Befriending Ourselves:
Peer Focusing Courses
April 9 to June 18, 2019 (every two weeks):
Six Tuesday Evenings (7:00-9:00 pm)
Location: The Upper Room
St. James Episcopal Church
8 Church St, Greenfield, MA
Prerequisite
The "Introduction to Focusing" Workshop or an individual Focusing session with Daphne
Content
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Fostering the focusing attitude: befriending ourselves
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Presence language to support the inner relationship
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Accessing your felt sense
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Interacting with your felt intelligence
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Six steps to Focusing
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Being a Focusing companion
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Providing structure and reflection as a listener
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What makes a great listener
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Understanding the value of not fixing others and putting that into practice
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Recognizing and supporting the Focuser's felt sense
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Focusing Partnerships - Practice and More Practice
Structure
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Six two-hour classes. The evenings include small group and partner formations for experiential learning; teaching and modeling; discussion; movement; and break periods.
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Ten practice sessions outside of class (over 12 weeks) with partners from your cohort. Be prepared to spend 2 hours per week outside of class to benefit from this experiential learning.
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Short reading assignments: "The Power of Focusing", a book by Ann Weiser Cornell, is included in the registration fee.
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A one-hour private session with Daphne is included, to be scheduled outside of class.
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Students gain access to local and global Peer Partnership networks.
Cost
Sliding Scale: $135 - $360
A non-refundable deposit of $40 is requested by April 1st. The remainder is paid on the first evening of the course or, as needed, in installments.
Please register by April 1, 2019.
To Register: email Daphne
Basic Focusing for
Clinicians and Helping Professionals
Online Course - Fall of 2019
Eight Tuesday Evenings 7:00 - 9:00 EST
More details coming....