University Professors worldwide teaching Gendlin

The following is a list of individuals teaching or researching in universities, as self reported.  This information is accurate as of early 2025.

Akiko Doi

Japan
Full Professor
Department of Psychology
Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan Kobe College, Nishinomioya, Hyogo, Japan
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://doiakiko.jimdofree.com/
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese and English
Research projects:

• "Focusing for helpers"
• "Focusing for self-designed leadership"
• "Application of Focusing for positive mental health at schools and workplaces"
• "Developing a support program for the enhancement of mental health at small and middle-sized companies"

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Methods of psychological support (2019~ present)
• Psychotherapy seminar (MA) (2009~2018)
• Clinical Psychology (2015~2019)

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Akiko Sasada

Japan
Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Department of Psychology
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese
Email: [email protected]
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Group Psychotherapy Seminar of Group Psychotherapy

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Akira Ikemi

Japan
Professor Emeritus, Retired 2025
Kansai University Osaka, Japan
Department of Psychology
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese and English
Research projects:

• "Focusing-alpha":  "the crucial inner act" that preceded the development of Focusing as a method
• Paper and pencil EXP Scale

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Person-Centered Approach 2 Readings and Research

Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.akira-ikemi.net/index.html
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Amalia Verdu

Finland
Post-doc researcher
TIAS Turku Institute for Advance Studies, Turku, Finland
DEPARTMENT: Law
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Research projects:  

• The person on the edge: Disrupting normative legal knowledge in the digital age

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Challenging the legal Truth

Email: [email protected]

Angelina Hensley

USA
Adjunct Professor
Saybrook University, Pasadena CA
DEPARTMENTS: Mind Body Medicine
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Doctoral Dissertation Mystical Feminine Jouissance (an embodied study using the Felt Sense in the method)
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing: Body-Oriented Psychotherapy
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://terremadreretreat.com/
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Anna-Katharina Lenz

USA
Assistant Professor
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
DEPARTMENT: Entrepreneurship Department
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Research:

• Towards a new concept of entrepreneurial safety (working paper in progress, Entrepreneurship Department) 
• Embodiment and Entrepreneurial Action (working paper in progress, Entrepreneurship Department)

Classes:

• Entrepreneurship / Social Change / Women entrepreneurship / Inequality / Embodiment    Embodiment & Entrepreneurship - 3-Credit Course, Spring 2025, 14-weeks, undergraduate/graduate level

https://miamioh.edu/fsb/directory/?up=/directory/lenza
[email protected]
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Biliana Dearly

Australia
Senior Lecturer
The Cairnmillar Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
DEPARTMENT: Faculty of psychology, counselling and psychotherapy
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Facilitating Therapeutic Change (completed focus on the Focusing process and FOT)
• Interpersonal Processes in Psychotherapy (Attachment and FOT)

Email: [email protected]
https://www.bilianadearly.com
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Brian Ostafin

The Netherlands
Associate Professor in Experimental Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
DEPARTMENTS: Experimental Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Research projects: I incorporate the focusing method in several meaning interventions that are involved in ongoing research programs.
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Overview of Psychotherapy

Email: [email protected]

Christina Papadimitriou

USA
Full Professor
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA
DEPARTMENTS: Sociology; Health Sciences; Medical Rehabilitation and Disability
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
I do not explicitly teach Gendlin's work. I use it as my way to teaching. I also use TAE for my own scholarly process.
Email: [email protected]

Daisuke Oshioka 押岡 大覚

Full Professor 教授
Japan
Kyushu Women's University, Fukuoka, Japan 九州女子大学人間科学部
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese
DEPARTMENT: 人間科学部（Department of Human Sciences）
Research projects:

• 胎生期体験過程の様相に関する発達臨床ならびに感性心理学的研究（Study of Prenatal Experiencing-Modality From Developmental Clinical and “Kansei” Psychology Perspectives.）

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• 臨床心理学概論（Introduction to Clinical Psychology）

Email: [email protected]
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David Mark Wiles

