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“Notice, it is always there for you.” Finding a Sense of Home in Gendlin’s Experiential Process

  • Boston College, Campion Hall Room 139 2599 Beacon Street Newton, MA, 02467 United States (map)

2nd talk of the 2025-2026 Conference Series by Wendy Sharak, LMHC

Wendy Sharak shares her journey discovering Eugene Gendlin’s phenomenological Focusing model within her clinical work integrating expressive arts therapies with NECET’s existential-psychoanalytic approach. She describes the profound joy of finding a sense of home in this integration – a therapeutic framework honoring embodied experience and existential presence.

Drawing from Gendlin’s research with Carl Rogers, Sharak highlights the core concept of “felt sensing”, an intentional, embodied way of being with lived experience.She explores existential themes such as “experiencing” and “interaction first”, which enliven the therapeutic space.Through brief guided exercises, participants will connect with their own embodied experiencing, deepening their engagement with this dynamic process of belonging and therapeutic change.

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