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NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Friday, June 7, 2019
 
 
 
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
 
6:00     Registration and Networking with Light Refreshments
 
6:30     Welcome - Susan Deisroth
 
            Attunement – Jude Cobb
 
6:45     Program:  The last in our series Engaging with Eugene Gendlin's Words & Ideas
 
            Presenting the theme of the evening –Focusing in Motion:  Carrying Forward the Gendlin           Experience – Larry Hurst
 
            Reading of Excerpt from Eugene Gendlin, "The Responsive Order:  A New Empiricism,"
            1997 – Planning Group Members
 
"...One begins without understanding the parts or the whole very well. Only the whole gives the parts their roles and meanings. But of course we arrive at an understanding of the whole only part by part. A better grasp of any part can change the sense of the whole.... The meaning of the parts is not fixed; they must grow in meaning. "
              Eugene Gendlin, "The Responsive Order: A New Empiricism", 1997 (referring in part to the work of  Wilhem Dilthey, 1833-1911) 
 
            Developing the theme Experientially 
                        Being at one with nature
                        Balancing the inner and outer self
                        Calling upon our inherent knowing
                        Forward from the fuzzy edge
 
8:15     Community Conversation - All
 
8:30     Closing Remarks – Susan Deisroth
 
            Market Place, Refreshments and Networking
 
9:00   p.m. Departure
 
(over please)
 

 
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings in 2019: 
 
Friday, September 27, 2019  6pm - 8:30pm
 
 
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,, Diana Kirigin, and Gail Miklatek
 
Friends of the Planning Group:  Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, Larry Hurst, Sharron Kaplan, Minda Novek, 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 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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