GENDLIN GRANT FOR RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY 2025
Marisa Hoslet - recipient of the Gendlin Grant For Original Research In Psychology
Marisa Hoslet's groundbreaking research project is "A Mixed Methods Approach to Enhancing Student Well-being: Exploring Focusing, Mindfulness and Fear of Failure Training."
ABOUT THE EUGENE T. GENDLIN CENTER
The Eugene T. Gendlin Center
for Research in Experiential Philosophy and Psychology of The International Focusing Institute
The Eugene T. Gendlin Center for Research in Experiential Philosophy and Psychology was created in honor of Gene Gendlin to promote high level academic research that builds on the work he did in philosophy and psychology, as well as encouraging interdisciplinary work.
Shortly after Gene Gendlin’s death in 2017, the Board of the Institute passed a resolution to create an initiative within the International Focusing Institute to promote high level academic research to build on Gene’s legacy.
The Gendlin Research Center consists of a distinguished group of academics in philosophy and psychology, all experts in Gendlin's work as well as in their broader academic field. They meet monthly to further the purpose of promoting academy-level research based in the work of Gene Gendlin. See below for members of the committee.
Thanks to generous donors, a major initiative of the Gendlin Research Center is the Gendlin Grant for Original Research in Psychology. See below for more information on these two grant recipients.
Gendlin Symposia began in April 2021. Read more below.
Donations to the Gendlin Center are used to fund the Gendlin Grant For Original Research In Psychology as well as the Gendlin Philosophy Prize. We need your donations to help promote high quality research. To contribute, go to our donations page and choose Gendlin Center for Research in the dropdown "Fund" menu.
Contact the Gendlin Center for Research here: [email protected]
| $1,000 GENDLIN PHILOSOPHY PRIZE – 2026 |
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Eugene Gendlin received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1958 and served as an associate professor in the departments of Philosophy and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago from 1964 until 1995.
In 2023, The Eugene T. Gendlin Center for Research in Experiential Philosophy and Psychology (Gendlin Research Center for short) announced a new prize for young scholars in philosophy.
The purpose of the award is to help generate interest in Gendlin’s philosophy among young scholars. Therefore, the author of the paper must be a current graduate student in philosophy or have received their Ph.D. in philosophy within the past 4 years.
The Eugene T. Gendlin Center for Research in Experiential Philosophy and Psychology (Gendlin Research Center for short) is delighted to announce a new prize for young scholars in philosophy.
| ACADEMICS TEACHING IN UNIVERSITY |
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A list of academics who are teaching Gendlin in university settings here.
It is our goal to compile a list of every scholar in the world who is explicitly teaching aspects of Gendlin’s theoretical and/or practice-oriented work in an academic institution.
The goal is to help students to find scholars and institutions that support their interest in Gendlin’s work. We also hope that it will help scholars and researchers to connect and to enhance collaboration.
See the list of academics we have gathered so far at this link.
If Gendlin appears on your syllabus in a university course you are teaching, please let us know that you're out there! (If you prefer not to be listed publicly, you are welcome to indicate that.) If so, please take this survey and when you have completed it, write to [email protected] to let us know you've done so.
| RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS |
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We have a treasure trove of information about research in experiential psychology on our site experiential-researchers.org.
The page on Research Instruments has information on a number of research instruments.
| GENDLIN GRANT 2024 |
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Gendlin Grant For Original Research In Psychology Award Year: 2024
Award Amount: Total award(s) up to $5,000
The Gendlin Center grant is a competitive award for promising original research advancing the Focusing process as an evidence-based practice. We are looking for quantitative research proposals which utilize rigorous methodologies. Priority is given to research design that has high potential for publication in a quality peer-reviewed journal. <SEE DETAILS>
| GENDLIN GRANT FOR ORIGINAL RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY AWARD |
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Read about the work of recipients of the Gendlin Grant: Siebrecht Vanhooren, Mohamed Altawil, Kumiyo Sakai and Marisa Hoslet
| RECOMMENDED PUBLICATIONS & INFORMATION ON FOCUSING RESEARCH |
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Collection of links: Philosophers who preceded “A Process Model” — with a focus on the philosophical background of the first half of the 20th century
- Research studies seeking subjects
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Thinking at the edge in the context of embodied critical thinking: Finding words for the felt dimension of thinking within research Donata Schoeller (2022)
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The Current Status of Research on Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy: A Summary and Invitation Rob Parker, PhD (2022)
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Gendlin Center-Sponsored Research Now Published: In The Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Journal
- Our list of recommended publications here
- DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
- 2001 ARTICLE REVIEW: Focusing-Oriented/Experiential Psychotherapy
By Marion Hendricks Gendlin
| GENDLIN SYMPOSIUM |
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2023 GENDLIN SYMPOSIUM
The theme of the 2023 Gendlin Symposium was "Deliberative Transformation: Embodied Phenomenology and Process Thinking" and was co-sponsored by DePaul University (Chicago, USA), the University of Iceland and Koblenz University (Switzerland).
2021 GENDLIN SYMPOSIUM
"Saying What We Mean: a Symposium on the Work of Eugene Gendlin" was offered by the Departments of Psychology and Philosophy at Seattle University, in partnership with The Gendlin Research Center of The International Focusing Institute. The name of the symposium comes from the recently published collection of Gendlin's essays, Saying What We Mean. This extraordinary collection, edited by Edward Casey and Donata Schoeller, brings together a series of essays demonstrating Gendlin’s creative and insightful ability to balance conversations across a wide range of voices in philosophy and psychology.
The Psychology and Philosophy of Eugene Gendlin (Psychology and the Other) is an edited collection of presentations offered at the 2021 conference.
SEE VIDEOS FROM 2021 GENDLIN SYMPOSIUM
Gendlin Center-Sponsored Research Now Published
In The Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Journal <SEE DETAILS>
SEE DETAILS OF 2019 OF AWARD
Exciting New Research on Focusing
by Leslie Ellis
| BOOK OF SELECTED PROCEEDINGS OF 2021 GENDLIN SYMPOSIUM |
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The Psychology and Philosophy of Eugene Gendlin (Psychology and the Other)
Eric R. Severson and Kevin C. Krycka
This book is an outcome of our 2021 Gendlin Symposium, which was the work of the Gendlin Research Center and the Departments of Psychology and Philosophy at Seattle University. Drs. Severson and Krycka were chairs of that event and these essays were presented at that Symposium.
| WHAT IS FOCUSING |
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Focusing is an experiential, embodied and evidence-based practice of self-reflection (Krycka & Ikemi, 2016). During Focusing, your attention will open up to multiple layers and aspects of living. It’s called Focusing because it requires a special kind of “focus” to notice what is not yet clear, fuzzy and vague, implicit in how you interact with your situations and environment. This fuzzy dimension of experience is called “felt sense”.
Focusing on the “felt sense” allows an in-depth clarification process to happen. Sometimes this leads to an amazing experience that the body is reliable in its living forward tendency. For some persons, Focusing is a very natural process, others can do this with some training. The subtle movements experienced during a Focusing session have the potential to transforms the framework of thinking and stuck emotional patterns. <Read More>
| Thinking at the Edge in Academia (TAE) |
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See details: Thinking at the Edge in Academia
| GENDLIN CENTER COMMITTEE & DONORS |
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SEE THE GENDLIN CENTER COMMITTEE DETAILS
Board policy on assigning new members to the Gendlin Center committee
Gendlin Center Steering Committee and Charter Donors
| DONATE |
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To donate to the Gendlin Center, visit this page.