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. […]

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.

I stepped off the plane in Islamabad, Pakistan, with many questions on my mind. I did not know if the Pakistani people would feel hopeful or hopeless.  When I was there two years ago, everyone was stressed and hope seemed out of reach. Many areas […]

From September 12 – 25, 2015, Pat Omidian, PhD, travelled to Japan to lead experiential workshops and lecture on Community Wellness Focusing in Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima. … After the workshop, [a participant] told the story to 5th grade children (10-11 years old) at school. [She] taught a domestic science class by telling them about the positive deviant woman and avoidance of Ebola as a case. How important it is to devise ideas at home!

Are you a psychosocial or development professional looking for more effective ways of working with groups? Would you enjoy feeling more comfortable and at ease, in helping groups turn conflicting perspectives into new creative possibilities? Are you a Focusing or Nonviolent Communication (NVC) practitioner interested […]

Our staff members at the Confidence Clinic were selected and trained to be nonjudgmental and accepting.  The Focusing attitude of compassionate curiosity was helpful.  One participant who had a lot of anger problems and came to us just after completing drug rehabilitation described how that “compassionate curiosity” […]