I’ve been practicing body-oriented disciplines for more than fifty years; but twenty-five years ago, in the mid-to-late nineties, I began to study Gene Gendlin’s Focusing, with Nada Lou and Bev Stevenson here in Australia. I then trained with Ann Weiser Cornell, qualifying as a Focusing Trainer in 2003. Somewhere in the middle of the first decade of this century, I heard Gene Gendlin, in a teleconference with Rob Parker. The topic was: “The body, Not Perception.” Gene’s explication of this – that the body is primary, not perception – caused a big shift in my experience of myself. So, I began to study his philosophy, more closely. In 2007 I presented at the University of East Anglia’s Colloquium on "A Process Model”. And, in January 2010, I began studying A Process Model with Rob, and I have continued to do so, ever since. I also teach Thinking at the Edge; the training for which I am grateful to Evelyn Fender-Lee. And, likewise grateful to Nada Lou for the gift of that first video set of Gene Gendlin teaching his first public workshop in Thinking at the Edge. I think she gave them to me, close to when they were released in 1997. I immersed myself in those five recordings for years, and I still return to them, for the joy of it. As well, I participated in more than 150 hours of online courses with Gene, which Ann skillfully facilitated. I can’t say just how grateful I am for the support that Gene, Ann, Rob and Evelyn have given me to live richly, deeply, as both a student and teacher of the philosophy and practice of The Philosophy of the Implicit.
