News Archives - Dr Greg Madison, PhD

How The Body Thinks for Itself…

Episode 41 of The Living Process, with guest Sigríður (Sigga) Þorgeirsdóttir THE BODY THINKS FOR ITSELF. In this episode, I enjoyed talking with Sigga, who is a professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland and one of the founders of the Embodied Critical Thinking and Freedom to Make Sense projects. In our conversation, Sigga and I touch on what it’s like to teach embodied reflection to philosophy students, the importance of critical thinking, and the…

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12 December 2025

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Guest appearance on The Boundless Body

Dr Madison as guest on popular podcast The Boundless Body with Dr Brian Tierney. A discussion about the body, working with experience, existentialism, democracy and life and death. https://youtu.be/W_fqQgYof1k?si=uv0nEYOpyMiKrOUT

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31 October 2024

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Neuroscience and Felt Sensing

Episode 19 of The Living Process with Peter Afford on the topic of Therapy in the Age of Neuroscience. Intriguing ideas about how to understand oneself from a neuroscience-informed perspective. We discuss the right and left hemispheres and how to support clients to find the felt sensing dimension of their body experience.

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22 October 2024

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Untangling with Barbara McGavin and Ann Weiser Cornell

Episode 22 of The Living Process with Guests Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin talking about their new book, Untangling. How you can transform what's impossibly stuck. We discuss the state of 'self in presence' and the understanding of a person having 'parts' that can then be worked with therapeutically.

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22 October 2024

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The Living Process podcast and YouTube new episodes

Every 2 weeks there is a new episode of The Living Process, uploaded to London Focusing. Or search Youtube @gregmadisontherapy Or any of your favourite podcast platorms Latest episode:

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18 February 2024

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Experiential Dreamwork with Dr Leslie Ellis. E07 of The Living Process

Leslie Ellis, PhD, RCC, is a registered clinical counsellor, teacher and author who lives and works along the west coast of Canada, in beautiful British Columbia. Leslie has in-depth, specialized training in focusing-oriented therapy, and dreamwork as a treatment of trauma. Dr. Leslie Ellis is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2019) and offers many training opportunities in embodied, experiential dreamwork based on her book. Her dissertation on using focusing-oriented therapy to…

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1 January 2024

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Experiential work with couples and groups. Episode 6 of The Living Process

Welcome to Episode 06 of The Living Process. Greg's guess is Yehudit First, a qualified Body Psychotherapist and Group Facilitator as well as a Focusing Oriented Therapist and a Focusing Coordinator from Israel. Yehudit is experienced as a therapist for individuals and couples, as well as a popular teacher and trainer of Focusing and FOT. She is well-known for her development of the Focusing space into explicit interpersonal interaction in the form of Social Oriented Focusing…

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1 January 2024

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Experiential Philosophy

The fifth episode of The Living Process is now available. This episode features Dr Donata Schoeller as my guest. It is a shorter episode because we decided to follow it up with further episodes where we will concentrate on specific areas, especially for outreach to people who are not already very familiar with Focusing, Focusing Oriented Therapy, or Eugene Gendlin’s philosophy. Please read below... Dr Donata Schoeller is a philosopher who teaches internationally at various universities and…

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8 December 2023

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The Living Process E03 with Lynn Preston, NYC Relational Psychoanalyst

The Living Process episode 03 with Lynn Preston. Lynn Preston, MA, MS, LP, is a focusing-oriented relational psychoanalyst, teacher and supervisor. She is a graduate of the PPSC Advanced Self Psychology program, a faculty member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) and the founding Director of the Experiential Psychotherapy Project (EPP). Lynn has written and presented internationally on the integration of focusing and relational psychoanalysis. She also has an abiding interest in experiential teaching and integrative processes.…

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13 November 2023

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The Living Process E02 with Dr Ken Bradford

Dear Focusing Friends The second episode of The Living Process is now available. I talk with Dr Ken Bradford. The conversation was instigated by Ken letting me know that he had a series of correspondence with Gene Gendlin back in the early 1980s and he was able to find and share some of those letters with me prior to us talking. The conversation is on my YouTube site (@gregmadisontherapy) and on the FOT YouTube Channel (@FocusingOrientedTherapies).…

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6 November 2023

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The Living Process

The Living Process is a new series of conversations about Focusing with Dr Greg Madison as host. These conversations will feature people from the Focusing world and eventually also those beyond our community who might have something to say about the practice of Focusing, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, and Gendlins' philosophy. New episodes will hopefully appear every 2-3 weeks so if you subscribe and click notifications you'll know when a new conversation is up. You can subscribe on…

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1 November 2023

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New training for psychotherapists and other professionals starts in London

Our London Focusing team hosts our new 2-year training in Focusing, Listening, and Focusing Oriented Therapy practices. A great diverse group of 30 people shared the weekend learning and experiencing together, starting from the basics and the profound practices of human presence and the unfolding bodily process .... Next weekend online in December. Great experience being with these engaged psychotherapists and other professionals.

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9 October 2023