NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Sunday, June 3, 2018
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 Attunement: Naomi Glicken
6:10 pm Program
Program: Sharing Interests: Creating Community and Connection
Moderated by Larry Hurst
What is more fundamental to human connection than coming together over shared interests? Often, in a NYMetro Focusing meeting we explore a single topic that touches us deeply. At our anniversary celebration we learned there is also an opportunity -- and a hunger -- to create topic-based (and possibly ongoing) groups.
Tonight we will sense into topics that might inspire such groups, starting with and perhaps expanding on the wide range of suggestions made so far, which include: Focusing and Writing, Focusing and Aging, Focusing and Art, Focusing and the Environment, Focusing and Current-Day Politics, Considering Gendlin's Process Model Together, and Learning More about Focusing. These or other new ideas will inspire two or three break-out groups for focusing and focusing-based-conversation.
Then when the full meeting comes together again, we'll get to share in each group's experience and see what seeds to sow for a continually stronger and more enriching community.
7:30 pm Community Building: Introduced by Cynthia Callsen and Naomi Glicken
8:00 pm Refreshments & Networking
8:15 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2018
Sunday, September 23 6pm - 8pm
Sunday, December 2 5pm - 7pm
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:
Rachel Alexander, 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, Minda Novek, 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 to at a later point. Please write to contact@nymflists.com. Please like us on Facebook on our page "NY Metro Focusing."
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Sunday, June 3, 2018
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 Attunement: Naomi Glicken
6:10 pm Program
Program: Sharing Interests: Creating Community and Connection
Moderated by Larry Hurst
What is more fundamental to human connection than coming together over shared interests? Often, in a NYMetro Focusing meeting we explore a single topic that touches us deeply. At our anniversary celebration we learned there is also an opportunity -- and a hunger -- to create topic-based (and possibly ongoing) groups.
Tonight we will sense into topics that might inspire such groups, starting with and perhaps expanding on the wide range of suggestions made so far, which include: Focusing and Writing, Focusing and Aging, Focusing and Art, Focusing and the Environment, Focusing and Current-Day Politics, Considering Gendlin's Process Model Together, and Learning More about Focusing. These or other new ideas will inspire two or three break-out groups for focusing and focusing-based-conversation.
Then when the full meeting comes together again, we'll get to share in each group's experience and see what seeds to sow for a continually stronger and more enriching community.
7:30 pm Community Building: Introduced by Cynthia Callsen and Naomi Glicken
8:00 pm Refreshments & Networking
8:15 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2018
Sunday, September 23 6pm - 8pm
Sunday, December 2 5pm - 7pm
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:
Rachel Alexander, 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, Minda Novek, 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 to at a later point. Please write to contact@nymflists.com. Please like us on Facebook on our page "NY Metro Focusing."
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