I want to share with you my conversation with Dr. Greg Madison, a psychologist and psychotherapist from England. What’s most interesting is not my answers, but Greg’s way of relating — something you rarely meet.
Greg is a master of Focusing, a therapeutic method I’ve also studied for many years. He listens and hears like no one else. With him, you want to tell everything.
Here are the themes we touched on:
2:10 – my first encounter with Focusing
4:20 – what makes Focusing unique
5:45 – the unconventional nature of my career path
10:10 – what Focusing taught me
14:25 – the role of Focusing in business therapy
18:50 – Eugene Gendlin, the founder of Focusing, as a model
21:20 – where confidence comes from when you’re stuck
23:50 – how trust is born in business therapy
29:45 – why it’s hard to think about the future of your business
31:20 – a common problem in strategic sessions
33:10 – why I work with founders, not top-managers
37:00 – why a founder must craft the vision
40:00 – how to model a different way of relating inside a team
43:25 – the problem of disintegration in the “corporate body”
45:25 – the forgotten art of blending the “mundane” and the “sacred”
47:55 – the cyclical renewal of a person and an organization
51:25 – where the true value of a growing company lives
54:05 – the real purpose of strategic sessions
56:25 – the fractal nature: self–team–society
1:01:15 – consequences of alienation from one's own desires
1:03:30 – how violence spreads on a planetary scale
1:06:25 – the importance of seeking global creative solutions
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Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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