Focusing
Individual Focusing sessions
Focusing is learning to trust your own inner sense of things. It is the conscious interaction with our bodily felt knowing that allows a natural unfolding of our innate felt knowing. Historically, Focusing arose out of the work of Gene Gendlin. It was originally conceptualised within the psychology of Carl Rogers, but since then (1960's) has been integrated and applied to many other areas of life including problem solving, personal growth & spirituality, and all forms of creative expression. There is no diagnosing or analysing or counselling, just listening, describing and gently attending your inner experience until it reveals its meaning and you see a way forward that you didn't see before. That's what Focusing is. Its the experience of waking up your inner knowing, aligning with the inside and living from it more deeply and authentically.
"Your body is not a machine, rather a wonderfully intricate interaction with everything around you,
which is why it "knows" so much just in being" ~ G. Gendlin
What is the session like?
Sessions usually last an hour, and are a mixture of tuition and Focusing time. After some initial arriving time, we will start the Focusing session. You might want to focus on particular issue or you might want to explore what your body is bringing that day, or maybe you would like to learn the skill of focusing and explore how it can support and enrich other aspects of your life. What I will be doing here is accompanying and guiding you throughout the process. I might be make gentle suggestions and also follow you to support your contact with yourself. The process itself will lead the way.
Benefits
It can applied to many areas of your life including a specific life issue that needs your attention or what you are being called to in the current chapter of your life, or to simply to reconnect with yourself in a deeper and more life enriching way.
There are many, but to mention just a few:
~ a sense of relief and clarity about your life and your forward steps
~ a greater ability to be compassionate to yourself
~ a shift in perspective about what’s bothering you
~ new possibilities, new options, insights, and fresh energy to move forward
~ learning the art of focusing, reconnecting with ones own inner knowing
Focusing practitioner
Halina Rozensztrauch
Where?
Online (Zoom):
Cost
First online sessions free
Online: £55 for 1 or £150 for 3 sessions (60 mins each)
In person: £70 for 1 or £195 for 3 sessions (60 mins each)
To book:
Focusing Skills Training
(listening with the whole body)
Focusing Skills Journey is a 60 hour series of experiential seminars spread over 5 modules.
The format of the course is a combination of 2 weekend workshops (in/near London) and 15 online seminars and partnership practice between sessions with other participants. Participants can choose to cover the whole course online if preferred.
Seminars are mixture of Focusing theory, discussion, exercises and practice and are open to beginners as well as those wishing to refresh or deepen their experience.
Places are limited to max 10 participants per group allowing for a more intimate sense of community and quality learning.
There is no obligation to commit to the whole course in advance, so please feel free to sign up for the first five calls or first weekend workshop as a starting point.
The Course is BFA Certify and enable you to join further Focusing workshops and training.
On these modules you will learn how to:
~ Sense inwards & listen with sensitivity and subtlety
~ Engage and communicate with that in you which knows more than you can say
~ Broaden your perception of the inner landscape and navigate your life choices from the deeper place inside
~ Recognise how the body "speaks”
~ Explore the stages of Focusing and ways of communicating that facilitates deeper movement and change
~ Relate to yoursef with care, compassion and wonder
~ Support yourself and your Focusing partner in difficult places and inner explorations
~ Be with tangled issues, blocks, the inner critic & other 'parts' (aspects of our inner selves)
~ Connect with yourself and others in deeper and more enriching way
~ Deepen your inner journey in meditation, creative flow and your pathway to wholeness
MODULE I
Beginning the Journey
Your body is not a machine, rather a wonderfully intricate interaction with everything around you, which is why it "knows" so much just in being. — Gendlin
Beginging the journey of being in touch, engaging and drawing from your inner knowing. And that's through the art of sensing inwards, communicating with your bodily felt awareness and making sense of it. We will practice felt companioning within and without and begin embodying the life transforming steps of a long journey without distance
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears — Rumi
Going further into focusing movements and felt companioning by uncrowding our attention and making space for aliveness. Then waiting at the edge of awareness, listening deeper and more on symbolising and language facilitating change
MODULE II
Exoploring the Footprints
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a magnificent world in itself —Henry Miller
Deepening and fine tuning your focusing and listening skills by self guiding your process, giving and recieving suggestions and invtations as we settle deeper in the experience of attuned listening. We will explore being more creative with focusing, guiding and expressing our felt experience.
MODULE III
Fine tuning
the Inner Compas
MODULE IV
Ways through the Maze
MODULE V
Unfolding into Wholeness
Every bad feeling is a potential energy towrads a more right way of being if you give it space to move towards its rightnes — Gendlin
Unsticking our process and applying your broader seeing in meeting tangled issues, blocks, body symptoms and pain, exiled parts and the inner critic. As well as being more intuitive with focusing, listening and guiding.
Your physically-felt body is, in fact, part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people, in fact the whole universe. This sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body as it is felt from inside — Gendlin
Broadeing the sense of things through the exploration of your wholebodied presence. We will include Whole Body Focusing practice, inquire into what's before and ahdead of us in our lifescapes, and settle deeper in the intimate participation of the unfolding now
Module 1: Beginning the Journey:
Week 1: The Doors
Week 2: The Heart of Presence: the field of compassion
Week 3: Sensing inwards: inner landscape and felt sensing
Week 4: Making sense of your felt experience: describing and resonating
Week 5: Felt companioning within and without
Week 6: Long journey without distance: Focusing steps
When:
morning group: Tuesday 9:30am - 11:30am
evening group: Thursday 7pm - 9pm
There is a possibility for the Saturday morning group. Let me know if you are interested.
Venue:
Virtual "meeting room" on Zoom platform. Zoom (like Skype) is very user-friendly and easy-to- install software for on-line video meetings. If you do not already have Zoom on your computer, you will be given simple instructions for downloading Zoom (free of charge) prior to the sessions.
Cost:
There are 5 modules to the course, each consist of 6 x 2h online classes or one intoductory weekend.
The early bird cost of each module is £150 (booked up to 1 month in advance) afterwards £180
The cost for all 5 modules is £695
To book:
If you are interested in joining the training please conact Halina Rozensztrauch:
info@yogatree.org.uk, 07528 122 281, www.focusing.org.uk/halina-rozensztrauch