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

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#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

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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,

Kati kimchi. Episode 55. The Source of Sexual Healing. In this episode we discuss the mysterious absence of sexuality in the writing and teaching of Focusing and other embodied and contemplative practices. We speak about how to safely integrate these discussions into teaching, practice, and therapy.

We touch on the deeply ambivalent relationship we have with sexual desire: on the one hand, we long to feel connected to it, and on the other, we are often afraid of its intensity and the fire it can awaken. We question what 'healthy sexuality' is and how to deal with erotic feelings in therapy. Episode 55 - https://youtu.be/mDyF6YwAofkThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLAbout me:Kati Kimchi. Is a certified Focusing coordinator helping and guiding individuals and couples on their personal and sexual growth journeys for over fifteen years. She has studied mindfulness, trauma therapy, couples therapy, family constellation, and developed the S.H.I.F.T methodology for sexual healing in Focusing therapy. She teaches and sees clients in her private clinic.This is a link to her book and her November online course on her website: https://www.focusing-sexuality.com/en/על-התמקדות-ומיניות-הספרThe Living Process is available on Youtube and all podcast platforms. #Focusing #Gendlin #mindfulness #buddhist #Bodytherapy #experientiallearning #Awareness #Somaticwork #Zenmeditation #bodymind #shame #couplestherapy #focusingorientedtherapy #presence #trauma #conflict #sexualtherapy #sexuality #internalfamilysystems

The Self-Sensing of Life with Peter Cheung On The Living Process Episode 54.

Host Greg Madison

Happy to welcome Peter Cheung from Hong Kong to The Living Process. Peter first found Focusing during his PhD research and this led to Focusing training and eventually teaching Focusing in China. Peter and his wife built an NGO dedicated to teaching Focusing and the Satir method of family therapy. Peter talks about designing and refining their way of bringing Focusing to elderly caregivers and offering Focusing in these centres throughout Hong Kong by training social workers. He also describes the Final Chapter Project: “Rediscovering Meaning, Love and Hope in Life’s Final Chapter”. This fascinating project involves very evocative experiences and a structured life review informed by Focusing. They are conducting a one-year pilot project for this end-of-life/life-death project, and preparing a facilitator’s manual.

Episode 54. Peter Cheung - https://youtu.be/iJ5zud7diPU

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. #Focusing #Gendlin #Hongkongelderly #mindfulness #satir #Bodytherapy #Experientialpractice #lifereview #Somaticwork #Zenmeditation #elderlycare #bodymind #FeltSense #couplestherapy #focusingorientedtherapy #presence #trauma #endoflife #geriatricwellbeing

Peter Cheung - Cheung Ka Hing Peter, is 80-years-old, living in Hong Kong, with studies in philosophy and theology, sociology and psychology. He learned Focusing during his PhD studies and has been a teacher, human rights organizer, Chief Editor of the Hong Kong Catholic Weekly, part-time lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, and for more than ten years a Focusing Certifying Coordinator. For more information (mostly Chinese): http://lifeinhering.org and this Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069031251540

