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Bodies that listen: the advent of empathy from the process of focussing on the body

Authors :
Tomeu Barceló
Source :
Miscelánea Comillas, Vol 66, Iss 128, Pp 83-116 (2016)
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2016.

Abstract

The work framework is about the phenomena of sincronicity in the nonverbal communication and, concretely, about the use of focusing like an instrument to penetrate totally in the subjective world of the other and to increase the empathy in a therapeutic relationship and in the group facilitation. It’s about to look for confluent ways between the contributions of Rogers and Gendlin, that can serve us to make the therapists and facilitators training more accurately in their capacity of global comprehension that it makes possible to be abble to be present with greater intensity and to contemplate what is occurring within the framework of its relationship with the client and the group. From these phenomena of sincronicity or corporal empathy in the intrapersonal communication process it is possible to be experiencing, in my own body, the felt sense of the other and, at the same time, to be able to not being identified to me with this inner experience - also corporally felt - puting it «to a side», and to experience the recognition of which it comprises of my own experiencial process and the experiencial process of the other person. This form to practice the empathy, constitutes an enormous potential in therapist relationship and to facilitate groups.

Details

Language :
English, Spanish; Castilian, French
ISSN :
02109522 and 2341085X
Volume :
66
Issue :
128
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Miscelánea Comillas
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.77b62cdad12475a96910256aefb44a2
Document Type :
article