How was Inner Relationship Focusing developed?
Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin, whose combined experience with Focusing totals over 50 years, have developed a special way of approaching the Focusing process that is both nurturing and personal. They call their special approach "Inner Relationship" because it emphasizes how we relate to what needs attention in our inner world.

Inner Relationship Focusing has its roots in the Experiential Focusing process developed by Eugene Gendlin. For more about Gendlin's Focusing process, access The Focusing Institute.

Inner Relationship Focusing differs from Gendlin's "six-step" Focusing in three important ways:

(1) Presence

(2) Treatment of inner critic as "something criticizing right now"

(3) "Relationship creating" methods preferred to "setting out" methods

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