Gendlin Grant For Original Research In Psychology Award

Marisa Hoslet of the University of Antwerp,  the 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."

The Eugene T. Gendlin Center for Research in Experiential Philosophy and Psychology (the Gendlin Center) is delighted to announce its 2023 recipient of the Gendlin Grant for Original Research in Psychology.  This award of $2,500 has been granted to Dr. Kumiyo Sakai.

Kumiyo Sakai is a professor at Wayo Women's University in Chiba prefecture, Japan, where she teaches Clinical Psychology and Focusing-Oriented Counseling.  She is involved in research on Focusing Attitudes and experimental research on the effectiveness of counseling that incorporates Interactive Focusing.  As a Focusing trainer, she teaches Focusing at a civic university.  She is also a counselor in a private counseling office as a Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist and a licensed psychologist.

The Gendlin Research Center funding will allow her to study the effect of Interactive Focusing Counseling on how one handles stress.  We eagerly await the findings!

Here’s a video of Professor Kumiyo Sakai in a brief interview by the Chair of the Gendlin Research Center, Professor Akira Ikemi.  (Thank you to Taeko Sakurai for the voiceover interpretation to English.)

Congratulations, Professor Kumiyo Sakai!

Thank you to all the donors to the Gendlin Center.  Your generosity makes this research possible.

The recipient of the 2020 Gendlin Grant for Original Research in Psychology:

Congratulations to Dr. Mohamed Altawil

The Eugene T. Gendlin Center for Research in Experiential Philosophy and Psychology is proud to announce that Dr. Mohamed Altawil has been awarded the second Gendlin Grant. Dr. Altawil, a clinical psychologist, is the Founder and Director of Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) and visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, department of Psychology. Dr. Altawil will be studying the efficacy of the Gaza Focusing Intervention for combating Post-Traumatic Syndrome Disorder (PTSD) in Gaza, Palestine.

The Gendlin Research Center committee was very impressed with the rigor of the study designed by Dr. Altawil and the inclusion of a control group in order to validate findings.

Here is an excerpt from his application for the grant:

“Over the last 70 years, war and conflict have vastly influenced the lives and well-being of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Giacaman et al. (2004) established that the restrictions on the liberty of young Palestinian people under occupation in the West Bank... have dramatically impacted adolescents’ wellbeing, development and education….

Every analysis of interventions on individuals and communities who are experiencing and observing war and conflict on a daily basis should always have those people’s needs, dignity, culture, honour and resilience as the focus of attention.

With all the above in mind, this study aims to assess the impact of the Gaza Focusing Project among 500 traumatized people in the Gaza Strip by using pre- and post- assessment via PTSD Scale (a validated and published scale)."

Thank you to all of our generous donors for making the second Gendlin Grant possible. 

Thank you to the members of the Gendlin Center Committee: Prof. Akira Ikemi (Kansai U.), Prof. Kevin Krycka (Seattle U.), Prof. Mary Jeanne Larrabee (DePaul U.), Dr. Rob Parker, Dr. Joao Messias (Pontifícal Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil) and Dr. Leslie Ellis (board liaison).