Focusing
In contrast to most other mindfulness practices, Focusing is an attentional practice that cultivates a thoughtful use of language. In Focusing, one practices how words, also conceptual and abstract formulations, don't lose the precision of implicit, experienced meaning. I provide training courses in the context of academic research, but also beyond academia, as well as individual sessions.
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TAE
TAE is a philosophical practice of inquiry developed by Mary Hendricks and Eugene Gendlin at the University of Chicago. It involves three kinds of moves.
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1st cluster: engaging a „felt sense“ of a problem, issue, subject matter or question. Practicing with the resonating/responsive relation of experienced meaning and symbols/formulations.
Becoming able to formulate more precisely the intricacy of felt meaning as a relevant background of a topic.
Experimenting with an experiential precision.
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2nd cluster: Thinking with the complexity of actual experiences.
Experiential relating as diffracting. Experiential and situational understanding as „lenses“ to open up perspectives.
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3rd Cluster: Thinking with different kinds of oders: logical and experiential, having both inform, precision each other.
Making implicit experiential structuring explicit.
Individual and team sessions: for researchers or professionals that want to clarify their intuitions and ideas of a a project that matters.
TAE Sources
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Eugene Gendlin, “Thinking at the Edge: A New Philosophical Practice ,” The Folio, Volume 19, Number 1, 2000-2004
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Eugene Gendlin, "Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning". Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1962.
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Donata Schoeller, "Thinking at the edge in the context of embodied critical thinking: Finding words for the felt dimension of thinking within research", Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 22/2022
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Donata Schoeller, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, "Embodied Critical Thinking. The Experiential Turn and its Transformative Aspects". In PhiloSOPHIA, vol.9.1, 2019.
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Donata Schoeller, "Close Talking statt Smalltalk.”Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 20.01.2018.
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Donata Schoeller, “Somatic Semantic Shifting: Articulating Embodied Cultures .” In Thinking Thinking: Practicing Radical Reflection; Phenomenology, Pragmatism, Psychotherapy, edited by Donata Schoeller and Vera Saller, 112–135. Freiburg/Br.:Alber, 2016. [Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Anthropologie, Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie (DGAP);5]
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Donata Schoeller “Anfang: ein hermeneutisch pragmatistischer Annäherungsversuch.” In Kehrseiten: Eine andere Einführung in die Philosophie, edited by Natalie Pieper and Benno Wirz, 15–35. Freiburg/Br.: Alber, 2014.
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Satoko Tokumaro, "Qualitative Research with TAE Steps: Thinking at the Edge, Theory and Applications". Tokyo, Japan: Keisuisha, 2011.