Hailstorms and Turtles: The Felt Sense Polyvagal Dialogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 190-201
Author(s):  
Jan Winhall
Keyword(s):  
Felt Sense

Integrating Focusing and Differentiation: A Therapeutic Path for Couples in Intimate Relationships

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evi Zohar
Keyword(s):  
Couples Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Emotional Healing ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
Inner World

Continuing the workshop I've given in the WPC Paris (2017), this article elaborates my discussion of the way I interlace Focusing with Differentiation Based Couples Therapy (Megged, 2017) under the systemic view, in order to facilitate processes of change and healing in working with intimate couples. This article presents the theory and rationale of integrating Differentiation (Bowen, 1978; Schnarch, 2009; Megged, 2017) and Focusing (Gendlin, 1981) approaches, and its therapeutic potential in couple's therapy. It is written from the point of view of a practicing professional in order to illustrate the experiential nature and dynamics of the suggested therapeutic path. Differentiation is a key to mutuality. It offers a solution to the central struggle of any long term intimate relationship: balancing two basic life forces - the drive for individuality and the drive for togetherness (Schnarch, 2009). Focusing is a body-oriented process of self-awareness and emotional healing, in which one learns to pay attention to the body and the ‘Felt Sense’, in order to unfold the implicit, keep it in motion at the precise pace it needs for carrying the next step forward (Gendlin, 1996). Combining Focusing and Differentiation perspectives can cultivate the kind of relationship where a conflict can be constructively and successfully held in the inner world of each partner, while taking into consideration the others' well-being. This creates the possibility for two people to build a mutual emotional field, open to changes, permeable and resilient.

Felt Sense

2000 ◽  
pp. 205-206
Author(s):  
Johannes Wiltschko
Keyword(s):  
Felt Sense

Civil courage as a communicative act

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-335
Author(s):  
Paul Iganski
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
Communicative Act ◽  
The Right ◽  
Hate Violence

Abstract Hate violence which denigrates a person’s social identity whether it involves physical or verbal aggression off or online – is a communicative act. It transmits a message to the victim that they are devalued and unwelcome. It is a marginalising and exclusionary message. Answering back to hate violence by challenging hateful expression is one way of responding. It is a form of ‘civil courage’. Yet why should anybody want to take a stand and speak out – given the risks involved that perpetrators might turn on those who intervene or respond in some other way? This paper proposes that the importance of civil courage goes beyond being the right thing to do, or the humane thing, when a bystander witnesses hate violence off- or online. Instead, if we comprehend hate violence as a communicative act, and if we understand the particular impact of the exclusionary message it sends (and understand how bystander inaction can magnify the felt sense of social exclusion), then we might appreciate the potential value of an act of civil courage in response. There is a moral imperative for civil courage as it answers back to hate violence by sending an inclusionary message to the victim – as reasoned in this paper.

scholarly journals Healing Is Rhizomatic: A Conceptual Framework and Tool

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Trauma Recovery ◽  
Macro Practice ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Recovery And Healing

This paper offers a conceptual framework and a set of tools that use rhizomes as a metaphor for healing in the context of oppressive violence. Existing conceptualizations of trauma, trauma recovery, and healing offer important tools for framing and addressing the impacts of oppression on individuals and groups. These exist in a fractured practice ground where practitioners are socialized into divisions such as “micro” vs. “macro” practice and “self-care” vs. “the work.” The Healing is Rhizomatic conceptual framework identifies five nodes (body, felt sense, relationships, place, story) and three dimensions of healing-oriented engagement (recognition, readying the ground, (re)generation) that exist across these approaches. Adaptable to multiple levels of analysis, the conceptual framework focuses on fracture, blockage, and connection as core experiences. These experiences occur in, through, and between the nodes and dimensions. This paper explores use of the conceptual framework and tools for applying it as a mechanism for assessment and reflection about internalized and operational definitions and approaches to healing. Thereby, the framework and tools offer a view of a common practice ground for practitioners engaged in healing work in the context of oppressive violence and is intended to support deeper awareness, collaboration, and coordination of approaches.

Beyond solidarity and mutual aid: Tension and conflict in burial groups in rural Uganda

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087281989682
Author(s):  
Laban Kashaija Musinguzi ◽  
Jude T Rwemisisi ◽  
Emmanueil Benon Turinawe ◽  
Danny De Vries ◽  
Marije De Groot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Sense Of Identity

Drawing from ethnographic data collected between 2012 and 2014 and January and June 2018 in Luwero district, Uganda, this article questions the romanticised depiction of burial groups as a means of enhancing social support, a sense of solidarity and mutual aid. We found that the felt sense of identity and belonging for members is not shared across community members, and that solidary relations between members and non-group members in the community are fraught with tensions and conflicts. Beyond the romanticised view of burial groups, we need to study burial groups as a model of solidarity in disunity and diversity.

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