Body-centered practices and the self-reflective process known as Focusing share a special resonance for reaching deeply into personal process. This workshop is intended for professionals who are interested in integrating Focusing with body-centered approaches to their work. MAE 2009 is a non-profit event, led by a dedicated international team that has been working together for five years, volunteering their talents, labors and hearts.
WHY THIS EVENT: Focusing is a body-oriented practice that offers a deepening connection with interior experience. It has implications for many fields as it encourages integration between sensations, feeling states and language. Many body-centered practitioners aren’t trained to pay attention to these subtle relationships when they address clients’ concerns. Yet these same practitioners have the potential to profoundly enhance clients’ healing and creative processes when they encourage in them a quiet inner listening.
This kind of listening will be encouraged as we share modalities together in groups and as receivers and givers in partnered explorations. From that shared basis we can explore the rich differences as well as commonalities in our approaches. Focusing will not only be one more practice added to our repertory, but a medium through which we can communicate and learn from each other.
FOR WHOM: This workshop is geared to teachers, practitioners and students in the fields of bodywork, yoga, movement therapy and dance, acupuncture, body-oriented or experiential psychotherapy, and related disciplines, who also have a basic knowledge of Focusing.
For those who have not had previous Focusing experience we offer an introduction on the day preceding the opening dinner. The pricing and booking for this pre-day is additional. You can also find Focusing trainers at www.focusing.org.
