NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Sunday, January 31, 2010
MEETING PROGRAM
5:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
6:00 pm Welcome & Attunement - Elizabeth Lehmann
Introduction of Presenters - Joan Lavender
6:15 pm “SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF FOCUSING:
Exploration of the Interplay Between Inner & Outer Movements”
With Barbara Chutroo & Larry Hurst
In Focusing, we pay attention to the movement of our inner experience. However, our outer experience, our sensory contact with the world, enables us to create an internal representation of the world including a sense of ourselves. As we move and interact, we allow relationships within ourselves and with others to emerge and we clarify our place in the world.
In this workshop we will first sense into the subtle inner activity of the body - the microcosm - and then engage in exercises that play with our active presence in space - our environment - in the company of an empathic group of participants. Finally, we will gather to reflect on this experience and how its broadening of context can be integrated into our Focusing practice.
Barbara Chutroo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Focusing Trainer and substance abuse counselor. She has extensively explored various forms of movement and dance both as art and as healing practices and has a lifelong interest and practice in Buddhist meditation. She is working on a book on infant motor development with her friend, Sandra Jamrog. Her papers, “Meet Your Body” and “On Focusing and Buddhism” can be found on the Focusing Institute website and a conversation with her can be heard at focusing.org/conversations/index.htm.
Larry Hurst is a life-skills coach affiliated to the International Coach Federation and a certified Focusing trainer, with a long career in the health sciences into which he integrated body-centered practices such as shiatsu, qigong and vocal training. He is a founding member of the NYMF group and co-leads a Focusing & body-movement group “Meeting At The Edge”, which last met in Sept. 2009 in Switzerland and was featured in the Focusing Institute’s “Tribute Folio”. He has an ongoing respect for spatial relations & ran an exploratory workshop at the 2009 IFC in Japan, “Embracing Nature By Living in the Space Between...”
7:30 pm Break and Networking
7:45 pm FOCUSING COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE:
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.
8:00 pm Closing - Elizabeth Lehmann
FUTURE NYMF MEETINGS NEWS:
OUR NEW ADDRESS: 112 W. 27th St., 4th flr., on ground floor ring #402
NEW ALTERNATING FRIDAY AND SUNDAY MEETINGS THROUGHOUT 2010!!
JOIN US:
Friday, April 9th, 6:30 - 9:00pm
“Becoming Intimate With Your Core Belief In Your Daily Life & In Big Moments: A Profound Experience”
Presented by Anna Christensen & Jan Bronson
Sunday, June 20th, 5:30 - 8:00pm
Visit Us on the Web: www.nymetrofocusing.org
Planning Committee:
Joan Lavender with Cynthia Callsen, Barbara Chutroo, Judith Cobb, Susan Deisroth, Griffith Feeney, Naomi Glicken, Larry Hurst, Elizabeth Lehmann, Katya Salkinder, 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
Adopted on 8/15/08
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.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
MEETING PROGRAM
5:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
6:00 pm Welcome & Attunement - Elizabeth Lehmann
Introduction of Presenters - Joan Lavender
6:15 pm “SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF FOCUSING:
Exploration of the Interplay Between Inner & Outer Movements”
With Barbara Chutroo & Larry Hurst
In Focusing, we pay attention to the movement of our inner experience. However, our outer experience, our sensory contact with the world, enables us to create an internal representation of the world including a sense of ourselves. As we move and interact, we allow relationships within ourselves and with others to emerge and we clarify our place in the world.
In this workshop we will first sense into the subtle inner activity of the body - the microcosm - and then engage in exercises that play with our active presence in space - our environment - in the company of an empathic group of participants. Finally, we will gather to reflect on this experience and how its broadening of context can be integrated into our Focusing practice.
Barbara Chutroo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Focusing Trainer and substance abuse counselor. She has extensively explored various forms of movement and dance both as art and as healing practices and has a lifelong interest and practice in Buddhist meditation. She is working on a book on infant motor development with her friend, Sandra Jamrog. Her papers, “Meet Your Body” and “On Focusing and Buddhism” can be found on the Focusing Institute website and a conversation with her can be heard at focusing.org/conversations/index.htm.
Larry Hurst is a life-skills coach affiliated to the International Coach Federation and a certified Focusing trainer, with a long career in the health sciences into which he integrated body-centered practices such as shiatsu, qigong and vocal training. He is a founding member of the NYMF group and co-leads a Focusing & body-movement group “Meeting At The Edge”, which last met in Sept. 2009 in Switzerland and was featured in the Focusing Institute’s “Tribute Folio”. He has an ongoing respect for spatial relations & ran an exploratory workshop at the 2009 IFC in Japan, “Embracing Nature By Living in the Space Between...”
7:30 pm Break and Networking
7:45 pm FOCUSING COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE:
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.
8:00 pm Closing - Elizabeth Lehmann
FUTURE NYMF MEETINGS NEWS:
OUR NEW ADDRESS: 112 W. 27th St., 4th flr., on ground floor ring #402
NEW ALTERNATING FRIDAY AND SUNDAY MEETINGS THROUGHOUT 2010!!
JOIN US:
Friday, April 9th, 6:30 - 9:00pm
“Becoming Intimate With Your Core Belief In Your Daily Life & In Big Moments: A Profound Experience”
Presented by Anna Christensen & Jan Bronson
Sunday, June 20th, 5:30 - 8:00pm
Visit Us on the Web: www.nymetrofocusing.org
Planning Committee:
Joan Lavender with Cynthia Callsen, Barbara Chutroo, Judith Cobb, Susan Deisroth, Griffith Feeney, Naomi Glicken, Larry Hurst, Elizabeth Lehmann, Katya Salkinder, 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
Adopted on 8/15/08
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.