Awakening in the Air (and my bones)
The spotlight on Focalizing as a transformational tool has been evolving in my own being in ways I could never have imagined. This change process has been confounding and uncomfortable at times, yet quite organic with many resources coming to meet me. The dense air and weight around putting it into another form has just lifted. I feel another awakening!
In my last musing (sometime ago), I invited questions as a way of engaging readers more fully and expanding my learning. The big first question was: What is Focalizing? Darn it, I thought I explained this distinction in the text on the web site—apparently I did not! I elaborated on what Focalizing does but not what an actual Focalizing session is. I now know that I did not take the reader into the heart of the experience and history of a Focalizing session. I have spent most of my available time this since late spring endeavoring to do just that. I found myself plumbing the depths of my own wisdom and experience while struggling to express myself even more from my core than I was able to do previously.
The result is something I feel quite proud of. It was worth all the effort. Just off the printing press yesterday is a beautiful 8”x10” 32-page monograph (booklet) that as concisely as possible (to the moment) takes the reader into the presence of Focalizing possibilities. To see the Table of Contents and excerpts click on this title: Organic Solutions to Real-Time Challenges: Focalizing, An Introduction.
Aside from being a resource to readers, this monograph will form the core and support to my presentations at professional conferences in the fall, where I will be introducing Focalizing to therapists nationally and internationally as a powerful tool that some may want to access. This approach can benefit anyone who is in a state of feeling stuck, or who feels trapped by the circumstances that life presents. Focalizing conveys new perspectives and often illuminates previously unseen possibilities for moving forward with grace. My gut instinct tells me that many therapists and organizational consultants would love to weave their existing skills into a process like this. I believe the new monograph will be a great support.
The annual conferences that I will be presenting Focalizing at are: the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health and the International Conference for Somatic Experiencing (click for more info). I truly look forward to engaging with hundreds of my colleagues and hearing about their work while being able to share my own new exciting developments.
At the same time that I am in this wondrous space, life has its complexities. My oldest brother is dying as I write this. His lungs have given out. His wife, too, is in the end-stage of her emphysema disease. My step-mom is in the hospital again with advanced diabetes while her husband, still recovering from open-heart surgery at 89 sits at home alone worrying about his wife and the son he is losing. He is my nonbiological-dad which previous musings can clarify. I am so grateful that I have the support, resources, and resilience to be helpful in my clan. To no small degree, I thank the tools embedded in the Focalizing process for this.
Wishing you all a great summer!
The spotlight on Focalizing as a transformational tool has been evolving in my own being in ways I could never have imagined. This change process has been confounding and uncomfortable at times, yet quite organic with many resources coming to meet me. The dense air and weight around putting it into another form has just lifted. I feel another awakening!
In my last musing (sometime ago), I invited questions as a way of engaging readers more fully and expanding my learning. The big first question was: What is Focalizing? Darn it, I thought I explained this distinction in the text on the web site—apparently I did not! I elaborated on what Focalizing does but not what an actual Focalizing session is. I now know that I did not take the reader into the heart of the experience and history of a Focalizing session. I have spent most of my available time this since late spring endeavoring to do just that. I found myself plumbing the depths of my own wisdom and experience while struggling to express myself even more from my core than I was able to do previously.
The result is something I feel quite proud of. It was worth all the effort. Just off the printing press yesterday is a beautiful 8”x10” 32-page monograph (booklet) that as concisely as possible (to the moment) takes the reader into the presence of Focalizing possibilities. To see the Table of Contents and excerpts click on this title: Organic Solutions to Real-Time Challenges: Focalizing, An Introduction.
Aside from being a resource to readers, this monograph will form the core and support to my presentations at professional conferences in the fall, where I will be introducing Focalizing to therapists nationally and internationally as a powerful tool that some may want to access. This approach can benefit anyone who is in a state of feeling stuck, or who feels trapped by the circumstances that life presents. Focalizing conveys new perspectives and often illuminates previously unseen possibilities for moving forward with grace. My gut instinct tells me that many therapists and organizational consultants would love to weave their existing skills into a process like this. I believe the new monograph will be a great support.
The annual conferences that I will be presenting Focalizing at are: the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health and the International Conference for Somatic Experiencing (click for more info). I truly look forward to engaging with hundreds of my colleagues and hearing about their work while being able to share my own new exciting developments.
At the same time that I am in this wondrous space, life has its complexities. My oldest brother is dying as I write this. His lungs have given out. His wife, too, is in the end-stage of her emphysema disease. My step-mom is in the hospital again with advanced diabetes while her husband, still recovering from open-heart surgery at 89 sits at home alone worrying about his wife and the son he is losing. He is my nonbiological-dad which previous musings can clarify. I am so grateful that I have the support, resources, and resilience to be helpful in my clan. To no small degree, I thank the tools embedded in the Focalizing process for this.
Wishing you all a great summer!
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