Who Is This Course For?

TAE is for anyone wishing to deepen and develop their professional practice; for those seeking greater clarity and a significant step forward in their lives; for people engaged in creative processes who wish to listen for what is emerging beyond their current edge; and for organizations seeking to discover their next possible step.

Whether your work involves research, education, therapy, leadership, the arts, or personal development, TAE offers a path for thinking from the richness of lived experience and bringing forth something genuinely new.

Further Elaboration on the TAE Process

The program is structured in three stages. Each stage culminates in an intensive workshop dedicated to the practical application and integration of the knowledge that has emerged during that phase.

These workshops are not part of Gendlin's original TAE process. However, as in any genuine creative process, the insights and understandings that emerge through TAE are not meant to remain merely conceptual or "stay in a drawer." For this reason, we have integrated unique workshops into the program, developed through many years of accompanying individuals and groups in creative processes. These workshops help participants transform their emerging knowing into concrete forms, projects, practices, and contributions.

Stage A: "Extracting" the Precious and Meaningful Knowing already active in our lives.   

This stage teaches not only how to extract this knowledge but how to "rescue" it from general understandings and public languages that often hold it within what is already familiar and known, limiting its further development. As this process unfolds, we begin to discover the depth, richness, and wisdom carried within our implicit knowing, dimensions that have not yet been thought, articulated, or fully lived.

Stage A concludes with a special workshop dedicated to integrating what has been discovered and developed into the reality of our lives as they are being lived now.

Stage B: Research, Development, and Creation

In this stage, we further unfold our knowing and clarify what is implicit within it. We begin to discover and formulate the structures, patterns, and organizing principles that emerge from our evolving understanding. Through the process of Crossing its various aspects, the wisdom inherent in this knowing becomes more intricate and refined. 

Stage B concludes with a special workshop, where we explore how to design a workshop or learning process through which this emerging knowledge can be conveyed to others.=

Stage C: Articulating a Vision for Further Research, Development, and Creation

In this stage, participants formulate a vision that can carry their lives forward while contributing to the world. Working at the living edge of their knowledge and expertise, they uncover deeper layers of implicit knowing and begin to articulate possible paths for future research, professional development, creative work, or contribution.

Stage C concludes with a special workshop in which, from the living edge of all that has been developed, participants formulate a "Mini-Theory". At this stage, we allow ourselves to make a Sacred Commitment to the ongoing creation-ing of our lives, and our contribution to the world.

TAE is a new track opened for certification by The International Focusing Institute (TIFI). The course we teach is officially recognized by the Institute.