Untangling with Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin

We (Ann and Barbara) developed the Untangling® method over more than 25 years of research into what really does work to shift stuck life issues.

We’d like to share what we’ve learned with you.

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We created Untangling® because we ourselves were Tangled up in painfully impossible situations.

In Ann’s case, addiction to alcohol. In Barbara’s case, depression that sometimes became suicidal. Focusing as we knew it then didn’t help. We had to come up with an approach that gave us real relief… and we did, in a series of intensive Focusing partnership sessions starting in September 1994.

Almost immediately, people asked us to teach them what we were learning. Since 1995 we have been leading Untangling® retreats three or four times a year all over the world, enabling lasting change for hundreds and hundreds of people. We’ve refined our methods so that they are as easy to use and as effective as we can possibly make them… though we are still learning all the time.

Over time, our own lives have really changed. We have better relationships, more satisfying work, more fun… We are operating on a bigger scope with fewer limitations. And perhaps most important, when something is not wonderful, we have grounded, practical, dependable processes for facing those difficulties with calm, confident energy.