Australia
Lecturer
Ikon Institute of Australia - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
DEPARTMENT: School of Counselling and Psychotherapy
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Experiential Processes in Psychotherapy - This subject introduces focusing-oriented psychotherapy, an experiential therapeutic process based on research into effective therapy methods. Studies have shown the importance of clients’ in-session inner processing during therapy.  You will gain hands-on experience in understanding how this process taps into human resources such as inner knowing, inner experience, felt-sense, insight, problem solving and self-realisation. You will learn to facilitate client inner processing and the resulting changes in states of consciousness. As a trainee therapist, you will develop and hold the’ focusing attitude’ and use ‘presence language’. You will also learn to track the client’s inner process and apply the stages of experiential focusing to allow deep experiential processing. Additionally, emphasis will be placed on facilitating a compassionate relationship with your current emotional experiences.  Subject Code: COU304 Credit Points: 6

Email: [email protected]
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Deborah Jean Armstrong

USA
Adjunct Lecturer
(Past) Coordinator, Expressive Arts Therapy
DEPARTMENT: Counseling Psychology
Goddard College
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing: Focusing & EAT (Expressive Arts Therapy) Program 
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.themindgardeningcentre.com
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Deborah L. Sheehan

USA
Adjunct Lecturer
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
DEPARTMENT: Christian Spirituality
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• CSP 679 - BioSpiritual Focusing - 1-credit (MA Program)

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://biospiritual.org/

Donata Schoeller

Switzerland
Research Professor University of Iceland - Department of Philosophy
Honorary Professor University of Koblenz (Germany) - Philosophy Institute
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION: German, English
Research Projects:

• Close Talking. Erleben zur Sprache Bringen (University of Koblenz)
• Embodied Critical Thinking (University of Iceland)
• Freedom to Make Sense: Embodied, Experiential and Mindful Research (University of Iceland)
• Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding, Erasmus+, seven universities participating

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Embodied Critical Thinking and TAE, Winter Term 2025, University of Iceland
• Introducing Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding, and teaching TAE at the Summer School, at the Erasmus + Program since 2021
• Process Model: Interaktion instead of Dualism, University of Koblenz, Summer Term 2020
• Embodied Critical Thinking Workshop
• Max-Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany
• Workshop, February 2020
• Epistemologie unter den Vorzeichen des Embodiment
• Universität Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Die eigene Stimme finden: Philosophie der Verkörperung und kreative Praxis
• Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany, from 2015-2020
• Was heisst selbst denken? Ansätze und Übungen auf der Grundlage pragmatistischer und hermeneutischer Epistemologien
• University of Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Seminar, autumn 2018
• Übungen an Hintergründen: William James, John Dewey, John Searle, Claire Petitmengin, Eugene Gendlin (Fortsetzung)
• University of Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Block-seminar, spring 2018
• Begriffliche Tiefe- erlebte Präzision: William James, John Dewey, John Searle, Claire Petitmengin, Eugene Gendlin
• University of Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Alternative Epistemology: Embodied Mind and its implications for thinking: Introducing Thinking-at-the-Edge
• University of Chicago, Divinity School, Chicago, USA, Block Seminar 2016
• Embodied Critical Thinking applied to Dissertation Projects
• University of Chicago, Divinity School, Chicago, USA
• Workshops, spring 2014, summer 2015, spring 2016

