Transform Your Life, Learn Focusing, Welcome the Way We Grow
Part 1 Creating Space for Lasting Change Course
Part 1 Creating Space for Lasting Change Course
$180.00
Basic skills start HERE! Join us if you would like...
*to nurture trust within yourself and become your own best friend.
*to develop social and emotional skills that make it easier to be your authentic self in the world.
*to explore the essence of change and the healing capacity of our own body.
*to heal trauma and learn to support yourself and others in change processes.
*to rewire your autonomic responses toward safety, belonging and resilience.
*to experience yourself as living process, evolving toward a greater sense of wellbeing.
*to maintain a healthy brain in a world struggling to know what is real.
*to begin your journey toward Certification as a Focusing Professional with The International Focusing Institute.
We will be do this by Creating Space.
Together.
For ourselves and each other.
You might not quite know what that means and that is how it should be. We'll be unlearning our traditional cultural ways of relating with ourself and others and rewiring our neural connections toward safety and connection as our natural way of being in the world. Much of what we learn to do here revolves around the Gendlin's concept that 'change requires being in relationship'. Here are some of the inner relational skills we'll be developing here:
- Making space for what you sense inside
- Sensing body sensations, images, emotions, thoughts, movements
- Forming relationships with what comes up
- Staying with them
- Sensing when they change
- Sensing what fits and doesn’t - checking back for a yes, no or more...
- Being able to tell whether what you observe is aware of you being with it
- Being with one body sense even as you’re sensing something new arising
- Enjoying positive feelings
We will all find our own way to doing this. We practice in partnership here to make it easier for us to stay with our own process. Companioning others comes with a variety of gifts, one being that our body finds new ways to communicate with us by observing what works for others.
Part 1 is also a good place to return to after you have been Focusing for awhile. This is spiral learning and something new comes every time around. It still does for me as your teacher.
We anticipate three offerings for 2025.
All require a Prerequisite: Guided Focusing Session
If you are repeating this course and ready to order, click HERE for a discount.
Creating Space for Lasting Change PART 1
6 Tuesday afternoons – 1-3 pm Eastern New York Time or your equivalent
Jan 14, Jan 28, Feb 11, Feb 25, March 11, March 25
6 Monday evenings - 7-9 pm Eastern New York Time or your equivalent
Probably starting in March or April - dates to be announced. Reach out if this interests you.
6 Tuesday evenings – 7-9 pm Eastern New York Time or your equivalent
Sept 30, Oct 7, Oct 21, Nov 4, Nov 18, Dec 2 (note the first two weeks are one week apart)
*Note Daylight savings time changes occur on March 9 and November 2 for 2025.
I look forward to our time together. Thanks for joining me on this journey of living life as process!
Message me here related to date or time requests.
Focusing really feels like a homecoming to me
Rainbow Lonestar
"What has stayed with me is the awe of the process and how profoundly it can change not only how we relate to ourselves but also to everyone and everything else around us. It really feels like a
homecoming to me, a gentle, compassionate invitation to bring Presence to what is."
Who's running who?
Leah Rodriguez
"I have something in me that likes to manage my thoughts. He runs around all day classifying and prioritizing thoughts in my head. Sometimes very violently closing things away. Focusing is a time where I can intentionally thank my manager for all he does for me but ask him to take a break so I can look more closely at what I keep shutting down. I'm finding that letting these things run their course is leading me to unexpected places. I feel free. Thank you Sandy for introducing me to this crucial life skill."
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Sandy Jahmi Burg
540-552-0203
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Floyd, Virginia
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