9/25/2011
MEETING NOTES
Entering a New Territory: A Focusing Exploration of Aging
A Focusing Conversation facilitated by Joan Lavender
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This was our guiding outline for the evening. The richness unfolded in between.
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600: Joan’s introduction* to the topic of Focusing and Aging. Including that we are inviting the participants to enter into a community exploration on a focusing level. In other words, we listen in a focusing way, and we respond on a focusing level as a group.
We want to take care of ourselves and each other in this process, checking in if we are concerned about anyone along the way.
610: Joan’s Attunement and a stating of the Three Questions (for the first time, pausing after each one)
1) What do you feel you already know and tend to share about aging?
2) What aspects of your experience of aging are deeply personal
3) According to Gendlin’s philosophy, we are always in process, always interbeing. Given that, what might be emerging for you that is yet to be discovered?
620: The first question: What do you feel you already know when the issue of aging comes up for you? We have had the experience all along of the surprise in aging based a lot on the perspective. We 've gotten to see how experiencing it from the outside(anticipation) and how it actually emerges or comes into being, contrast. How can this awareness of process transform our experience of aging?
Group focusing, listening and a final “Capturing the Essence of the discussion” by a NYMF member.
6:40: 2nd Question: What aspects of your sense of aging are deeply personal, almost unsayable?
Group focusing, listening, and a final “Capturing the Essence of the discussion” by a NYMF member.
7:00: 3rd Question: Given that Gene’s philosophy, and the way we are living this practice, helps us to see that everything is in continuous process, is there some way you can sense something that the way you hold the Aging process is also emerging? Are these aspects that you might not know, cannot know now? (Leonard Cohen on “there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”.
Done either as a group or in small groups of four, with no pressure for those who choose to listen but not share. Turn easily to the people on either side of you..
7:40 Closing – sitting together in silence, a final brief sharing? Maybe the Leonard Cohen, or the Les Todres Soulful Space quotation?
MEETING NOTES
Entering a New Territory: A Focusing Exploration of Aging
A Focusing Conversation facilitated by Joan Lavender
____________________________________________________________
This was our guiding outline for the evening. The richness unfolded in between.
____________________________________________________________
600: Joan’s introduction* to the topic of Focusing and Aging. Including that we are inviting the participants to enter into a community exploration on a focusing level. In other words, we listen in a focusing way, and we respond on a focusing level as a group.
We want to take care of ourselves and each other in this process, checking in if we are concerned about anyone along the way.
610: Joan’s Attunement and a stating of the Three Questions (for the first time, pausing after each one)
1) What do you feel you already know and tend to share about aging?
2) What aspects of your experience of aging are deeply personal
3) According to Gendlin’s philosophy, we are always in process, always interbeing. Given that, what might be emerging for you that is yet to be discovered?
620: The first question: What do you feel you already know when the issue of aging comes up for you? We have had the experience all along of the surprise in aging based a lot on the perspective. We 've gotten to see how experiencing it from the outside(anticipation) and how it actually emerges or comes into being, contrast. How can this awareness of process transform our experience of aging?
Group focusing, listening and a final “Capturing the Essence of the discussion” by a NYMF member.
6:40: 2nd Question: What aspects of your sense of aging are deeply personal, almost unsayable?
Group focusing, listening, and a final “Capturing the Essence of the discussion” by a NYMF member.
7:00: 3rd Question: Given that Gene’s philosophy, and the way we are living this practice, helps us to see that everything is in continuous process, is there some way you can sense something that the way you hold the Aging process is also emerging? Are these aspects that you might not know, cannot know now? (Leonard Cohen on “there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”.
Done either as a group or in small groups of four, with no pressure for those who choose to listen but not share. Turn easily to the people on either side of you..
7:40 Closing – sitting together in silence, a final brief sharing? Maybe the Leonard Cohen, or the Les Todres Soulful Space quotation?