The angry part since is hold
by the blue puppet can start trusting and getting playful with the issue. You will experience to embrace
yourself in a very funny way that will make you laugh and also will encourage you to relate with others in a
simple and funny way. You will come back home accepting and welcoming all of you.
Mónica Gómez Galaz is a Coordinator-in-Training and founder of Focusing Institute México
(www.focusinginstitutemexico.com). Mónica worked in finance for 15 years before deciding to pause,
listen to what was implicit in her, and change paths to become a Personal and Corporate Coach. Mónica
is also a University professor, passionate teacher and speaker, dreamer, and author of Rotos para
Descosidos, a fresh and honest look at the experiences of couples.
Sarah Luczaj
Poland
sarah@luczaj.com
www.sarah.luczaj.com
Felt senses of self/no-self
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Workshop 2h
How helpful is it for us to 'come home' to a sense of ourselves, of 'being me'? It seems like an abstract
question, 'what's it like to be me?' but there is something intimate and concrete in it too, e.g. when we feel
we have 'lost' ourselves, or do not know who we are. What does this experience, of 'being me' really feel
like, where/how does it come about, does trying to locate it help us when we are stuck, or does it hold us
back?
This is the research area of my PhD, I have carried out a study, using focusing, to address these issues,
and will be presenting the further questions, problems and inspirations that arose from the results. I will
also present the context of the study - my investigations into the concept of 'self' from many eastern and
western perspectives, with particular emphasis on contemporary neuroscientific research, buddhist texts,
and Gendlin's philosophy of the Implicit.
After a presentation of my work so far I would like to invite participants to do a short focusing session in
which they are open to finding a felt sense of self, and then facilitate a discussion of whatever may arise.
I am a British person centred counsellor, writer and translator, living and working in Poland, with a face to
face and online practice. I am writing a PhD (supervisor Campbell Purton) on senses of self and no-self in
therapy, in which I investigate how helpful senses of self and experiences no-self are, using Buddhist
perspectives, the philosophy of Gendlin and the method of focusing.
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Bilha Frolinger
Israel
frolinger@012.net.il
www.focusing.co.il
Teaching children to be Self-Advocates; at home, at school & with friends! A New
Crossing model on Focusing and Self Advocacy
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Workshop 2h
Self-Advocacy is speaking up for oneself. It is about understanding your strengths and needs, identifying
your personal goals, knowing your legal rights and responsibilities, and communicating these to others.
Do you consider yourself a Self Advocate? Do you speak up for yourself?
Focusing helps the individual find its special way of living without undue influence or control by others.
Self Advocacy started as a world grass root movement for children and adults with cognitive and learning
disabilities to speak up for themselves. Is all of this related only to people with special needs?!
Crossing Focusing with Self Advocacy model resulted with a powerful and useful
new integrated model, based on 8 years of practice in teaching teachers and clients.
In this workshop, participants will learn the structure of the Self Advocacy model and practice it. The group
will also discuss the implications of this integrated model with different populations.
Bilha Frolinger (M.A,) is a certified psychotherapist treating anxiety and trauma in her private practice and
in the hotline of Natal (Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War). Bilha is also responsible for
developing a new program "Self Advocacy" which trains Children with Special Needs to speak up for their
rights assertively in the school setting and home. She developed this program while working for a decade
in the Center for Educational Technologies. She also supervised Educational Change Teams whose
projects involved changing school environments and adapting school programs for Children with Special
Needs.
Bilha is a Focusing Oriented Therapist who has integrated the philosophical principles of Dr. Gendlin in
her work and finds it powerful and healing the body mind.
Paula Ritz
Schweiz
paula.ritz@bluewin.ch
www.therapiezentrum-hirschenplatz.ch
Focusing und Trauma
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Workshop 2h
Focusing hilft Heimzukommen – „heimkommen zu sich“. Psychisch traumatisiert werden heisst unter
anderem Verlust vom HIER und JETZT, Verlust von bei mir Zuhause zu sein, Verlust von Sicherheit,
Geborgenheit und Vertrauen, von „Beheimatet sein“. Focusing beinhaltet alles was hilft, verlorene,
dissozijerte, eingefrorene Teile von sich wieder zu finden, zu integrieren, zu verkörpern. Durch die
geartete Beziehung im Focusing, durch Kontakt zum „Bauchhirn“ (soziales Engagement-System der
Polyvagalen Theorie), kann es gelingen, sich wiederzufinden und eine Neuverhandlung der schrecklichen
Ereignisse zu starten und zu erreichen. Focusing als Prinzip von Veränderung beinhaltet alles, was mir
unter Traumabehandlungskonzepten und –methoden vertraut ist, natürlich mit der speziellen
Berücksichtigung und Vorkehrung, die bei der Behandlung von schwer traumatisierten Menschen nötig ist.
Diese Erkenntnis möchte ich mit Euch teilen und austauschen.
Ritz Paula, 1949, Zürich: pca-Ausbildnerin. Schon vor 30ig Jahren waren wir auf der Suche, was schwer
traumatisierten Menschen helfen könnte (ohne dass sie retraumatisiert werden). Seither bin ich am
Thema interessiert und verbinde neben eigenen Konzepten Inputs aus anderen Weiterbildungen (u.a.
PITT, EMDR, SE, Ego-States). Es ist mir ein Anliegen, auf unsere Focusingspezifischen Möglichkeiten
hinzuweisen, gerade auch für diese KlientInnen.
www.therapiezentrum-hirschenplatz.ch
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Marc Schmuziger
Switzerland
marc@schmuziger.com
focusing-ausbildung.ch, daf-focusing.de
"Spirituelles Coming Home": Focusing im Lichte spiritueller Traditionen
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Vortrag+Experiencing 2h
Jeder Weg zu sich selber bedingt ein Opfer: alte Haltungen müssen aufgegeben und damit verbundene
Befürchtungen überwunden werden. Erst dadurch ist ein „coming home“ in Form einer belebenden
Verbindung mit einem Urgrund möglich, wie wir es im Focusing, aber auch in vielen spirituellen
Traditionen beschrieben sehen.
Im Focusing können wir den Erlebensaspekt des Urgrundes im „felt sense“ erleben. Und ebenso
beschreitet der eigentliche Focusingprozess den archetypischen Weg eines Schwellenrituals, wie er in
indigenen Traditionen noch praktiziert wird.
Am Beispiel des Taoismus und der aus der indianischen Tradition stammenden „vision quest“ möchte ich
aufzeigen, dass die Schritte seelischen Nach-Hause-Kommens, wie wir sie beim Focusing erleben,
bereits in uralten spirituellen Traditionen angelegt sind. Als Grundbedingung für seelisches Wachstum
verweisen sie auf die Verankerung in einem weiter gehenden Sinnzusammenhang, auf ein spirituelles
„coming home“. Der Vortrag baut auf Focusing-Übungen auf, die die uralten spirituellen Begriffe erlebund nachvollziehbar machen.
Geboren 1960, Master of Science, Fachpsychologe für Psychotherapie FSP, Musikpädagoge SMPV,
Focusingtherapeut und Focusingausbilder DAF,
Psychotherapeutische Praxis in Bern und Strengelbach, Interesse an der Schnittstelle Psychotherapie
und Spiritualität, Seminare und Veröffentlichungen im Bereich Psychologie, Taoismus und Musik.
Peter Afford
UK
pjafford@dircon.co.uk
www.focusing.co.uk
Focusing in an age of neuroscience
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Lecture+Discussion 2h
Modern neuroscience now offers us a detailed picture of how body and brain interact to give us our felt
experience of living. And if we consider this scientific picture in the light of our real experience of what
happens in Focusing, it's possible to understand our inner life in fresh and revealing ways.
This presentation will give a summary of the picture from neuroscience, illustrated with slides, including
the significance of the horizontal divide between right and left hemispheres, and the vertical divide
between human neocortex and 'mammalian' subcortex. We will then start a lively discussion around how
we can appreciate the practice of Focusing and listening more clearly with the help of neuroscience, and
how our personal experience can help us to make sense of what the science is telling us.
Peter Afford
I have been involved with Focusing for over 25 years, and worked as a therapist for most of that time. And
I have risked my neck teaching courses on neuroscience over the last ten years, and survived the
experience so far.
