Coming to Where You Are with Frans Sandbergen on The Living Process with Greg Madison
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Coming to Where You Are, with Frans Sandbergen on The Living Process, with Greg Madison Episode 46.
Frans is a very engaging story-teller, weaving together his own life with discovering Focusing and then working with Gene Gendlin for 12 years. In speaking with Gene and Nada Lou, Frans used a TAE process to describe the reality of the imaginary world of ‘Marfrano’ and how it helps people to discover their deeper direction in life. Frans developed terms like ‘the university that you are’, ‘the theory of coming to where you are (Theory M), the importance of ‘following the smiling thought’, the difference between ‘the real world and the formal world’, and how to find one’s ‘inner profession’. In developing the ‘art of getting lost’, Frans offers an intriguing example of Focusing as a creative change process. His book, Het Wil, is hopefully arriving in English soon. Using his model, he works with organisational groups and individuals offering listening communities called métier guilds and one-to-one sessions called ‘Cartographic Conversations’.
Episode 46 - Coming to Where You Are, with Frans Sandbergen: https://youtu.be/Oz1k4Lkt8-M
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Frans Sandbergen Frans has 30 years’ experience in creating listening guilds in organizations and beyond, thus encouraging hidden talent in each of us to do its wondrous work in a world that urgently needs it. He has practical studies in western and eastern philosophy, Focusing since 1997, and working with Eugene Gendlin 2005-2017. He is the author of ‘IT Wants’, a pledge for unknown talent, Cartographic Conversation, Theory M, the theory of coming to where you are. Frans is a master at creating new worlds which then become an entrance to the vast world of ‘the real’. Smiling thought often serves as a clear direction in these explorations! He is informal co-mayor of a once fictitious city in the south of Europe. His book will soon be available in English - www.hetwil.nl
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