New Developments
There is also now a developing school of Focusing-oriented psychotherapy. The Focusing-oriented psychotherapist, among other things, attributes a central importance to, for instance, the client's capacity to be aware of his "felt sense," and the meaning behind his words or images. The client is encouraged to sense into feelings and meanings which are not yet formed. Other elements of Focusing are also incorporated into the therapy practice, so that focusing remains the basis of the process — allowing for inner resonance and verification of ideas and feelings, and allowing new and fresh insights to come from within the client.
Other developments in Focusing include focusing alone using a journal or a sketchbook. Drawing and painting can be used with Focusing processes with children.
Focusing also happens in other domains besides therapy. Attention to the felt sense naturally takes place in all manner of processes where something new is being formed: for example in creative process, learning, thinking, and decision making. (Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy, Gendlin, 2001.)
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