Dorothe Bach is an associate director and professor at the Center for Teaching Excellence of the University of Virgina. Bach’s areas of research include equitable teaching practices, contemplative pedagogy, embodied cognition, course design, student-faculty partnerships and faculty learning communities.
Gunndís Ýr Finnbogadóttir is a visual artist and an associate professor at the Iceland University of the Arts, Department of Arts Education. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Iceland, School of Education, investigating environmental immersion and movement in thinking in an artistic research project aimed at developing environmental pedagogies.
Thomas Fuchs holds the Karl Jaspers professorship for philosophical foundations of psychiatry and is head of Phenomenological Pscychopathology and Psychotherapy at Heidelberg University Psychiatric Hospital. Fuchs’ areas of research include phenomenological philosophy and psychopathology, embodied and enactive cognitive science and interactive concepts of social cognition.
Pascal Frank is an assistant professor in Teaching and learning for the development and unfolding of human potential for sustainability at the Education and Learning Sciences group of Wageningen University & Research. Pascal’s research revolves around mindfulness practices, intrapersonal sustainability competences, and inner development goals.
Elsa Haraldsdóttir is a PhD student at the University of Iceland and a philosophy teacher. Her field of research includes critical thinking, embodied critical thinking, normative ethics and practical logic, philosophical dialogue, philosophy of education and teaching philosophy, societal impact of humanities, reason and artificial intelligence. Elsa also worked as the Project Manager for the Erasmus+ stragegic partnership project „Training Embodied Critical Thinking“ (TECT).
Katrin Heimann is an assistant professor at the Centre for Educational Develpment at Aarhus University. Heimann specializes in micro-phenomenology and her current research focuses on inclusion in learning and working environments in higher education.
Akira Ikemi is a professorat Kansai University Faculty of Health & Well-being and the Graduate School of Psychology. Ikemi’s research themes cover the practice of Focusing and he has contributed to the developments of various Focusing methods, including recent developments that incorporate mindfulness.
Ólafur Páll Jónsson is a professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland’s School of Education, faculty of education and diversity. He works on philosophy of education, theories of democracy and social justice and philosophy of nature.
Urban Kordeš is a professor of cognitive science and first-person research at the University of Ljubljana Center for Cognitive Science. His research interests include in-depth empirical phenomenological research, neurophenomenology, collaborative knowledge creation and second-order cybernetics.
Kevin Krycka is the Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Seattle. Krycka’s research focuses on social and political philosophy, philosophy of science and phenomenological pscyhcology.
Jeanne Watson’s research interests are centred in humanistic-experiential psychotherapy and she has extensive background of process research methodology.
Julia Lockheart is a professor at Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David where she is Head of Contextual Practices, and Director of the Metadesign Research Centre. She is also a metadesign researcher and Associate Lecturer in design writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research strands focus on writing in art and design, and the relatinship between empathy and sharing dreams with others through artistic practice.
Aston McCullough is an assistant professor at Northeastern University. McCullough’s research areas include- movement & health, motion analysis, dance behaviour. McCullough is a also contemporary/improvisational dancer and Focusing teacher.
Naohiko Mimura is a professor at Kansai University. Mimura’s core research expertise is the mind-body duality problem outlined in Husserl’s phenomenology and in particular in the “Theory of Experiencing” and the “Process Model” proposed by Eugene Gendlin. He currently leads the Studies of the Architectural Body Research Program.
Claire Petitmengin is professor emeritus at l’Institut Mines-Télécom Business School. She is the head of of the Micro-phenomenology Laboratory in Paris and has established micro- phenomenology as a new discipline to research the dynamics of lived experience and describe its fine- grained structures. Petitmengin is internationally known for her publications on epistemological conditions of this method, as well as its educational, therapeutic, artistic and contemplative applications.
Jenny Roche is an associate professor at the University of Limerick. Roche teaches artistic research methods at BA, MA and PhD level and does research through dance and related arts projects. She has undertaken training in micro-phenomenology and incorporates this approach into her teaching, scholarly and artistic practice.
Mike Sandbothe is a Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Jena (Germany). Sandbothe works in the area of media philosophy and philosophical pragmatism. He is one of the founders of the German Network of Mindful Universities, (Achtsame Hochschulen).
Satoko Tokumaru is a professor at Kaichi International University, Japan. Tokumaru teaches TAE at Kaichi University, at Tokyo University and Sophia University Graduate School. In recent years, she has been developing TAE as a qualitative research method.
Siebrecht Vanhooren is a professor at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Vanhooren is a clinical psychologist and a humanistic, person-centered, focusing-oriented, and experiential-existential psychotherapist and supervisor.
Marieke van Vugt is an associate professor at the University of Groningen .Van Vugt is an an expert on the cognitive neuroscience of mind-wandering as well as mindfulness meditation. Dr. van Vugt is also involved in innovative research projects that include collaborations with dancers and Tibetan monks, in the intersection of art and mindfulness.
Greg Walkerden is a Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University. Walkerden is an expert in environmental management, and has a research background in philosophy and psychology, with a research emphasis on Eugene Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit. He is co-editor of The embodied turn in critical thinking.
Jeanne Watson is a professor at the University of Toronto. Her research interests are centred in humanistic-experiential psychotherapy and she has an extensive background of process research methodology.
Collaborating Institutes
The Eugene T. Gendlin Center For Research In Experiential Philosophy And Psychology consists of a distinguished group of academics in philosophy and psychology, all experts in Gendlin’s work as well as in their broader academic field. They meet monthly to further the purpose of promoting academy-level research based in the work of Gene Gendlin.
TECTU – Training in Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding is an interdisciplinary European Erasmus+ training program initiated by philosophers, cognitive scientists, environmental designers, anthropologists, and sociologists, tailored for students, researchers, and professionals from all fields.