Lectures and Seminars

• Thinking with the body: reflecting and experimenting experiential- conceptual practices
• University of Iceland, Iceland
• Summer term 
• Pioniere des Embodiment
• Universität Koblenz, Germany
• Kolloquium, Sommersemester 2024
• Pragmatismus, Phänomenologie und Politik: Dewey, Merleau-Ponty und Pelluchon
• Block-Seminar, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Seminar, Summer 2022
• Philosophical Foundations of Embodied Critical Thinking
• Webinar and lecture-series, Spring 2021 and 2022
• TECT Erasmus + Course, Universities of Iceland, Ljubljana, Jena, Groningen, Technion
• Hannah Arendt: Elemente und Urspruenge totaler Herrschaft 
• University of Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Seminar, summer 2020
• Pioniere der Umweltethik: Hans Jonas, Albert Schweitzer, Peter Singer et al.
• University of Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Seminar, summer 2020
• Interaktion statt Dualismus: Einfuehrung in die Prozess-Epistemologie
• University of Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Seminar, summer 2020
• Mystik, Metaphysik und Kritik: Meister Eckhart, Jakob Boehme, Schelling, Hegel und Nietzsche
• University of Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Lecture series, summer 2020
• Embodied Critical Thinking Workshop
• Max-Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany
• Workshop, February 2020
• Philosophie der Verkörperung und kreative Praxis
• Filmakademie Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany
• Block-seminar, January 2020
• Knowledge in Enactive Terms: Implications for Research-Practice
• Technion, Haifa, Israel
• Block-seminar, spring 2017/ winter 2019
• Kritik der Lebensformen: Kritischen Theorie, Resonanztheorie und Tierethik
• Universität Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Seminar, summer 2019
• Hannah Arendt
• Universität Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Seminar, summer 2019
• Epistemologie unter den Vorzeichen des Embodiment
• Universität Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Seminar, summer 2019
• Immanuel Kant: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
• Universität Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Seminar, summer 2019
• Thinking thinking: Introducing pioneers of embodied cognition
• University of Iceland
• Lectures/seminar, Spring 2019
• Environmental and Situated Cognition
• Technion, Haifa, Israel
• Interdisciplinary block-seminar, December 2018
• Die eigene Stimme finden: Philosophie der Verkörperung und kreative Praxis
• Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Block-seminar (each 5 days), December 2017/ 2018/ January 2020
• Was heisst selbst denken? Ansätze und Übungen auf der Grundlage pragmatistischer und hermeneutischer Epistemologien
• University of Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Seminar, autumn 2018
• Embodied Critical Thinking
• Workshop, July 2018
• Invited teacher, Zentrum für Aufklärung, kritisches Denken und Pluralität, University of Luzern, Switzerland
• Close Talking: sustainable idea development
• Swiss Economy Forum, Zurich, Switzerland 
• Master Classes, June 2018
• Übungen an Hintergründen: William James, John Dewey, John Searle, Claire Petitmengin, Eugene Gendlin (Fortsetzung)
• University of Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Block-seminar, spring 2018
• Thinking-at-the-Edge
• European Summer Research Institute of the Mind and Life Institute
• Summer-school 2018 and 2020
• Begriffliche Tiefe- erlebte Präzision: William James, John Dewey, John Searle, Claire Petitmengin, Eugene Gendlin
• University of Koblenz, Institute of Philosophy, Germany
• Block-seminar, autumn 2017
• Experiential Concept-Formation in the Context of Peace, Conflict and Justice Studies
• DePaul University, Chicago, USA
• Graduate seminar, autumn 2017
• Background, Feeling and Creativity: Embodied Cognition and its Implications for Reasearch
• Technion, Haifa, Israel. Click here to learn more
• Block-seminar for graduates, March 2017
•  Embodied Mind and Situated Knowledge
• Summer School Gender and Philosophy, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
• July 2016
• Alternative Epistemology: Embodied Mind and its implications for thinking
• University of Chicago, Divinity School, Chicago, USA
• Block seminar, spring 2016
• Embodied Critical Thinking applied to Dissertation Projects
• University of Chicago, Divinity School, Chicago, USA
• Workshops, spring 2014, summer 2015, spring 2016
• Kantian Critique and its Pragmatist Critics (Kant, James and Dewey)
• DePaul University, Philosophy Department, Chicago, USA
• Seminar/ lecture, winter 2015
• Mystical Traditions in Philosophy: Plotinus, Meister Eckhart, Nikolaus von Kues, Jakob Boehme, Schelling, Hegel
• DePaul University, Philosophy Department, Chicago, USA
• Seminar/ lecture, autumn 2014
• Understanding Gendlin’s A Process Model
• International Summer School of DAF, Lindau, Germany
• 2014 - today
• Why do Philosophers Talk about Films?  On the Functions of Art und Psychotherapy in Philosophy today (Cavell, Pippin, Gendlin)
• University of Klagenfurt, Institut für Philosophie, Germany
• Block-seminar, autumn 2013
• Epistemology of Classical Pragmatism (continuation)
• ETH Zurich, Professur für Philosophie, Switzerland
• Seminar, spring 2012
• Epistemology of Classical Pragmatism (Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead)
• ETH Zurich, Professur für Philosophie, Switzerland
• Seminar, autumn 2011
• Why do Philosophers Talk about Films?  On the Functions of Art und Psychotherapy in Philosophy today (Cavell, Pippin, Gendlin)
• University of Klagenfurt, Institut für Philosophie, Germany
• Block-seminar, autumn 2013
• Embodied Critical Thinking applied to Dissertation Projects
• University of Zurich, Philosophisches Seminar, Switzerland
• Block-seminar, autumn 2010
• On the Development of Thought: From vague Beginnings to Theory (Gilbert Ryle, Thomas Nagel, Michael Polanyi, Herman Schmitz, Stanley Cavell, Eugene Gendlin).
• ETH Zurich, Professur für Philosophie, Switzerland, 2010
• Process-Philosophy in Ancient, Modern und Contemporary Philosophy: Aristotle, Jakob Boehme, Hegel, Whitehead, Gendlin. With N. Sieroka
• Professur für Philosophie, Switzerland

