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EMBRACING THE WHOLE,  WELCOMING THE NEW!
OUR PAST EVENTS
Archival History of NY Metro Focusing
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9/26/2020
Embracing Human Diversity: Community Empowerment - Connecting Across Difference Through Focusing
Facilitated by Lynn Preston & Yao Obiora Dibia ​   Announcement    Notes​

4/24/2020
Discovering New Dimensions of Ourselves in the Midst of Terrible Times: A Community Gathering (via ZOOM)
Facilitated by Joan Lavender ​  Announcement    Notes

1/24/2020
Domain Focusing with Robert Lee
Announcement    Program    Notes

9/27/19
Living Into Each Other's Stories: The Collaborative Memoir Process
Facilitated by Susan Rudnick LCSW     Announcement    Program    Notes
 
6/7/19
Focusing in Motion: Carrying Forward the Gendlin Experience
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The fifth in a series of events dedicated to engaging with Eugene Gendlin's Words and Ideas
Facilitated by Larry Hurst    Announcement   Program   Notes
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4/12/19
It Fills Itself In:  Addressing What Has Happened or Failed to Happen in Our Lives
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The fourth in a series of events dedicated to engaging with Eugene Gendlin's Words and Ideas
Facilitated by the NYMF Planning Group    Announcement    Program    Notes
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1/25/19
​Embodied Thinking Has Wings
The third in a series of events dedicated to engaging with Eugene Gendlin's Words and Ideas
Facilitated by Lynn Preston    Announcement    Program    Notes
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12/2/18
Living Your Uniqueness:  Speaking and Acting from Your Felt Sense  
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The second in a series of events dedicated to engaging with Eugene Gendlin's Words and Ideas
Facilitated by the NYMF Planning Group     Announcement     Program     Notes
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9/23/18
 And We Are at Least Plants 
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The first in a series of events dedicated to engaging with Eugene Gendlin's Words and Ideas
Facilitated by the NYMF Planning Group    Announcement    Program    Notes

6/3/18
Sharing Interests: Creating Community and Connection
Moderated by Larry Hurst    Announcement    Program    Notes

3/18/18
Tenth Anniversary Celebration -- Creating Our Future Together
Facilitated by the NYMF Planning Group   
​Announcement    Program    Photo Gallery    Notes

VIDEO:  Conversation with a new participant
Lynn Preston and Abby Wu in conversation after Anniversary meeting    
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1/21/18
Focusing with Pain
Facilitated by Beth Mahler    Announcement    Program    Notes
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12/3/17
Getting Unstuck with Focusing
Facilitated by Marcella Calabi     Announcement     Program     Notes
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9/17/17
Why Write? How Writing and Focusing Can Enrich Each Other
Facilitated by Susan Rudnick    Program    Notes

6/9/17
Focusing and Beauty in Our Troubled Times
Facilitated by Robin Kappy     Program     Notes

3/31/17
Focusing to Center Us in Turbulent Times
Facilitated by Diana Scalera     Program    Notes

1/22/17
We are All in This Together: Exploring Compassion
Facilitated by Calliope Callias     Program     Notes

12/4/16
The Felt Sense of You in Community 
Facilitated by
Joan Lavender     Program    Notes

9/25/16
The Inside Life of Real Conversation:  Focusing & the Powerful Potential of Focusing Dialogue
Facilitated by Lynn Preston    Program   Notes
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6/10/16
Unlocking the Unspoken
Facilitated by Marcella Calabi    Program    Notes

4/1/16
Connecting with Nature - Inside, Outside, Upside Down
Facilitated by Beth Mahler   Program    Notes
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1/31/16
Finding our Way Forward in the New Year
Facilitated by Susan Deisroth and Jude Cobb    Program
    Notes
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12/6/15
Being in the Presence of an Experiencing Person
Facilitated by Joan Lavender, Psy.D.   Program

9/25/15
The Jackal Meets the Body: Crossing Focusing and Nonviolent Communication
Facilitated by Charles Herr, Ph.D.    Program     Notes   


6/5/15
Inviting Felt Sensing Through Shared Sound and Movement in Community
Facilitated by Larry Hurst     Program     Notes 


4/12/15
There are No Bad Dreams -- Using Focusing-Oriented Dreamwork to Resolve Inner Conflicts   Facilitated by Leslie Ellis, Ph.D.     Program     Notes 

1/30/15
Exploring Resolution: What is it? How Do We Resolve the Unresolved?
Facilitated by Marcella Calabi      Program     Notes 


12/5/14
Holding Space in Challenging Situations: Dynamic Facilitation and Focusing
Facilitated by Rosa Zubizarreta and Bruce Nayowith     Program     Notes

9/28/14
Welcoming the Body's Implicit Wisdom with Drumming, Focusing and Movement
Facilitated by Lillian Sober-Ain     Program     Notes


6/6/14
Finding the Wisdom Within
Facilitated by Susan Deisroth     Program     Notes 


