If we’re trying to see movement in our work, here’s one of the easiest places to start looking:
Are people connecting?
Are new relationships forming?
Good things tend to grow from there.

#Community #HumanConnection #SlowWork #SocialFabric #RelationalFlow

A helpful book on Focusing for therapists. Cornell worked with Gendlin for a long time, then developed her own approach. She presents formulations, typical situations and tips, such as there's no need to explain Focusing to your clients.

“The Focusing process is a way to shift levels, step outside the box of preset categories, and experience one’s own change emerging from within, so that one is already living new possibilities that were exactly what the problem was missing.” #relationalflow

Here Arnold Mindell deals with conflict facilitation of large groups, to expand democracy to "deep democracy". What he calls a "psychosocial activist" is first and foremost an awareness coach who deals with both a community’s material and psychological essence.

"Democracy is based on power. Without awareness, democracy adds to, but does not resolve, world problems. Deep democracy is a new awareness procedure that respects all individuals, parts, and states of consciousness."

#relationalflow

Doran George challenges a eurocentric understanding of the body in contemporary dance and somatic discourse which think of themselves as neutral.

I find this paragraph particularly interesting:

„They shifted from inner sensing to an outward focus and back, thereby challenging the sense of the dancers as a continuous persona. [..] Change in the use of the eyes positioned dancers as social subjects rather than physical masses in the throes of falling or ascending with gravity.“ #relationalflow

I wanted to know more about new developments and applications of Gendlin’s Focusing and came across this anthology by Focusing-oriented psychotherapist Greg Madison.

What I find particularly interesting is Wholebody Focusing’s attention to relational embodiment (Kevin McEvenue) as well as Bernadette Lamboys attempts to use space to facilitate the Focusing process.

Madison has a podcast, The Living Process, in which he interviews Focusing practitioners from all over the world. #relationalflow

Gordon Wheeler ist Gestalttherapeut und am Esalen Institut.

Er arbeitet an einem relationalen Begriff des Selbst, der aus dem Paradigma des Individualismus führt:

»Welche äußere Unterstützung würden Sie brauchen, um zu erreichen / verändern, was Sie erreichen / verändern wollen? Meist sind wir so tief in unserer kulturellen Angewohnheit der extremen Autonomie verfangen, dass es uns gar nicht in den Sinn kommt, dass es mehr Unterstützung gibt, der gegenüber wir nur blind waren.« #relationalflow