Focusing Connections: Part two

 

The second course in the Focusing Training Program deepens and expands your process, both as Focuser and as Companion. In the second program, the Companion starts being able to make supportive suggestions if the Focuser would like them. For this to happen, both people in the partnership learn a model for the typical ‘shape’ of a Focusing session, so you know what stage the process is in, and what kind of reminder would be most supportive at that stage. This is where you learn the ‘deep structure’ of Focusing.

You will learn to move past the most typical blocks to Focusing, both for your own process and to help your Focusing partners. Focusing becomes even more integrated into your life, how you are with yourself and how you are with others. As the course progresses we return to the essence of the Focusing process, to the simplicity beneath the complexity.

What will you receive from taking the Focusing Training Program?

  • More options for each stage of the Focusing process: more ways of starting, more ways of deepening your inner connection

  • Some very specific and powerful ways to go beyond just ‘being with it’

  • New and useful ways to reap the benefits of the positive, enjoyable feelings in your Focusing process

  • More ways to bring Focusing into your life all day long, including in your interactions with other people

  • How to give graceful and unobtrusive ‘reminders’ so the Focuser doesn't have to do it all alone

  • Troubleshooting potential difficulties at each stage of the process

  • Learn and practice ways to be present for a partner who feels not much... or too much. We learn how to facilitate Focusing through all kinds of blocks: inner criticising, doubts, sleepiness, distractions. As we learn how to be present for this in our partners, we also learn how to deepen the process for ourselves

  • Understanding the most typical block to Focusing: being identified with a ‘feeling about a feeling’ (eg, ‘not liking’, being afraid) – and how to help yourself and other people transform this experience

  • Powerful language and attitudes for helping yourself and others positively change your experience of an ‘inner criticising process’ that says things like, “You’re hopeless” and “This will never work.”

  • More ways to help yourself (or a partner) when you are feeling overwhelmed by strong emotional states

  • More ways to help yourself (or a partner) when you are feeling resistant to feeling anything

  • Wider understanding of the concept of ‘body’ and what makes our bodies so wise

  • Even as you learn more, discover how to let go of ‘rules’ and stay true to what is essential.

Plus:

  • A whole new manual: The Focusing Student's and Companion's Manual, Part Two

  • More cards and detailed handout