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Spirituality

spirituality


Many see an implicit connection between Focusing and spirituality.  This page gives a taste of where some of those connections have been made.  To let us know about other articles connecting Focusing or Gendlin's work to spirituality which you feel belong here, you can make suggestions to the webmaster at [email protected].

Interviews with Eugene T. Gendlin

This article, from Tricycle Magazine (Fall 2011), explores why Gendlin’s Buddhist students find Focusing to be compatible with meditation and use it to complement traditional contemplative practices. [PDF 4MB]

This link brings you to "Interview with Gene on his Jewishness," from October 2016, by Ruth Rosenblum and Lynn Preston.

Focusing and Spirituality

The book Integrating Spirituality in Counseling by Elfie Hinterkopf can be found in our bookstore, at this link.

Focusing and Spirituality by Elfie Hinterkopf on behalf of the Working group on Focusing and Spirituality  at the 15th International meeting, May 2003. This piece includes a Focusing-oriented description of spirituality that applies to any kind of spiritual orientation and a sample exercise showing how to enhance spiritual experiencing.

Defining the Spiritual Experience, Excerpted from Integrating Spirituality in Counseling: A Manual for Using the Experiential Focusing Method by Elfie Hinterkopf, Ph.D.

Focusing as Part of Spiritual Renewal from The Focusing Institute

Spiritual Path - in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy by Ifat Eckstein [PDF]

Focusing on focusing: Eugene Gendlin’s bodily experiencing as a means of meaning-making in Dutch spiritual care?
by Jeroen Hendriks,  2023
Master of Arts Thesis - in Theology and Religious Studies Radboud University Nijmegen Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies.  

 

Judaism   

See above the "Interview with Gene on his Jewishness."

An open letter from Rabbi Dr. Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi to his friend, colleague and Focusing partner, Dr. Eugene Gendlin

Judaism and Focusing Technique by Rabbi Goldie Milgram

Biospirituality

An article by Peter A. Campbell and Edwin M. McMahon on Biospiritual Focusing can be found here.

The website of the BioSpiritual Institute can be found here: www.biospiritual.org

Quakerism and Focusing

The book A Quaker's View by Harbert Rice explores the social implications of Eugene Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit as it functions in Quaker Practice. The book crosses Gendlin’s experiential concept of the Implicit with how the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) organize around seeking what they call the Light Within. It shows how a felt sense functions in Quaker group settings.

Focusing on the Light: A Modest Proposal by Nancy Saunders. A practice called "Focusing" shares common elements with the experience of meeting for Quaker worship.

Focusing and Buddhism:

See above the interview with Gene Gendlin from Tricycle Magazine.

A Creative Weaving An introduction from the Focusing and Buddhism Working group.