Episode 53 of The Living ProcessMay I Exist - First Experiential-Existential Study Day University of Leuven, Belgium. April 24, 2926.Panel Members: Evi Van Mierlo, Sofie Verdegem, Siebrecht Vanhooren and Greg Madison, hosted by: Ruth Marien. Day chaired by: Claude Missiaen. For me, Greg, it is odd to have a long-standing passion for this unique form of psychotherapy and to always feel like an existentialist at Focusing events and as a Focuser at existential events, never quite belonging to either world …. Chatting with Siebrecht many years ago at a conference, I found I finally had a fellow-traveller, and under his direction, now a whole Centre dedicated to this particular instance of FOT (Focusing Oriented Therapy).But of course Experiential-Existential Psychotherapy did not start with us. There were always a handful of therapists who cared about the spirit of existentialism in Gendlin's work and the need for experiential practice in existential therapy. We honour the wonderful work of Mia Leijssen, Germain Lietaer, and Les Todres as well as our close cousins in the world of person-centred counselling and existential-phenomenological therapy. To find more information on Siebrecht Vanhooren, Claude Missiaen, Evi Mierlo, Sofie Verdegem and all their colleagues and students at the Centre for Experiential-Existential Psychotherapy, click below: The Centre for EEP: https://ppw.kuleuven.be/eep/center-for-experiential-existential-psychotherapyThe Study Day 'May I Exist': https://ppw.kuleuven.be/continue/aanbod/mag-ik-bestaan/#programmaAn Introduction to Experiential-Existential Therapy book: https://universityprofessorspress.com/product/carrying-existence-forward/Episode 53 May I Exist?: https://youtu.be/57OveC0vHaIThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLThe 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 #leuven #siebrechtvanhooren #experiential-existentialtherapy

Presence in the Mindful Moment. Serge Prengel on The Living Process. Episode 52. Host Greg Madison

Delighted to welcome Serge Prengel to The Living Process. Serge talks about how he found Focusing many years ago in New York and how he calls Focusing a form of mindfulness which he terms PROACTIVE MINDFULNESS to distinguish it from other forms. We talk about this development, the struggle to be more mindful, and the importance of physicality in change processes. We also touch on the experience of a ‘shared field’, the interaction between people, conflict and how to accept it as a part of diversity, as well as neuroscience explanations for these practices.

Episode 52 - https://youtu.be/Rixx2XJ1XfU

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

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Serge Prengel is an Focusing Oriented Therapist and Mindfulness teacher in the New York City area. He has been exploring mindfulness as an ongoing practice that includes awareness of its own inevitable failure. We strive to be more present and engaged, while recognizing that it is impossible to be completely mindful. See: ProactiveMindfulness.com

Courses for therapists: https://proactivemindfulness.com/focusing-oriented-therapy/

The Living Process is available on Youtube and all podcast platforms. Transcripts are also available on each platform. #Focusing #Gendlin #Zen #mindfulness #buddhist #Bodytherapy #Experientialpractice #Awareness #Somaticwork #Zenmeditation #authenticity #bodymind #buddhist #shame #couplestherapy #focusingorientedtherapy #presence #trauma #conflict

#neuroscience #polyvagal

Trusting Beyond Words in Therapy with Salvador Moreno López on The Living Process with Greg Madison. Episode 51.

Prof. Salvador Moreno López talks about organismic wisdom as he finds it through Focusing and in therapy sessions. Salvador emphasises the importance of trusting bodily expressions, sounds, gestures, chanting, as well as opening up to the body’s senses. He touches on the topics of empathy, Gendlin’s philosophy, intuition, as well as integrating the philosophy of Paulo Freire and María Montessori into his teaching and his practice.

Salvador teaches and supervises therapists and his courses, writing and texts, can be found below:

Terapia Orientada al Focusing | Focusing Mexico

Salvador Moreno-López

Psychotherapist, trainer of psychotherapists, and writer.

Salvador has published several books, book chapters, and articles on Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Supervision of Psychotherapeutic Work, and The Place of the Lived World in Psychotherapy. His training as a psychotherapist and consultant began with the Person-Centered Approach (Carl Rogers) and later with the Philosophy of the Implicit and Focusing (Eugene Gendlin). However, he approaches his work from an interdisciplinary perspective that connects different sources of knowledge, such as neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, literature, and music, among others.

Episode 51 - https://youtu.be/vZakIIpQ72I

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

#Focusing #focusingorientedtherapy #EugeneGendlin #FeltSense #TerapiaCentradaEnElCuerpom #EnfoqueCorporal #PsicoterapiaExperiencial #psychotherapy #SomaticExperiencing #Psicoterapia #TerapiaExistencial #TerapiaSomática #TerapeutaMexicano