Akira Ikemi
Japan
akiraikemi@me.com
www.akira-ikemi.net
Presence, Felt Meaning, Felt Sense and Understanding: How the other can carry forward
my experiencing
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Symposium 2h
I will lecture from an article that I have written for a book. The article is an exploration of how one can
affect the other to live further. The theoretical articulations of Carl Rogers and Eugene Gendlin are
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examined on the concept of presence; Gendlin’s terminologies of felt meaning and felt sense are
examined; the understanding of the other is viewed from Gendlin’s articulation of crossing. Throughout
this paper, the discussion of these person-centered and experiential concepts is staged on the interplay of
the pre-reflexive and reflexive modes of consciousness. From these theoretical considerations and
examples from Rogers’ and the author’s sessions, the paper concludes that explications from the felt
sense of the other can inspire the person to live further.
This Symposium will be a discussion about the mentioned article. Please read it before. Download from:
www.focusingswitzerland.ch/english/akira.
Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. is a professor of clinical psychology at Kansai University Graduate School of
Professional Clinical Psychology. He is a board member of the Focusing Institute, WAPCEPC and former
president of the Japan Focusing Association. He practices Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy and has
written numerous books and articles on the subject.
Sybille Ebert-Wittich
Deutschland
info@focusingzentrum.de
www.focusingzentrum.de
TAF (Tanz, achtsame Bewegung, Focusing): dance - mindful movement - Focusing
Experiencing your own being as your homeland
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Workshop 2h
Each movement in space has the potential to become a symbol of meaning. Through the interaction with
inner feelings, thoughts, music or other persons it can act as a doorway to discover your own being.
In this workshop you can begin to explore your own “feel-at-home-space” through your individual free and
consciously perceived movements.
Supported by a variety of suggestions and exercises the seminar can be used by each participant in his or
her own way to experience the inner self - without any pressure to perform or achieve.
By the process of focusing on movements a sense of home or any other personal place may playfully be
developing into the participant’s next life-forwarding inner and outer steps.
There might emerge a glimpse of “experiencing yourself as your homeland” in whatever future movement,
moment or context your life might guide you to.
Ich bin Diplom-Psychologin, Psychologische Psychotherapeutin (Verhaltenstherapie, tiefenpsychol. PT,
Hypnose Familientherapie, , Focusing –Therapie, Personzentrierte PT GwG), Supervisorin (LPK, GwG,
Univ. Mainz, DGVT), Ausbilderin (GwG/ PZB, Univ. Mainz) und Certif. Coordinatorin. Ich lebe in Boppard
am Rhein und leite dort seit vielen Jahren ein FocusingZentrum, dort finden u.a. Workshops zu Themen
wie Focusing und Tanz, Achtsamkeit und kreativer Selbstentfaltung, Arbeit mit dem innerer Kind und
inneren Team statt, sowie jährliche Trainings in Focusing und focusingorientierter Beratung.
MACARENA LOPEZ ANADON
SPAIN
lopezanadon.macarena@gmail.com
FOCUSING IN MOVEMENT
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Workshop 2h
Within the Focusing process, I am interested in developing the genuine presence of the listener and the
trust on oneself of the focuser.
The intention for this workshop is to incorporate the bodily movements as part of our expression and
symbolization as focusers; and the bodily expression, vocal inflections and gestures, in a kindly mirroring
way, as listeners.
As a result we will feel more confident in the scene while interacting with each other.
Working objectives:
Listening to our own body
Finding our own way to express ourselves through the body
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Self empathize and symbolize through the authentic movements, in order to find our own way to express
ourselves.
Corporal empathy with the other
We will also work with the Critic that drags out our genuine movements.
Maximum number of attendees: 15
Trainer in Focusing by The focusing Institute of New York
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Psychologist specialist in Clinical
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Psychoterapist certificated by FEAP (Spanish Federation of Psychoterapists Associations) and EFPA
(European Federation of Psychoterapists Associations)
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Professor in Universidad Pontificia de Comillas de Madrid of assignature-workshop: "Personal Grow"
for students of Psychology.
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Teaching in Replika theater school Expressive movement, scenic presence and free dance
(biodance, “5 rythms” of Gabrielle Roth, “Rio abierto”, bodily expression)
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Saturday June 1st 3:00 to 6:30 pm – Workshops 3.5h
Bebe Simon
USA
How I teach Focusing
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Using stories and experiential exercises I share what I found useful in teaching beginners or experienced
people over twenty years of teaching Focusing.
