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
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.
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…
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…
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.…
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.
This is the first part of Greg Madison and Lynn Preston's Dialogue Series "Talking About Therapy." To watch the rest of the dialogues, please view this playlist: • Greg Madison & Ly... Greg Madison and Lynn Preston, long-time Focusing-Oriented Therapists, discuss what drew them to Gendlin’s work and how they integrate Focusing and their other home base approaches, Existential Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis. https://youtu.be/TxQHUPaZ7VI
London Focusing is planning its next Focusing and Focusing-oriented therapy certification training in the autumn of 2023. The training will be a mix of online and in-person events, culminating in The International Focusing Institute award of Certification as a Focusing therapist or Focusing professional. The training is highly experiential and requires an investment in the practitioner's own self-development and personal growth. More information at londonfocusing@gmail.com or www.londonfocusing.com https://youtu.be/E0YGKIs8dzk
I was pleased to present a session on 'thinking from the body', as well as participate on a panel on 'Embodiment' in existential therapy during this large international conference. It was wonderful to meet so many former students and colleagues from around the world. (Here is a photo with two esteemed colleagues, Dr Yaqui Martinez Robles (Existential Circle Training Centre, Mexico City) and Professor Ernesto Spinelli (London UK).
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…
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…
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…