Email: [email protected]
Website: donataschoeller.com
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Donna Abela

Australia
Lecturer
National Institute for Dramatic Arts, Sydney, New South Wales
DEPARTMENT: Dramatic writing and creative writing
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Research projects: Dialogic Interplay: a strategy for placing cultural diversity and difference on the main stage (thesis submitted in 2016)
Email: [email protected]

Erwin Vlerick

Belgium
Adjunct Lecturer/supervisor
Catholic University Leuven Belgium
DEPARTMENT: Post graduate Client centered Psychotherapy, children & adolescents
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Dutch
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Focusing with children,introduction
• Focusing with children,deepening
• Focusing with children, supervision
• Focusing with children, intensive training program 60 hrs
• Emotion focused therapy/FOT 

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.focusonemotion.be/clientgerichte-psychotherapie-voor-kinderen-en-jongeren
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Farrukh Akhtar

United Kingdom
Associate Professor
Kingston University, London, UK
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Department of Education
Research projects: Exploring the potential of a two-day introductory course in Focusing to contribute to students’ sense of belonging
Email: [email protected]
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Frank Bock

Sweden
Lecturer in Choreography Discursive Practice
Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
DEPARTMENT: Dance
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing: New Performative Practices
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.uniarts.se/folk/medarbetare/frank-bock/
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Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir

Iceland
Associate professor
Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  Icelandic, English
Department of Arts Education
Research projects:

• Embodied Critical Thinking (2018-2021)
• Freedom to Make Sense: Embodied, Experiential and Mindful Research (2024-)
• Embodied Critical Thinking and the Arts (future project applied for in 2025) 

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• I have used Focusing/TAE exercises in the course Research Training since 2018.   I teach Focusing in the course The Teacher's Inner Voice, taught 2021 and 2025. It will be taught every year from now.   I teach TAE in the course Embodied Thinking, taught 2025 and will be taught every year from now on.   I introduce Gendlin and TAE in joint courses for all MA programs at the IUA, called Ways of Doing and Approaches and Methods taught every year from 2021.   I also introduce Gendlin and TAE in courses for IUA staff called Higher Education Pedagogy and Research & Mediation taught since 2022.   I teach a TAE workshop as part of the course Dance & Theory in the IUA department of performance, in the contemporary dance program since 2020.   I have also taught one TAE workshop at Malmö Theater Academy which is a part of Lund University in Sweden, in 2021.  

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://makesense.hi.is
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Heinke Deloch

Germany
Adjunct lecturer; Coach
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
DEPARTMENTS: Gender Studies, Philosophy
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  German, English
Research projects:

• Developing, teaching and applying experiential thinking in interdisciplinary research.

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Thinking at the Edge: Thinking experientially in scientific/dissertation projects. (regularly since 2010)
• Handling thinking blocks in scientific projects. (since 2015)
• Thinking movements for designing lively seminars: Introduction to Thinking at the Edge for university teachers (2024).
• Using the Experiencing Scale to analyze and understand interview material in social science research. (regular since 2021)
• Learning experiential interviewing techniques for scientific interviews. (since 2021)
• Experiencing gender. (2024)
• Understanding the fluidity of gendered lived experience. (2024)
• I support doctoral students in an interdisciplinary research training group entitled "Experiencing Gender" with experiential thinking and research methods. I develop TAE and Focusing-based applications for social science research and for interdisciplinary exchange and concept formation or theory building.

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.experientielle-beratung.de
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Hideo Tanaka

Japan
Adjunct Professor
Kansai University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese
DEPARTMENTS: Psychology, Education, and Literature
Research projects:

• Investigating the roots of Gendlin's philosophy, theory, research, etc.

