I am in the process of condensing a few years hanging out in this field of work into a booklet on shoogling stuckness, aiming to be ready by the end of 2026. This Listening Skills Practice is built on shifting the balance of our attention to give less weight to the word machine of the thinking mind, while recognising value in giving attention to the quality of sensation in the centre of the body. Here, the location, size, shape, colour, texture & aliveness of our 'felt senses' connect to all the threads of thought, feeling, emotion, dreams, ideas & energy attached to any given situation we face. Rebalancing attention while noticing:      however we are doing ~ whatever we are doing ~ while we are doing it    can help us find our own way to navigate the experiential landscape within us and create the opportunity for the thinking mind to learn to be proprioceptive. Our sense of meaning flows ~ just beneath the surface of everyday awareness at the threshold of language and just beyond the world of words. Tapping into this flow of meaning can be initially vague & unclear, though the quiet wisdom of the body can can help us to sense, freshly, how we may approach ourselves, others and situations in both our inner and outer life differently . . . as a whole.  I aim to condense all the good stuff from a training in Focusing with Children  and Eugene T. Gendlin's Experiential listening & Focusing, into David Bohm's brilliant work On Dialogue and the Suspension of Everything ~ emphasising Gene's Clearing a Space . . . . with shifts in language, attitude & practice that respect the heart of both these approaches and carry the understanding that we are always in process, while integrating the ability to form boundaries and take action in life, sometimes spontaneously. There are some connections to: Qi Kung ~ EFT ~ Feldenkrais and TRE, that will find a way into this booklet too.  Letting our nervous system return to a flow state, while reframing experience, can help us in shoogling free from rigid patterns of thought, feeling, behavior or any form of stuckness we uncover, that lives between us and being whole.  

 Our body is always listening through us . . . it's well worth listening back.