Eugene Gendlin

“If you want to smell the soup, you don’t stick your head in it.”

Comment spoken by Gendlin multiple times

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inwards – onwards – outwards

To mark the 100th anniversary of Eugene T. Gendlin's birth, we invite you to a "somewhat different" ÖGWG week: A congress that opens up safe spaces for relationships instead of conveying content; spaces where genuine, embodied encounters are possible, where inner and outer worlds, Focusing and Encounter, or more generally speaking, the relationship to myself and the relationship to others can connect.

date

October 1st - 4th, 2026

location

"die Hauswirtschaft"

Bruno-Marek-Allee 5/ 1020 Vienna

experiencing

Masterclasses, Embodied Dialogue,

experiencing encounters, fishbowl discussions, and much more.

PROGRAM

We create a relational space for collective focusing and experiential encounters—a laboratory for formats that transform personal experience into sustainable change and have an impact beyond therapeutic boundaries.

This space should be experienced and support us in developing a relationship with ourselves and the group.

English language skills are an advantage

Experience

For researchers, practitioners, and all those interested in relationships,
They want to put creativity and experience at the center.

speakers

Embodied dialogue formats with international researchers stimulate interactive conversations to connect theory with embodied experience and practice. A place where participants, together and on equal footing with internationally renowned speakers, experience and explore the phenomenon that Gendlin called "experiencing": something neither internal nor external, but "the one process in between".