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Advanced Psychology

Email: [email protected]
Website: My blog https://note.com/hideo_tanaka/n/nca20c9e79f48 
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Hiroko Takahashi

Japan
Professor
Yamanashi Eiwa College, Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese
https://www.yamanashi-eiwa.ac.jp/guide/guide-856/
DEPARTMENTS: Department of Human Sciences and Cultural Studies, Clinical Psychology
Research projects:

• Life and the Body’s knowing; The Potential of direct reference / Japanese journal of humanistic psychology  42 (1), 69-73, 2024.
• Listening in Focusing and the effective use of Body's knowing; book medical rehabilitation  208,  23-29,2017.
• The Significance of verbalization of the experience in Clinical psychological Education; Overlook of the experience, Universalization and Structuralization in ‘Dipping＆Crossing’ of TAE / Journal of Yamanashi Eiwa College 16 (0), 1-14, 2017.

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Methods of Psychological Support I （2013-2025)
• Advanced Studies on Psychotherapy II  (2013-2025)

Email: [email protected]
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Joan Klagsbrun

USA
Retired
Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
DEPARTMENT: Counseling Psychology
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Research projects:

• Clearing a Space with women with cancer (2 studies)

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Focusing and Listening: Essential Skills for Psychotherapy 1990s through 2010.
• I taught other Focusing courses from 1976- 2010 but don't have records of their titles
• Focusing and Mindfulness: Inner Awareness Practices for Psychotherapy 2011-2019

Email: [email protected]
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João Carlos Messias

Brazil
Permanent Faculty
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas), Campinas, SP - Brazil
DEPARTMENT: School of Life Sciences; Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program in Psychology
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: Portuguese
Research projects:

• 2020/23 - The Meaning of Work: readings from the Process Model
• 2019/20 - The Process Model: conceptual bases for work psychology

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing

• Mental Health and Work
• Humanist Theories I
• Human Condition at Work

Email: [email protected]
Website: focobrasilacademia.com.br
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Kevin Krycka

USA
Professor of Psychology & Associate Dean
Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, USA
Department of psychology
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Research projects:

• Focusing and Illness
• TAE
• Peacebuilding

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Experiential Learning
• Theory Construction
• Psychopathology
• Clinical Supervision

Email: [email protected]
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Kumiyo Sakai

Japan
Full Professor
Wayo Women's University, Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Psychology Department
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese, English
Research projects:

• Experimental studies on the effects of Focusing
• I am interested in collaborating with anyone interested in experimental research on the effects of Focusing.

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Seminar in Psychology, 5 years

Email: [email protected]
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Laurent Rossier

Switzerland
Lecturer
University of Fribourg, Fribourg
Department of Psychology
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  French
Research projects:

• Novice and yet successful: the beginning therapists with their students peers

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Advanced skills in intervention and prevention
• Humanistic and experiential approaches

Email: [email protected]

Laury Rappaport

USA
Adjunct Faculty
Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
DEPARTMENT: Expressive Therapies
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Research projects:
Supervised the following:

• Theses Castalia, A. (2010). The Effect and Experience of Clearing a Space with Art on Stress Reduction in Sign Language Interpreters [Master’s thesis, Notre Dame de Namur University].   
• Lee, H. (2011). Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy and Bookmaking to Promote Resiliency of Children Living in a Homeless Shelter [Master’s thesis, Notre Dame de Namur University].    
• McGrath, J. (2013). The Effects of Clearing a Space with Art on Women with Chronic Pain [Master’s thesis, Notre Dame de Namur University].  ​  ​ 
• Weiland, L. (2012). Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy as a Means of Stress Reduction with Graduate Students [Master’s thesis, Notre Dame de Namur University].  ​ 

Dissertations 

• Chiang, C. (2020). "Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy and Connectedness: Art as a Means to Spiritual Care for Asian Seniors."  ​​ 
• Chidanand, R. (2014). "A Quantitative Study Exploring the Effects of Focusing-Oriented Arts Therapy - Internet Protocol (FOAT-IP) on stress, anxiety, depression, and positive states of mind in South Asian women."

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts Therapies  (became in 1990s and have continued teaching the past 7-10 years).
• I also taught Focusing-oriented art therapy at Notre Dane de Namur University in Belmont, Ca; 
• And at Dominican University, San Rafael, Ca   Students have done their Masters theses there.    

