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Creative Edge Focusing (TM) teaches self-help skills which allow individuals and organizations to create innovative ideas and solutions from The Creative Edge, the "intuitive feel" of an issue or situation that is "more-than-words."

In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell validated the huge role that "intuitive thinking" plays in decision making. Creative Edge Focusing (TM) teaches how to turn this right-brain information into creative problem solving, using our core skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening.

Through The Creative Edge Pyramid , these core skills can be applied at all levels, from individual to interpersonal to groups/teams to Creative Edge Organizations. They can be used by friends, lovers, parents, teachers, helping professionals, support group facilitators, and in non-profit and for-profit corporations and organizations.

Creative Edge Focusing E-Newsletters deliver exercises from The Complete Focusing Instructions and Instant "Ahah!" Mini-Manual, two free downloads at

Creative Edge Focusing. You get them by subscribing to the E-Newsletter and joining the e-support group.

Over a year, the e-newsletters go through all of the exercises, practicing each for one month. You can start anywhere in the cycle and proceed through. There are three e-reminders each week to practice (a) a relaxation exercise (b) an exercise for finding a "felt sense," an essential part of Intuitive Focusing and (c) a Focused Listening or Intuitive Focusing exercise from Instant "Ahah!"s that you can add into your life, at home and at work, right now.

Especially if you join the e-newsletter mid-month, you can check these archives for the e-newsletters you missed for that four week cycle of exercises.

Remember, you can subscribe to the e-newsletter for exercises and the e-support group for ongoing practice and demonstrations in the sidebar at Creative Edge Focusing.

There, you will also find, in the upper right-hand corner, a link to Dr. McGuire's blog, "Ultimate Self-Help: Parenting, Education, Health, Intimacy, Business" .

