Description:
The Thinking at the Edge (TAE) Advisory Group began in mid-2020, when the Executive Director of The International Focusing Institute (TIFI) asked Evelyn Fendler-Lee, Hanspeter Muehlethaler and Nada Lou to consider how TAE could have more of a "home" at TIFI. This has resulted in the TAE Proficiency Award, the TAE Academy in November 2022 and the TAE-fest in April 2023.
Currently, a primary purpose of the group is to help the TAE Proficiency Award "get on its feet." The group also discusses any other topics relevant to spreading TAE, such as how to create (or now, to improve) events specific to TAE.
Nada Lou left the group in 2022 and Satoko Tokumaru joined in 2023. The TAE Advisory Group can be contacted at [email protected].
Evelyn Fendler-Lee
Dr. Evelyn Fendler-Lee is a self-employed organizational psychologist with a former career as a material scientist and project manager working in research institutes and industry. She came to Focusing in 2004 as part of a 4-year training to become a person-centered counselor. She worked with Focusing teachers from other schools, specialized in Thinking at the Edge (TAE), and studied the Philosophy of the Implicit – 2013 with Eugene Gendlin.
Satoko Tokumaru
Satoko is a professor at Kaichi International University, Japan. She also teaches at Tokyo University and Sophia University Graduate School. She is also a Certifying Trainer of The International Focusing Institute and has been applying Thinking at The Edge (TAE) for educational purposes. In recent years, she has been developing TAE as a qualitative research method. She wrote some books including Writing With TAE（Thinking At the Edge) and Qualitative research with TAE steps―thinking at the edge: theory and applications.
Hanspeter Mühlethaler
Ph.D. in Physics, Certified Focusing Professional TIFI.
Hanspeter has been retired from a professional career in railway engineering for more than ten years. This allows him to focus his interests on the philosophical practices based on Focusing and Gendlin's Philosophy. He has been training Thinking at the Edge (TAE) in private and academic fields. His main concern is to bring Focusing and TAE in a playful way into daily life. Therefore, he developed with his colleague Wendi Maurer the course “A Taste of TAE,” to apply the movements of TAE in fields like music, art and literature. He offers guided mountain-hikes combined with Focusing. He says, “From Focusing and TAE I learned a new personal approach to many aspects of life.”