I mean, at my very first CFAR workshop (2012, I think?), I was of the opinion “come on guys, it’s almost all selection effects, I’m here for the networking / actually meeting people off the internet”, and so to some extent that me wouldn’t have been that surprised. If anything, I think he would have been positively surprised that CFAR generated a handful of techniques that seem real to me, and also popularized some techniques that seem real to me that I’m not sure I would have otherwise come across (mostly Circling; Focusing I already would have come across from looking up the Litany of Gendlin, I think.).
Minor point: Yes, your workshop was May 2012. That was CFAR’s first workshop (what was then still called a “minicamp” due to CFAR’s spiritual predecessor).
I mean, at my very first CFAR workshop (2012, I think?), I was of the opinion “come on guys, it’s almost all selection effects, I’m here for the networking / actually meeting people off the internet”, and so to some extent that me wouldn’t have been that surprised. If anything, I think he would have been positively surprised that CFAR generated a handful of techniques that seem real to me, and also popularized some techniques that seem real to me that I’m not sure I would have otherwise come across (mostly Circling; Focusing I already would have come across from looking up the Litany of Gendlin, I think.).
Minor point: Yes, your workshop was May 2012. That was CFAR’s first workshop (what was then still called a “minicamp” due to CFAR’s spiritual predecessor).