Author: Ann Weiser Cornell
Bio: <b><a href="http://www.focusingresources.com/irf/ann_weiser_cornell.htm">Ann Weiser Cornell</a></b> is a leading practitioner and theorist of the psychological discipline of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focusing">focusing</a>.  She is particularly known for her own technique known as Inner Relationship Focusing, or IRF.  Her works include <i>The Power of Focusing</i> (1996) and <i>The Radical Acceptance of Everything</i> (2005).} She received her undergraduate education at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a>, and her graduate education at the University of Chicago, where in the course of pursuing her Ph.D. in linguistics she became involved with Eugene Gendlin's work on focusing.  In the 1980s she co-facilitated many workshops with Gendlin and rose to prominence as a teacher of focusing.  In keeping with her doctoral specialization, Cornell is particularly known for her work on the language of focusing. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/Ann_Cornell">Shimer College Wiki</a>)