Bebe Simon has been teaching Focusing since the vey beginning. She has assisted Gene Gendlin in his
first workshops in the early 1980s in Chicago. She has attended all the 24 International Conferences in
the world.
Leena Hässig, Jennifer Steinbach
Switzerland
leena.haessig@bluewin.ch, jennifer@steinbach.ch
Focusing with juvenile violent offenders
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Lecture+Experiencing 2h
In the treatment of violent offenders the so called „circle of offense“ is used as a core component within
the cognitive behavioral approach. By using this instrument, the violent behavior is deconstructed in
different parts with the aim of cognitively understanding its sequence and therefore ultimately controlling it.
The authors would like to present their approach of understanding and using the „circle of offense“ within
the Focusing process. This approach, which seems to be particularly helpful for juvenile violent offenders
whose violence results from early trauma will be exemplified by case examples. The violent behavior is
interpreted as a discharge of intense tension, resulting from acute incongruence. By enabling a Focusing
process, the emotional/energetic dynamic, resulting from trauma and also causing the violence, can be
symbolized (understood) by the client - and therefore be "taken home" as a self-experience. This process
will enable clients to control their violent impulses.
Leena Hässig, lic.phil. (Psychologist, FSP, Switzerland), trainer and supervisor in Somatic Psychotherapy
- Biosynthesis IIBIS, Certified psychologist in Psychology and Law and Clinical Psychology (FSP),
president of the "Swiss Society of Psychology and Law" (SSPL), experienced forensic psychotherapist (29
years, Forensic-Psychiatric Service, University of Berne, Switzerland).
Jennifer Steinbach, lic.phil. (Psychologist, FSP, Switzerland), Certified psychologist in Psychology and
Law (FSP), person-centered psychotherapist in training, psychotherapist in a Swiss youth center
(Berufsbildungsheim Neuhof., Aargau, Switzerland).
Nina Joy Lawrence, Patricia Omidian
USA
9ajoy@comcast.net, omidianp@gmail.com
Crossing Focusing and Dynamic Facilitation: A Community Wellness Experiment
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Workshop 3.5h
Focusing and Dynamic Facilitation both can work to find the way forward when movement feels stuck by
conflicting views. Hear about a recent experiment in Pakistan using these processes to illuminate each
other. Explore both the Guesthouse model of Focusing as a way of being with several internal aspects
and Dynamic Facilitation as a way of airing differing views in a group setting. Experience how these
processes taught together can help us better understand each approach and can find creative, exciting
new solutions when individuals or groups feel blocked.
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Patricia Omidian, PhD, Anthropology, specialty in Community Mental Health, living and working in
Pakistan and Afghanistan 1997-2012, teaching Guesthouse Focusing that combines Sufism and Islam
with Focusing techniques.
Nina Joy Lawrence, MS Counseling, working with Pat to develop and share the Guesthouse Focusing
model, spreading and supporting Community Wellness Focusing since 2001.
Erna de Bruyn, Christine Langeveld, Aaffien de Vries
Aaffien.de.vries@gmail.com
The Netherlands
www.focuscentrumadv.nl, www.focussen.nl
Model for training Trainer-one-to-one and Trainer-group
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Workshop 3.5h
There are a lot of models of training, findable on www.focusing.org . We do not pretend to have the best,
but we are proud of ours. This model was developed over the years by the Dutch Coordinators. Erna and
Christine started their own version of this model in 1997; the cooperation with Aaffien since 2008 made it
crystallize further into the one we use nowadays. There are two programs, one for the training of Trainersone-to-one, and one for the training of Trainers-group. We will present both programs, share some of our
experiences, and invite you to take part in practicing a few exercises. We hope you will share your
comments, questions and own experiences. Thus we all can get inspired and sharpen our ideas about the
training of Trainers.
Christine Langeveld, former highschool teacher. Nowadays a gradually retiring Focusing Trainer, but still
active as a Certifying Coordinator. In teaching trainees, she loves to invite them to acknowledge and
celebrate the qualities and skills they already have acquired, and building on that energy to practice the
skills they are less confident about.
Erna de Bruijn is a former GP, nowadays a gradually retiring Focusing Trainer and Certifying Coordinator.
In 1991 she founded Focuscentrum DenHaag, together with Christine Langeveld. She loves Children
Within above all, both in working with clients and in training of Trainers.
