NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Friday, June 9, 2017
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: Sharron Kaplan
7:10 pm Program
Program: Focusing and Beauty in Our Troubled Times
Facilitated by Robin Kappy
Matthew Fox said, “Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.” There are many definitions of beauty, and I look forward to hearing some of what it means for you. Beauty is most commonly associated with a combination of qualities that please our aesthetic senses. For me, beauty has very much to do with a “felt-sense” experience that offers essential nurturance for our bodies and well being.
This experiential evening is an invitation to gather, talk, listen, and attune to the topic of beauty together. In these troubling times we can keep our hopes up, but not without support and connection. I am learning that to be fully engaged requires a balanced understanding of political and social realities and the beauty that connection, love, nature, gratitude, creativity and positive action provide.
This evening’s facilitator: Robin Kappy, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice with over 25 years of professional experience. Her specialties include issues of creativity and sleep-related problems. Her professional approach is grounded in Gendlin’s Focusing, relational self-psychology and EMDR. In addition to a passionate engagement with her work as a psychotherapist, she loves to draw and paint. Her drawings and paintings have appeared in a number of venues. Her published essays and presentations about beauty and how the creative process deepens and informs one’s life have been very well received.
8:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
9:00 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2017
Sunday, September 17
Sunday, December 3
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, Diana Kirigin, Minda Novek, and Diana Scalera.
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, 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 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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Friday, June 9, 2017
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: Sharron Kaplan
7:10 pm Program
Program: Focusing and Beauty in Our Troubled Times
Facilitated by Robin Kappy
Matthew Fox said, “Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.” There are many definitions of beauty, and I look forward to hearing some of what it means for you. Beauty is most commonly associated with a combination of qualities that please our aesthetic senses. For me, beauty has very much to do with a “felt-sense” experience that offers essential nurturance for our bodies and well being.
This experiential evening is an invitation to gather, talk, listen, and attune to the topic of beauty together. In these troubling times we can keep our hopes up, but not without support and connection. I am learning that to be fully engaged requires a balanced understanding of political and social realities and the beauty that connection, love, nature, gratitude, creativity and positive action provide.
This evening’s facilitator: Robin Kappy, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice with over 25 years of professional experience. Her specialties include issues of creativity and sleep-related problems. Her professional approach is grounded in Gendlin’s Focusing, relational self-psychology and EMDR. In addition to a passionate engagement with her work as a psychotherapist, she loves to draw and paint. Her drawings and paintings have appeared in a number of venues. Her published essays and presentations about beauty and how the creative process deepens and informs one’s life have been very well received.
8:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
9:00 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2017
Sunday, September 17
Sunday, December 3
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, Diana Kirigin, Minda Novek, and Diana Scalera.
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, 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 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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