UEA Seminar - Book launch - Senses of Focusing
Channel: Νίκος Κυπριωτάκης
Date: 2022-05-05

UEA Seminar - Book launch - Senses of Focusing
Tuesday 3 May 2022, 17:00-18:30 BST
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, Vol. I & II
(ed. Nikolaos Kypriotakis & Judy Moore, Eurasia Publications, 2021, Athens, Greece)
https://sensesoffocusing.com/

▬ Contents of this video  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

0:00 Judy Moore: Introduction to event
6:12 Judy Moore: quick summary of own chapter and two Introductions
10:58 Brian Thorne: background history of counselling at UEA
16:21 Nikolaos Kypriotakis: the two volumes, own chapter and Intro
27:26 Campbell Purton: The role of the body in Focusing
32:59 Alan Tidmarsh: Focusing with elephants
39:37 Sara Bradly: Introducing Focusing using a story
44:47 Anna Magee: Focusing on ethics in research
49:18 Sarah Luczaj: Focusing is not a ‘thing’
54:01 Jenny White: Music and Focusing 
1:03:07 Stephanie Aspin: Writing at the edge
1:09:04 Final discussion: Judy Moore, Brian Thorne, Yann Lebeau, Salvador Moreno, Stephanie Aspin, Mary Jeanne Larrabee

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.