Nikolaos Kypriotakis  SoF
Channel: Νίκος Κυπριωτάκης
Date: 2022-05-03

Nikolaos Kypriotakis  
University of East Anglia
'Senses of Focusing' - Seminar / book-launch event
Tuesday 3 May 2022, 17:00-18:30 BST
Presenters: Dr Stephanie Aspin, Sara Bradly, Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Dr Sarah Luczaj, Dr Anna Magee, Dr Judy Moore, Dr Jenny Newman, Dr Campbell Purton, Professor Brian Thorne, Dr Alan Tidmarsh, Dr Jenny White

'Senses of Focusing' (ed. Nikolaos Kypriotakis & Judy Moore, 2 vols., Eurasia Publications, 2021)
The recently-published volumes of Senses of Focusing feature a wide range of authors from around the world who bring fresh thinking to the meaning of Focusing and how Eugene Gendlin’s work grew from and has developed different elements of philosophy and psychotherapy. Understanding of how ‘focusing’ on the felt edge of inner experiencing leads to therapeutic change grew from Gendlin’s collaboration with Carl Rogers during the decades of research that led to the formulation of Client-Centred Therapy/ the Person-Centred Approach. With the history that UEA’s Centre for Counselling Studies has in terms of developing understanding of the Person-Centred Approach and, more recently, in the study of Focusing, these two volumes were an opportunity to present the innovative work and inspiring research of many of the Centre’s staff and students. To celebrate their work in Senses of Focusing former staff and research students of the Centre have been invited to talk about their contribution to the volumes and to engage in general discussion about the significance of this publication at this time.