EMBRACING THE WHOLE, WELCOMING THE NEW!
ABOUT NY 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.
OUR EVENTS
We meet five times a year. We alternate meetings on Friday and Sunday evenings. On each occasion we offer an original theme, usually devised by one or more of our members. We include networking and refreshment breaks as well as a Marketplace session for members to announce their workshops and associated services. The organization is held together by a Coordinating group and has an announcement email list of more than 400. A small donation is invited to help cover room rental and refreshments.
OUR HISTORY: EXPLORATIONS IN COMMUNITY
The vision of a new local Focusing community emerged for New York's Cynthia Callsen in 2007 out of a Focusing training project and was articulated at the Focusing Institute's Certification Weeklong that year. Titled "Bringing into Being a Living Focusing Body," the sense of the whole was that this local Focusing Body would be a living, breathing manifestation of the practice of Focusing and its underlying philosophy. Not a "Changes" practice group, not training, not a workshop, but rather a place that would hold all of this diversity and more - an anchoring to steady the inner life of the local Focusing community as well as to give a new face for Focusing to the non-Focusing community and perhaps to be a model for other groups elsewhere.
A small team joined with Cynthia to bring this project to fruition - Larry Hurst, Naomi Glicken, and Katya Salkinder. Jude Cobb was also always present as wise counselor and advisor. We held our first community meeting of Focusers from our Metropolitan area on February 29, 2008, when around 40 Focusers gathered and named our organization New York Metro Focusing. Collectively we then created a Mission Statement. The current Mission Statement is above.
The vision of a new local Focusing community emerged for New York's Cynthia Callsen in 2007 out of a Focusing training project and was articulated at the Focusing Institute's Certification Weeklong that year. Titled "Bringing into Being a Living Focusing Body," the sense of the whole was that this local Focusing Body would be a living, breathing manifestation of the practice of Focusing and its underlying philosophy. Not a "Changes" practice group, not training, not a workshop, but rather a place that would hold all of this diversity and more - an anchoring to steady the inner life of the local Focusing community as well as to give a new face for Focusing to the non-Focusing community and perhaps to be a model for other groups elsewhere.
A small team joined with Cynthia to bring this project to fruition - Larry Hurst, Naomi Glicken, and Katya Salkinder. Jude Cobb was also always present as wise counselor and advisor. We held our first community meeting of Focusers from our Metropolitan area on February 29, 2008, when around 40 Focusers gathered and named our organization New York Metro Focusing. Collectively we then created a Mission Statement. The current Mission Statement is above.
CONTACT [this section formerly contained multiple options for interacting with us, our mailing list, and our calendar. Now, if you have questions about us or our materials, you are invited to write to founder Cynthia Callsen at cynthia.callsen@gmail.com]
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