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About Community Wellness Focusing

What is Focusing?

Focusing* is a natural process of tapping the body’s wisdom can be used in all areas of a person’s life. A growing, world-wide practice, Focusing was first introduced by Eugene Gendlin at the University of Chicago in the1960’s, after extensive research proved it to be […]

What do we mean by “Community Wellness”?

Community wellness is based on a public health approach with two assumptions. First, most illnesses are preventable, including various types of mental illness. Second, the community itself contains many solutions to its own health needs and already has many techniques to encourage resilience and wellness. […]

Helping girls put to work in Pakistan

COVID-19 is the last nail in the economy of Peshawar, Pakistan. It has forced hundreds and thousands of children into labor as a cheap and manageable resource. Driven by financial need, boys work in shops and workshops, while girls work as domestic helpers doing housekeeping […]

What is Focusing?

This short video explains how simple Focusing is to learn and to use. It is written by Cynthia Spellman, MD and animated by Ruslan Mityayev.

Introduction to Focusing

Patty, Anna and Nina share what Focusing means to them. They share, from personal experience, what Focusing is, how it is useful in everyday life and in what ways it helps when dealing with everyday challenges.