NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Friday, January 25, 2019
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
6:00 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
6:30 pm Welcome and Introduction: Susan Deisroth
6:40 pm Program
Program: Embodied Thinking Has Wings
Facilitated by Lynn Preston
People can be empowered to think and speak . . . Language is deeply rooted in the human body . . . The words we need to say arrive directly from the body. . . One strand emerges from the bodily sense and then another and another. What needs to be said expands! . . . it carries the body forward. Eugene Gendlin, “Introduction to Thinking At the Edge”
When Gene Gendlin was a young philosophy student he was asked which philosophy he wanted to study. He replied that he didn’t want to study the ideas of the great philosophers, but to look for the LARGER REALM AT THE EDGE OF THINKING where they found their ideas. He spent his life exploring that realm and laying out paths for us to find it also. He gave us guidelines in his work on TAE (Thinking At the Edge).
Join us for an evening of entering that larger realm of mind/body connection and enjoying the almost infinite creativity and meaning that is waiting for us there.
We will
feel into our thinking and think into our feelings
Not only think outside the box, but open the boxes to see inside
Allow what we “really think” to emerge and come alive and articulate itself
Welcome our own unique individual mind/bodies to speak in their own particular voices
Explore what it means to “have a mind of your own” and “think for yourself” when we are interaction – made of interaction.
This evening’s facilitator: Lynn Preston, MA, MS, LP, is a focusing-oriented relational psychoanalyst, teacher, and supervisor. She is the Director of the Experiential Psychotherapy Project in New York City. She has written and presented internationally on the integration of Focusing and relational psychoanalysis . She has an abiding interest in the exploration of the relationship between philosophy, theory and practice. www.lynnprestonforp.com. www.facebook.com/lynn.preston.773. www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-preston-a4b25a50, YouTube: Lynn Preston Focusing Relational Psychotherapy
(over please)
8:10 Community Conversation: Cynthia Callsen and Naomi Glicken
8:30 pm Refreshments & Networking
9:00 pm Departure
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2019
Friday, April 12, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, June 7, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, September 27, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, December 6, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
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:
Rachel Alexander, Marcella Calabi, Cynthia Callsen, Susan Deisroth, Naomi Glicken, Larry Hurst, Diana Kirigin, and Gail Miklatek
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, Sharron Kaplan, Minda Novek, 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.
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."
NOTES
Friday, January 25, 2019
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
6:00 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
6:30 pm Welcome and Introduction: Susan Deisroth
6:40 pm Program
Program: Embodied Thinking Has Wings
Facilitated by Lynn Preston
People can be empowered to think and speak . . . Language is deeply rooted in the human body . . . The words we need to say arrive directly from the body. . . One strand emerges from the bodily sense and then another and another. What needs to be said expands! . . . it carries the body forward. Eugene Gendlin, “Introduction to Thinking At the Edge”
When Gene Gendlin was a young philosophy student he was asked which philosophy he wanted to study. He replied that he didn’t want to study the ideas of the great philosophers, but to look for the LARGER REALM AT THE EDGE OF THINKING where they found their ideas. He spent his life exploring that realm and laying out paths for us to find it also. He gave us guidelines in his work on TAE (Thinking At the Edge).
Join us for an evening of entering that larger realm of mind/body connection and enjoying the almost infinite creativity and meaning that is waiting for us there.
We will
feel into our thinking and think into our feelings
Not only think outside the box, but open the boxes to see inside
Allow what we “really think” to emerge and come alive and articulate itself
Welcome our own unique individual mind/bodies to speak in their own particular voices
Explore what it means to “have a mind of your own” and “think for yourself” when we are interaction – made of interaction.
This evening’s facilitator: Lynn Preston, MA, MS, LP, is a focusing-oriented relational psychoanalyst, teacher, and supervisor. She is the Director of the Experiential Psychotherapy Project in New York City. She has written and presented internationally on the integration of Focusing and relational psychoanalysis . She has an abiding interest in the exploration of the relationship between philosophy, theory and practice. www.lynnprestonforp.com. www.facebook.com/lynn.preston.773. www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-preston-a4b25a50, YouTube: Lynn Preston Focusing Relational Psychotherapy
(over please)
8:10 Community Conversation: Cynthia Callsen and Naomi Glicken
8:30 pm Refreshments & Networking
9:00 pm Departure
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2019
Friday, April 12, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, June 7, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, September 27, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, December 6, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
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:
Rachel Alexander, Marcella Calabi, Cynthia Callsen, Susan Deisroth, Naomi Glicken, Larry Hurst, Diana Kirigin, and Gail Miklatek
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, Sharron Kaplan, Minda Novek, 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.
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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