Links to Archived E-Newsletters Below
If you are a new subscriber, most likely you want to just check the top few, looking for Week1 of the four week cycle presently underway if you want to "catch up". Visitors may just want to scroll through and see what catches their interest. Each of the exercises (Instant "Ahah!", Relaxation, and Felt Sense) is repeated four times before moving on to new ones, with new "tips for practicing" each week.
Interest Area: The Way of Relationship Week Two (5/8/2009)
Felt Sensing: Basic Listening/Focusing Partnership Exchange Week Two (5/6/2009)
Instant Ahah! # 10: Spirituality and Religion Week Two (5/4/2009)
Interest Area: Creative Edge Organizations Week One (5/1/2009)
Felt Sensing: Starting A Practice Group Week One (4/29/2009)
Instant Ahah! # 10: Experiencing The Sacred Week One (4/27/2009)
Complete Focusing: Creative Project or Stuckness Week Four (4/24/2009)
Interpersonal Diversity: EQ=Emotional Intelligence Week Four (4/22/2009)
Instant Ahah #9: Creativity -- PRISMS/S and Paradigm Shifts Week Four (4/20/2009)
Complete Focusing: Creative Project or Stuckness Week Three (4/17/2009)
Interpersonal Diversity: Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Week Three (4/15/2009)
Instant Ahah #9: Creativity, Intuition, and Blink Thinking Week Three (4/13/2009)
Complete Focusing: Creative Project or Stuckness Week Two (4/10/2009)
Diversity: The Enneagram -- Meeting Your Shadow Side Week Two (4/8/2009)
Instant Ahah #9: Creativity ---Treasures In Blocks Week Two (4/6/2009)
Complete Focusing: Basic 6-Step Process Week One (4/3/2009)
Interpersonal: Personality Tests MBTI and Keirsey Week One (4/1/2009)
Instant Ahah #9: Creativity ---From Blocks to Ahahs Week One (3/30/2009)
Complete Focusing:On POSITIVE or "What's In The Way?" Week Four (3/27/2009)
CEF NEW & GOOD: Photo Metaphors of Intuitive Focusing, Paradigm ShiftsMarch 2009 (3/26/2009)
Interpersonal" Klein's Interactive Focusing Model Week Four (3/25/2009)
Instant Ahah #8: "I Don't Want To Talk About My Day" Week Four (3/23/2009)
Complete Focusing:On POSITIVE or "What's In The Way?" Week Three (3/20/2009)
Interpersonal: Group Conflict Resolution Models Week 3 (3/18/2009)
Instant Ahah! #8: Increasing Sexual Intimacy Week Three (3/16/2009)
Complete Focusing:On POSITIVE or "What's In The Way?" Week Two (3/13/2009)
Interpersonal: The One Minute Apology Week Two (3/11/2009)
Instant Ahah! #8: Instant Intimacy -- Your Fascinating Partner! Week Two (3/9/2009)
Complete Focusing: On A POSITIVE Experience Week One (3/7/2009)
Interpersonal: The Third Person Listening Facilitator Week One (3/6/2009)
Instant Ahah! #8: Instant Intimacy -- Sharing Your Day Week One (3/4/2009)
Complete Focusing: Interpersonal Situation Week Four (2/27/2009)
Interpersonal: Myth of Dominance and Focusing Protocol Week Four (2/25/2009)
Instant Ahah! #6: Toppling The Pyramid Week Four (2/22/2009)
Complete Focusing: Interpersonal Situation Week Three (2/20/2009)
Interpersonal: Verbal Abuse Vs. Focusing Protocol Week Three (2/18/2009)
Instant Ahah! #6: Finding Your Touchstone Mission Week Three (2/16/2009)
Complete Focusing: Interpersonal Situation Week Two (2/13/2009)
Interpersonal: Non-Violent Communication Week Two (2/11/2009)
Instant Ahah! #6: One Small Thing Examples Week Two (2/9/2009)
Complete Focusing: Interpersonal Situation Week One (2/8/2009)
Interpersonal Felt Sensing Exercise!!! Week One (2/7/2009)
Interpersonal Felt Sensing: This flower is beautiful TO ME Week One (2/4/2009)
Instant Ahah! #6: Empowerment Organization --- Bottom Up Motivation Week 1 (2/2/2009)
CEF NEW & GOOD: Why Cry? Wonder, Joy, Being Touched and Moved Jan 2009 (1/30/2009)
Complete Focusing Session: "How Am I Today" with Inner Nurturing Week Four (1/30/2009)
Caring Feeling Presence: Healing Your Aloneness Week Four (1/28/2009)
Instant Ahah! #5: Best of hierarchy AND consensus Week Four (1/26/2009)
Complete Focusing: Noticing Critics, Conflicts Week Three (1/23/2009)
Getting A Felt Sense: Dealing With The Inner Critic, Inner Abuser Week 3 (1/21/2009)
Instant Ahah! #5: Caring Feeling Presence At Work Week Three (1/19/2009)
Complete Focusing Session: Getting Help Learning Focusing Week Two (1/16/2009)