Aaffien de Vries is a Certified Focusing Trainer (1998) and Coordinator for TFI. In guiding and teaching, I
love to create space for the living-forward energy to emerge. It makes me happy when an arguing
emerges in the group. It brings the opportunity to show and to experience how focusing conflict solving
can work.
Daniel Kuma Baerlocher
Switzerland
kuma@kumabaer.ch
www.kumabaer.ch
Bringing Home The Inner Wolpertinger
Your body of skills applied to Focusing
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Workshop 3.5h
How do you apply your skills to Focusing in your work as a professional? This workshop intends to let you
rehearse just that.
The Wolpertinger is an elusive mythological animal, endearingly catching as a model of individual
expertise. It is a calling creature of coordinates. A Wolpertinger cannot be chased after, hunted down or
caught in any ordinary way. A Wolpertinger has to be „ersackelt“ under specific conditions, as the alpine
Bavarians tell us. Let us indulge in this rewarding task!
Daniel Kuma Baerlocher, Ph.D., Neuropsychotherapy, Certified Focusing Trainer, Zuerich, Switzerland
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Mia Leijssen
Belgium
mia.leijssen@ppw.kuleuven.be
Existential well-being counseling
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Workshop 3.5h
During the workshop participants will have an opportunity to experience some experiential exercises that
are part of existential well-being counseling. The starting point is focusing on the bodily felt meaning of
the complexity of human existence: physical, social, personal, spiritual. Authentic living is about
awareness of each dimension. Existential well-being implies sufficient attention for each dimension, not
too much, not too little. It is a strength centered approach, favoring of the art of living, with special
attention on development of qualities, talents and virtues.
Mia Leijssen is professor at the University of Leuven (Belgium). She practices Focusing since 1980 and
made her doctoral dissertation on Focusing. She has many publications on Focusing oriented
Psychotherapy. In recent years her research is more focused on existential themes, positive
psychology,and the way focusing can enhance these approaches.
Dieter Mueller
Germany
d.mueller@focusing.de
www.focusing.de
How do I want to live?
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Workshop 3.5h
This is a question we are all carrying with us. From time to time we are forced to check if we are still on
tracks with our life by dramatic incidents, by feelings of uneasiness or by not functioning in our everyday
life.
To ask yourself „What is a good life for me“ expresses also a kind of life skill („Lebenskunst“) that shows
concern and responsibility towards your own life.
In this latter sense our workshop will help you to find the right questions to reflect, to acknowledge what
feels right, and what might need some change in your life.
How does the workshop respond to our conference issue of „Coming Home“?
The question of what is a good life goes way back to Greek philosophy especially to Aristotle, and in this
sense we touch the roots of reflecting ethical issues and of Gendlin`s philosophy.
Dieter Mueller, Focusing Coordinator
is a psychologist and a licensed psychotherapist since more than 25 years; he has trainings in Behaviour
Therapy, Client Centred Psychotherapy and Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy.
He also works in the field of Coaching: Leadership counselling, team development, etc.
In 1987 he founded with Hejo Feuerstein the Focusing Zentrum Karlsruhe (FZK).
Olivier Gourmet
Luxembourg
contact@focusing.lu
www.focusing.lu
Wholebody Leadership Presence for Everyday Life
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Workshop 3.5h
The goal of the workshop is to let participants experience a 'Centering Practice' that combines Wholebody
Focusing and aspects of relational Aikido. The participants will learn how a physically centered state can
make a difference in their listening skills and presence as they interact with others. The Centering Practice
allows for greater insight into one's patterns with day-to-day human interactions, leadership instances and
conflict management.
This workshop is reaching out to people who want to develop authentic relational-centred leadership skills
for the workplace or their everyday life. It will also enable participants to get a sense of how co-creation
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and collaboration can happen in a group setting. We will be using heartfelt conversations and practices of
the 'art of hosting' that are compatible with the Focusing listening attitudes.
More at www.embodyingleadership.eu/swisstalk2013.html
Olivier Gourmet is a senior business consultant specialising in business process improvement and
organisational development. Olivier is a Certified Focusing trainer and Coordinator for Belgium and
Luxembourg. He also has been practising Aikido and Tango. He blends these practices to develop a new
innovative offering in leadership development.
