9/25/09 Meeting Program
NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Friday, September 25, 2009
MEETING PROGRAM
6:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
6:45 pm Welcome - Joan Lavender
Attunement - NYMF member
Introduction of Presenters - Naomi Glicken
7:00 pm REST AND SLEEP: Foundation for a Balanced Life
Robin Kappy, LCSW & Susan Rudnick, LCSW
In this experiential presentation Susan and Robin will give you a taste of the ways Focusing can be used to assist yourself and others to rest and sleep with more ease. The tools offered can be used on their own or within the context of a psychotherapy process.
Robin has been a psychotherapist and supervisor in practice since 1989. She is a certified Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist and an EMDR practitioner. Robin specializes in working with creativity, depression, anxiety, trauma and relationships. She is on the faculty of Lynn Preston’s Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy (FORP) program.
Susan has been in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for over 30 years, working with individuals and couples. As well as Focusing, her spiritual practice also informs her work. She has been actively involved in helping to shape Lynn Preston’s Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy (FORP) program. She supervises and teaches FORP students. Susan has trained in trauma work w/ Shirley Turcotte.
You can learn more about their work at www.restwelltonight.com
8:15 pm Break and Networking
8:30 pm FOCUSING COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE: a time and place to share your Focusing projects, workshops and trainings and to let us know what other goods and services you have to offer.
9:00 pm Closing - Naomi Glicken
SAVE THE DATE for our next meeting:
Friday, December 4, 2009 - Sondra Perl, Ph.D.
Planning Committee: Joan Lavender with Cynthia Callsen, Barbara Chutroo, Judith Cobb, Griffith Feeney, Naomi Glicken, Larry Hurst, Elizabeth Lehmann, Katya Salkinder, and Anne Shollar
This is a grass roots, member-run organization. We welcome your involvement. The planning group meetings are open to anyone interested in attending. Notes from all meetings are posted on our Google Discussion Group site.
http://groups.google.com/group/ny-metro-focusing
Please join this group by going to the site and following the instructions
New York Metro Focusing Mission Statement. Adopted on 8/15/08
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.
NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Friday, September 25, 2009
MEETING PROGRAM
6:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
6:45 pm Welcome - Joan Lavender
Attunement - NYMF member
Introduction of Presenters - Naomi Glicken
7:00 pm REST AND SLEEP: Foundation for a Balanced Life
Robin Kappy, LCSW & Susan Rudnick, LCSW
In this experiential presentation Susan and Robin will give you a taste of the ways Focusing can be used to assist yourself and others to rest and sleep with more ease. The tools offered can be used on their own or within the context of a psychotherapy process.
Robin has been a psychotherapist and supervisor in practice since 1989. She is a certified Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist and an EMDR practitioner. Robin specializes in working with creativity, depression, anxiety, trauma and relationships. She is on the faculty of Lynn Preston’s Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy (FORP) program.
Susan has been in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for over 30 years, working with individuals and couples. As well as Focusing, her spiritual practice also informs her work. She has been actively involved in helping to shape Lynn Preston’s Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy (FORP) program. She supervises and teaches FORP students. Susan has trained in trauma work w/ Shirley Turcotte.
You can learn more about their work at www.restwelltonight.com
8:15 pm Break and Networking
8:30 pm FOCUSING COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE: a time and place to share your Focusing projects, workshops and trainings and to let us know what other goods and services you have to offer.
9:00 pm Closing - Naomi Glicken
SAVE THE DATE for our next meeting:
Friday, December 4, 2009 - Sondra Perl, Ph.D.
Planning Committee: Joan Lavender with Cynthia Callsen, Barbara Chutroo, Judith Cobb, Griffith Feeney, Naomi Glicken, Larry Hurst, Elizabeth Lehmann, Katya Salkinder, and Anne Shollar
This is a grass roots, member-run organization. We welcome your involvement. The planning group meetings are open to anyone interested in attending. Notes from all meetings are posted on our Google Discussion Group site.
http://groups.google.com/group/ny-metro-focusing
Please join this group by going to the site and following the instructions
New York Metro Focusing Mission Statement. Adopted on 8/15/08
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.