NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Sunday, September 25, 2016
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
4:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
5:00 pm Welcome: Susan Deisroth
5:05 pm Introductions of the Evening’s Theme and its Facilitator: Susan Deisroth
5:10: pm Program
Program: THE INSIDE LIFE OF REAL CONVERSATION:
Focusing & the Powerful Potential of Focusing Dialogue
Facilitated by Lynn Preston
We have all had the experience of conversations that go somewhere. They have a life of their own and bring us alive. What are the ingredients of these powerful conversations? How can we be truly ourselves and, at the same time, be attuned to the other as well as to the interaction? How can we stay open to the conversation when the going gets rough? How is Focusing a basis for real conversation?
In this evening of conversation about conversation we will explore the "inner life" of real conversation - what brings it to life. We will focus on our own relationship to dialogue and how we can cultivate its potential.
This evening’s facilitator: Lynn Preston, is a Focusing-oriented relational psychotherapist, teacher and supervisor. She has written and presented nationally and internationally on the relational dimension of Focusing-oriented therapy. She is committed to genuine conversation and community building. Lynn is the founding Director of the Experiential Psychotherapy Project in New York.
6:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
7:00 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2016
Sunday, December 4 4:30 – 7:00 pm
2017
Sunday, January 22
Friday, March 31
Friday, June 9
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, and Diana Kirigin.
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, 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.
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Sunday, September 25, 2016
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
4:30 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
5:00 pm Welcome: Susan Deisroth
5:05 pm Introductions of the Evening’s Theme and its Facilitator: Susan Deisroth
5:10: pm Program
Program: THE INSIDE LIFE OF REAL CONVERSATION:
Focusing & the Powerful Potential of Focusing Dialogue
Facilitated by Lynn Preston
We have all had the experience of conversations that go somewhere. They have a life of their own and bring us alive. What are the ingredients of these powerful conversations? How can we be truly ourselves and, at the same time, be attuned to the other as well as to the interaction? How can we stay open to the conversation when the going gets rough? How is Focusing a basis for real conversation?
In this evening of conversation about conversation we will explore the "inner life" of real conversation - what brings it to life. We will focus on our own relationship to dialogue and how we can cultivate its potential.
This evening’s facilitator: Lynn Preston, is a Focusing-oriented relational psychotherapist, teacher and supervisor. She has written and presented nationally and internationally on the relational dimension of Focusing-oriented therapy. She is committed to genuine conversation and community building. Lynn is the founding Director of the Experiential Psychotherapy Project in New York.
6:45 pm Refreshments & Networking
7:00 pm Departure
(over please)
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2016
Sunday, December 4 4:30 – 7:00 pm
2017
Sunday, January 22
Friday, March 31
Friday, June 9
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, and Diana Kirigin.
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Judith Cobb, 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.
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