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FOCUSING AND …
Focusing is a practice of deep listening and a specific way of connecting to our embodied knowing. It can be applied to many different contexts such as spirituality, peace-making, deep thinking, work, creativity, and more.
Focusing Pathways offers three areas of intersection between Focusing and other processes/practices:
• Movement
• Writing
• Work
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FOCUSING AND MOVEMENT:
Focusing is a process that recognizes our embodied nature and the impossibility of dividing ourselves into separate components, as so many concepts and social practices suggest. Rather we believe that by embracing our bodies and supporting the way we move, we are also more fully embracing who we are and can be.
I offer two learning opportunities for integrating Focusing and movement:
• The Mobition series
• The Focusing and Movement workshop
Mobition Series:
The Mobition series is designed to explore the ways in which bringing movement into our Focusing process enhances the power of Focusing. It is designed as a highly individualized study that also offers the opportunity to flexibly address your specific needs and pace of learning.
You can also decide to use the series to support building a movement practice on your own that you can perform at home. Or you can use it to help you achieve your exercise goals by joining and sticking to an external program of your choice that most fits your needs and desires.
The series is organized in four levels, to built progressively on your learning both in movement and Focusing. The Mobition series thus works as a complementary program to the Focusing Training Series.
Mobition Level 1: Coming To Our Senses
In this level we explore the importance of beginnings. We learn a gentle movement warm up that creates a sense of physical and emotional safety, fluidity, and comfort in our bodies. We experience how movement helps to gently ground our sensing to our bodies and thus enrich our journey into Focusing.
Prerequisite: Focusing Level 1 with any Focusing Professional. No previous movement experience needed.
Mobition Level 2: Cradling From Within
We continue to further our understanding of the Focusing process and the ways in which movement can support that process. In this level we explore qualities of movement that help us keep company with the felt-senses and felt-shifts that arise in a Focusing session. We learn how to use these resources during a session, or after a session. We also begin to learn the challenges and delights of being a Companion to a partner who is moving.
Prerequisite: Focusing Level 1 with any Focusing Professional and Mobition Level 1.
Mobition Level 3: E-motions and Inner Momentum
In this level we broaden the range of our Focusing process by exploring the relation of movement to felt-sensing. We learn that we can use movement as both an initial handle for our felt-sense as well as an unfolding mode of symbolization that carries our bodies forward in the living and holding of an issue. We learn to sense for subtle and yet profound shifts that come when we process our understanding and feelings kinetically. We continue to nurture our capacities for companioning this way of Focusing.
Prerequisite: Focusing Level 2 with any Focusing Professional and Mobition Level 2.
Mobition Level 4: Moving Words
In this level we learn to be flexible in the ways we integrate movement in our Focusing Process. We learn to sense, distinguish, and trust what kind of moving aids our Focusing and what takes away from it. We also learn to fully integrate kinetic and verbal symbolization in the Focusing process so as to be able to shift from one or the other according to our needs.
Prerequisite: Focusing Level 3 with any Focusing Professional and Mobition Level 3.
Structure and Cost:
The Mobition series is offered as a tutorial for one to three people to be taken in person in the Rockridge district of Oakland CA, conveniently located near BART.
Each level involves two tutorial sessions of 1 ½ hour each before you can progress through the series. You may also want to take more than two sessions per level, depending on your previous movement or Focusing experience.
The two sessions need to be scheduled one week apart from each other, and cost $60 each. Any further session beyond the initial two also costs $60.
To register in the series or for more information please Contact us.
Focusing and Movement Workshop:
We begin with a gentle movement warm-up and explorations to create a flexible body-self that deepens our capacity for felt-sensing and safe receptivity. Through the Focusing process, we use inner-directed movement to both accompany our inner sensing as well as symbolize our experience, exploring the implicit rhythms and directions of our being. Finally we learn to sense when alternating between verbal expression and movement expression brings furthers creativity and healing in our Focusing sessions.
Prerequisite: Focusing Level 1 with any Focusing Professional. No previous movement experience needed.
The entirety or only part of this material is offered in workshops that last from half a day to two days. If you are interested in Focusing and Movement workshops, please Contact us.
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FOCUSING AND WRITING:
I offer the following as tutorials, and as workshops upon request:
Corporgraphy (writing from, for, and with the body). Especially designed for body-workers, dancers, movement therapists, martial artists, and other body-centered practitioners who want to write about their practices. We use Focusing and writing as ways of connecting and identifying the core principles of your practice, to better communicate your work to clients and colleagues, or to question the creative and professional habits inscribed in your body-process for further research and development.
Prerequisite: Focusing Level 1 with any Focusing Professional.
Writer’s block: for new and seasoned writers alike. We address the powerful inner critics and emotional holding patterns that keep us from writing, as well as learn a Focusing approach to writing that is sure to re-awaken your creative and analytical thinking, poetic expression, and motivation. I especially welcome dissertation writers in the humanities and social sciences.
Prerequisite: Focusing Level 1 with any Focusing Professional.
Structure and cost:
We work in individual sessions that usually last 50 minutes to one hour.
Sessions cost $70 per hour if booked singly, or $60 per hour for a commitment to three sessions or more. Contact us.
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FOCUSING AND WORK PROJECTS:
Using the Focusing process and principles from the Philosophy of the Implicit (Eugene Gendlin), we will explore your creativity, intuition, sense of purpose, commitment and vision to enable you to develop your work projects in manageable and sustainable bits.
Prerequisite: Focusing Level 1 with any Focusing Professional.
Structure and cost:
We work in individual sessions that usually last 50 minutes to one hour.
Sessions cost $70 per hour if booked singly, or $60 per hour for a commitment to three sessions or more. Contact us.
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