Many of our political and social patterns make mutual understanding disturbingly difficult. Rigid categories and identities cramp and undercut the personal, collective, and systemic transformation that global, environmental and social challenges call for. In this kind of stuckness the relevance of Gendlin´s process thinking and experiential approach deserves careful consideration. [See more -- https://focusing.org/event/gendlin-symposium-deliberative-transformation-embodied-phenomenology-and-process-thinking].