Experiential Focusing (Gendlin)

Question 1

Who developed Experiential Focusing?

Answer 1

Eugene T Gendlin

An American philosopher who studied under Carl Rogers at university of Chicago

Born in Vienna, Austria in 1926 - died 2017

Question 2

What are the main points of this therapy?

Answer 2

intuitive body-feel the “felt sense.”
ability to access a nonverbal, bodily feel of the issues that brought them into therapy
a client’s ability to realize lasting positive change on their own

Question 3

Published work … Focusing

Answer 3

1978 Gendlin published his best-selling bookFocusing, which presented a six step method for discovering one’s felt sense and drawing on it for personal development

Question 4

What are the seven steps in ‘focusing’?

Answer 4

1) clearing a space. Taking an inventory of what is going on inside
2) locating the inner felt sense of the problem. Letting the felt self come. Allowing the body to ‘talk back’.
3) finding a ‘handle’ (word or image) that matches the felt sense