Focusing Oriented Conversation

A bit about Focusing Oriented Conversation Focusing oriented conversation came to be with a focusing partner of mine.  There were times when there was just too much, and many things needed to be verbalized or "talked through" in order to get enough space to go beneath the surface and get to what was happening underneath. This can also be known as story. But how do we honour story and let it have it's place in Focusing? We sort of found that by setting aside focusing time, we could use that time to hold space, listen and have respectful conversation.  Focusing language could enter the conversation, or not, but it was an important step in process.  We wanted to bring all the qualities of inner relationship focusing to a conversation. I had found that sometimes early on in the focusing process, a lot of body feeling brings a need to express many ideas that are firing all at once as focusing begins to open up new possibilities and the body begins to communicate now that it is being listene