This paper reports on a case of focusing-oriented dreamwork in which the focusing was done on a strange dream and discusses the use of focusing-oriented dreamwork. Focusing-oriented dreamwork uses several questions from the 16 questions for the focuserʼs felt sense. Based on a case study of focusing-oriented dreamwork, the focusing process was discussed. In this case study, two types of questions were used, one asking for associations and the other asking “What about your childhood?” The focuser deepened her self-exploration through her focusing- oriented dreamwork. She was able to progress her experiencing process and gain new awarenesses about herself. The characteristics of the focusing process, the focuserʼs awareness and self-exploration, and the guiding of the guide in the focusing process of focusing-oriented dreamwork were discussed.

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In order to clarify the character strengths(CS)that should be fostered in career education, we examined the relationship between the CS possessed by working adults and economic and psychological factors. An online survey was conducted with 231 working adults. Since gender differences were found in annual income, age, and years of service, correlation analysis was conducted for each gender, and significant positive correlations were found between job satisfaction and work engagement for more than 90% of all CS for both genders. Most of the CSs with significant positive correlations with annual income were “strengths necessary for smooth performance of work” for men and “Japan-specific strengths such as facilitating interpersonal relationships” for women. The results of examining the differences in CS scores between the three groups according to annual income showed a significant difference between the group of less than 3.3 million yen and the group of more than 6.95 million yen, and there were many “strengths necessary to actively overcome the current situation”

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The present paper aims to investigate the semantic nature of take from the point of view of cognitive semantics to show that take is not necessarily a deictic verb. It is not unusual that take and bring are considered to be verbs of opposite meaning in the same way as go and come, while the sentence “I took the book from her,” is acceptable, where the patient(the book) moves from the origin(her)to the speaker as the destination(I). This sentence is semantically extended to generate “I took a whiff of the coffee,” which also shows un-deictic nature of take as well as take+action noun construction.

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