Posts in August, 2008

Focusing as emotional intelligence

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My friend Nada wonders whether, when we Focusers use the phrase “emotional intelligence”, we use it as part of the common language; or whether we are suggesting that Gene Gendlin and Dan Goleman are somehow in the same boat.
To my mind, this question is spot on. Daniel made a big mistake, one which Gene has […]

Herakleitos and Gene Gendlin

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I’m just back from a Greek and Latin summer school at the University of Wales, and ought to be doing something else (sleeping, perhaps), but shall not resist writing a few thoughts here about Herakleitos, by way of homecoming.
“Everything flows; nothing remains. Everything moves; nothing is still. Everything passes away; nothing lasts.” - These are […]

Reading philosophy - how to

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This will be about remembering and tracking my own story of reading philosophy.
I may risk a few tentative suggestions, born out of what I did and what then happened; and because I’ve had chances to watch how quite a number of people have gone about starting to read the philosophy of Gene Gendlin. Mostly, though, […]

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