Getting A Felt Sense: Caring About Unpleasant Parts of Self Week Two (1/14/2009)
Instant Ahah! #5: Sharing Leadership and Impasse Resolution Week Two (1/12/2009)
Complete Focusing Session: How am I today? Week One (1/10/2009)
Getting A Felt Sense: Creating A Caring Inner Relationship Week 1 (1/9/2009)
Instant Ahah! #5: Having Great Meetings! Collaborative Decision Making: One (1/7/2009)
Felt Sense #4 : Situation Discloses Life Direction Week Four (12/30/2008)
Relaxation #4: Counting Meditation instead of Focusing? Week Four (12/28/2008)
Instant Ahah! #4: From Migraine to Tears of Meaning Week Four (12/26/2008)
Holiday Fun & Stress Relief? Free Personality Tests & Focusing Reminders (12/19/2008)
Felt Sense #4 : Situation Collisions, Negative Spirals Week Three (12/19/2008)
Relaxation #4: Counting. Take Ten To Relax Week Three (12/17/2008)
Instant Ahah! #4: Tears of Being Touched and Being Moved Week Three (12/15/2008)
Felt Sense : Do your situations leave a residue? Week 2 (12/12/2008)
Relaxation #4: Are You Counting For Calming? Week 2 (12/10/2008)
Instant Ahah! #4: Grieving = Alchemy Week 2 (12/8/2008)
Felt Sense : Intuitive Feel of a Situation Week 1 (12/5/2008)
Relaxation #4: Counting Meditation. Week 1 (12/3/2008)
Instant Ahah! #4: Five-Minute Grieving Week One (12/1/2008)
Felt Sense : Clearing A Space Week Four (11/28/2008)
Relaxation #3: The Forest as Summer Camp. Week Four (11/26/2008)
Instant "Ahah!"s #3: Social Action for Passive Listening? Week 4 (11/24/2008)
Felt Sense : "Clearing A Space" Before Focusing Turn Week Three (11/21/2008)
Relaxation #3: The Forest. Real Raindrops . Week Three (11/19/2008)
Instant "Ahah!"s #3: Al Gore of Passive Listening Week Three (11/17/2008)
CEF NEW & GOOD: FOCUSING OUT IN THE WORLD Nov 2008 (11/14/2008)
Felt Sense : "Clearing A Space," Illness, and "I'm OK!" Week 2 (11/14/2008)
Relaxation #3: Forest . Falling off the wagon? Week 2 (11/12/2008)
Instant "Ahah!"s #3: Does Passive Listening Work? Week 2 (11/10/2008)
Felt Sense : "Clearing A Space" Exercise Week 1 (11/7/2008)
Relaxation #3: Going to The Forest! Week 1 (11/5/2008)
Instant "Ahah!"s #3: Passive Listening Turns Save the World? Week 1 (11/3/2008)
Felt Sense: The Habit of Felt-Sensing Week 4 (10/31/2008)
Relaxation #2: The Beach --- Awakening Week 4 (10/29/2008)
Instant "Ahah!"s #2: Start A Listening/Focusing Practice Group Week 4 (10/27/2008)
Felt Sensing "Bottom Up" and Touch Week 3 (10/24/2008)
Relaxation #2: The Beach -Guided Image vs. Meditation Week 3 (10/22/2008)
Instant "Ahah!"s #2: Practice Active Listening Week 3 (10/20/2008)
Felt Sense: "Bottom Up" Finding Your Body! Week 2 (10/17/2008)
Relaxation #2: The Beach and The Sacred Week 2 (10/15/2008)
Copy of Instant "Ahah!"s #2: Empathy for Anger Week 2 (10/13/2008)
Felt Sensing: "From The Bottom Up" Week 1 (10/10/2008)
Relaxation #2: Going To The Beach Week 1 (10/8/2008)
Instant "Ahah!"s #2: Active Listening and Anger Week 1 (10/6/2008)
CEF NEWS & GOODS: CREATIVITY, 12-STEP, FOCUSING PARTNERSHIPS (10/1/2008)
Felt Sense: Learning By Comparing Bodily Responses Week Four (9/26/2008)
Relaxation #1: Difference Between Focusing and Meditation Week Four (9/24/2008)
Instant Ahah!s #1: Focusing As Inner Steps Week Four (9/22/2008)
Felt Sense:"Two Different People" MIRACLE!!! Week Three (9/19/2008)
Relaxation #1: Noticing The Monkey Mind Week Three (9/18/2008)
Instant "Ahah!"s #1: Focusing and Anxiety Week Three (9/17/2008)
Pre-Focusing: Felt Sense of "Two Different People" (9/12/2008)
Instant "Ahah!"s #1: Focusing "Find out...Bothering" Week Two (9/8/2008)
Pre-Focusing #1: Relaxation ---Noticing (9/5/2008)
Instant "Ahah!"s #1: Focusing "Find out...Bothering" (9/3/2008)
CEF NEWS: Applications in Education, Business, 12-Step, and More!! (8/19/2008)
Summer Mini-Listening Course (7/14/2008)
Interest Area: Positive Parenting (7/8/2008)
Interest Area: Experiencing The Sacred (7/2/2008)
Copy of Felt Sensing: Basic Listening/Focusing Partnership Exchange Week 2 (6/26/2008)
Summer Mini-Focusing Course (6/26/2008)
Complete Focusing: "Guiding In' from Suzanne Noel (6/16/2008)
Interest Area: FOT ---Experiential Focusing Therapy Week 1 (6/12/2008)
