June 14, 2020
An Online Class Facilitated by Akira Ikemi
Part of The Focusing Highlights Series
In this class, participants will explore Focusing with Akira Ikemi. During the first part of the class, Akira will introduce the philosophy from where Gene got the idea of experiencing. Experiencing and Re-experiencing (Nacherleben), the central principles of Focusing, will be explained with a demonstration session of Crossing with Animals, a Focusing exercise Akira developed to highlight these principles.
The second part of the class will take you to Akira’s blend of Focusing and Mindfulness through talks on space and a demonstration of Kanga Focusing. By Focusing on thoughts that emerge during mindfulness, gratitude and compassion will be brought to the many selves operating behind the thinking-mind.
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Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. studied with Professor Eugene Gendlin at the University of Chicago around the time the book Focusing was being published. After working in a hospital setting in Japan, he has taught full time at a number of universities in Japan and is currently professor at Kansai University Graduate School of Psychology. He is a Certifying Coordinator of The International Focusing Institute (TIFI). In addition to several organizations in Japan and the UK where he has served as a board member, he is a former board member and a former ILC member of TIFI. He is one of the founders and past presidents of the Japan Focusing Associations. He has written many articles and books in Japanese and in English. Besides teaching and researching at the university, he travels all over Japan as well as to many international locations to offer Focusing workshops. In 2019 he was named as a Living Luminary by the Journal of Humanistic Counseling (American Counseling Association).
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