Transform Your Life, Learn Focusing, Welcome the Way We Grow
Our 2025 theme is exploring ourselves as Ashamaya. How do we self-mentor ourselves; what qualities of 'Being With' is life inviting us to embody.
* Explore Healthy Brain dynamics as portrayed by the Inner Companions in Smartview Stories.
* Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome.
* This space is all about relationships and the qualities of being we bring.
* Let's explore how we hold our own space in relationship to others and how we hold space within us for both our right and left hemisphere's perspectives.
* Individual Art, Movement and Writing prompts. Many sessions will utilize small breakout groups.
* These gatherings emphasize Gendlin's action step, how it is we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
* A pdf will be provided to continue exploring the three states of being on your own.
* Ideal support for Educators utilizing Smartview Stories in a group educational setting.
A testimonial...
In September, 2024 we used our Power of And to hold space for 'being' and 'doing' to hear each other and be together in the same space. Charity Sims-Jenkins had this experience:
"I experienced a feeling of deep perspective shift when invited by Sandy in Smartview Conversations to Focus on the interaction between 'being' and 'doing'. The imagery in my session involved switching view from 2D to 3D to 'see' in a felt way the relationships between opposing ideas. The meaning I felt from this went beyond the session itself and into my day-to-day life in the days following, in how I thought about and explained things - like I suddenly really 'knew' things, which previously I had only known as concepts. I will be back for more!"
Come Create with Us!
Skills you can grow during our time together.
* become aware of and modify unconscious reactions and patterns that are not serving you.
* learn to utilize the three Inner Companions from Smartview Stories to make valuable aspects of Gendlin's philosophy and our body/brain neuroscience easy to understand.
* learn to discern when you are living from a partial view and when you are holding space for the whole of your body's wisdom in this situation.
* our mind is 'sticky', it likes to hold on to patterns it knows from the past. We will become more efficient at recognizing these sticky strategies and gain insight into moving beyond them in this playful community environment.
* the ability to pause and move into your body, into the present moment, or over to your right hemisphere to access a bigger picture and potentially do something new here. Each time we do this rewires our brain toward a sense of working together around future similar situations.
* via improvisational role play during our time together, practice resilience in rolling with what is here now.
* improve your ability to interact with others with kindness and clarity that everyone and everything is safe and with a sense of we're in this together.
* develop more ways to support yourself and those around you in processing challenging interactions.
* become aware of embodiment techniques that you can incorporate into your daily life to encourage holding on to new patterns that are emerging for you.
* receive neuroscience related handouts to support you in practicing these concepts in your daily life.
Event Details
A free 1 hour monthly introductory space based on the crossing of neuroscience and Focusing that is used in Smartview Stories. This gathering is offered twice each month at 11:30am ET and 7:30pm ET.
Our time together will be heavily experiential. Inspired by a short excerpt from Smartview Stories, we’ll utilize universal themes and prompts from our recent life experiences. There will be one or two skills apparent in the excerpt we read that we will explore further with our own recent experience. We will often use role-play scenarios utilizing the three inner companions in the stories. Sometimes we’ll invite writing, art and movement. We’ll usually go into one pair or small group breakout space. Expect to laugh here, humor seems to be an essential quality of being when we invite our fears around holding our own sense of self in the world.
Each of us lives in community. Our family is our first one. In Focusing, we learn to create a space of radical acceptance for our inner community. In our time together here, we will create a safe, playful environment to explore how we show up for the communities outside of us. You will pick up how to do this with more ease in your own daily life.
Smartview Stories is a series of family books written by Sandy that explore living a Focusing way of life in community. The stories illustrate both what is going on outside of us as well as inside of us via three Inner Companions based on neuroscience concepts. We’ll become familiar here with how the neuroscience of these Inner Companions function within our own lives.
An aspect we practice in this community is both presuming welcome (I belong) and extending welcome (you belong). From here, a We Space between naturally forms. I encourage self-empowerment and enjoy working alongside members of the Learning Community. I have invited them to join in co-teaching these webinars. Together, we create a magical carpet ride we extend toward you.
We welcome any threads you’d like to add during your time with us here!
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Co-Facilitators from Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change
Inge Terrill, March 2023
Rebecca Aydelette, May 2023
Carrie Moy, July 2023
Stacey Walling, September 2023
Niko Toroshelidze, November, 2023