NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Sunday, September 23, 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 Registration and Networking with Light Refreshments
Welcome - Susan Deisroth
Attunement - Susan Deisroth
Introduction - Susan Deisroth
Presenting the overall theme for the year - Gail Miklatek
Reading and discussion of excerpt from "Making Concepts From Experience" - Larry Hurst
Guided Solo Focusing Followed by a Focusing Conversation - Rachel Alexander
Community Conversation - Cynthia Callsen and Naomi Glicken
8 p.m. Departure
The opening program of our 2018-2019 season:
Engaging with Eugene Gendlin's Words and Ideas
And We Are At Least Plants... [Janet Pfunder]
If we understand the body as environmental interaction we need not limit ourselves to sentient animals. Plants, quite without perception, are ongoing life processes. They also imply their own next moves. (Gendlin, The Primacy of the Body)
In the same way, our bodies can know our next right steps, a carrying forward process of what is needed. Through reading together part of a transcript of a talk Gendlin gave to the International Focusing Conference in 1996, we will explore these ideas and what they may open for us. We will have a chance to focus on what is stirred within us and to sense if something more needs to come.
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2018
Sunday, December 2 5pm - 7pm
2019
Friday, January 25, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, April 12, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, June 7, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, September 27, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, December 6, 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, Larry Hurst, Diana Kirigin, and Gail Miklatek
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, 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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NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Sunday, September 23, 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 Registration and Networking with Light Refreshments
Welcome - Susan Deisroth
Attunement - Susan Deisroth
Introduction - Susan Deisroth
Presenting the overall theme for the year - Gail Miklatek
Reading and discussion of excerpt from "Making Concepts From Experience" - Larry Hurst
Guided Solo Focusing Followed by a Focusing Conversation - Rachel Alexander
Community Conversation - Cynthia Callsen and Naomi Glicken
8 p.m. Departure
The opening program of our 2018-2019 season:
Engaging with Eugene Gendlin's Words and Ideas
And We Are At Least Plants... [Janet Pfunder]
If we understand the body as environmental interaction we need not limit ourselves to sentient animals. Plants, quite without perception, are ongoing life processes. They also imply their own next moves. (Gendlin, The Primacy of the Body)
In the same way, our bodies can know our next right steps, a carrying forward process of what is needed. Through reading together part of a transcript of a talk Gendlin gave to the International Focusing Conference in 1996, we will explore these ideas and what they may open for us. We will have a chance to focus on what is stirred within us and to sense if something more needs to come.
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2018
Sunday, December 2 5pm - 7pm
2019
Friday, January 25, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, April 12, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, June 7, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, September 27, 2019. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, December 6, 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, Larry Hurst, Diana Kirigin, and Gail Miklatek
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, 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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