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NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Time: 5:00 - 7:15 p.m (sign-in and networking, 4:30-4:50 p.m.)
Out of respect for the focusing process, please arrive no later than 5 p.m.
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
Suggested Contribution: $20 to cover rental and refreshment expenses. Cash only please, since we are not able to take credit cards or checks.
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Staying Connected in Stormy Seas:
An exploration of the Focusing Attitude as it impacts our ability to stay connected to ourselves and to others
How can we live comfortably in our skin when we are in conflict with another? What strategies can we employ to keep the connection while being true to ourselves? Or perhaps can we even enhance the connection as we move through misunderstanding, heated discussion and hurt feelings. Is it possible through the Focusing Attitude to find a new way of being with our own selves and with others?
In a series of short exercises we shall have an opportunity to consider these questions, personally and privately, also to share our experience if we wish, and notice what emerges in this group experience.
NY Metro Focusing meeting offer an opportunity to engage in a felt sensing, interactive exploration of topics of interest – slowing down, listening from a Focusing place, and letting what we hear resonate within to bring something new and fresh, both within ourselves and within the group.
This evening’s facilitators:
Larry Hurst is a graduate life-skills coach with a background in the health sciences. He learned the basics of Focusing from Peter Afford in the UK and went on to study with Barbara McGavin, Robert Lee and Kevin McEvenue. After certification he started to help health professionals and others to build Focusing into their lives and practices with a workshop accredited by the International Coach Federation. Larry is a founding member of the international Community Wellness Focusing Group, New York Metro Focusing and West Side Changes Group. He is a guest editor for The Folio and in 2008 co-authored a report “Tying the Thread of Bodywork, Movement and Focusing”. He has co-organized retreats in Italy and Switzerland on that topic and led experimental workshops covering his particular interest in spatial resonance at two Focusing Internationals.
Anne Shollar has been in private practice in New York city for over thirty-six years specializing in individual and couples therapy. She is a graduate of the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy Training Program and has studied with Lynn Preston, Focusing author, teacher and supervisor, for many years. Anne was a faculty member of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Family Therapy training program for a number of years. She has presented on Focusing In Everyday Life at the Focusing International in Montreal with Jenny Ross and has given workshops on Guess Who is Coming to Therapy, an exploration into Parts with Jude Cobb. Recently Anne has been teaching, practicing focusing-oriented therapy, focusing-oriented couples therapy and supervising in NYC.
Please bring your flyers and brochures for our FOCUSING COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE 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.
Date of final NYMF meeting in 2012:
Friday, November 30th 6:30-9:00 p.m. Program TBA
Questions may be sent to: contact@nymflists.com
Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Time: 5:00 - 7:15 p.m (sign-in and networking, 4:30-4:50 p.m.)
Out of respect for the focusing process, please arrive no later than 5 p.m.
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
Suggested Contribution: $20 to cover rental and refreshment expenses. Cash only please, since we are not able to take credit cards or checks.
________________________________________________
Staying Connected in Stormy Seas:
An exploration of the Focusing Attitude as it impacts our ability to stay connected to ourselves and to others
How can we live comfortably in our skin when we are in conflict with another? What strategies can we employ to keep the connection while being true to ourselves? Or perhaps can we even enhance the connection as we move through misunderstanding, heated discussion and hurt feelings. Is it possible through the Focusing Attitude to find a new way of being with our own selves and with others?
In a series of short exercises we shall have an opportunity to consider these questions, personally and privately, also to share our experience if we wish, and notice what emerges in this group experience.
NY Metro Focusing meeting offer an opportunity to engage in a felt sensing, interactive exploration of topics of interest – slowing down, listening from a Focusing place, and letting what we hear resonate within to bring something new and fresh, both within ourselves and within the group.
This evening’s facilitators:
Larry Hurst is a graduate life-skills coach with a background in the health sciences. He learned the basics of Focusing from Peter Afford in the UK and went on to study with Barbara McGavin, Robert Lee and Kevin McEvenue. After certification he started to help health professionals and others to build Focusing into their lives and practices with a workshop accredited by the International Coach Federation. Larry is a founding member of the international Community Wellness Focusing Group, New York Metro Focusing and West Side Changes Group. He is a guest editor for The Folio and in 2008 co-authored a report “Tying the Thread of Bodywork, Movement and Focusing”. He has co-organized retreats in Italy and Switzerland on that topic and led experimental workshops covering his particular interest in spatial resonance at two Focusing Internationals.
Anne Shollar has been in private practice in New York city for over thirty-six years specializing in individual and couples therapy. She is a graduate of the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy Training Program and has studied with Lynn Preston, Focusing author, teacher and supervisor, for many years. Anne was a faculty member of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Family Therapy training program for a number of years. She has presented on Focusing In Everyday Life at the Focusing International in Montreal with Jenny Ross and has given workshops on Guess Who is Coming to Therapy, an exploration into Parts with Jude Cobb. Recently Anne has been teaching, practicing focusing-oriented therapy, focusing-oriented couples therapy and supervising in NYC.
Please bring your flyers and brochures for our FOCUSING COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE 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.
Date of final NYMF meeting in 2012:
Friday, November 30th 6:30-9:00 p.m. Program TBA
Questions may be sent to: contact@nymflists.com