The Self-Sensing of Life with Peter Cheung On The Living Process Episode 54. Host Greg MadisonHappy 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/iJ5zud7diPUThe 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. #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 MadisonDelighted 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/Rixx2XJ1XfUThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLSerge 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.comCourses 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-LópezPsychotherapist, 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/vZakIIpQ72IThe 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 

Discovering Gendlin’s Focusing at 90 with Julie Friedeberger This celebrates EPISODE 50 of The Living Process as well as Gendlin's 100th anniversary. Julie shares her life story, including her Jewish heritage and the history of persecution of her family, her husband's persecution during the Second World War and sharing this history with Gene Gendlin and his escape to America. Julie worked on the original research with Gendlin in the late 1950s and was a client in that research. She discusses her move to England, and her dedication to teaching and writing about Yoga. Julie also talks about the challenges of her own cancer and caring for her husband with dementia, which took years to recover from. Therapy and Focusing played a significant role in her recovery. At 90, Julie rediscovered Gene’s work and began guided Focusing sessions, now pursuing practitioner training. This episode is a heartfelt tribute to Gene’s 100th anniversary, Julie's life story, and the 50th episode of The Living Process. Episode 50 - https://youtu.be/6h-ipxRo1G4The Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLJulie Friedeberger Bio: Born in NYC 1935. She worked as a Research Secretary at the U of C counselling centre when Gendlin was there. She left America for London in 1961 to marry her husband, painter Klaus Friedeberger. Later and for many years she taught teaching and wrote about yoga and trained with Swami Dharmananda Saraswati in the Satyananda tradition. Jule wrote A Visible Wound: A Healing Journey through Breast Cancer (1996) and The Healing Power of Yoga (2006). The books are out of print but available on Amazon and ABE Books.https://www.dunerastories.monash.edu/dunera-stories/klaus-friedeberger.html#yoga #Gendlin #Focusing #somatic #embodiedpractice #existential #consciousaging #Carlrogers #person-centred

The Living Process with guest, Monica Gomez Galez, hosted by Greg MadisonBiodecoding  & Wholebody Focusing. Episode 49 Monica tells many fascinating stories about her Focusing journey and her life experiences. For example at her first Focusing event she shared a cigarette with a man outside, telling him that she thought these Focusing people are crazy. That man turned out to be Eugene Gendlin. Monica combines Biodecoding, a way of working with physical symptoms, with Wholebody Focusing. Each physical symptom points to a solution which returns the whole being to its balance. Through Biodecoding and Focusing she has a better understanding of her own Body History, and has been able to evolve her listening practice to include an awareness of biological function. These ideas are based on an approach by psychotherapists and researchers Christian Flèche, Dr. Ryke Gerd Hamer, Marc Fréchet, and others.  Episode 49 - Biodecoding and Wholebody Focusing with Monica Gomez Galaz: https://youtu.be/UCrjIoLRJkIThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLBio: Monica has a background in Engineering and Finance before becoming a Coach, a certifying Coordinator, and Focusing Trainer offering courses in Mexico City. She currently teaches Focusing and A Process Model in Montserrat, northern Spain. She has a book coming out soon, Rotos para Descosidos, offering a fresh and honest look at the experiences of couples. Monica always enjoys good conversation with a generous amount of humour. She is considering offering a new certifying programme in Mexico. Her email is: [email protected] https://wholebodyfocusing.com/community/monica-gomez-galaz

The Power of Gentle Presence, with John Amodeo, PhD on The Living Process with Greg Madison, PhD. Episode 48. I am pleased to welcome back Dr John Amodeo to talk about his new book, The Power of Gentle Presence, Insights for Inner Peace and Deeper Relationships. John brings his usual good humour and years of experience as a psychologist, Buddhist meditator and Focusing person to this discussion of the many topics he touches on in his new book. The book integrates new versions of articles from his widely-read regular column in Psychology Today. In this episode John and I talk about emotional safety, shame, love, the inner critic and understanding these issues on a wider national level in contemporary politics. John Amodeo. PhD, LMFT, holds graduate degrees in both Clinical Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology. He is the author of five books and has a very popular regular column in Psychology Today. John is a Certified Focusing Trainer and Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist. He has lectured at universities internationally, and has featured on national television and radio programs. He has led workshops at Esalen Institute, JFK University, The Omega Institute, and The New York Open Center, and resides in Sonoma County, California.For more information on John and his work see: https://www.johnamodeo.comEpisode 48. with John Amodeo: https://youtu.be/3J9a2C1rbocThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links:https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/Living Process on the FOT Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx3FqA70kQWuHCHmEiZnkn1VcrRIPbcvkThe Living Process is available on Youtube and all podcast platforms. Transcripts are also available on each platform. #Focusing #Gendlin #Zen #johnamodeo #buddhist #Bodytherapy #Experientialpractice #Awareness #Somaticwork #Zenmeditation #authenticity #bodymind #buddhist #shame #couplestherapy #focusingorientedtherapy #presence

