PROGRAM
NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Friday, March 31, 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
6:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
7:00 pm Welcome: Susan Deisroth
7:05 pm Introductions of the Evening’s Theme and its Facilitator: Marcella Calabi
7:10 pm Program
Program: Focusing to Center Us in Turbulent Times
Facilitated by Diana Scalera
The practice of Focusing teaches us to hold whatever emotions emerge in our lives with the highest regard and without prejudice. If we can become aware of our emotions in grounded presence and allow what is there to be just the way it is, something new may emerge--something that provides us with insight and greater internal harmony.
This evening we will explore what happens for each of us as soon as we are aware that an emotion is present, how to refine what happens next, and how connecting to forces of nature and to movement may enhance our practice.
We will also investigate what happens when we are confronting situations that cause us stress and turbulence, such as when we are interacting with people who disagree with us about matters that are deeply important to us. These situations of intense discomfort test our Focusing skills. How we respond in that moment is the practice we will experience this evening. Having the conversation from a place of grounded awareness is what centers us; and it is what allows communication that is deeply felt and truthful.
This evening’s facilitator: Diana Scalera came to Focusing twenty years ago as a way to recover from cancer. She studied with Maryellen Summerville and with Ann Weiser Cornell. She began training with Kevin McEvenue and Karen Whalen in their Advanced Wholebody Training Program in 2013, and received her Professional Focusing Trainer Certification in June of 2016. She is also a Reiki Master. Diana recently retired from the New York City Department of Education. She worked with NYC’s public high school students for 26 years.
8:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
9:00 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2017
Friday, June 9 – Robin Kappy
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, Diana Kirigin, Minda Novek, and Diana Scalera.
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.
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. Please write to contact@nymflists.com. Please like us on Facebook on our page "NY Metro Focusing."
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NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Friday, March 31, 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
6:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
7:00 pm Welcome: Susan Deisroth
7:05 pm Introductions of the Evening’s Theme and its Facilitator: Marcella Calabi
7:10 pm Program
Program: Focusing to Center Us in Turbulent Times
Facilitated by Diana Scalera
The practice of Focusing teaches us to hold whatever emotions emerge in our lives with the highest regard and without prejudice. If we can become aware of our emotions in grounded presence and allow what is there to be just the way it is, something new may emerge--something that provides us with insight and greater internal harmony.
This evening we will explore what happens for each of us as soon as we are aware that an emotion is present, how to refine what happens next, and how connecting to forces of nature and to movement may enhance our practice.
We will also investigate what happens when we are confronting situations that cause us stress and turbulence, such as when we are interacting with people who disagree with us about matters that are deeply important to us. These situations of intense discomfort test our Focusing skills. How we respond in that moment is the practice we will experience this evening. Having the conversation from a place of grounded awareness is what centers us; and it is what allows communication that is deeply felt and truthful.
This evening’s facilitator: Diana Scalera came to Focusing twenty years ago as a way to recover from cancer. She studied with Maryellen Summerville and with Ann Weiser Cornell. She began training with Kevin McEvenue and Karen Whalen in their Advanced Wholebody Training Program in 2013, and received her Professional Focusing Trainer Certification in June of 2016. She is also a Reiki Master. Diana recently retired from the New York City Department of Education. She worked with NYC’s public high school students for 26 years.
8:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
9:00 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2017
Friday, June 9 – Robin Kappy
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, Diana Kirigin, Minda Novek, and Diana Scalera.
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.
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. Please write to contact@nymflists.com. Please like us on Facebook on our page "NY Metro Focusing."
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