Ann Weiser Cornell
| Ann Weiser Cornell | |
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| Born |
Ann Weiser October 6, 1949 Chicago, Illinois |
| Residence | Berkeley, California |
| Education | PhD, Linguistics |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Occupation | Author, psychology educator |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Known for |
Focusing Inner Relationship Focusing |
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| Title | President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology |
| Predecessor | Sandra Friedman |
| Successor | Arthur Warmoth |
| Partner(s) | Joseph McBride |
| Relatives | Mark Weiser (brother) |
| Website | FocusingResources.com |
Ann Weiser Cornell (born Ann Weiser on October 6, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American author, educator, and worldwide authority on Focusing, the self-inquiry psychotherapeutic technique developed by Eugene Gendlin. She has written several definitive books on Focusing, including The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing, The Focusing Student's and Companion's Manual, and Focusing in Clinical Practice. Cornell has taught Focusing around the world since 1980, and has developed a system and technique called Inner Relationship Focusing. Cornell is also a past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology.
Ann Weiser Cornell received a PhD in Linguistics in 1975 at the University of Chicago, on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. She then taught Linguistics at Purdue University from 1975 to 1977.
While still a graduate student at the University of Chicago, in 1972 Cornell met psychologist Eugene Gendlin, and learned the psychotherapeutic technique he had discovered and developed, called Focusing. After leaving her post teaching linguistics at Purdue, Cornell moved back to Chicago and reconnected with Gendlin, and in 1980 began collaborating with him in teaching his Focusing workshops. Using her capacity for linguistics, Cornell helped develop the concept of Focusing guiding, and in the early 1980s she offered the first seminars on Focusing guiding. In the early 1980s, Cornell also trained and worked as a psychotherapist at the Chicago Counseling Center, a non-profit counseling service that grew out of the University Counseling Center operated by Carl Rogers in the 1950s.
In 1983 Cornell moved to California – where she concentrated on training people to Focus, and on facilitating Focusing, rather than on practicing traditional psychotherapy. She began teaching her own Focusing workshops, and also experimented with how the Focusing process and theory could be expanded and refined. In 1984 she established the bi-monthly newsletter The Focusing Connection, and in 1985 she founded Focusing Resources, an umbrella organization to offer materials, support, sessions, and trainings on Focusing. In the early 1990s Cornell wrote and published the first of her Focusing books, The Focusing Student's Manual and The Focusing Guide's Manual, which were revised with Barbara McGavin in the 2000s and published as The Focusing Student's and Companion's Manual (2002).
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