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Get Bigger Than What’s Bugging You
Keep Calm & Carry On? Doesn’t Work, Does It?
It absolutely doesn’t work to try to stuff our feelings and impose calm. “Get over it.” “Think lovely thoughts.” All those positive thinking methods share the same problem: they ignore what is so. Wouldn’t you like to be able to be calm and cool…no matter what’s going on? The secret is to get bigger.
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Getting Started with Healthy Boundaries
Your needs matter just as much as the needs of others.
And if you have a hard time believing this, Ann’s free mini-course can help!
Relief from Burnout
Getting Your Self Back Again
If life is starting to feel unmanageable, you may be experiencing burnout.
Join Ann for this free mini-course to experience ways the Focusing process helps you live a calmer, more resourced and emotionally resilient life.
Prioritizing You: Self-Care Made Simple
Self-care isn’t selfish—it’s the key to a happier, more fulfilling life.
Taking care of yourself benefits your relationships too. When you’re grounded and emotionally fulfilled, you show up as the best version of you.
Turning Obstacles into Doorways
For Healing Professionals
Do your clients get stuck in difficult emotional states?
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Transform Your Relationship to Your Inner Critic
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Videos
Support for Stressful Times Series
2023 was a difficult year. Ann hosted a series of webinars to share some processes you can use to feel calmer when the stress and anxiety gets a bit too much
Watch all of the videos here.
Inner Peace for Challenging Times Series
In each of these short videos, Ann tells the story of someone in a tough situation who used Inner Relationship Focusing to feel calmer, clearer, and more peaceful… so that hopefully you can, too.
Watch all of the videos here.
Next step: How about trying Focusing for yourself?
Our One-to-One Sessions give you a way to experience a Focusing process applied to exactly what you are wanting to change or learn more about in yourself.
Blogs + Articles
The Focusing Connection
May 2013 was our last issue of The Focusing Connection newsletter. Subscriptions are no longer available, however, all of our back issues are available as digital PDFs.
For a list of past issues with article titles, click here.
Articles
These resources here are available online for those interested in learning more about Focusing. Our Library section is frequently updated with new material, so you may want to bookmark this page so you can easily return. The sections below link to articles in English. We also have articles in the following languages:
Chinese (中文) German (Deutsch) Spanish (Español)
French (Français) Italian (Italiano) Dutch (Nederlands)
Norwegian (Norsk) Portuguese (Português)
Learn About Focusing
Three Key Aspects of Focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell
Ten Ways to Use Focusing in Daily Life by Ann Weiser Cornell (PDF 38.12 MB)
Inner Relationship Focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell & Barbara McGavin
The Origins and Development of Inner Relationship Focusing By Ann Weiser Cornell
How to Tell If You’re Focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell
When Your Felt Sense Speaks to You…What to Say Back by Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD
The Attitude of Not-Knowing by Ann Weiser Cornell
Presence Meets Ego by Ann Weiser Cornell
Doubtful Mind, Wise Body by Ann Weiser Cornell
Focusing Partnership
Safe Focusing with (Almost) Any Partner by Ann Weiser Cornell
Focusing Partnership: A Structure for Freedom by David Shindoll
Self-Acceptance
Radical Gentleness: The Transformation of the Inner Critic by Ann Weiser Cornell
The Radical Acceptance of Everything by Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD
Getting Unstuck
The Seven Secrets to Getting Unblocked By Ann Weiser Cornell
How to Use Focusing to Release Blocks to Action by Ann Weiser Cornell
Physical Pain
Focusing with Small Physical Ailments by Barbara McGavin
A Remarkable Focusing Session with Pain from Severe Physical Damage by Bev Stevenson
Self-in-Presence: The Transformative Agent in Healing Chronic Pain (PDF 101kb) by Cathy Rowan
Working with OCD
What is the Difference Between Focusing and Therapy? by Ann Weiser Cornell
An Invitation to Presence by Ann Weiser Cornell (PDF .96 MB) Focusing helps clients embrace their most feared emotions. From Psychotherapy Networker Nov/Dec 2005
Something New Here & Now: Breaking Free of the Habitual by Ann Weiser Cornell
The Power of Listening by Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD
Some Notes on Language by Ann Weiser Cornell
Questioning Questions by Ann Weiser Cornell
Fragile Process by Margaret Warner
Right in Their Hands: How Gestures Imply the Body’s Next Steps By Glenn Fleisch
An Earlier and (Perhaps) More Searching Focusing by Rob Foxcroft
The Philosophy of the Implicit: An Introduction to the Work of Gene Gendlin by Rob Parker An articulate and exciting presentation of the fundamental philosophy behind how Focusing works.
Living Forward by Mia Leijssen (PDF) This manuscript sets the process of Focusing into a transpersonal matrix.
Dreams – A Summary by Barbara McGavin
Five Reasons Why Focusing is Not Better Known (Yet) by Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD
Treasure Maps/Untangling®
Treasure Maps to the Soul by Barbara McGavin and Ann Weiser Cornell
The Pink Silk Arrow: An Example of Treasure Maps/Untangling® by Ann Weiser Cornell
Completed Certification Projects
Using Focusing In Emotion-Focused Thearpy: A Therapist Interview Study by Agathi Lakioti (PDF)
Distant Process Focusers by Anne-Marie Lafortune (PDF). The main objective of the project is to explore the characteristics of distancing process and find the language and the gateways that can allow Distant Process focusers to be with felt senses and taste the gifts of life forward movements.
Being a Focusing Schoolteacher – The Role of the Implicit at School by Arno Katz (PDF). A high school teacher who is now a Focusing practitioner as well writes about how he brings a Focusing way of being into his classroom, and the implications of that for dealing with student complaints, evaluating and grading, solving conflicts, etc. He also tells about teaching Focusing to the other teachers at the school. And finally, how Focusing supports his self-care in a stressful environment. Written in a way that is personal, readable, and grounded in the body.
Focusing Transitions: Leading In and Coming Out by Chava Levy, LCSW
Inner Relationship Focusing and Embodied Awakening by Cielle Backstrom (PDF). A look at how Focusing integrates with a number of spiritual growth processes including: Trillium Awakening; John Welwood’s Love and Awakening; shamanic energy healing; and the work of the Heart Math Institute.
Distinguishing Between Form and Function in the Focusing Process by Jill Drummond (PDF). A look at the essential functions of the Focusing process and the various forms of instruction used to teach them.
An Exploration of Focusing in combination with Massage Therapy by Kate Tremblay
Tools for Teaching Disidentification: Some Exercises, Games, Metaphors, Humor by Marcella Calabi. This paper offers a collection of exercises and tools to help take a step back from the experience at hand and tap into a larger sense of self and the curiosity and empathy that self inhabits so that responses to emotional challenges can come from more grounded, present states.
The Interactive Lead In: Exploring an alternative Lead In for Inner Relationship Focusing by Otto Vogt
Bringing Focusing to a Counselling Supervision Group by Paula Newman (PDF). Follow the experiences of a counselling supervision group as they integrate Focusing and bodily felt senses into the clinical aspects of group supervision over the course of an academic year.
A collection of great articles about Focusing from the British Focusing Teachers’ Association
- An Introduction to Focusing by Susan Jordan
- Touching the Source by Rob Foxcroft
- Solo Focusing by Kay Hoffmann
- Focusing as a Doorway for Spiritual Growth by Lesley Wilson and Addie van der Kooy
- Focusing in Gaza by Jerry Conway
- Reflections on Being (Some Sort of) a ‘Focusing-Oriented’ Therapist by Peter Afford
- Transforming our Inner Critics: the Power of Presence by Barbara McGavin
