What happens in TAE?
My TAE classes are designed to familiarize you with the TAE process so that you can use it on your...
Spacious listening encourages new ideas
Carrying forward is an interactive process that can be blocked by conventional cultural notions. Pre-existing forms do not recognize the...
It’s not true that there is no truth.
In Focusing partnership, the Listener doesn’t have to understand the details, the “story”, or the context behind the Focuser’s expressions....
A Process Model: Focusing is En #3
A Process Model can show us how to describe Focusing in a new way. All Focusers have the same problem:...
The kindness of Thinking at the Edge
The “kindness” fostered by Thinking at the Edge I recently attended the Gendlin Center’s online symposium, Saying What We Mean....
From helplessness to hope on climate change
Thinking at the Edge (TAE) has helped me move from feeling powerless about climate change to a place of hope,...
An addictive process and its resolution
In this compelling account by Dr. Juan B. Prado of México City, a mother is finally convinced to listen to...
NVC and Focusing enhance each other
Many of us are dismayed about the violent rhetoric in politics and on social media. We need ways to be...
Listening for Feelings and Needs: NVC and Focusing
Listening for Feelings and Needs in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) can lead to felt sense formation. For that reason, it’s useful...
Activism needs tools that build resilience
A Lesson from Aloes, by the South-African playwright Athol Fugard, shows what happens when feelings and needs are not expressed....