Heidrun Essler
Germany
essler@essler-seminare.de
www.essler-seminare.de
Children Focusing as an astonishing approach for everyone - in English/German/and
nonverbal expression
D/E
Workshop 3.5h
Some adults have difficulties in learning Focusing because of negative experiences: they don’t feel safe in
expressing themselves in language – or the verbalisation distracts them too quickly from their bodily
feelings. The wide variety of symbolization in drawing, collage, moving, dancing, sounding, making music,
even in listening to music we can use with children and adults. And we can make it fit for people with all
kind of handicaps and special needs. Little exercises will open up the sensing into the body and
expressing from that place - in a big group as good as in Focusing alone.
I have experimented in my work with adults and children and have developed adaptations from Children
Focusing to all kind of situations.
In my workshop we will explore my principles, experience little exercises and I will give you guiding in how
you can find ways to use it in your special settings.
Focusing Coordinator for adults and children; giving training since 1989 in different companies and
administrations for all kind of employees and management levels; consulting institutions for children;
lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe for communication and body expression and working as conflict
consultant and coach on one to one base.
Rosanna Camerlingo
Italy
rosanna.camerlingo@libero.it
www.focusing-unione.it
Focusing-voice - The voice from inside
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Workshop 3.5h
After a few breathing exercises and slow movement to relax, we try to use the voice with some games,
then get in touch with our felt sense and let the sound emerge from within. We listen to our sound, listen to
the other's sounds and gently sing as all beings. The voice is our first interaction with the world. "In the
beginning is the sound". We can move from inside and we can relax and transform our blocks to "carry
forward" our life.
Rosanna Camerlingo is a sociologist, clinical and comunity psychologist. Since 1983 she is interested in
personal and professonal growth with a holistic approach. She is an expert in language and techniques of
body therapy and uses methods for bonding and awakening. Working as a counselor with different
counseling and psychological institutes. Coordinator in training Focusing Institute New York.
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Poster Sessions – see above Thursday Mai 30
Saturday June 1st 4:00 to 6:00 pm - Special Event
Martin Züllig
Switzerland
martin@casacivetta.ch
www.casacivetta.ch
Schwingen: In Switzerland only! - A Focusing approach to the power of the body
D/E
Workshop 2h
Schwingen (from German schwingen "to swing"), also known as Swiss wrestling and natively as Hoselupf
(Swiss German for "breeches-lifting"), is a style of folk wrestling. Wrestlers wear Schwingerhosen
("wrestling breeches") with belts that are used for taking holds. Throws and trips are common because the
first competitor to pin his/her opponent's shoulders to the ground wins the bout. In the workshop the
history of "Schwingen" will be told, the significance of this unique Swiss martial art will be examined, and
its rules will be taught. Two "Schwinger" will present a fight. The focus is on the moment of the beginning:
interaction, body sensation, felt sense and awareness have to come together in order to know when the
right moment arises to start. Workshop participants can give it a try.
Martin Züllig, graphic artist and advertising specialist from Zurich. 35 years of experience in Vipassana
Meditation. Founder and manager of the course-and meditation centre Casa Civetta, Switzerland. Trained
in person-centred approach and Focusing. Special interest in body awareness.
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Sunday June 2nd 9:00 to 11:00 am – Lectures & Workshops 2h
Kumie Osako, Yasuhiro Suetake
Japan
osako@gol.com
The Therapist-TAE Practice as a Qualitative Analysis: What Occurs in
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Lecture+Discussion 2h
We have realized the immense values in applying Thinking At the Edge(TAE) into the qualitative analysis
for therapists to evaluate their or client's works in the focusing-oriented psychothrapy.
We present our practice about the recovery from dissociation state and
the difference between successful caces and unsuccessful ones.
Kumie Osako:
A certified clinical psychologist and focusing-oriented psychothrapist working with child,adolescence and
adult specialised in a
psychiatric clinic and educational counceling center. As Occasion offers she provides a focusing session
or teach it for graduate students. A Ph.D student in Hosei University.
Yasuhiro Suetake:
A certified clinical psychologist and person-centered/focusing-oriented psychothrapist working with
adolescence and adult in private practice. A professor in Hosei University. He has studied Gendlin's
philosophy in the past 30 years.
