The Living Process with Greg Madison Episode 58: What We Can All Learn From Children Focusing

Our Guests: René Veugelers and Harriët Teeuw

In this espisode I talk with Harriët and René about their style of Dynamic Expressive Focusing with children and adults. We discuss their new book Focusing With Children and how their way of working is equally valuable for all of us. It emphasises authenticity and transparency for the therapist, and expressive and arts-based modes of interacting. Their approach shows us what children can teach us about Focusing and expands what we even mean by Focusing.

René Veugelers
René’s specialty is Focusing with Children with an emphasis on the non-verbal world. He studied Art Therapy, Psychiatric nursing and group social work. René teaches parents, therapists, teachers and others, internationally, how to be with children in a Focusing way, how to (re)connect to their own inner child experiences, and how to integrate creativity and flexibility into their life and work.

Harriët Teeuw
Harriët is a Focusing Coordinator, FOT and Art Therapist, working in her own practice with children, parents, and adults in The Netherlands. When she first learned Focusing in 2000 she felt inspired to live a more authentic life and started to integrate it into her work. She brings her rich practice experience with children and parents into teaching the Children Focusing Programs and Focusing International Online Certification Program.

Focusing with Children book: https://kinderfocussen.nl/product/practicebook-focusing-with-children/

International Children Focusing site with trainings /articles etc: https://www.childrenfocusing.org/

Community Harriët mentioned - Online Art Studio for people affected by cancer, themselves or loved ones (Dutch). https://www.deruimte-info.nl/online-atelier/

Episode 58 What We Can All Learn From Children Focusing: https://youtu.be/vXc3V8HJUW0

The Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/

TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQL

#childtherapy #FeltSense #psychotherapy #Focusing #FeltSense #childtherapy #EugeneGendlin #SomaticExperiencing #Familytherapy #person-centred #thelivingprocess #Focusingwithchildren

Robert Lee. Forms of Therapeutic Experience

The Living Process, Episode 57 with Greg Madison

In episode 57 I welcome Dr Robert Lee, a longtime member of the Focusing Community and innovator in Focusing Oriented Therapy. Robert and I discuss his model of Changing the Unchangeable and Domain Focusing as well as his idea that Changes Groups could become a form of group psychotherapy. He has a wealth of experience leading to fascinating innovations in practice.

Episode 57 Forms of Therapeutic Experience: https://youtu.be/5AoYd2vVgwU

The Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP

YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQL

#Bodytherapy #Experientialpractice #Awareness #Somaticwork #authenticity #bodymind #focusingorientedtherapy #presence #trauma #existentialism #experiential #Gendlin #focusing #thelivingprocess #person-centred #somatichealing #psychotherapy #FeltSense #Consciousness

Robert Lee, Ph.D. is a Focusing innovator and an international leader in developing Focusing trainers and therapists. Robert is a licensed psychologist and developed Changing the Unchangeable through Domain Focusing— for students and clients. In psychotherapy, he has developed special methods for using Focusing with anxiety and depression and with couple and group psychotherapy. For many years Robert served on the board for a consortium of humanistic and transpersonal graduate psychology programs, CDPP, which was inspired by Clark Moustakas, a close colleague of Eugene Gendlin.

When the Body Leads in Therapy, with Helene Brenner and Larry Letich on The Living Process. Episode 56. Hosted by Greg Madison

This episode is a rich conversation with Larry Letich and Helene Brenner about their new book,

When You Let the Body Lead: Embodied Healing and Change with Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy. We discuss their contemporary approach to describing and teaching Focusing Therapy, presenting Gendlin’s work alongside neuroscience, trauma theory, attachment, emotion-focused approaches, and Inner Relationship Focusing. We discuss their journey into Focusing and their hopes for the book to finally mark a place for FOT as a central contemporary somatic form of psychotherapy.

Episode 56 When the Body Leads in Therapy: https://youtu.be/1wGQ0tcoA4g

The Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/

TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQL

The Living Process is available on Youtube and all podcast platforms. Transcripts are also available on each platform.

#Bodytherapy #Experientialpractice #Awareness #Somaticwork #authenticity #bodymind #focusingorientedtherapy #presence #trauma

#existentialism #experiential #Gendlin #focusing #thelivingprocess #person-centred #somatichealing #psychotherapy

Larry Letich, LCSW-C, is a Focusing-Oriented therapist with twenty-five years of clinical experience specializing in working with men, couples (EFT), anxiety and attachment, and Adult ADHD. He co-authors the Psychology Today blog, "The Art of Feeling.".

Helene G. Brenner, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with over 35 years of experience helping people live more authentically. She integrates Focusing-Oriented Therapy with AEDP and EMDR, and is the author of I Know I'm in There Somewhere (Penguin, 2003).

Both Helene and Larry are Certifying Coordinators for the International Focusing Institute and they co-author "The Art of Feeling" blog for Psychology Today and co-direct the Center for Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy, offering online training and certification programs to therapists in Contemporary FOT. Their new book is When You Let the Body Lead: Embodied Healing and Change with Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy,