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Jenny White UEA Senses of Focusing
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Jenny White, UK - UEA - Senses of Focusing • https://sensesoffocusing.com/ • Senses of Focusing, Vol. II • Section 3: ‘Senses’ of Focusing in the Arts • (Chapter 12) ‘It lulls me into a false sense of security, but I go there willingly’; music resonates with stopped process: an IPA study into musical experiencing unravelled through music and Focusing • • Jen received her doctorate in 2018 from the University of East Anglia (UEA) where she first learned Focusing as part of her Person-Centred counselling training. She works as a student counsellor at the UEA Counselling Service where she offers Focusing-Oriented therapy and Focusing inspired workshops to students. She lives with her husband Andy, daughter Willow and Van Damme, their ginger maine coon, in Norwich. • [e-mail: [email protected]] • Jen White describes a research project where a group of experienced Focusers and a group of student counselling clients were invited to listen in a recorded session to a self-selected piece of music that was particularly significant to them. Each one was then invited to dwell in a Focusing way on its meaning. While the experienced Focusers were able to stay with inner discomfort so that new meaning contained in their experience of the music could slowly, and often painfully, be revealed, listening to their chosen music led the student clients into a kind of ‘stopped process’. The individuals’ responses are evaluated using the EXP (Experiencing) Scale and the qualitative data from the Focusing/ client sessions analysed through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to shed more light on these contrasting outcomes. • Abstract: The mysterious power of music, its effect on bodily experiencing, paradox and connection to memories and people has consistently eluded explanation and baffled theorists across the ages. This study, which was carried out between 2010 and 2013 with experienced Focusers known to the researcher and also with student clients at the Counselling Service of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, presents a phenomenological enquiry into the experiencing involved in focusing on music. It asked client and experienced Focuser participants to select music that said something about how they were currently feeling in order to establish if focusing on personally selected relevant music can unravel implicit experiencing. The data, an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) Study which uses qualitative data to examine lived experience phenomenologically crossed with the EXP scale (Experiencing Scale), demonstrated that all participants were able to form an intricate felt sense from their music from which the Focuser participants were able to unravel important information to carry forward. The client participants were not able to work with their felt sense in the same way and became stuck. Analyses using the EXP scale suggested lack of experiential movement that resonated with structure-bound processing and a stuckness. This suggested that the enigmatic power of music may have similarities with stopped processes.
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