Followup Episode with Dana Ganihar and Baruch Brenner. ... Wisdom Beyond Steps. Episode 47 of The Living Process with Greg Madison. Delighted to invite Dana and Baruch back for a followup conversation discussing their rich crossing of the Kabbalistic wisdom tradition with Focusing and Gendlin’s philosophy in A Process Model. There was an alarm near the beginning so we had to pause the recording until it was safe to continue. Together we explore what we might be missing when we only use Focusing for a specific life situation. Dana and Baruch emphasise that Focusing also offers a pathway into something deeper about who we are as human beings, opening into the mystery of what life is. They say ‘You are the carrying forward of life’ and this offers Focusing practice that transcends the interpersonal and psychological sphere. You will hear some divergence in our views, which I hope to be able to explore further! Episode 47 - Kabbalah and Focusing wisdom beyond steps: https://youtu.be/KsYsM8h-cgoThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLDana and Baruch run Shakio Institute. Check out their website for upcoming courses and resources in Hebrew and English: https://shakio.org/en/Dana Ganihar, M.Sc. is a Focusing Coordinator since 2007. Over the last couple decades she has taught Gendlin’s work and initiated cooperative research exploring the impact of Focusing and TAE on diverse fields at various universities.Baruch Brenner is an Israeli theater director, actor, singer, teacher, focusing trainer and an ordained Orthodox Rabbi. He is a leading innovator integrating spiritual practices with experiential work in theater, movement and vocal arts. He facilitates workshops exploring religious and mystical traditions, with an emphasis on Jewish mysticism - Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy - making them accessible to the general public.

Coming to Where You Are, with Frans Sandbergen on The Living Process, with Greg Madison Episode 46. Frans is a very engaging story-teller, weaving together his own life with discovering Focusing and then working with Gene Gendlin for 12 years. In speaking with Gene and Nada Lou, Frans used a TAE process to describe the reality of the imaginary world of ‘Marfrano’ and how it helps people to discover their deeper direction in life. Frans developed terms like ‘the university that you are’, ‘the theory of coming to where you are (Theory M),  the importance of ‘following the smiling thought’, the difference between ‘the real world and the formal world’, and how to find one’s ‘inner profession’. In developing the ‘art of getting lost’, Frans offers an intriguing example of Focusing as a creative change process. His book, Het Wil, is hopefully arriving in English soon. Using his model, he works with organisational groups and individuals offering listening communities called métier guilds and one-to-one sessions called ‘Cartographic Conversations’. Episode 46 - Coming to Where You Are, with Frans Sandbergen: https://youtu.be/Oz1k4Lkt8-MThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLFrans SandbergenFrans has 30 years’ experience in creating listening guilds in organizations and beyond, thus encouraging hidden talent in each of us to do its wondrous work in a world that urgently needs it. He has practical studies in western and eastern philosophy, Focusing since 1997, and working with Eugene Gendlin 2005-2017. He is the author of ‘IT Wants’, a pledge for unknown talent, Cartographic Conversation, Theory M, the theory of coming to where you are. Frans is a master at creating new worlds which then become an entrance to the vast world of ‘the real’. Smiling thought often serves as a clear direction in these explorations! He is informal co-mayor of a once fictitious city in the south of Europe. His book will soon be available in English - www.hetwil.nl

Owning your Attention with Prof Larry Berger on The Living Process with Greg Madison, E045. This is a packed episode with Larry Berger talking about ‘Attention’ and then ‘attention activism’ as an attempt for humans to regain some ownership over our attention. Larry talks about his correspondence with Gene, the ‘fracking of attention’ and the political implications of where we place our attention. There are a number of links below for further exploration of these topics. Also check out Larry’s book, The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness. “Lawrence Berger calls for the recognition of attention as indispensable for reshaping our traditional views of the body, self, and politics. Rigorous yet accessible, this book offers readers interested in hermeneutics, phenomenology, and political philosophy valuable new insights into the gathering power of attention for individual and community formation.”Episode 45 - Owning Your Attention with Larry Berger: https://youtu.be/yn6qlgwqzCcThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLLawrence Berger is a former professor of business and currently teaches philosophy while writing about his main themes, including, “Being There: Heidegger on Why Our Presence Matters”. This article appeared in the New York Times philosophy blog and was the most shared article on the day of its publication in 2015. In addition to numerous articles on the philosophy of attention, Larry has recently published the book, The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness, which gives Gendlin’s A Process Model a central role. Below are links to some of the groups Larry mentioned. https://friendsofattention.orghttps://deeptransformation.network/posts/96050390?utm_source=manualwww.belovedcommunitycircles.orghttps://focusinginternational.org(Community Wellness initiatives)