Evelyn Pross
Deutschland
evelyn.pross@e-prisma.de
www.e-prisma.de
Variations of TAE steps to be used in therapy, counseling, coaching and trainings
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Lecture+Experiencing 2h
Thinking at the edge (TAE) is a process for building theories within a field you are deeply experienced in.
Everybody can use the TAE process to build a theory about your personal challenges or problems. Each
TAE step is a movement between experiencing and symbolization which carries you forward. I will
present ideas and examples how the TAE steps can be adapted and enriched to be used for personal
growth.
You will learn and experience:
• How to work with words such that you enter your experience(ing) and are carried forward by fresh words.
• How to use instances and the patterns to understand your problem better, to get help by your own
experience and to enhance your resources.
• How to cross instances and patterns or how to cross terms in order to expand and deepen your knowing
about yourself and the challenge you are working on.
I am a self-employed counselor and trainer, master of organizational psychology, supporting a more
healthy and creative work-life and enhancing the resources in R&D. Previously, I was working in R&D as a
material scientist. I am a Focusing-Trainer and TAE-teacher. I am crossing TAE with DomainFocusing and
concepts from organizational psychology.
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Bernadette Lamboy
France
lamboybg@hotmail.com
www.ifef.org
How to use space in a room in order to help the focusing process
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Workshop 2h
I mainly use this method when a person wants to change and cannot. The approach consists in
encouraging and stimulating the change process by going from a place in the room (S for Starting point),
symbolizing the place of the problem and corresponding to a particular felt sense, to another spot (H for
Home), symbolizing the solution to the problem. Choosing a comfortable and welcoming spot will help this
person find these solutions. At this new place, a new felt sense emerges, for she/he can see the situation
from another point of view and we can work on the different steps that she/he really needs to go through
in order to go from S to H. Now, coming Home, she/he is connected to her/his resources and can go
forward with increased confidence.
Docteur en psychologie de l’université de Grenoble (France),
Directrice de l’Ifef (institut de focusing d’europe francophone),
Coordinatrice en France de Focusing,
j’exerce comme psychothérapeute, formatrice et superviseur dans l’ Approche Centrée sur la Personne et
le Focusing.
Publications :
« 50 Exercices pour être bien dans son corps » (éd. Eyrolles, Paris 2011)
« Trouver les bonnes solutions par le focusing » (éd. Souffle d’Or, Gap 2009)
« La mort réconciliée, du refus à l’acceptation » (éd. Gilson, Bruxelles 2007), « Devenir qui je suis » (éd.
DDB, Paris, 2003)
Barbara Dickinson
USA
Barbara.j.dickinson@gmail.com
www.focusing.org/cfp-page/4482/dickinson_barbara.html
One Two One - Focusing for Interpersonal Conflict Resolution
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Workshop 2h
Some say that Focusing does not work to resolve conflict between two people. In this workshop, I will
describe a method I developed with a very experienced Focusing partner to resolve deeply personal
conflicts. We practiced this method, which I call "One Two One Focusing," over many sessions, until it
was natural and useful no matter how painful or triggering the topic or situation. In this workshop, after the
description and question/answer period, participants will try out this method safely, with a partner, where
there is no actual conflict, but one can be simulated. The "One Two One" method is based on Focusing
basics, and Drs. Janet Klein and Mary McGuire's Interactive Focusing. Short "turns" of about one
sentence are followed by reflection, then bodily checking by both Focuser and Listener. Roles are then
switched. The process continues in this manner until both participants feel complete for the session.
Since her first Focusing workshop in 2006, Barbara Dickinson has become an enthusiastic learner and
teacher of Focusing and Thinking at the Edge. Barbara is currently studying with Nada Lou toward
certificates in Generative TAE, and also authored several articles about her experiences, including
"Focusing with Baby on Board," forthcoming in the Folio.
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Naomi Horio and Mako Hikasa
Japan
naomihorio@garnet.dti.ne.jp, mako.hikasa@nifty.ne.jp
Focusing with OH Cards
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Workshop 2h
This workshop will invite you to do Focusing with OH Cards.
The OH Cards that were created in 1976 in Canada are a set of 88 picture cards and 88 word cards.