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.focusingarts.com
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Lawrence A Berger

USA
Adjunct Lecturer
Marist University, Poughkeepsie, New York
Department of Philosophy
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
Research projects:

• The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Introduction to Philosophy

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://marist.academia.edu/LawrenceBerger

Lourdes M Ortiz Berríos

Puerto Rico
Professor
Universidad Sagrado Corazón Puerto Rico
DEPARTMENT: Centro Sofia
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Spanish
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Focusing conoce la sabiduría de tu cuerpo

Email: [email protected]
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Mentxu Martín-Aragón

Spain
Assistant professor
Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid
DEPARTMENT: Departamento de Psicología
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Spanish
Research projects:

• Focusing y empaía corporal
• Focusing, Psicología de la Compasión y Terapia Focalizada en la Emoción: hay diferencias en cuanto a la compasión a la hora de entrenar en estos 3 modelos de psicoterapia
• Maestro Eckart y focusing

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• FOCUSING EXPERIENCIAL from 2008 y actualmente

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.focusingthus.com
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Mia Leijssen

Belgium
Professor Emeritus
University of Leuven, Belgium
Department Psychology and Psychotherapy
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Dutch
Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Existential Well-being Counseling: A Person-centered Experiential Approach.

Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.existentieelwelzijn.be
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Ofer Yifrach

Israel
Full Professor
The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
DEPARTMENTS: Life Sciences Department and School of Brain Sciences and Cognition
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  English, Hebrew
Research projects: A unified experiential, meaning-based model for consciousness: Crossing neuroscience, philosophy and psychotherapy

Email: [email protected]
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Ram Eisenberg

Israel
Assistant Professor
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
DEPARTMENT: Landscape architecture
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Hebrew
I also teach at the TECTU project (Training Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding), affiliated with the university of Iceland.
Research projects:

• The Nature of "The Goodness Experience in Nature"  A Phenomenological Inquiry Grounded in Eugene Gendlin’s Ideas  Faculty of architecture, Dep of landscape architecture.

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Focusing and creativity in the design studio (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) 
• Focusing integrated in the design studio (2018, 2019)

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.reed.co.il

Ryuhei Koizumi

Japan
Professor
Kindai University, Osaka
DEPARTMENT: Faculty of Applied Sociology
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese
Research projects:

• Using Focusing in the field of education, Faculty of Applied Sociology

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Graduate School Clinical Psychology Course

Email: [email protected]
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Salvador Moreno-López

Mexico
Retired Professor
ITESO, Guadalajara, Jal. México Universidad Iberoamericana, León, Guanajuato, México
DEPARTMENT: Departamento de Psicología, Educación y Salud
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Spanish
Research projects:

• En busca de un vivir propio. Estudio de caso de una mujer adulta con intento suicida, en un proceso de acompañamiento psicoterapéutico individual. Una perspectiva fenomenológica para entrevistar en psicología. Música del hablar y dúo de jazz: Metáforas para comprender y orientar las interacciones y las emociones en un proceso de psicoterapia. Departamento de Psicología, Educación y Salud. ITESO

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Intervenciones desde el Enfoque centrado en la persona, from 2008 to 2023, once a year. Teorías y modos de intervención en psicoterapia, del 2005 al 2014, una vez al año Supervisión del trabajo psicoterapéutico, del 2006 al 2009, una vez al año Comunicación, relación e interacción en el acompañamiento en Desarrollo Humano del 2008 al 2014 Contexto sociocultural y psicoterapia, del 2005 al 2009, una vez al año 

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.focusingmexico.mx
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Siebrecht Vanhooren

Belgium
Professor
Academic Institution: KU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), Leuven
DEPARTMENTS: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences;  Research Group Clinical Psychology
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  Dutch, English
Research website (including our publications) of Meaning & Existence:  https://ppw.kuleuven.be/meaning-and-existence/eng 
Research projects:

• - Focusing and existential well-being: A longitudinal study 
• - Dreams, experiencing levels, and existential well-being 
• - Experiential-existential psychotherapy in prisoners 
• - Experiential-existential psychotherapy in cancer patients 
• - Existential empathy: The process of the therapist, from obstacles to growth 
• - At the edge of existence: Unravelling the associations between existential suffering, disconnection and geriatric depression in nursing home residents 
• -Existential suffering in the face of death. Helping and hindering factors in the existential counseling and psychotherapy of people facing death 
• - The existential layer of depression disorder: Quantitative and qualitative investigation in student, clinical, and therapist samples   

