Finding Meaning and Direction with Thinking at the Edge

One-to-one Partnership with a TAE Teacher-in-Training

About this course:

One of the best ways to learn TAE is by partnering with a person who has experienced the life-changing effects of TAE.

Your partner will be one of Bea’s advanced Listening for Life trainees. You will listen to your partner’s process, then you’ll change places and your partner will listen to you!

Prerequisites:

Some background in Focusing and Listening.

Format of the course:

The apprentices in Beatrice’s Thinking at the Edge teacher training program have personal experience and professional training in the TAE process.

Together, you’ll be companioned and companion, be listened to and listen. You’ll begin with a short conversation to sense into fit, timing, and shared readiness. This isn’t therapy or coaching – it’s a space for meaning to emerge from the body.

Once you and your partner have agreed to work together, you’ll meet to discuss what you want to work on in TAE (Session 0). When you meet for Session 1, you’ll start by getting a felt sense of your project. Your partner will have a project of their own.
You’ll write as much as you can about what the felt sense tells you, then you’ll boil it down to one sentence, your crux sentence. This sentence will give you a reminder to go to your felt sense each time you meet with your partner. The crux of your project will change and develop throughout the course, and your sentence will change as well, but it will always come from your current felt sense.
You and your partner will go up to Step 11 of Thinking at Edge. Your partner will model each step in their own exploration, and then you’ll practice the step with your own project.
The video course provides guidance and reinforcement about the TAE process with:
- Short lectures
- Demonstrations of TAE Steps 1-11
- Workbooks for each step
- Transcripts
- Videos of Gene Gendlin doing his own TAE process.

Online TAE Community

The course gives you access to our online community where you can ask questions, learn about Gendlin’s philosophy, and get to know fellow TAE-ers.

Access to the course content

You’ll be able to download all workbooks and transcripts.

The videos will be available for one year after you register.

What participants are saying about our one-to-one TAE partnership course:

"The one-to-one partnership was very, very helpful for me. It helped me know myself. I was moved by this way of learning TAE because I not only watched the videos; my partner accompanied me. It was a very wonderful journey. Now I feel I can reach out to my dreams. This is a process for changing. Focusing made me a real person. When I was young, life was very hard. Now I know how to love myself and I know how to respect myself, and respect others. This fulfilled a real need. Life is not just work and study, work and study. I'm more confident. Before, I often doubted myself. I thought that I was not good enough. Now I want to try to do some different things. Now I have a plan. " --H. H., Ohio, USA

"What really worked for me was Rosy’s openness to listen and to be a colleague rather than a master, a person who shared the occasional wonder and the occasional clumsiness of the process without questioning or disparaging it. Things came at exactly the right moment, when they had to come. I needed more experience at Focusing but in order to be really interested in Focusing I needed to do TAE first. That was my way." —Nick Jones, Galway, Ireland

"For me, TAE is the birthing of clear life-forwarding thinking that we are in need of.” --Marieke, The Netherlands

“I got a lot out of my partnership with Nicky Visser. I loved being guided in TAE and then observing her process. The partnership format put us on the same level. That felt good to me. Partnering one-on-one also made scheduling very flexible. The videos were not too long but got to the essence of each step. I loved that they were filmed outside, in a garden.” --FDD, Belgium

Beatrice Blake,
author of the video course

I became a Certified Focusing Trainer in 2000 and took my first TAE course in 2004 with Gene Gendlin, Nada Lou and Kye Nelson. I’ve been a Certifying Coordinator with TIFI since 2011 and have been teaching TAE in English and Spanish since 2013.

I love to see how TAE brings Gendlin’s philosophy to life. This happens as you go through your own exploration with your experienced TAE partner.

How to apply for the course:

Below are the bios of Beatrice’s TAE apprentices. Get in touch with the companion of your choice by email to sense into fit, timing and readiness. Once agreed, they will send you a link to register.

"You need to stand again in your own experiencing... to put into the world what hasn't been said yet, that you are carrying from your particular experience."

Eugene Gendlin