NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Sunday, December 4, 2016
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: Susan Deisroth
5:05 pm Introductions of the Evening’s Theme and its Facilitator: Naomi Glicken
5:10 pm Program
Program: The Felt Sense of You in Community
Facilitated by Joan Lavender
"For the first time in my life I feel that I belong to a group of people whose way of being with themselves and others expands, rather than contracts, my best sense of myself.” From The Focusing Institute, on Felt Community
We need ‘communitas’ for a sense of belonging, especially in times of personal transition or upheaval. Community can hold us steady. In return for the security that community can offer, we must grapple with the delicate balance of individuality vs group needs. Each community has its unique culture as well as its own way of handling conflict, decisions, and inclusion. And, as a living being, each community goes through its own change process.
Tonight we will use experiential process to pose questions about our individual life journeys within and without community. We will spend time with the felt sense of you-in-communities in general, and (if you so choose) in the world of focusing communities. Is there consistency over time in how you sense yourself to be in community? How has community helped you to thrive, to commit more deeply, or perhaps even to leave? What dilemmas might still exist for you-in-community that are looking for a step forward?
This evening’s facilitator: Joan Lavender is a clinical psychologist and focusing oriented relational psychotherapist with over 35 years experience. She is a graduate of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, a past Fellow of the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy Research at the SUNY Downstate and a Certified Focusing Oriented Therapist. Her latest publications include The Phenomenology of the Relational Void: Probabilities and Possibilities (in Loneliness and Longing) and One Therapist’s Travel Log (in Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Innovative Theory and Applications). For more information, contact joan@joanlavender.com.
6:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
7:00 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2017
Sunday, January 22 4:30 – 7:00 pm
Friday, March 31
Friday, June 9
Sunday, September 17
Sunday, December 3
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, Minda Novek, and Diana Kirigin.
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, Viktor Raykin, 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.
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Sunday, December 4, 2016
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: Susan Deisroth
5:05 pm Introductions of the Evening’s Theme and its Facilitator: Naomi Glicken
5:10 pm Program
Program: The Felt Sense of You in Community
Facilitated by Joan Lavender
"For the first time in my life I feel that I belong to a group of people whose way of being with themselves and others expands, rather than contracts, my best sense of myself.” From The Focusing Institute, on Felt Community
We need ‘communitas’ for a sense of belonging, especially in times of personal transition or upheaval. Community can hold us steady. In return for the security that community can offer, we must grapple with the delicate balance of individuality vs group needs. Each community has its unique culture as well as its own way of handling conflict, decisions, and inclusion. And, as a living being, each community goes through its own change process.
Tonight we will use experiential process to pose questions about our individual life journeys within and without community. We will spend time with the felt sense of you-in-communities in general, and (if you so choose) in the world of focusing communities. Is there consistency over time in how you sense yourself to be in community? How has community helped you to thrive, to commit more deeply, or perhaps even to leave? What dilemmas might still exist for you-in-community that are looking for a step forward?
This evening’s facilitator: Joan Lavender is a clinical psychologist and focusing oriented relational psychotherapist with over 35 years experience. She is a graduate of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, a past Fellow of the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy Research at the SUNY Downstate and a Certified Focusing Oriented Therapist. Her latest publications include The Phenomenology of the Relational Void: Probabilities and Possibilities (in Loneliness and Longing) and One Therapist’s Travel Log (in Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Innovative Theory and Applications). For more information, contact joan@joanlavender.com.
6:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
7:00 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2017
Sunday, January 22 4:30 – 7:00 pm
Friday, March 31
Friday, June 9
Sunday, September 17
Sunday, December 3
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, Minda Novek, and Diana Kirigin.
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, Viktor Raykin, 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.
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