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Friday, December 2, 2011

 

MEETING PROGRAM

6:30 pm            Registration and networking with light refreshments

 

6:45 pm            Welcome, Group Attunement and Introduction:  Anne Shollar

 

7:00 pm            Passionate Thinking – Ideas that Bring Us to Life

                      A Focusing Conversation led by Jenny Ross and Lynn Preston

 

In this workshop we will rekindle, or perhaps experience for the first time, the inspiration of our heartfelt ideas and the open space of the world of creative thinking.  Focusing helps us to feel our way into our thinking and think our way into our feelings.  Bringing thinking into the body felt sense realm brings ideas to life and brings us to life in a new way.  After preparing the ground with some introductory remarks, we will find the ideas that have been meaningful in our lives and articulate, expand, and enhance them through a focusing conversation.

 

Lynn Preston, a focusing oriented psychoanalyst for over 30 years, is the Director of the New York Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy (FORP) program and Co-Director of the Cape Town (South Africa) Focusing Oriented Therapy (FOT) training program.  She is also Co-Director of the New York Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology (TRISP) evening program.  She is deeply involved with exploring the relationship between philosophy, theory, and practice.

 

Jenny Ross has been involved with Focusing for the past 15 years and has studied with Gene Gendlin, Robert Lee, and Lynn Preston.  Jenny is a graduate of a four-year psychoanalytic training program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, which has an emphasis on self psychology.  She has been in private practice for 25 years and was previously Director of Crisis Services for a downtown NYC hospital.

 

8:30 pm            FOCUSING COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE:  Naomi Glicken

                        A time and place to share your Focusing projects, workshops

                        and trainings and to let us know what other goods and services

                        you have to offer.

 

8:40 pm            Announcements and Closing Attunement:  Larry Hurst

 

8:45 pm            Refreshments

 

FUTURE NYMF MEETINGS NEWS

Friday, January 27th 6:30-9:00 p.m.   Stepping Through Beauty:  A Focusing Oriented                                                                        Exploration with Robin Kappy

Sunday, April 22nd 5:00-7:30 p.m.     Focusing and Spirituality with Ruth Rosenblum

                                                             and Susan Rudnick

Friday, June 22nd 6:30-9:00 p.m.                    Program TBA

Sunday, September 23rd 5:00-7:30 p.m.         Program TBA

Friday, November 30th 6:30-9:00 p.m.           Program TBA



Planning Group:

Larry Hurst with Christine Bubbico, Cynthia Callsen, Barbara Chutroo, Susan Deisroth, Naomi Glicken, Diana Kirigin, and Anne Shollar.



This is a grass roots, member-run organization.  We welcome your involvement.  The planning group meetings are open to anyone interested in attending.

 

New York Metro Focusing Mission Statement

 

The mission of New York Metro Focusing is to embody and carry forward the practice of Focusing and the philosophy that supports it as developed in the work of Eugene Gendlin and others.  By holding regularly scheduled meetings, NY Metro Focusing will offer members of this local geographic community ongoing opportunities to connect, share and grow in their appreciation and practice of Focusing.  The group will welcome newcomers by offering them an opportunity to learn about the life-enhancing practice of Focusing.  In this way, NY Metro Focusing will help to engender a thriving and visible presence for the practice of Focusing in the New York Metropolitan area.

 

Visit us on the Web:  www.nymetrofocusing.org