E-Course in Fall and BONUS! Tantric Sexuality article (6/6/2008)
Interest Area: Creative Edge Education --- Every Gift Awakened Week 4 (6/2/2008)
Felt Sensing: Partnership Turn --- What The Listener Does Week 4 (5/27/2008)
Instant Ahah! # 10: Agape --- Spiritual Love Of The Other Week 4 (5/23/2008)
Interest Area: Building Community --- Support Groups Week 3 (5/19/2008)
Felt Sensing: Partnership Turn --- The Focuser is In Charge Week 3 (5/18/2008)
Instant Ahah! # 10: BioSpirituality: The Body's Doorway to Spirit Week 3 (5/13/2008)
Interest Area: The Way of Relationship Week 2 (5/12/2008)
Felt Sensing: Basic Listening/Focusing Partnership Exchange Week 2 (5/10/2008)
Instant Ahah! # 10: Spirituality and Religion Week 2 (5/7/2008)
Interest Area: Creative Edge Organizations Week 1 (5/4/2008)
Felt Sensing: Starting A Practice Group Week 1 (5/1/2008)
Instant Ahah! # 10: Experiencing The Sacred Week 1 (4/29/2008)
Complete Focusing: Basic on Creative Project or Stuckness Week 4 (4/27/2008)
Interpersonal Diversity: EQ=Emotional Intelligence Week 4 (4/24/2008)
Instant Ahah #9: Creativity -- PRISMS/S and Paradigm Shifts Week 4 (4/22/2008)
Interpersonal Diversity: Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Week 3 (4/16/2008)
Instant Ahah #9: Creativity, Intuition, and Blink Thinking Week 3 (4/14/2008)
Complete Focusing: Basic on Creative Project or Stuckness Week 2 (4/13/2008)
Diversity: The Enneagram -- Meeting Your Shadow Side Week 2 (4/11/2008)
Instant Ahah #9: Creativity ---Treasures In Blocks Week 2 (4/9/2008)
Complete Focusing: Basic 6-Step Process Week 1 (4/7/2008)
Interpersonal: Personality Tests MBTI and Keirsey Week 1 (4/2/2008)
Instant Ahah #9: Creativity ---From Blocks to Ahahs Week 1 (3/31/2008)
Interpersonal" Klein's Interactive Focusing Model Week 4 (3/27/2008)
Instant Ahah #8: "I Don't Want To Talk About My Day" Week 4 (3/26/2008)
Complete Focusing:On POSITIVE or "What's In The Way?" Week 3 (3/23/2008)
Interpersonal MORE: Group Conflict using DF vs CEDM Week 3 (3/20/2008)
Instant Ahah! #8: Increasing Sexual Intimacy Week 3 (3/18/2008)
Complete Focusing:On POSITIVE or "What's In The Way?" Week 2 (3/16/2008)
Interpersonal MORE: The One Minute Apology Week 2 (3/14/2008)
Instant Ahah! #8: Instant Intimacy -- What You Can Learn Week 2 (3/10/2008)
Complete Focusing: On A POSITIVE Experience Week 1 (3/9/2008)
Interpersonal MORE: The Third Person Listening Facilitator Week 1 (3/5/2008)
Instant Ahah! #8: Instant Intimacy -- Sharing Your Day Week 1 (3/4/2008)
Complete Focusing: Interpersonal Situation Week 4 (3/2/2008)
Interpersonal: Myth of Dominance and Focusing Protocol Week 4 (2/28/2008)
Instant Ahah! #6: Toppling The Pyramid Week 4 (2/27/2008)
Complete Focusing: Interpersonal Situation Week 3 (2/24/2008)
Interpersonal: Verbal Abuse Vs. Focusing Protocol Week 3 (2/22/2008)
Instant Ahah! #6: Finding Your Touchstone Mission Week 3 (2/19/2008)
Complete Focusing: Interpersonal Situation Week 2 (2/17/2008)
Interpersonal: Non-Violent Communication Week 2 (2/13/2008)
Instant Ahah! #6: One Small Thing Examples Week 2 (2/11/2008)
Complete Focusing: Interpersonal Situation Week 1 (2/9/2008)
Interpersonal Felt Sensing Exercise!!! Week 1 (2/7/2008)
Interpersonal Felt Sensing: This flower is beautiful TO ME Week 1 (2/7/2008)
Instant Ahah! #6: Empowerment Organization Week 1 (2/4/2008)
Complete Focusing Session: "How Am I Today" with Inner Nurturing Week 4 (2/2/2008)
Caring Feeling Presence: Healing Your Aloneness Week 4 (1/31/2008)
Instant Ahah! #5: Best of hierarchy AND consensus Week 4 (1/29/2008)
Complete Focusing Session: Noticing Critics, Conflicts Week (1/25/2008)
Getting A Felt Sense NEW: The InnerCritic, Inner Abuser, Other Difficult Week 3 (1/23/2008)
Instant Ahah! #5: Caring Feeling Presence At Work Week 3 (1/21/2008)
Complete Focusing Session: Getting Help Learning Focusing Week 2 (1/18/2008)
Getting A Felt Sense NEW: Caring About Unpleasant Parts of Self Week 2 (1/15/2008)
Instant Ahah! #5: Sharing Leadership and Impasse Resolution Week 2 (1/14/2008)

These materials are offered purely as self-help skills. In providing them, Dr. McGuire is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

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