Part of The Focusing & Thinking series

On Relating — In & Out of Therapy

a 5-week course on CD

with Eugene Gendlin & Ann Weiser Cornell

Cost: $79.95

On Relating — In & Out of Therapy is for anyone who wants to explore different ways of relating with other people. We discuss each topic first in therapy settings and then in the more complex realm of close personal relationships. So many difficulties in relationship occur when we express feelings with trust and honesty, yet the other person feels hurt or angry, withdraws or attacks.

"We happen in the environment." By that, Gendlin means that any living body is interaction. It's not that we have bodies and then they inhale air and take in food; there's not even a single cell that isn't already interaction! Just as we can't survive without air and food, we also can't develop as persons unless we interact and are interacted with, from the very start.

This is an edited version of a live, 5-week phone seminar with the creator of Focusing and one of his most well-known students.

Topics Include:

• How to stay in touch with our whole selves in a conflict situation, and why that is key
  
  
• How getting stronger – inside and outside – enables us to have more room for the other person and for ourselves
  
  
• Why it’s so much easier to treat clients with genuinely felt acceptance than our own family members
  
  
• Some very specific ways to behave in relationships so that stopped and stuck interactions can complete in new ways

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About the Teachers

Eugene T. Gendlin is a groundbreaking philosopher as well as a psychotherapist who has been honored four times by the American Psychological Association for his development of Experiential Psychotherapy. His widely influential book, Focusing, has sold over 500,000 copies and is in seventeen languages. His other books include Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams, Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, A Process Model and Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning. He's also a warm brilliant man who lights up a room with the quality of his listening.

Ann Weiser Cornell was getting her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Chicago when she met and studied with Eugene Gendlin, starting in 1972. In 1980, Gene invited Ann to assist with his Focusing workshops. This started her on a path to become a Focusing teacher, and in 1990, Ann became the first person to support herself full-time as a Focusing teacher. Today, Ann is internationally recognized as one of the leading innovators and theoreticians of Focusing. She is the author of The Power of Focusing and The Radical Acceptance of Everything.

About the Focusing & Thinking Series

The Focusing and Thinking Series is a series of phone seminars offered by Gene Gendlin and Ann Weiser Cornell that explore the implications of Gene Gendlin's Philosophy of the Implicit and the Focusing process to a broad range of topics including relationships, creativity, social change, psychotherapy, dreams, and thinking.

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