Flourishing from the Inside Out
The Path of Self-Trust
& Inner Leadership
Looking for a way to be more true to yourself?
To make better decisions
and navigate life and career crossroads with confidence?
Learn Experiential Focusing
for Flourishing at Work & in Life
Many of us spend our lives adrift from our inner wisdom, feeling stuck, confused, or at the mercy of other people’s opinions and ideas. We have so much going on, and so much to think about.
And we live at a time when leading from the head (top-down thinking), and having the answer, are prized above all else.
Given this, it’s no surprise if you’re struggling to trust yourself to make big decisions or even to articulate what you want for your work and life.
Because the little voice of our inner compass, our self-leadership, comes from the body and emerges more slowly, and so gets drowned out, ignored or rushed past.
It’s not that there’s no place for cognitive thinking – of course we need our logical brain, BUT, logic, mindset manoeuvres, and “left brain” thinking will only take you so far. Mostly it will take you to already known places. Following the crowd.
But, instead of following others’ instructions on how to live and work, there is another way…
A path of self-trust and inner leadership
Learn to find and follow
your inner leader
with Experiential Focusing
How to trust your inner wisdom, live true to yourself, and find your best next steps…
You have within you a deep and trustworthy source of wisdom and guidance that can help you:
- feel more in touch with yourself and what you really want
- (re)gain a sense of purpose
- respond more effectively to both everyday concerns and the big life-watershed moments (without them overwhelming you)
- think creatively about your career, work, relationships, and life
- connect more robustly and authentically to others
- make positive and more wholehearted decisions about your work and career
- identify your right next action steps
- understand and shift blocks to taking action
- unleash creativity and engage “out-of-the-box” thinking
- be more present at work and at home
- disarm inner critics and feel more peaceful
- recover more quickly from stressful situations
However, we cannot lead, or live from the inside out if we don’t know how to go inside
Or if we don’t know how to be in contact with our inner experience in a facilitative way rather than a confrontational way.
This is where Focusing comes in.
Focusing is “a way to enter regularly and deliberately to that place inside us” from where we live and lead (if we are not just trying to do everything from our heads). A “place” perceived bodily, from where new ways of thinking, relating, and leading can emerge in response to the situation in which we find ourselves.
This place is your body-mind sweet spot. Here, in the form of your felt sense you’ll discover wisdom about your life, your situations, and how to live more fulfilled and satisfied.
How to flourish, in fact.
What exactly is “Experiential Focusing”?
Experiential Focusing, or “Felt Sensing”, is an evidence-based practice of mindful, somatic, self-inquiry. In it, you hold a special kind of non-judgemental attention to something that is felt inside.
It’s a kind of inner conversation, where you can be with and uncover the wisdom of emotions, symptoms, or stuck places, rather than being caught in them.
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Here are the various ways you can experience and learn Experiential Focusing here at Inner Resourcing:
Ways to Learn Experiential Focusing/Felt-Sensing
Download some beginner exercises via pdf
Join an introductory workshop or skills course
Try a one-to-one guided Focusing session
As a Focusing-oriented coach I also bring elements of felt-sensing into my coaching, where appropriate
Get more details about Conscious Career Coaching here…
Who Is Focusing For?
Focusing is for anyone and everyone. Now, I know what you’re thinking… That sounds both too general, and too good to be true.
However, Focusing is a natural human process. It’s listening to yourself in a way that enables you to live more fully and freely.
Therefore it can help those who feel stuck, blocked, disconnected, or in need of healing. It can also help those who want to expand their thinking, change patterns of behaviour, experiment with mindfulness and self-awareness, and/or be more creative.
My clients often use Focusing to think about their careers, relationships, retirement plans, or meaningful work. You could also use it to deepen your ability to be present for your own clients, to be a better parent, to be more creative or confident, or to make big, or small life changes.
Learn more about Focusing and the Felt Sense here…
Discover Focusing via
Guided Focusing Sessions
Want to try Focusing? Why not have a guided Focusing session?
I offer them for people who are new to Focusing. And also for existing “Focusers” who want a session held and guided by a trained practitioner.
If you’ve any questions or want to make an enquiry, get in touch through my contact page. I’ll get straight back to you.
I’ve written more information about Focusing here….
Or visit the International Focusing Institute’s website. This contains a great deal of information about Gendlin’s work on Focusing, the Philosophy of the Implicit, and Thinking at the Edge. Find it here…