Inner Relationship Focusing -- an interview with Ann Weiser Cornell

More experiential therapy interviews at: tinyurl.com/ypwfbh46
Podcast version: open.spotify.com/episode/1jz3...
Ann Weiser Cornell offers live, online courses tinyurl.com/yras4yby
as well as On Demand courses on Focusing tinyurl.com/4m28yrz4
at her website: focusingresources.com
Ann is author of:
- Focusing in Clinical Practice tinyurl.com/khejfjur
- The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing tinyurl.com/3fujenebx
- and keep an eye out for her upcoming book with Barbara McGavin: Untangling - How to Transform what’s Impossibly Stuck
- and many other books and courses!
Focusing is an internally oriented psychotherapeutic process developed by psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin. It can be used in any kind of therapeutic situation, including peer-to-peer sessions. It involves holding a specific kind of open, non-judging attention to an internal knowing which is experienced but is not yet in words. Focusing can, among other things, be used to become clear on what one feels or wants, to obtain new insights about one's situation, and to stimulate change or healing of the situation. Focusing is set apart from other methods of inner awareness by three qualities: something called the "felt sense", a quality of engaged accepting attention, and a researched-based technique that facilitates change.

[@carolrudd8980]

beautiful to see Ann explicate her work with the attentive and receptive Sam. Thank you.

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Thank you for this amazing content!

[@sylviakanel9766]

Wow! This was beautiful. I listened at Tori Old's recommendation from her open chat last Tuesday. I've been studying Gendlin for about three years now and Tori's manner makes me feel witnessed the way videos of Gene do. Now here, too, I felt a deep response to the two of you speaking of how you are present with your clients. There was a great deal of presence in this video and just in listening I felt spaces opening up -- ways I'd like to be with myself that I haven't experienced yet. Tori is teaching memory reconsolidation right now and I've been having trouble making the leap from theory to practice. You touched on how that can happen without forcing issues -- just letting them arise. I'm sure that will give me a better lens through which to view Tori's next session. Thank you!