Afternoon Workshops
These 90-minute afternoon workshops give you a chance to experience the rest of the teachers’ work through a variety of fascinating topics and processes. They do not need to be registered for in advance.
Creative Connections through Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts – Laury Rappaport More ...
The felt sense and the creative expression through the arts provide a way for us to connect beyond verbal language and culture with ourselves and each other.
Dreams Open Doors to Focusing – Nada Lou More ...
Your dream knows a lot more about you than you do! Dreams are fascinating. Your body can open up to your inner knowing spontaneously in the dream, because it can bypass the usual daily intrusion. Dreams bring you something that Focusing doesn’t access as easily. In this workshop we will explore your dreams and interpret them in a felt sensing way. Once you learn how to hold the dream in a Focusing way, and let the felt sense, not the content of the dream, connect to your situation, the felt sense will give you support, interpretation and the next step for carrying forward your situation.
Encountering Gene Gendlin’s Videos – Nada Lou More ...
From Nada’s extensive video library from following Gene Gendlin as his main videographer she will choose representative clips so you can encounter him. You will hear him talk about his Philosophy, about Focusing, and about Thinking at the Edge. But mostly you will meet this gentle genius in his human and often humor-filled presence.
Focusing and Non-Verbal Communication – René Veugelers More ...
Being with children or teenagers in a Focusing way is about contacting the vitality and life energy in each one of us. And working with your whole body. I will invite you to explore new ways of making connection with yourself, with your whole body and how you can make a real congruent connection with a child. We will practice skills like: attuning, moving together, noticing each other's rhythm, finding a gentle way to pause and create safety for a next step.
For parents who want to be with their children in a different way, for therapists and teachers who want to explore non-verbal expression and for Focusers who want to invite their creativity in a surprising and fresh way.
Integrating Focusing into Psychotherapy – Laury Rappaport More ...
You will learn Gendlin's key concepts for how to integrate Focusing into psychotherapy, and have an opportunity to bring questions and talk about your clients, as well as ways that you have found to carry Focusing forward in your work with different populations, clinical issues, self-care, supervision and/or personal growth.
From the Outside In: Exploring Your Personal Collage – René Veugelers More ...
Can it be challenging to find words to fit your felt senses? Wouldn’t it be a relief to invite your body to express itself in images and symbols, instead of words? Creating a personal collage can be an immediate and fun way to connect deeply with ourselves while keeping a playful distance from any residualheaviness we may still be carrying. You will be invited to be curious, colorful and surprised in this non-verbal attunement to creative expression. This exploration will bring fresh knowledge to support your natural Focusing process.
Holding On and Letting Go: Living a “Simple Enough” Life – Ann Weiser Cornell More ...
Do you live surrounded by too much stuff? Are there too many papers, too many projects, too many emails? The things we live with reflect our selves back to us: our history, our values, even our identity. And our lists of undone projects, as well as our over-full closets, call out to us to pay attention to them in a fresh way. Join Ann for an enlivening shame-free workshop on how to hold on and how to let go.
How Focusing Allows a Child’s Inner Voice to Emerge – René Veugelers More ...
In my daily work with children, I have discovered that you need to listen in three directions: to your own inner process, to the verbal and non-verbal exchange and to the inner world of the child. Are you able to step into a child's unknown world and let whatever emerges guide the next steps you take together? In this presentation I will show a video of a Focusing session with 11-year-old Rex. You will see me using Focusing, art materials, and experiential process to attune to and empathize with his story and deeper needs. You will discover what can be supportive when a process is blocked.
For parents who want to be with their children in a different way, for therapists and teachers who want to explore non-verbal expression and for Focusers who want to invite their creativity in a surprising and fresh way.
Learning to Listen and Accompany Others Through the Natural Pause - William Hernández & Soti Grafanaki More ...
The aim of this ‘pause workshop’ is to support you to connect with your own natural pause and discover ways to apply it in your everyday life. Through simple experiential exercises participants will notice the difference between pausing and not pausing and the impact of the pause in sensing deeper our bodies and listening more authentically and compassionately to each other.
Mindfulness, Focusing, and the Expressive Arts – Laury Rappaport More ...
Mindfulness, Focusing and the expressive arts are all tools for presence, awareness and inner contemplation. Each offers something unique. In this workshop, we will spend some time practicing mindfulness, followed by Focusing, noticing a felt sense and allowing it to naturally unfold into creative expression. There will be time for sharing about the experience.
Pausing in Nature & Connecting with Our Nature - William Hernández & Soti Grafanaki More ...
With the natural environment as our backdrop, we will explore ways to connect with our own natural pause. This experiential workshop will support paying deeper attention and connecting through the pause with elements from our inner and external natural environment and sensing freshly what is present.
Radical Self-Compassion: Transforming Your Inner Critic – Ann Weiser Cornell More ...
“It's like I don't deserve to be successful.” -- “I don't really like myself.” -- “If I would just not be so lazy...” -- “How could I have been such an idiot?”
Do you ever sound like this? In the tough times of our lives, we often find phrases like “not good enough” or “I’ll never be able to…” swirling in our heads. These seeming self-attacks just make bad feel worse, don’t they? Ann has done many years of research and work with what’s called the “inner critic,” and has made three important discoveries that completely reverse the usual view on this painful experience. In this experiential workshop you’ll put these three insights into practice with your own critical parts, and end up well on the way to turning the inner critic into a friend.
Social Development through the Pause: Felt Sense Literacy without Borders - William Hernández & Soti Grafanaki More ...
The workshop will present a new social development model that places Literacy of the Pause as the cornerstone of sustainable human development. We will review the key processes and practices from the successful implementation of this new model and the potential for worldwide dissemination and application in many diverse contexts. Empirical data will highlight the role of the pause as the fastest and most direct pathway to promote Felt Sense Literacy and improve the life conditions of vulnerable and marginalized groups.
The Worlds of Focusing – Nada Lou & Ann Weiser Cornell More ...
An introduction to some of the main ways that Focusing is presented, and what they all have in common… in other words: What is the essence of Focusing? Includes an exploration of Focusing terminology such as “felt sense” and “carrying forward.” Followed by an introduction to the work of the Focusing Institute.
