6/17/11 NY Metro Focusing Meeting Announcement
NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Date and Time: Friday, June 17, 2011 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Place: Moving Body Resources 112 W. 27th St., 4th Fl.
(To enter building, use code 402 & press green bell key)
The meeting room is a shoe-free zone. Socks & slippers, please
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Dream Appreciation - A Focusing Approach
Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams: Working with Dreams in Small Groups, Focusing Partnerships, and Individual Psychotherapy
with Janet Pfunder
Gendlin's book Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreamsshows us that the authority for "interpreting" rests with the dreamer's living, felt sensing, bodily responsiveness. Focusing supports the dreamer at a very deep level with her or his own expertise in allowing resonant meaning to unfold, using the rich metaphorical images and stories from dreams as a starting point.
This evening at MetroFocusing will include presentation, demonstration, and discussion. We will learn how the "zig-zag" between dream and felt sense allows the life energy implicit in the dream to become part of the dreamer's waking life, a rich resource for carrying forward. We will learn some specific, nuanced details about how to listen to dreams and facilitate the process and will hear about what Janet has learned in the past several years of working with people and their dreams.
Janet Pfunder is a Focusing Oriented Therapist, with thirty years of experience in private practice. She teaches Focusing and leads groups and workshops on Focusing with dreams. She also leads experiential Sufi workshops. She studied dream group process with Montague Ullman, Jungian alchemy with Nathan Schwartz-Salant, and she continues to study psychoanalysis with Michael Eigen. Her paper “Sufi Meditations on Psychotherapy” was published in the book Psychotherapy and Religion: Many Paths, One Journey (2005). Her paper “Colors of the Invisible: Sufi Healing” was published in the book WomanSoul (2008). She is a teacher and supervisor for the FORP (Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy) Programs, created by Lynn Preston, in both New York and Cape Town, South Africa. Also a painter, her most recent one woman show was at Harvard as an alumna. Some of her paintings can be seen at janetpfunderpaintings.com.
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Also, enjoy our FOCUSING COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE: In a lively exchange with others in our community, this is 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. Bring your flyers and brochures for our literature table.
PLEASE INVITE FRIENDS and COLLEAGUES: While NY Metro Focusing meetings are not introductions to Focusing, we hope newcomers get a little taste of the Focusing experience and are motivated to learn more by taking an Introduction to Focusing workshop.
Suggested Contribution: $20 to cover rental and refreshment expenses. Those new to Focusing are our guests for their first NYMF meeting. Cash only please, since we are not able to take credit cards or checks.
Date of the next NYMF meeting: Sunday, September 25, 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. Explorations of Aging
Questions may be sent to: contact@nymflists.com
Date and Time: Friday, June 17, 2011 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Place: Moving Body Resources 112 W. 27th St., 4th Fl.
(To enter building, use code 402 & press green bell key)
The meeting room is a shoe-free zone. Socks & slippers, please
__________________________________________________
Dream Appreciation - A Focusing Approach
Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams: Working with Dreams in Small Groups, Focusing Partnerships, and Individual Psychotherapy
with Janet Pfunder
Gendlin's book Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreamsshows us that the authority for "interpreting" rests with the dreamer's living, felt sensing, bodily responsiveness. Focusing supports the dreamer at a very deep level with her or his own expertise in allowing resonant meaning to unfold, using the rich metaphorical images and stories from dreams as a starting point.
This evening at MetroFocusing will include presentation, demonstration, and discussion. We will learn how the "zig-zag" between dream and felt sense allows the life energy implicit in the dream to become part of the dreamer's waking life, a rich resource for carrying forward. We will learn some specific, nuanced details about how to listen to dreams and facilitate the process and will hear about what Janet has learned in the past several years of working with people and their dreams.
Janet Pfunder is a Focusing Oriented Therapist, with thirty years of experience in private practice. She teaches Focusing and leads groups and workshops on Focusing with dreams. She also leads experiential Sufi workshops. She studied dream group process with Montague Ullman, Jungian alchemy with Nathan Schwartz-Salant, and she continues to study psychoanalysis with Michael Eigen. Her paper “Sufi Meditations on Psychotherapy” was published in the book Psychotherapy and Religion: Many Paths, One Journey (2005). Her paper “Colors of the Invisible: Sufi Healing” was published in the book WomanSoul (2008). She is a teacher and supervisor for the FORP (Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy) Programs, created by Lynn Preston, in both New York and Cape Town, South Africa. Also a painter, her most recent one woman show was at Harvard as an alumna. Some of her paintings can be seen at janetpfunderpaintings.com.
______________________________________________________
Also, enjoy our FOCUSING COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE: In a lively exchange with others in our community, this is 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. Bring your flyers and brochures for our literature table.
PLEASE INVITE FRIENDS and COLLEAGUES: While NY Metro Focusing meetings are not introductions to Focusing, we hope newcomers get a little taste of the Focusing experience and are motivated to learn more by taking an Introduction to Focusing workshop.
Suggested Contribution: $20 to cover rental and refreshment expenses. Those new to Focusing are our guests for their first NYMF meeting. Cash only please, since we are not able to take credit cards or checks.
Date of the next NYMF meeting: Sunday, September 25, 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. Explorations of Aging
Questions may be sent to: contact@nymflists.com