An overview of the research on Focusing, including where bodily responses have been measured directly (e.g. galvanic skin response) and using qualitative research (e.g. experiencing scale).

Focusing can give us the energy to take action steps. We can also ask the body for an action step. For example: “What action would I take if my body were like that?” But then we have to take the action steps for true change to occur.

In this blog, I cover the parts and qualities of our selves we can map with the felt sense body cards. I’ve found this work to be the best use of the cards. However, they are also quite useful for recording what comes in any Focusing session.

We can experience a shift by expressing something for the first time. However, after a while, Gendlin says that “discharging it over and over won't help. We need the felt sense of the wider context to form, and lead to new emotions that have not yet formed, and we need the series of steps that can come from a felt sense.”

A really powerful and personal way to find calm is to visit a memory of a time we have felt this way in real life. For many, this is a time in nature. This blog explores ways to achieve calm, and what to do if finding calm is elusive.

Focusing and meditation are two different practices that complement each other. While they have many similarities, they have a different effect on the body and the mind. For example, in Focusing one experiences a felt shift.

This is the story of how the PUPA process came to be. A pupa is the stage in insects, between the larva and adult. In butterflies, this is the chrysalis. The PUPA process creates a safe space for transformation, by combining Focusing, Theory U and the 8Cs of Self-Leadership.

Nature has such a calming effect. When we’re in nature we relax and stress melts away. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not always possible to get out into nature. The practice of Focusing can take you back to a previous time in nature. Sinking into your body and reliving a memory can evoke feelings of awe, calm, relaxation and connection.