Below you will find links to
• Recommended Focusing Organizations
• Recommended Articles
• Recommended Books
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ON THE WEB:
The Focusing Institute
The Focusing institute was founded in 1986 By Eugene Gendlin and it provides a wealth of information on Focusing and its many applications in different professional fields. On the site you will also find a listing of trainings offered in New York, international Focusing events, and a world-wide listing of Focusing Professionals. By becoming a member of the Focusing Institute you will receive:
a newsletter (three times a year), access to an online data base for requesting Focusing partners, and a printed listing of Focusing Professionals internationally.
Focusing Resources
Focusing Resources was founded in 1985 by Ann Weiser Cornell and offers advanced and beginning Focusing training and workshops, both in the Bay Area (California) as well as internationally. The site contains a wealth of articles and information. On the site you will also be able to subscribe to The Focusing Connection Newsletter, a wonderfully practical and inspiring publication coming out six times of the year (you can choose to receive it electronically or by mail). It is easy to read and fully engaging.
Inner Relationship Focusing
This site presents Inner Relationship Focusing Trainers around the world and the courses they offer.
Rob Foxcroft Experiential Focusing
Rob’s website is a delicious presentation of Focusing, full of art and Rob’s wonderful writing and all-embracing approach.
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RECOMMENDED FOCUSING ARTICLES:
If You Are New To Focusing:
Three Key Aspects of Focusing (1998) by Ann Weiser Cornell
Radical Gentleness: The Transformation of the Inner Critic (2005) by Ann Weiser Cornell
Imagery is More Powerful with Focusing: Theory and Practice (1980) by Eugene Gendlin
For Therapists:
Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy (1974) by Eugene Gendlin
The Client’s Client: The Edge of Awareness (1984) by Eugene Gendlin
Fragile Process by Margaret Warner
Research Review (2001) by Marion N. Hendricks
For Body-Workers, Movement and Somatic Therapists, and Other Body-Centered Professionals:
Report on Focusing in the Body-Centered Professions:
Meeting at the Edge in Ischia May 14-17, 2007
A Repertory of Felt Shifts (2006) by Francesca Castaldi
Into the Fear-Factory: Treating Children of Trauma with Body-Maps (2007) by Bart Santen
For Social Activists and Peace-Makers:
A Community Based Approach To Focusing: The Islam and Focusing Project of Afghanistan (2007) by Pat Omidian and Nina Joy Lawrence
Focusing in El Salvador (2007) by Beatrice Blake
Focusing, Creativity, and Person-Centered Democracy in Group Settings (2007) by Francesca Castaldi
On the Philosophy of the Implicit:
The Philosophy of the Implicit: An Introduction to the Work of Gene Gendlin (2007) by Rob Parker
The Responsive Order: A New Empiricism (1997) by Eugene Gendlin
On Thinking At the Edge:
Introduction to Thinking At the Edge (2004) by Eugene Gendlin
Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning: Preface to the Paper Edition (1997) by Eugene Gendlin
A Philosophical Car for Focusers, 1999 Model (1999) by Eugene Gendlin
The Primacy of the Body, Not the Primacy of Perception: How the Body Knows the Situation and Philosophy (1992) by Eugene Gendlin
And More:
Thanks to the efforts of The Focusing Institute we now have the Gendlin Online Library containing 137 documents, including Gendlin’s life work A Process Model
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
Focusing
(2007 edition) by Eugene Gendlin
The Radical Acceptance of Everything
(2005) by Ann Weiser Cornell
I know I am in There Somewhere
(2003) by Helene Brenner
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
(1996) by Eugene Gendlin
Person-Centered Therapy: The Focusing-Oriented Approach
(2004) by Campbell Purton
Focusing with Children
(2008 English translation) by Marta Stapert and Erik Verliefde
Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy
(2008) by Laury Rappaport
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