NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Friday, April 1, 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
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: Larry Hurst
7:10 pm CONNECTING WITH NATURE - Inside, Outside, Upside Down
CONNECTING WITH NATURE - Inside, Outside, Upside Down
“Inside, Outside, Upside Down was a silly, playful Berenstain Bears book title from my youth. It captures the essence of my living expression as I teach Focusing. Playful curiosity is one way to bring us into presence with our childlike mind, body, and spirit: the very essence of how we might have begun as natural focusers, seeking information from our body wisdom.
The evening will be an individual and collective experiential journey to explore how imagery, pictures and objects found in nature can open one's space to be present with the bodily felt sense. Since I cannot bring you outside to connect with Nature in this short experiential, I will bring examples of nature inside to you. Together, we shall be able to sense how it is to follow our flow out toward one or more items of our choice, pausing with curiosity along the way, and back in again toward a bodily felt connection. There will be an opportunity to experiment and to notice differences in felt shifts within the group as we move on into shared space conversation.
Upside down? Sometimes we need to turn preconceptions and assumptions upside down, be curious and confused before finding clarity. Be awakened to new discoveries as we connect with nature. It's magical. I promise I won’t make anyone stand on their head!”
This evening’s facilitator:
Beth Mahler, LCSW, FOT, is in private practice in Pompton Lakes, NJ. She is a Certifying Coordinator for The Focusing Institute and facilitates daylong workshops and weekend retreats to teach Focusing as a self-care practice. Beth is an active member of the North Jersey Focusing Trainers www.northjerseyfocusers.com and can be contacted at bfmahler@optonline.net
8:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
9:00 pm Departure
(over please)
SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2016
Friday, June 10 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Friday, September 30 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Sunday, December 4 4:30 – 7:00 pm
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 and Diana Kirigin.
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, Viktor Raykin, Anne Shollar, Mary Jane Wilkie
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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Friday, April 1, 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
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: Larry Hurst
7:10 pm CONNECTING WITH NATURE - Inside, Outside, Upside Down
CONNECTING WITH NATURE - Inside, Outside, Upside Down
“Inside, Outside, Upside Down was a silly, playful Berenstain Bears book title from my youth. It captures the essence of my living expression as I teach Focusing. Playful curiosity is one way to bring us into presence with our childlike mind, body, and spirit: the very essence of how we might have begun as natural focusers, seeking information from our body wisdom.
The evening will be an individual and collective experiential journey to explore how imagery, pictures and objects found in nature can open one's space to be present with the bodily felt sense. Since I cannot bring you outside to connect with Nature in this short experiential, I will bring examples of nature inside to you. Together, we shall be able to sense how it is to follow our flow out toward one or more items of our choice, pausing with curiosity along the way, and back in again toward a bodily felt connection. There will be an opportunity to experiment and to notice differences in felt shifts within the group as we move on into shared space conversation.
Upside down? Sometimes we need to turn preconceptions and assumptions upside down, be curious and confused before finding clarity. Be awakened to new discoveries as we connect with nature. It's magical. I promise I won’t make anyone stand on their head!”
This evening’s facilitator:
Beth Mahler, LCSW, FOT, is in private practice in Pompton Lakes, NJ. She is a Certifying Coordinator for The Focusing Institute and facilitates daylong workshops and weekend retreats to teach Focusing as a self-care practice. Beth is an active member of the North Jersey Focusing Trainers www.northjerseyfocusers.com and can be contacted at bfmahler@optonline.net
8:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
9:00 pm Departure
(over please)
SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2016
Friday, June 10 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Friday, September 30 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Sunday, December 4 4:30 – 7:00 pm
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 and Diana Kirigin.
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, Viktor Raykin, Anne Shollar, Mary Jane Wilkie
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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