{"id":10096,"date":"2015-08-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2022-09-09T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T20:25:37","slug":"revolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/revolutionary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revolutionary Pause: Mary Hendricks Gendlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This recording is very different from the rest of this series. Instead of an actual, spontaneous conversation, this 7-minute recording is a staged reading of the beginning of an article that Mary Hendricks Gendlin wrote.&nbsp;We did this as a memorial to Mary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the article, she was explaining what she meant by &#8220;The Revolutionary Pause,&#8221; using a personal situation that many people can relate to in order to make this concept come to life. This brings out in a very dramatic way how pausing makes it possible for us to notice the dynamics of power and control, and find our own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of us did this recording, Bruce Gibbs, Jocelyn Jacks Khan, Susan Rudnick, Catherine Torpey and Serge Prengel. We hope it inspires you to &#8220;pause for peace&#8221; &#8211; &#8211; inner peace as well as interpersonal and societal peace.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2678\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10096-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/ZT-Revolutionary-pause.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/ZT-Revolutionary-pause.mp3\">https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/ZT-Revolutionary-pause.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/ZT-Revolutionary-pause.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ZT-Revolutionary-pause.mp3\">Download<\/a> (5.3MB) <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gendlin-Mary-Hendricks-150x189.jpg\" alt=\"mary hendricks gendlin: revolutionary pause\" class=\"wp-image-11958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gendlin-Mary-Hendricks-150x189.jpg 150w, https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gendlin-Mary-Hendricks-90x113.jpg 90w, https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gendlin-Mary-Hendricks.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mary&nbsp;Hendricks Gendlin was the&nbsp;Executive Director of the Focusing Institute. She was in so many ways the heart and soul of the&nbsp;Institute, alongside her husband Gene.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The following are the opening paragraphs of Mary Hendricks Gendlin&#8217;s speech about \u2018Focusing as a Force for Peace: The Revolutionary Pause\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFocusing is a force for peace because it frees people from being manipulated by external authority, cultural roles, ideologies and the internal oppression of self-attacking and shame. This freeing has to do with an ability to pause the on-going situation and create a space in which a felt sense can form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen we know how to focus we refuse to take ourselves or any other person as merely an instance of a culturally defined category or group. We don&#8217;t say, \u2018I am good, you are bad.\u2019 Or, \u2018I am a wife and mother\u2019 as though this defined the total of who I am. Or \u2018You are the doctor, I am the patient\u2019 as though our interaction would then be governed only by the meanings of those roles. Or \u2018I am a Christian or a Moslem\u2019 as though the ritual forms would then exhaustively define my spiritual life. We know there is always a rich detailed intricacy, a \u2018more\u2019 in each person&#8217;s experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Published August 2015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}