4/4/14
Cultivating the Pause
Facilitated by Sharron Kaplan     Program     Notes


2/2/14
Reaching Out - Reaching In: Exploring the Spatial Elements of Focusing
Facilitated by Larry Hurst     Program    


12/6/13
Felt Sense and Beginner's Mind
Facilitated by Serge Prengel     Announcement


10/25/13
Celebrate Gene Gendlin
Video with experiential discussion facilitated by Joan Lavender     Program


9/22/13
Exploring Resilience and Vulnerability Together
Facilitated by Elizabeth Lehmann and assisted by Cynthia Callsen  Program


6/28/13
Coming Alive: The Joy of Following Our Unique Calling
Facilitated by Larry Hurst and Christine Bubbico     Program

4/21/13
Reconnecting from the Inside Out
Facilitated by Jocelyn Kahn, Susan Deisroth and Stefanie Proessl   
​Announcement    Program


2/22/13
Experientializing Envy
Facilitated by Joan Lavender, assisted by Judith Cobb, Susan Deisroth, Naomi Glicken, and Sharron Kaplan        Program  

11/30/12
Getting to Relating: Fitting in, Pouring out, and Relating 
Facilitated by Cynthia Callsen, Susan Deisroth and Naomi Glicken     Program    


9/23/12
Staying Connected in Stormy Seas:  An Exploration of the Focusing Attitude as it Impacts Our Ability to Stay Connected to Ourselves and to Others    
Facilitated by Larry Hurst and Anne Shollar  Announcement


6/22/12
From Loneliness to Solitude: A Focusing Exploration
Led by Sharron Kaplan     Announcement


4/22/12
Is Focusing a Spiritual Practice (and Does It Matter if It Is or Isn't)?
Led by Ruth Rosenblum and Susan Rudnick     Announcement


1/27/12
Stepping Through Beauty:  A Focusing Exploration
Led by Robin Kappy     Program


12/2/11
Passionate Thinking - Ideas that Bring Us to Life: A Focusing Conversation
Led by Jenny Ross and Lynn Preston.  Program     Announcement


9/25/11
Entering a New Territory:  A Focusing Exploration of Aging
Facilitated by Joan Lavender     Announcement     Program     Notes


6/17/11
Dream Appreciation - A Focusing Approach Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams - Working with Dreams in Small Groups, Focusing Partnerships, and Individual Psychotherapy
Facilitated by Janet Pfunder     Announcement      Program 


4/10/11
New Words, New Concepts: Thinking at the Edge
Rob Parker, Ph.D.    Announcement    Program

1/28/11
Focusing from Fullness:  How Focusing Can Support Us to Live More Fully from Who We Are    
Charles Herr, Ph.D.     Program


12/3/10
Bridging Zen and Focusing
Janet Abels and Julia McEvoy     Announcement     Program


 9/26/10
Macroshifting: Making the Daunting Doable - The Theory and Practice of Deep Change    Robert Lee     Announcement     Program

6/20/10
Facilitating the Focusing Process by Re-Tuning Our Personal Energy Field  
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Bruce Patterson   Announcement     Program
 
4/9/10
Becoming Intimate with Your Core Belief as it Presents in Your Daily Life and in the Big Moments:  It Can Be A Profound Experience. 
Anna Christensen and Jan Bronson     Announcement      Program

1/31/10
Spatial Dimensions of Focusing:  Exploration of the Interplay Between Inner and Outer Movement
With Barbara Chutroo and Larry Hurst     Announcement     Program


12/4/09
Felt Sense:  Writing with the Body
Sondra Perl, PhD.     Announcement    Program


9/25/09
Rest and Sleep: Foundation for a Balanced Life
Robin Kappy, LCSW and Susan Rudnick,LCSW     Announcement     Program


6/12/09
Moving Focusing Forward: Opportunities and Challenges
NYMF Planning Group with Susan Rudnick, Facilitator.     Announcement  Notes


3/27/09
Restoring Connection:  Experiencing True Joy
Elizabeth Lehmann, MA, MSW, LCSW     Announcement    Notes

1/23/09
Transcendent Experiencing with Music and Focusing
Justin Jacobs on piano, Katya Salkinder in song, Monika Gos with recorded violin,  Jan Rudd and Larry Hurst with Experiments in Sound.     Announcement     Notes

11/21/08
Catching the Spark Between Us:  Using Focusing to Build Living Communities and Partnerships  
Lynn Preston
and the Focusing-Oriented Relational Psychotherapy Group    
Announcement     Notes


9/12/08
Our Fuzzy Edges....
Joan Lavender and Larry Hurst     Announcement     Notes

6/13/08
Finding the Hope in the Midst of Challenge: The Crux of Focusing
Robert Lee     Announcement       Notes


4/25/08
Visual Experiencing
Robin Kappy and Janet Pfunder     Announcement     Notes

2/29/08
Inaugural Meeting: Focusing in Everyday Life
With Anne Shollar and Jenny Ross
Special Topic Discussion: Development of this new Local Focusing Association
Moderated by  Susan Rudnick     Announcement     Notes