PROGRAM
NEW YORK METRO FOCUSING
Friday, September 27, 2019
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
6:00 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
6:30 pm Welcome and Attunement: Susan Deisroth
6:35 pm Introduction: Cynthia Callsen
6:40 pm Program
Living Into Each Other's Stories:
The Collaborative Memoir Process
Facilitated by Susan Rudnick
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 will conclude 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.)
This evening’s facilitator: 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.
(over please)
8:10 Community Conversation: Cynthia Callsen and Naomi Glicken
8:30 pm Refreshments & Networking
9:00 pm Departure
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2020
Friday, January 24, 2020. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, April 24, 2020 6pm – 8:30pm
Friday, September 25, 2020 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, Cynthia Callsen, Susan Deisroth, Naomi Glicken, and Diana Kirigin
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Marcella Calabi, Judith Cobb, Larry Hurst, Sharron Kaplan, Minda Novek, Viktor Raykin, and Anne Shollar.
This is a grassroots, member-run organization. We welcome your involvement. we welcome your participation- Please see a member of the Planning Group if you are interested in learning more or becoming more involved
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
Friday, September 27, 2019
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
6:00 pm Registration and networking with light refreshments
6:30 pm Welcome and Attunement: Susan Deisroth
6:35 pm Introduction: Cynthia Callsen
6:40 pm Program
Living Into Each Other's Stories:
The Collaborative Memoir Process
Facilitated by Susan Rudnick
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 will conclude 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.)
This evening’s facilitator: 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.
(over please)
8:10 Community Conversation: Cynthia Callsen and Naomi Glicken
8:30 pm Refreshments & Networking
9:00 pm Departure
Please SAVE the dates for future meetings:
2020
Friday, January 24, 2020. 6pm - 8:30pm
Friday, April 24, 2020 6pm – 8:30pm
Friday, September 25, 2020 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, Cynthia Callsen, Susan Deisroth, Naomi Glicken, and Diana Kirigin
Friends of the Planning Group: Christine Bubbico, Marcella Calabi, Judith Cobb, Larry Hurst, Sharron Kaplan, Minda Novek, Viktor Raykin, and Anne Shollar.
This is a grassroots, member-run organization. We welcome your involvement. we welcome your participation- Please see a member of the Planning Group if you are interested in learning more or becoming more involved
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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