There are many series of OH Cards now and these cards are used for various purposes ( e.g. playing,
game, communication, self-understanding, self-development, … ) in many countries. [http://www.ohcards.com]
I came to know OH Cards in 2011. OH Cards have no fixed meaning as contrasted with other cards like
tarot cards, cards are developed for self-therapy, and so on. This is one of attractive points for me (Horio).
Making use of OH Cards as a stimulus brings crossing like dreams and post cards. It is different from
beginning with concerns or body feelings.
I think some of you know OH Cards and practice with them. We hope you will enjoy this workshop and
share your practice with us.
Naomi Horio is a certified clinical psychologist in Japan, Focusing trainer/coordinator in training and a
group psychotherapist at a public health department. She came to know Focusing in 1996. Since then she
lives with Focusing. She holds two Changes groups and one of them is specialized Interactive Focusing.
Mako Hikasa is a psychotherapist, Focusing trainer/coordinator and professor in clinical psychology. Since
1993 when she came to know Focusing, she has been hooked on Focusing, translated many Focusing
books into Japanese. Focusing gives her a flow to move forward.
Ann Weiser Cornell, Helene Brenner
USA
ann@focusingresources.com, hgbren@aol.com
ann@focusingresources.com, www.helenebrenner.com
Making a Place for Focusing (and Focusing-Oriented Therapy) in the Larger
Psychotherapy Conversation
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Lecture+Discussion 2h
Focusing has been around for more than fifty years, and still in the larger psychotherapy community it is
both little known and little understood.
How do we articulate what it is that Focusing uniquely contributes - which we know so well, but might have
a hard time saying - to psychotherapists who are not in the Focusing community? And how can we do this
in a way that communicates the remarkable, transformational potential of Focusing?
Our presentation has two parts:
(1) Communicating about Focusing as a set of techniques and processes that can be brought into any
clinical practice;
(2) Presenting Focusing-Oriented Therapy as a potent and valuable therapeutic modality that can take its
place as one of the current cutting-edge psychotherapies.
Ann Weiser Cornell’s forthcoming book is Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change.
Helene Brenner has been in clinical practice for 25 years and is the author of I Know I’m in There
Somewhere.
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Astrid Schillings
Deutschland
astrid.schillings@focusinginstitut.de
www.focusing-institut.de, www.wholebody-focusing.net
Zuhause sein? - Wholebody Focusing
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Workshop 2h
Dein Leben sich leben lassen – radikal direkt und feinspürig-bewußt,
von Mensch zu Mensch...
In Resonanz mit dem Konferenz-Motto „Coming Home“ lade ich Euch ein, die befreiende Unmittelbarkeit
des Wholebody Focusing zu schmecken.
Im radikalen, direkten Erkunden können wir einen frischen Hauch davon erspüren, wie alles Leben
grundlegend in dynamischer Bewußtheit verbunden ist. Wir fühlen uns mehr gegründet in einem
erweiterten, bewussten Spüren unseres Da-Seins.
Im WBF ist erstmal Pause und daraus ein Hinhören in unsere Lebendigkeit mit einer einladenden Haltung
des „Nicht-Wissens“. In diesem Raum fortgesetzten Gewahr-Seins können wir spüren, wie unser KörperLeben sich in ein bewusstes Sich-Selbst-Spüren bewegt – in Gebärden, Haltungen, Bewegungen, auch
Sprache, findet es überraschende Wege sich weiter zu leben, aus sich heraus.
Die WBF-Phasen/Haltungen werden vorgestellt, Möglichkeiten für Kommunikation,
Psychotherapie/Medizin, „Community-Life“ angesprochen. Wholebody Focusing verwandelt, wie wir
leben, arbeiten, kreativ sind – jeden Tag. Ist das „Coming Home“?
Astrid Schillings:
Psychologische Psychotherapeutin, TFI-Koordinatorin bildet PsychotherapeutInnen/BeraterInnen und
Laien in Wholebody Focusing/FOT in einigen EU-Länder/Köln aus. Ihr WBF-Ansatz wurzelt in ihrem
fundierten Hintergrund in Personzentrierer Psychotherapie, westlich/östlichem Wegen von “innengeführter”Bewegung/Achtsamkeit, phänomenlogischem Unsersuchen/Dialog, Somatic Experiencing, auch
Kevin McEvenues warmer Untersützung und ihrem fortlaufendem Gespräch mit Gene über sein
erweitertes Verständnis des lebendigen Körpers.
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