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ACTION STEPS, BIRDS, DIRECT REFERENT AND PERCEPTION Photo credit: Suzanne Noel 2024 After the beautiful comments in the Focusing list on my previous blog and my clarifying remarks - please see the comments to Part one - I am now ready to delve deeper into the question of what is a Gendlian action step.  I will do so by examining again the transcript of my 2015 conversation with Gendlin. How did the action step "come" to Gendlin? It is very clear from the transcript that it did not come from within, as words or images come to symbolize the felt sense, but it came from outside, with me in the role of an empathetic storyteller.  The release of tension, the "it gives me a breath" takes place in the conversation after my interpolation of the behaviour sequence   when they feel hunger, they have to rise from the chair and go at least to the kitchen closet to get a can of something in order to eat. Right? And that is already an action step.   This interpolation carries...

  "Trusting your environment. Trusting the process of making sense. Trusting your body. Trusting your relevant others. Trusting your community.  Trusting other human beings in general. Trusting international organizations. Trusting your nation.  "  In the exercise above, I have placed in decreasing order my "objects of trust", and I have erased "my nation" as an object of trust. Recognizing a very small portion of the environment as trustworthy has been a big part of my process of healing after the pandemic outburst, when I felt powerless, shaky and needy. The very small portion of the symbiotic environment I started to build for me during the pandemic has the dimensions of 25 x 70 x 70 cm. It sits on my terrace and contains earthworms. Home composting with worms has become a form of therapy for me, and if you are a cat or dog owner you can understand how affectionate human beings can become towards their trustworthy animal allies.  At the same time, it ha...

COMPOSTING WITH WORMS -Original drawing by Freda Blob /Focuszart 2024 Re-imagining our evolutionary past to access the future Empowerment and resilience in times of ecological crisis 5 webinars, 2 hours long each. For the theoretical foundations of the course, please read  First person sustainability as hermeneutics for action steps This course aims to develop: A pivotal meaning for the phrase “sustainable development” (at the personal level), Shift from “outer" development goals to evolutionary steps (for society and culture), Attention to and recognition of the occurrence of meaning (truth), Organismic (bodily) intelligence and appreciation of non-human life forms, An understanding of the difference between decentered humanism and anthropocentrism, Cross-contextual, non-binary critical thinking, applied to the construction of “mini-theories of evolution”, a process that merges four of the five dimensions of the...