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. 

There are currently two options - message me your preference.

PART 1 THURSDAYS – WEEKDAYS 2023

6  Thursday mornings – Starting February 2

11:30am – 1:30pm ET, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm CT, 9:30 am – 11:30 am MT, 8:30am – 10:30 am PT, also works well for most European time zones.

Feb 2, Feb 16, March 2, March 16, March 30, April 13

**Note Daylight savings time changes March 12 for me. Our time will shift forward 1 hour for the last 3 classes. If you are not on the same time shift, take this into account.

PART 1 WEDNESDAY EVENINGS – 2023

6  Wednesday evenings – Starting March 1

7-9 pm Eastern New York Time, 6-8 pm CT, 5-7 pm MT, 4-6 pm PT or your equivalent

March 1, March 15, March 29, April 12, April 26, May 10

Prerequisite: Guided Focusing Session

**Note Daylight savings time changes March 12 for me. Our time will shift forward 1 hour for the last 5 classes. If you are not on the same time shift, take this into account.