"Inside-Me Stories" is a valuable tool for teaching children the skills they need to navigate the social and emotional challenges of life. By learning to understand and express their emotions, children can build stronger relationships, improve their communication skills, and develop a greater sense of self-awareness and self-esteem. The book's focus on experiential learning and its use of interactive storytelling make it a fun and engaging way for students to learn social and emotional skills.

To bring movement, practice movement. I invite you to explore some of these movements if you are looking for ways to practice embodiment of small action steps from your Focusing process. 

Here is our blog post for December 25, 2024, entitled Update on “Sundays with Gene - A Memoir” Help for Helpers Presentation, by Barbara Dickinson

By the very kind invitation of Lynn Preston’s “Help for Helpers,” Barbara gave a presentation recently about the Memoir. You can find the video of that presentation on the Help for Helpers Channel on YouTube.

One of the gifts of Focusing is to be truly heard by another person. In this blog post, we talk about the conversational habit of responding to another person with our own stories, feelings, or reactions, and how Focusing helps us become better listeners. Asking, or reflecting, with empathy can bring us into a better relationship with the other. Read on!

Conflict! It is a part of everyday living. Most people do not love it. Many people are afraid of it. Some people have skills to process conflict successfully -- meaning the relationship between the two people in conflict survives and thrives. Many people have weak skills and suffer broken relationships after conflict. 

We interrupt our regular blog posts on exploring interaction for a special announcement! “Sundays with Gene - A Memoir” by Barbara Dickinson is now available right here on the LearnFocusing.org website.

How is all this about exploring interaction, you might ask? And I would answer that travel, in particular, brings me into contact with many more people than I usually encounter in my everyday life. The opportunities over the last few weeks for exploring interaction with all manner of strangers, and some friends, were abundant. 

In this blog post we are going to finish up our explanation of the "Double Wing" of Interactive Focusing. It is like a “sandwich”, with the first turn (top bread), Interactive Response (filling) and second turn (bottom bread).

We are getting ready for our first gathering (online) to explore interaction on March 17, 2024! In this blog post, we start with the basics of Focusing -- Felt Sensing -- and Highlights of the process we use for exploring interaction, the method called “Interactive Focusing”.

This blog post is called “Highlights of Exploring Interaction with Focusing", and you can find it in the News section of our LearnFocusing.org website.

For so many, there may be no holiday celebrations, only loneliness, fear, isolation, even hunger, danger, and loss. Here, we are embarking on an exploration of interaction -- relationships between people. And one of the things we hope is that these explorations might help us strengthen our skills in getting along, in pursuing peace.