adrian - hello - i don't know about qualitative research and focusing, but you might be interested in a two-part course i taught on gendlin as part of embodiment studies in the individualized MA program at my college in the US. the course handouts are posted at http://web.goddard.edu/embodiment/workshops.html.
we seem to have had similar intuitions about the importance to embodiment studies of gendlin's work.
i'd be glad to correspond with anyone who wants to talk more about this.
ellie epp
> 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/
>
> END
>
> 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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