Gendlin Movie Bites Gatherings

GendlinMovieBitessml Who doesn’t love Mary’s moments of inspiration, especially when it doesn’t involve you having to do anything except show up and enjoy! One of Mary’s more recent bright ideas was to hold a movie night featuring Eugene Gendlin's work captured on video, which the International Focusing Institute had complied on their YouTube channel. Many of the clips involved the generosity and tremendous work of Nada Lou. Nada carefully combed through hours of footage of Gene sharing his wisdom with groups, and condensed it down into digestible bites to nourish us all.

Key themes were on how listening, which Gene learned from Carl Rogers, became such an important feature – it didn’t feature in the first stage of Focusing, strange as that might now seem. We heard Gene on Focusing Partnerships, on his concept of ‘carrying forward’ and his emphasis on ‘action steps.'

Nada-remarked at one stage that her husband felt like Gene lived in the house with them as he heard so often, while editing the videos. We were honoured to have Nada as a guest at the Irish Focusing Network Gathering which was a wonderfully light and informative evening for us all. Mary’s careful selection of videos held a really nice Focusing flow through the themes.

Nada carefully combed through hours of footage of Gene sharing his wisdom with groups, and condensed it down into digestible bites to nourish us all. Nada remarked at one stage that her husband felt like Gene lived in the house with them as he heard so often. We were honoured to have Nada as a guest at the Irish Focusing Network Gathering which was a wonderfully light and informative evening for us all. Mary’s careful selection of videos held a really nice Focusing flow through the themes.

Following on from the Irish Focusing Network evening, Mary held a Roundtable on it for TIFI and again it was very well attended and thoroughly enjoyed by all. It was a very engaging experience, with some interesting contributions on Gene’s philosophy and how that influenced the shape
of Focusing as we know it. Nada very graciously answered questions about clips and broadened our
perspective on Gene’s wisdom.

We are grateful to Mary for opening the door to what feels like a beginning of further gatherings like this together. And if you want to do another one Mary, I'll have the videos ready for you without ads!

Here is the link to the section of the TIFI website that hosts many videos featuring Gene talking about a range of topics - Gene Gendlin Videos- Click here. We hope you enjoy exploring more.

Below is a list of the videos we viewed on at the event with a link to the TIFI YouTube channel where they are hosted. We invite you to explore these in your own time and it might be worth hosting your
own ’movie bites’ and sharing the wisdom – and may popcorn with some Focusing friends.

1. Why Focusing works and what it is not