This is a description.

The use of focusing in therapy was discussed in the Invited Address Session 9 part 2. Eugene Gendlin is with James Hillman, PhD. Carol Kershaw is an EdD.

A bodily sense of a situation, problem, or aspect of life is what focusing is about. When clients are asked what physical sense comes in the middle of the body, therapy deepens immediately. Clients can assign a quality-word with half a minute of repeated direct attention. The crux of the problem is said by small steps. Each brings a slight shift and release, a direct sense of validity, although further steps may change the whole problem. Without disrupting the hour, most clients who cannot do this can gradually learn it from small questions, such as What comes in your body? Stay a little while with that sense, Is it heavy, fluttery or how? Can you allow it to come again? The bodily sense of an implicit complexity is not well known.

The educational objectives are listed.

1. To describe basic issues in psychological change.
2. To illustrate the basic role of the body in change process due to bodily sensing of situations, not only body as such.
3. To describe a new way to access this role within the psychotherapy frame as well as otherwise.

Session may be edited to preserve confidentiality.