Greg Madison and Christiane Geiser
Video: Episode 38 of The Living Process
Christiane is a long-standing teacher and therapist in the person-centred world and the international Focusing Community. In this conversation, we explore the early development of Focusing and how she and her colleagues formed a supportive group to learn it based on Gendlin’s early teachings and their own empirical research. Christiane describes how initially Focusing only brought her to a state of ‘nothingness’ until she learned to become interested in this particular state. She also distinguishes between the idea that felt sensing occurs ‘in’ the body and a sense of a whole situation. We also discuss ‘structure-bound’ processes and existential questions that arise at a particular life stage.
Keywords: Focusing, GFK, Gendlin, Rogers, person-centered, structure-bound, stuck, bodytherapy, processmodel, somatic experiencing