Official YouTube Video: Demonstration and Explanation of TAE by Gendlin Himself

2024年10月28日 00:24

Exactly 20 years ago, from October 28 to November 1, 2004, a Thinking at the Edge (TAE) workshop was held at the Garrison Institute in upstate New York. I attended the workshop just as the maple leaves were changing color.

The workshop facilitators were Eugene T. Gendlin, Nada Lou, and Kye Nelson. Mary Hendricks, then director of the Focusing Institute, visited for a day, as I recall.

In this officially recorded video, a man enters the room with a Japanese-style bow behind Eugene Gendlin and Nada Lou, and that man is me. (Tanaka, 2023, April)

A unique and valuable aspect of the official recording of this workshop is that Gendlin himself was the speaker, not the listener, during the TAE demonstration. The listener and video creator, Nada Lou, uploaded the video on her official YouTube channel.

Below are video headings for each of the 14 steps of TAE (Gendlin & Hendricks, 2004). Steps 1 through 9 are practiced by Gendlin himself as the speaker of TAE, and steps 10 through 14 are just explanations:

Step 1: Let a felt sense form

Step 2: Find what is more than logical in your felt sense

Step 3: Notice that you don’t mean the standard definitions of the words

Step 4: Write a sentence or fresh phrase to say what you wanted each of the three words to mean

Step 5: Expand what you wanted each word to mean by writing fresh, linguistically unusual sentences

Step 6: Collect Facets

Step 7: Allow the facets to contribute detailed structure

Step 8: Cross the facets

Step 9 Write freely

STEPS 10 – 14 BUILDING THEORY

Step 10: Choose terms and link them

Step 11: Ask into the inherent relations between the terms