Hi,
a quick update on progress with this topic. I've joined a couple of
focusing e-lists and have now heard from 6 people who used or are using
focusing for social science research – especially ethnography – to
access ‘embodied knowing’. Given the enthusiasm of responses – “a
turning point in the research”, “amazing in accessing knowledge about
oneself that one could not attain via the mind” etc. – I would conclude
that it is a very useful methodology for those of us working with
implicit knowing, embodied knowledge or similar that is being widely used.
One researcher also recommended the related practice of "Thinking at the
Edge (TAE) which is used to let concepts come "from our embodied knowing
so that the kind of theory and analysis that we build is based on felt
sensing and felt thinking and its relation to logic". (Quotes from a
focusing list messages).
I'd like to have a seminar session on embodied methodologies if we ever
get to run a series! More on that plan later...
Best wishes,
Adrian
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