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

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

March 24, March 31, April 14, April 28, May 12, June 2 (note the first two weeks are one week apart and the last two are 3 weeks apart)

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.