NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Sunday, December 3, 2017
NY Metro Focusing meetings offer an opportunity to engage in a felt sensing, interactive exploration of topics of interest. We value diversity and welcome everyone’s voice. Our conversational process encourages slowing down, listening from a felt sensing place, and letting what we hear resonate within to bring something new and fresh, both within ourselves and within the group.
MEETING PROGRAM
4:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
5:00 pm Welcome and Introduction: Susan Deisroth
5:10 pm Program
Program: Getting Unstuck with Focusing
Facilitated by Marcella Calabi
We all get stuck -- in situations, and in feelings we don't like to have. And we all know that "getting some perspective" or "seeing the forest for the trees" is usually a good idea. How can we do that, and especially how can we do that when we're stuck? It's such a vicious circle: when we feel stuck, it's so hard to "get a bigger picture" -- we may even forget there is such a thing as a bigger picture -- but we need a bigger picture to get unstuck!
Focusing can help. This workshop is an opportunity to explore key Focusing practices of observation and being-with that can make a big difference. Whether you are a new or long-time focuser, you can discover and strengthen your ability to experience your feelings without being taken over by them.
Exploring these things together can give us support and insight for how we handle, individually, what comes up in our day. I look forward to our shared practice and conversation.
This evening’s facilitator: Marcella Calabi helps people find their voice and live from it, in three ways: coaching in singing and public speaking, consulting in decision-making, communication, and relationship strategy, and Focusing. A portal to her work in all of these areas can be found at MarcellaCalabi.info
6:40 Community Building: Introduced by Cynthia Callsen
7:00 pm Refreshments & Networking
7:15 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2018
Sunday, January 21 5pm -7pm: Beth Mahler – Focusing with Pain
Sunday, March 18 5pm -7pm: NY Metro Focusing Tenth Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, June 3 6pm - 8pm
Sunday, September 23 6pm - 8pm
Sunday, December 2 5pm - 7pm
For other Focusing-oriented events in the months ahead, please visit our website: http://www.nymetrofocusing.org/calendar and the website of the Focusing Institute, http://www.focusing.org.
Planning Group:
Marcella Calabi, Cynthia Callsen, Susan Deisroth, Naomi Glicken, Larry Hurst, Sharron Kaplan, Diana Kirigin, and Diana Scalera.
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, Viktor Raykin, Minda Novek, and Anne Shollar.
This is a grassroots, 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.
We are interested in keeping the conversation going, both in person at future meetings and online. We invite you to share what might still be happening for you or what you might like to return to at a later point. Please write to contact@nymflists.com. Please like us on Facebook on our page "NY Metro Focusing."
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Sunday, December 3, 2017
NY Metro Focusing meetings offer an opportunity to engage in a felt sensing, interactive exploration of topics of interest. We value diversity and welcome everyone’s voice. Our conversational process encourages slowing down, listening from a felt sensing place, and letting what we hear resonate within to bring something new and fresh, both within ourselves and within the group.
MEETING PROGRAM
4:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
5:00 pm Welcome and Introduction: Susan Deisroth
5:10 pm Program
Program: Getting Unstuck with Focusing
Facilitated by Marcella Calabi
We all get stuck -- in situations, and in feelings we don't like to have. And we all know that "getting some perspective" or "seeing the forest for the trees" is usually a good idea. How can we do that, and especially how can we do that when we're stuck? It's such a vicious circle: when we feel stuck, it's so hard to "get a bigger picture" -- we may even forget there is such a thing as a bigger picture -- but we need a bigger picture to get unstuck!
Focusing can help. This workshop is an opportunity to explore key Focusing practices of observation and being-with that can make a big difference. Whether you are a new or long-time focuser, you can discover and strengthen your ability to experience your feelings without being taken over by them.
Exploring these things together can give us support and insight for how we handle, individually, what comes up in our day. I look forward to our shared practice and conversation.
This evening’s facilitator: Marcella Calabi helps people find their voice and live from it, in three ways: coaching in singing and public speaking, consulting in decision-making, communication, and relationship strategy, and Focusing. A portal to her work in all of these areas can be found at MarcellaCalabi.info
6:40 Community Building: Introduced by Cynthia Callsen
7:00 pm Refreshments & Networking
7:15 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2018
Sunday, January 21 5pm -7pm: Beth Mahler – Focusing with Pain
Sunday, March 18 5pm -7pm: NY Metro Focusing Tenth Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, June 3 6pm - 8pm
Sunday, September 23 6pm - 8pm
Sunday, December 2 5pm - 7pm
For other Focusing-oriented events in the months ahead, please visit our website: http://www.nymetrofocusing.org/calendar and the website of the Focusing Institute, http://www.focusing.org.
Planning Group:
Marcella Calabi, Cynthia Callsen, Susan Deisroth, Naomi Glicken, Larry Hurst, Sharron Kaplan, Diana Kirigin, and Diana Scalera.
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, Viktor Raykin, Minda Novek, and Anne Shollar.
This is a grassroots, 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.
We are interested in keeping the conversation going, both in person at future meetings and online. We invite you to share what might still be happening for you or what you might like to return to at a later point. Please write to contact@nymflists.com. Please like us on Facebook on our page "NY Metro Focusing."
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