Greg Madison

Read more about the article Creating a better relationship with yourself. Guest on Marcus Kain podcast.
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Creating a better relationship with yourself. Guest on Marcus Kain podcast.

Apple podcast: What happens when discipline backfires? What happens when we drive ourselves into burnout, eating disorders, and struggles with mental health? When people used to talk with me about developing a better relationship with myself, and better relationship with food, I rejected those ideas because I was scared to lose my discipline which at the time I thought was my greatest asset. I believed my ability to force myself through challenges was the best thing…

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17 February 2022
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How our beliefs about ourselves influence our personalities

Our Mental Self-Portraits contain clues about our Personalities  If I ask you to picture your face and body in your mind, what do you see? And how do your beliefs and attitudes about your self — including your personality and your self-esteem — influence these mental self-images? Completely fascinating answers to these questions have now been reported in a new paper in Psychological Science. The findings are important not just for understanding how we all see…

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20 January 2022
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New Research and Awards for Focusing

Awards for Eugene Gendlin's work on Focusing. On Sunday, June 6, 2021, a Lifetime Achievement Award was presented at a special Awards Ceremony. hosted by the Society for Humanistic Psychology, a division of the American Psychology Association. At the beginning of his career, in 1970, Gene was the first recipient of the "Distinguished Professional Award in Psychology and Psychotherapy" from the APA's Division of Psychotherapy (Division 29). Receiving this award now puts a meaningful cap on the recognition…

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31 July 2021
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An existential take on living through the pandemic

This is a second unscripted conversation between myself and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli "What Really Matters (in corona times)". Ernesto Spinelli and Greg Madison, both existential psychologists living in the UK, discuss their experiences of living and working for the past year under lockdown and then now as restrictions ease and 'normality' can return. The video explores some of the deeper significance of daily life events, the opportunity for some uncomfortable existential insights, and a few ideas…

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1 May 2021
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Living through the pandemic, alone….

This is a collection of brief accounts of what it is like to be isolating alone during the Coronavirus pandemic (CBC News). Living through a pandemic, alone: Thousands of people are living through the COVID-19 global pandemic while living alone. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/living-through-a-pandemic-alone?fbclid=IwAR0HpOrwjkXDAUik8nxpRqKoepdgXJWVI8cERPcQfnltb1qexQhPV3HxQEILi  

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24 May 2020
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A conversation of existential themes of our current pandemic situation.
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“In Corona Times”

Spinelli & Madison. In Corona Times (An Existential Take) Ernesto Spinelli and Greg Madison, both existential psychologists living in the UK, discuss their experiences of living and working in 'corona times'. The video explores some of the deeper significance of daily life events, some existential themes that seem to be emerging because of the 'lock down' of society, and a few ideas about practicing as a therapist in the current context as well as a few…

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6 April 2020
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Embodied Meditation for solitary self-isolation 2

Hello All. I'd like to offer another very basic and gentle tuning into self. Feel free to pause the video at any point. (click on the YouTube link below) The intention is for us, especially people in self-isolation alone, but anyone else too, to invite a deeper connection with themselves, fill in some of the relating that many are missing. The intention is to be able to tell ourselves the truth of what we are experiencing…

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2 April 2020
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Embodied Meditation for those in Solitary Self-Isolation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Ds2f2Q1ck&t=6s I have been thinking especially of those of us who are living alone and now isolated on our own. I wanted to offer a series of very simple Focusing practices for us to keep ourselves company and 'fill in' some of the relationships that we may now be missing. Of course, it's applicable for anyone else too. We are all experiencing this uncanny period in human history. Being a psychotherapist or psychologist does not make…

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30 March 2020
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An Audience with Greg Madison, Brighton University

Greg presented the inaugural 'An Audience with...' event for Brighton University School of Applied Social Sciences February 8th. After a brief introduction, the audience was guided through a Focusing experience in order to be able to assess the points Greg wanted to make by reference to their own experience. Greg addressed issues such as: what is the body, the celebration of not-knowing, process and metaphors in understanding and in therapy, personal presence or professional presence as…

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22 February 2020
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iTunes podcast with Greg

In the link below you will find a podcast where Dr Madison guides his interviewer through a brief Focusing experience. There is also a previous podcast interview on People Developing People where Greg goes into detail describing Focusing. These are iTunes links: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/4-bonus-episode-a-taste-of-focusing-with-greg-madison/id1471377262?i=1000443539858

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19 July 2019