Coaching practices for Focusing and the Felt Sense as a Parent
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I land on a name for what I’m feeling and just take my own word for it and move on
- When I think about this whole situation there’s something my body clearly registers
- I can feel this murky thing inside me clearly enough, but every word I reach for to describe it feels like a guess from my head that doesn’t quite land
- I can finally feel and name what’s going on in me, but then I leap straight to the sensible from-the-head fix
- The instant something painful surfaces
Practices that may help
- Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable. - Resonate and check
Shuttle between the word and the body to confirm the felt sense is accurately captured.
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Find the felt sense
Locate the unclear, whole-body sense of a situation before you name it.
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Find a handle word or image
Let a word, phrase, or image arise from the felt sense — not the other way around.
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Ask the felt sense what it needs
Once a handle fits, gently ask the felt sense: "What does this need? What would help?"
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Receive what comes with friendliness
Welcome whatever emerges from the felt sense without judgment or urgency to fix it.
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Notice and carry forward the felt shift
Recognize the physical release that signals the felt sense has been genuinely met.
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Build mindsight by reflecting inner experience
Describe your own inner experience in everyday conversation to build the child’s "mind-seeing" capacity.
The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson) - Notice the noticer: find the observing awareness
Shift attention from what you are noticing to the awareness that is doing the noticing.
The Witness Stance - Distinguish applying from sustaining attention
First, aim attention at the object (applying); then, stay with it without tightening (sustaining).
Shamatha: The Buddhist Practice of Calm Abiding
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Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable.
- Focusing And The Felt Sense During A Big Change
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable.
- Focusing And The Felt Sense During Conflict
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable.
- Focusing And The Felt Sense When Starting Out
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable.
- Asking The Felt Sense
Once a handle fits, gently ask the felt sense: "What does this need? What would help?"
Ask the felt sense what it needs
- Felt Sense
Locate the unclear, whole-body sense of a situation before you name it.
Find the felt sense
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