Hi,
I am a focusing trainer and also a PhD candidate who is examining the
meaning of the body following hip fracture. I have been considering
applying Gendlin's philosophy of the implicit. There was a student at UBC
who wrote his master's thesis (qualitative) based upon Gendlin's focusing
and I was a study participant.
By the way, focusing is amazing in accessing knowledge about oneself that
one could not attain via the mind.
Jo-Ann Zyla
UBC School of Human Kinetics
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Subject: Gendlin's Focusing process
Hi,
has Gendlin's Focusing technique been applied in a qualitative research
context? For those even less familiar with his work than I am, the
following is taken from wikipedia, so I can't vouch for it's accuracy
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Gendlin)
QUOTE:
Gendlin is a philosopher and psychotherapist who developed ways of
thinking about and working with implicit knowing.
Focusing, emerged from Gendlin's collaboration with psychologist Carl
Rogers. Gendlin developed a way of measuring the extent to which an
individual refers to a felt sense; and he found in a series of studies
that therapy clients who have positive outcomes do much more of this. He
then developed a way of teaching people to refer to their felt sense, so
clients could do better in therapy. This training is called 'Focusing'.
Many of Gendlin's writings available online at the Focusing Institute
http://www.focusing.org/
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A cursory look at basic focusing techniques suggests that this
(apparently) simple method of helping people access implicit knowing -
which Gendlin understands as being embodied - may suit those of us
researching in this area. But I haven't come across any references to it
being used. Any thoughts?
Cheers!
Adrian
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