1. LIVING FRESHLY, LIVING FORWARD
BASIC FOCUSING AS A PERSONAL PRACTICE
19 - 20 OCTOBER 2013
Join us in exploring a simple yet profoundly helpful practice that
vitalises our living and enriches our relationship with self.
“Your body knows the direction of healing and life. If you take the time to listen to it
through Focusing, it will give you the steps in the right direction.”
[Eugene Gendlin]
Focusing is a practice for exploring our “felt sense” of a situation - that richly intuitive
inner “knowing” we can contact in a bodily felt way underneath our familiar thoughts
and emotions. In Focusing we learn to mine the wealth of the “felt sense”, finding
surprising new insights, fresh inspirations, and attuned self-guidance.
Focusing was developed by Eugene Gendlin, a psychologist and philosopher. In his
research into the efficacy of psychotherapy in the 1960s, he learned that therapeutic
change occurs for those clients who pause to pay attention to an indistinct yet
discernible bodily-felt sense of their experience, rather than speak from pre-formed
concepts. Gendlin developed guidelines to help people to use the resource of bodily-
sensed awareness, and he called the practice Focusing.
If you feel called to explore a richer relationship with yourself, at your own pace, then
this is a safe, inviting way to do so - whether you have had previous Focusing
experience or not.
What is Focusing?
The Three Core Skills We’ll Explore
“Surprising and empowering” “Expanding”
“Gentle and nurturing, deeply nourishing”
“Very enriching, validating, connecting to self”
Comments from Participants
Facilitators
My journey with Focusing
has had rich and surprising
yields, both at the level of a
personal practice and in my
work - as a Focusing-
Oriented Counsellor, and
teaching Focusing to
groups and individuals.
I continually draw on
Focusing’s potential for
self-resourcing, alongside
the practice of mindfulness.
I am accredited as a
Focusing Professional with
the Focusing Institute, New
York.
Pam Wernich
Since I qualified as a
Focusing-Oriented Therapist
in 2008, Focusing practice
has become deeply
integrated into my life,
personally and
professionally. And, as an
Alexander Technique teacher
– using body awareness to
facilitate personal growth –
and an amateur creative
dancer, I also have a special
interest in the concept of
Wholebody Focusing. In
general, personal change
and growth inspire me.
Pat Orner Oliver
DATES & TIMES
Saturday 19 - Sunday 20
October 2013,
9am - 3.30pm
VENUE
23 Edgware Road
Diep River
COST
R1 500. This includes teas
and a workshop manual.
Please bring your own lunch.
RSVP
Please RSVP by 30 Sep.
CONTACT US
Pat Orner Oliver
Call (021) 712-6362 or
072 0517 177
pat.oliver@mweb.co.za
Pam Wernich
Call 083 9477 183
pamwernich@gmail.com
~ Finding and exploring the Felt Sense;
~ Bringing a richer empathy to self;
~ Listening and accompanying skills.