SEPTEMBER 25, 2007 to OCTOBER 1, 2007 Advanced and Certification Workshop with
Robertp Lee, Ph.D., Doralee Grindler Katonah, Psy.D., M.Div., and
Dieter Müller at
Garrison Institute in Garrison, New York.
The objectives of the weeklong are to both promote trainers in becoming
practicing focusing professionals and to provide a context in which the
"interaction first" nature of human process will come alive in the rich context
of the international community. Weeklong leaders will facilitate your further
development with focusing and help you develop and concretely plan a project in
your area of interest or special training. You will be able to experience your
project unfolding through the connection with other focusing people.
The facilitation team has experience and expertise to share on the following
topics and areas of interest.
- Focusing-oriented Psychotherapy
- Self-help focusing
- Spirituality
- Focusing partnership
- Philosophy of the implicit / Thinking at the Edge
- Health/Medicine
- Supportive community/changes groups
- Cross-cultural crossings
Our weeklong will offer advanced training in many of these areas and at the same
time each trainer will be developing a focusing project.
Other interest areas some trainers have and could work on in this international
community of focusers are:
- Interactive focusing
- Bodywork
- Focusing in everyday interaction
- Education
- Organizational development
- A special topic of interest to you
Your project could be a plan to do substantive teaching of focusing; it might be
to give talks or start a changes group; to do research; anything that will take
you out into the field and activate/manifest your certification as a focusing
professional.
Read
more about the Field Projects Groups that will be happening at Weeklong
2007.
At the Weeklong, your project development will benefit from interest groups
which span the globe. Our community will transcend cultural and linguistic
limitations.
Your experience in Weeklong Interest Groups will help you have a deeper base in
Changes Groups.
Focusing partnership will be part of the Weeklong. Partnerships permit transfer
of both information and experiential knowing. When we listen in partnership to
someone who has found a way to reach microbiologists (e.g.), and they are
describing their felt sense and we feel that with them to some extent, we are
not only learning about their way of reaching microbiologists but we are sensing
the "more" of that for them. On the content level, a breakthrough in Rome can
open up something in Tokyo. A small but special innovation in Sydney can be just
what was missing in Buenos Aires. A movement in New York can open something in
Frankfurt. On the experiential level even more can be stimulated. My partner's
way of holding and making a breakthrough with microbiologists might help me hold
something in me and make a breakthrough in parenting or writing.
Focusing partnership involving a 2nd language and a different culture will be
given specific attention as a situation stimulating more refinement in focusing
partnership skill.
Building your knowledge, helping you launch your own “just right” project,
supporting further development of partnerships, building your familiarity with
changes groups, and forming globe-spanning cadres are goals of the weeklong.
Robert L. Lee, Ph.D. is a focusing theoretician and innovator. He has
been a Coordinator for 13 years. The last 4 years he has organized 4 training
groups and a post-trainer group. Two of the training groups were for
psychotherapists, the other 2 were for professionals of all sorts. A licensed
psychologist, Lee has developed a new model for teaching focusing (Domain
Focusing), he has developed a theory and practice for change on the macro level
for stubborn problems (Changing the Unchangeable), he has developed a
comprehensive practice for working with difficulties in felt sense formation
(Elusive Felt Sensing). He has developed special methods for using focusing in
couples therapy and in group therapy; he has applied focusing to Quaker
spirituality and to physical problems. Lee has taken 5 groups of trainers through certification since 2000 including all-therapist groups (FOT's) and mixed groups (therapists and other professionals).
Doralee Grindler Katonah, Psy.D., M.Div. is Associate Faculty at
Argosy University Illinois School of Professional Psychology, offering
post-graduate degrees at the masters and doctoral levels and one of the only
programs in USA which offers training in focusing-oriented psychology. She is
also on the staff of Advocate Medical Group Center for Complementary Medicine
and brings a focusing-oriented approach to mind/body medicine. Doralee conducted
research teaching focusing to people with cancer and wants to support further
research in this area. Doralee continues to develop ways to enable people to
access their deepest desires in the face of physical challenges. Doralee also
has explored contemplative spiritual practices and is studying Soto Zen Buddhism
while reflecting on the interface between focusing and Buddhism. She wonders
about soul process, how is it that the soul nurtures itself towards
transformation. She has a chapter in a book to be published in Sept. 2005 edited
by Lisa Hoshmand and entitled: Culture, Psychotherapy, and Counseling: Critical
and Integrative Perspectives. The title of her chapter is: The Felt Sense as
Avenue for Integrative Growth. Doralee in increasingly interested in the
interface of symbolization and culture and the philosophy of the implicit.
Dieter Mueller is a psychologist and licensed
psychotherapist since more than 20 years; he has trainings in Behaviour Therapy,
Client Centred Psychotherapy and Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy. He organized the International Focusing Conference 1994, 1997, 2000 and 2003 in Germany. He also works in the field of Supervision: Leadership counselling, team development, etc. In 1987 he founded with Heijo Feuerstein the Focusing Zentrum Karlsruhe (FZK). Their special interest is to bring Focusing into the different areas of applied psychology using the experiential theory of Gendlin: Focusing and chronic pain management Focusing and Decision making etc.
Tuition: $900
Room and board: Single: $660, Double: $540 and Dorm-style room: $450
Deposit: $200. Balance due is by August 25 (one month before the workshop
begins).
For more information, please contact The Focusing Institute at melinda@focusing.org, or 845-362-5222.
$150 administrative fee for cancellation, all fees nonrefundable, after August 25 except in unavoidable emergency.
Product Code: W-070925-WL
Status: WORKSHOP IS CLOSED
$200.00