Department:  Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences;  Research Group Clinical Psychology

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing: (I'm teaching these courses currently): 

• - Psychological Interventions and Word Assumptions (3th Bachelor Clinical Psychology) 
• - Person-centered Psychotherapies (1th Master Clinical Psychology and Sexology) 
• -  Practicum Person-centered Psychotherapies (2th Master Clinical Psychology) 
• - Postgraduate Training Program Person-centered & Experiential Psychotherapy (Postgraduate level Psychotherapy) 
• - Postgraduate Training Program Existential-Experiential Psychotherapy (at Focus on Emotion vzw) 
• - MOOC Existential Well-being Counseling (MOOC) 

Email: [email protected]
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Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir

Iceland
Professor
University of Iceland, Reykjavik
DEPARTMENT(S): Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  English, German and Icelandic
Research projects:

• Freedom to Make Sense embodied, experiential and mindful research, Institute of Philosophy, University of Iceland, www.makesense.hi.is
• Training Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding, Erasmus+ European training program, www.trainingect.com

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• 2025: Seminar on Pioneers of Embodied Critical Thinking, Department of Philosophy University of Iceland. Co-taught with Donata Schoeller. 
• 2021-2026: Training Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding, Erasmus+ European training programwww.trainingect.com. A training program for graduate students and researchers. 15 ECTS. Collaboration of 7 European universities (Universities of Iceland, Groningen, Ljubljana, Technion, Ernst Abbe Applied University of Sciences, Jena, University of Bielefeld, University of Aarhus, 
• 2023: Thinking with the environment. Embodied thinking for a new era. Co-taught with Gudbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir, Iceland University of the Arts
• 2021: To think for ourselves. Theoretical foundations and practical exercises, Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland
• 2016, Philosophy of the body, Erasmus+ Gender and Philosophy, summer school, cooperation of the universities of Iceland, Oslo, Aalborg, Jyväskylä

Email: [email protected]
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Suetake Yasuhiro

Japan
Full Professor
Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
DEPARTMENT(S): Graduate School of Social Well-being Studies
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese
Research projects:

• Theoretical and practical study on person-centered/focusing-oriented therapy. The clinical significance of Gendlin's process model.

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Theory and Practice of Psychological Support. Advanced Study on Clinical Psychology and Community Psychology.

Email: [email protected]

Tomeu Barceló

Profesor, filósofo
Spain
Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, España
DEPARTMENTS: Filosofía experiencial, educación.
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  Spanish, Catalan
Research projects:

• Postgrado de competencias emocionales, departamento de Filosofía

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Focusing y filosofía experiencial.
• A process model.
• Thinking at the edge.

Email: [email protected]
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Tomke König

Professor
Germany
University Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany
DEPARTMENTS: Faculty of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  German, English
Research projects:

• Experiential Gender Research.
• The Body as a Source of Meaning and Change

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Research Training Group "Experiencing Gender. Constitution and Transformation of Being in the World"

Toshihiro Kawasaki

Japan
Assistant Professor
Osaka Ohtani University, Osaka, Japan
Department of Psychology and Social Welfare, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese
Research projects:

• Focusing attitudes research (FMS research)

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Humanistic Psychology, Seminar

Email: [email protected]

Ulle Jäger

Germany
Full professor
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  German
DEPARTMENTS: Faculty of Social Work and Health, Field of Study: Counselling
Research projects:

• Person-centred and experiential counselling,  Faculty of Social Work and Health

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• All my classes include person-centred and experiential theory and practice. I teach Bachelor and Master students of Social Work and Counseling.

Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.ullejaeger.com

William H Sterner

USA
Associated Faculty / Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:  English
DEPARTMENT: Computer Science
I studied with Eugene Gendlin for many years during the course of my career.
Research projects:

• The Symbolic Demeaning of Computed Symbols in Contrast to the Teleological Power of Aristotle's Philosophic Discourse. Departments of Committee on Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science, and Computer Science 

Courses teaching about Gendlin or Focusing:

• Organizations of Knowledge, Is Development Sustainable?
• Computer Programming as a Liberal Art (1, 2, & 3)

Email: [email protected]

Yoshiko Kosaka

Japan
Lecturer, full-time
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION:  Japanese, English
DEPARTMENTS: Student Advice and Counseling Center
Email: [email protected]