NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Sunday, April 12, 2015
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
5:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
6:00 pm Welcome: Susan Deisroth
6:05 pm Introductions of the Evening’s Theme and its Facilitator: Susan Deisroth
THERE ARE NO BAD DREAMS: Using Focusing-Oriented Dreamwork to Resolve Inner Conflict
Why do we dream? There are many theories, but no one can say for sure. Eugene Gendlin, who developed focusing-oriented dreamwork, believes that all dreams bring a felt sense that helps move life forward. Yet sometimes this forward direction comes from the most unlikely places in the dream, from characters or elements we would rather avoid. This program includes a presentation, experiential exercises and discussion around how to be with the dark places in our dreams in a focusing-oriented way that is accepting and ultimately enlarges us.
This evening’s facilitator: Leslie Ellis, PhD is a coordinator with The Focusing Institute. She has a PhD in clinical psychology with a specialty in somatic approaches. She has worked in private practice for 15 years using a combination of dreamwork and focusing to help her clients recover from depression, anxiety and the effects of trauma. She is the author of many journal articles on focusing and dreams, and wrote a chapter on focusing-oriented dreamwork for the recently-released book, Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Innovative Theory and Applications. She has a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she learned to practice therapy from a depth-oriented, experiential and Jungian perspective.
7:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
8:00 pm Departure
SAVE THE DATES FOR 2015 NYMF MEETINGS
June 5, 2015 Friday 6:30 - 9:00 p.m: Larry Hurst: Fresh Vibrations: Inviting a Felt Sense through Sound and Movement
September 27, 2015 Sunday 4:30 7:00 pm
December 6, 2015 Sunday 4:30 7:00 pm
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.
Sunday, April 12, 2015
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
5:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
6:00 pm Welcome: Susan Deisroth
6:05 pm Introductions of the Evening’s Theme and its Facilitator: Susan Deisroth
THERE ARE NO BAD DREAMS: Using Focusing-Oriented Dreamwork to Resolve Inner Conflict
Why do we dream? There are many theories, but no one can say for sure. Eugene Gendlin, who developed focusing-oriented dreamwork, believes that all dreams bring a felt sense that helps move life forward. Yet sometimes this forward direction comes from the most unlikely places in the dream, from characters or elements we would rather avoid. This program includes a presentation, experiential exercises and discussion around how to be with the dark places in our dreams in a focusing-oriented way that is accepting and ultimately enlarges us.
This evening’s facilitator: Leslie Ellis, PhD is a coordinator with The Focusing Institute. She has a PhD in clinical psychology with a specialty in somatic approaches. She has worked in private practice for 15 years using a combination of dreamwork and focusing to help her clients recover from depression, anxiety and the effects of trauma. She is the author of many journal articles on focusing and dreams, and wrote a chapter on focusing-oriented dreamwork for the recently-released book, Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Innovative Theory and Applications. She has a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she learned to practice therapy from a depth-oriented, experiential and Jungian perspective.
7:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
8:00 pm Departure
SAVE THE DATES FOR 2015 NYMF MEETINGS
June 5, 2015 Friday 6:30 - 9:00 p.m: Larry Hurst: Fresh Vibrations: Inviting a Felt Sense through Sound and Movement
September 27, 2015 Sunday 4:30 7:00 pm
December 6, 2015 Sunday 4:30 7:00 pm
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.