Welcome to the official website for the Walking-In-Your-Shoes® Institute
This website provides information about the Walking-In-Your-Shoes® (WIYS) body/mind process. The links will guide you to learning more about this powerful technique, including access to facilitators, training, groups, workshops and private practice.
For psychologists, therapists, life coaches, mediators, business leaders, artists, and health care practitioners.

WALKING-IN-YOUR-SHOES® (Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1993) is an empathic way of knowing another deeply and empowering a person to be more fully alive. It integrates empathy, mindfulness, intuitive movement, and somatic resourcing. Refraining from imitation or calling on pre-existing knowledge, one states an intention to be a person or any subject, and physically moves or Walks, allowing empathy, intuition, and “spontaneous wisdom” to manifest new body-centered awareness and information not otherwise available to one's consciousness.

WALKING-IN-YOUR-SHOES® is a direct, powerful and highly effective sensorimotor processing technique used to access hidden information, transform obstacles, and receive personal empowerment for your life.  By tuning into the body's intuitive wisdom, WIYS® helps you gain a deeper understanding about any issue such as a family member, ancestor, relationship, colleague, animal, illness, business project, or personal subject, with safety and compassion. WIYS® increases empathic awareness through movement leading to increased empathy, mindfulness, integration, and somatic resourcing. This mind/body process was founded in the late 1980s by psychologist John Cogswell PhD and actor/director Joseph Culp, and developed over two decades. WIYS® can effectively bring transformation and clarity to issues surrounding:
Family & Systems
Money & Success
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Relationships
Creative Arts
Ancestors
Business & Work
Health, Illness & Recovery
Atachment Issues
Trauma Processing & Healing
WIYS® practice has been concentrated in psychotherapy, trauma reprocessing, creative arts, conflict resolution, life coaching, and self-psychology for over 25 years. Categories of focus include Family Systems, Interpersonal Relationships, Health, Disease and Recovery, Creativity, Business and Work, Ancestors, Archetypes, Project Planning, Life Goals and Transitions, Trauma and Healing.
HOW IS WALKING-IN-YOUR-SHOES® DONE? In groups or private sessions, under the guidance of a WIYS® facilitator, a client may ask for clarity or empowerment about a life theme or personal subject. The designated Walker tunes into the wisdom of the body through movement, describing in detail—both physically and verbally—the insights he/she intuitively receives. The Walker can explore the inner experience, life themes, obstacles, and core issues of any client, person or subject. The client may do the Walk for themselves or ask another to Walk for them. Walking allows you to see and directly access inner gifts and assets as well as obstacles or patterns to be tempered or transformed. Walking helps you break out of limiting “self-concepts,” move into the deeper natures of love, acceptance, and compassion as well as invite new resources and missing experiences that can be transformative. This groundbreaking technique is widely used by psychologists, therapists, life coaches, mediators, business leaders, artists and performers, and health care practitioners all over the world. WIYS® Institutes are currently located in U.S. and Germany 
WIYS as a creative tool for performing arts
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The contents of the WIYS Institute site are for informational purposes only. The Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional clinical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a mental or physical health condition.
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