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EMBRACING THE WHOLE,  WELCOMING THE NEW!
Explorations in Community


NEXT NYMF MEETING

RSVP at rsvp@nymflists.com to help us plan. (Come anyway if you decide at the last minute!) 
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Living Into Each Other's Stories: 

The Collaborative Memoir Process


Susan Rudnick LCSW 
                                                                                                                                             
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 Friday September 27
6:00 p.m. gathering for 6:30 p.m. event 


​NOTE: this is our last event in 2019. There will be no December meeting. Dates in 2020 are Jan 24, Apr 24, Sept 25​.

Judson Memorial Church,
239 Thompson Street, NYC

side entrance

Suggested Contribution: $20 
Cash only please. 

More time & place details below.

​​LIVING INTO EACH OTHER'S STORIES:
The Collaborative Memoir Process
 
In this workshop we will learn about story-telling through deep listening to another telling a story.  With a felt sense of the storyteller and her story, we will then form small groups to tell that story in the first person, as if it were ours.    

In this interwoven way there is much to learn about the elements of the story telling/memoir process:  vivid details, emphasis, rhythm, what is directly stated, and what is left out.  From telling another’s story, we can learn how one person’s way differs from another's, and thus enrich our own process.  And from listening to another tell ours, we may open to a different understanding of it.   The whole group will come together to share what has been learned.  

After listening to your story being read by another, there will be time for you to write your story, perhaps from a fresh vantage point.

The workshop concludes with discussion about this whole process.
 
Susan will then do a short reading from her memoir and discuss any questions that emerge. 

She will sign books including any that participants bring in and also have some copies for purchase.(Cash or check only, please; no credit cards.)


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About the Facilitator
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Susan Rudnick, L.C.S.W. has been in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Manhattan for over thirty years. Her interest in the healing power of the therapeutic relationship began during analytic training, and continued through her study of relational and self- psychology. She is passionate about the transformational power of focusing for both therapist and client. She pioneered a focusing oriented group in collaborative supervision group, which has been running for several years.  Susan is a published haiku poet.  Her memoir Edna’s Gift: How My Broken Sister Taught Me To Be Whole was released in June 2019.  


RSVP at rsvp@nymflists.com to help us plan. (And come anyway if you decide at the last minute!)  



TIME & PLACE DETAILS

TIME:
 Friday, September 27, 2019   6/6:30 

(Note change to day/time from last year) 
Sign-in and networking 6:00
Program begins promptly at 6:30


PLACE:  Judson Memorial Church, 239 Thompson Street (near the corner of Washington Square South) Side Entrance.  Downstairs Meeting Room

COST: Suggested Contribution of $20 to cover rental and refreshment expenses. Cash only please, since we are not able to take credit cards or checks. 

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 will get a little taste of the Focusing experience and become motivated to learn more by taking an Introduction to Focusing workshop.  
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On your way to the event... 

perhaps spare some moments
for a meditative walk
through the historic and beautiful
Washington Square Park area.​ 


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Explore, Experience, Engage in Focusing

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Please SAVE THE DATES for upcoming meetings​
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September 27, 2019 and January 24, April 24, September 25, 2020
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Programs are all on Fridays. 

Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
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Program begins promptly at 6:30 and usually lasts up to two hours.

Networking and nibbles before and after the program.

Bring a friend.  No experience with Focusing is necessary.