This blog covers three ways that you can improve your Focusing partnerships, including by asking for what you need as the Focuser, being clear with your boundaries as the listener. The advice is inspired by Dr. Janet Klein’s Interactive Focusing, as well as by Gendlin’s words.

How we listen can greatly affect the interaction we have with the other person we are connecting with. Here are five ways to increase safety while listening which ultimately can allow for more flow in experiences (felt shifts!) or generative conversations.