Empathic Felt Sense Listening and Focusing - A Workbook for Learning and Teaching - Digital Copy

This workbook follows the teaching curriculum at the Focusing Institute in Chicago. The objectives are to be able to lead yourself and someone else through Gendlin's six steps of Focusing. The listener is trained in empathic felt sense listening for a partnership exchange or Interactive Focusing. It is recommended that all teaching be done experientially giving students a lot of practice.

Section One: Empathic Felt Sense Listening and Focusing Description

Introduction

The Five Levels and Modules

Focusing and the Healthy Organism

Focusing as an Ongoing Process

A Felt Sense Exercise with a Partner

Why Do We Call It the Focusing Attitude?

Discerning Exercises from the Felt Sense

Focusing

Focusing: Gendlin's Six Steps in Brief

Listening

Empathic Felt Sense Listening for the 'More'

Process Suggestions

Teaching

The Coached Model

The Focuser-as-teacher Model

The Focuser-as teacher Exercise

Can the Focuser Teach the Listener to Listen Empathically?

Section Two: Interactive Focusing

Interactive Focusing (The Folio, Spring 1994)

Interactive Focusing and Empathic Felt Sense Listening (The Folio, Winter 1995)

Interactive Focusing and Empathic Felt Sense Listening: Article Outline

The Empathic Moment

Interactive Focusing: Group Format

Interactive Focusing in the Real World

Coaching Interactive Focusing

The Interactive Focusing Model Short Form

Section Three: Healing the Inner Critic and Strategies for Dealing with the Critic

Healing the Inner Child by Mary McGuire

The Inner Child and the Critic: How to Recognize Them

Listening to the Wounded and for the Healing

The Critic and Strategies for Dealing with It

The Critic: A compassionate Journaling

Outlines of the Critic Articles

114 pages Copyright 1995 Janet Klein, Psy.D.