The lived world: Voices, gestures and silences
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.
In this webinar, we will explore some ways to connect with our bodily felt senses which guide us to an experiential empathic listening and understanding.
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Presented by The International Focusing Institute
Thursday, May 15, 2025
9:00 - 11:00am PST
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30..
Listening to and understanding another person empathically and experientially means feeling their experiences as if we were that person. Capturing their sensations, emotions and feelings is a basic ingredient for that understanding.
We are beings-in-the-world in relationship with others. How we feel colors our experiences of the social contexts, moments, and places in each situation.
This is where voices, gestures and silences become valuable means both to be aware of how the other person feels, and to express our understanding as companions who listen in an empathic way.
In this webinar, we will explore some ways to connect with our bodily felt senses which guide us to an experiential empathic listening and understanding.
Salvador Moreno-López
Psychotherapist, psychotherapists’ trainer, and writer.
Salvador has published several book chapters and articles on Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Supervision, and the Place of the Lived World in Psychotherapy.
His training as a psychotherapist comes from the Person-Centered Approach and from the Philosophy of the Implicit and Focusing. However, he carries out his activity from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The aspects of greatest interest in his work are:
a) the interaction with an accompanying empathic presence,
b) ways of following the direction and rhythm of the clients and at the same time helping them to attend to their experiencing,
c) how to allow himself to be guided by his experiencing to understand clients, and
d) to understand the place of the Lived World in psychotherapy.
Salvador plans to also offer a TIFI workshop on how to develop experiential empathic listening, inspired by Carl Rogers, Eugene Gendlin, and neuroscience. More details will be shared after the Highlight.
Registration info: Contact The International Focusing Institute with any questions: Phone: (845) 480-5111 Email: elizabeth@focusing.org
