Directory of Inner Relationship Teachers

Jan Hodgman, MA

I come to Focusing from a strong Buddhist background as an ordained Zen priest with 8 years of monastic training in Japan. Focusing has given me an essential piece of the mind-body Oneness “puzzle.” My Focusing training has been with Reva Bernstein and Ann Weiser Cornell, and I’ve sat in on Eugene Gendlin’s Theory Construction course, an early form of Thinking at the Edge.

It is my experience that our wellspring of inner wisdom holds the nourishment for both spirituality and creativity. Along with Focusing Inner Relationship Levels workshops, I have taught “Focusing for Musicians,” “Focusing for Writers,” and love working one-on-one with people tapping, shaping, and getting to know intimately their spirituality/creativity and helping it function in the world. Most recently, I’ve completed a unit in Clinical Pastoral Education and served as a hospital chaplain. Through this experience I’ve come to appreciate as sacred my role as “midwife” for people facing death or serious illness, and coping with grief and loss.

Personally I’ve found Focusing helpful in being with my mother’s Alzheimer’s, companioning in hospice programs, working with cross-cultural issues, making career decisions and learning to give space to my Inner Critic.

In person sessions in Anacortes, Washington. Phone sessions as well.

Phone: (360) 293-2367

Email: jhodgman@comcast.net

Website: www.zenjan.com