– starting May 10! Both Carl Rogers and Eugene Gendlin have pointed out that we human beings are so used to being told what to do: growing up, in school for years, with parents and other “elders”, by teachers and by rules and legislations. As a result, we might also have been encultured into thinking…
Having it there – a way of being there for ourselves
(This text was originally written as a handout for participants on my Felt Sensing and With-Sensing (Focusing and Listening) Training. Introduction In this text I am using the word Felt Sensing instead of the usual “Focusing”. This is signify that this is not about becoming more focused, and that it’s rather about getting in touch…
Introduction to Felt Sensing (Focusing) starts March 23.
Focusing is based on the research into what leads to change
Introduction to Felt Sensing (Focusing) starts March 23.
Want to get to know your own, inner experiences better? So you can shift and move situations that seem stuck? And deeply enjoy good feelings when they are there because you know how to be with those that feel less good, when they come? Try the Introduction to Felt Sensing (Focusing):The course runs over 4…
Why Focusing is not ‘the same as’ Mindfulness
When I describe to others who are unfamiliar with Focusing, what it is, I often get the comment or question if Focusing isn’t just the same as Mindfulness. In this little piece I would like to try to outline some of the differences and similarities between Focusing and Mindfulness. To start with, I would like…
Why I came up with the course “Being a person with another person”.
There are at least two reasons I came up with the course, Being a person with another person, one of which is that I always wondered what to do next, after having become proficient at Focusing. There didn’t seem to be that much on offer if you wanted to continue exploring but didn’t want to…
Advanced listening course – Being a person with another person
Finished your levels, the Focusing and listening skills, and wondering what to do next? Try “Being a person with another person” and explore and deepen your listening to yourself and others: A 7-week advanced Zoom course about the relational sides to Felt Sensing: in regular Focusing partnerships, in helping professions and in everyday life. The…
Staying with the sense of the complexity of a problem may ease it more than breaking it down into pieces
Layer upon layer of complexity- that’s what our troubles often are. And then we like to break them into pieces to simplify and make them clear, but that’s mainly because we don’t yet know how to “have” complexity without getting overwhelmed.
The Guest House
This poem “The guest house” by Rumi, says much about what Felt Sensing is about – welcoming and getting to know each guest that arrives inside. With curiosity, openness and compassion.
Why call Focusing “Felt Sensing”?
I, Vera R. Fryd Lyngmo, am officially (by The International Focusing Institute) a Focusing Teacher/Trainer, and I am teaching (my own version of) Gendlin’s Focusing, that he discovered in his research into what leads to change (in a therapeutic setting) in the 1950’s. Attempts at explaining Focusing to people Over the years, while mentioning and trying…
