AD4E workshop with person centred counsellor Suzi MacKenzie
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About this event
Focusing is a natural process of listening in to ourselves and accessing more about how we feel and what we need. This practice can be done alone or with a partner to help you gain confidence navigating your ‘internal terrain’ and developing a relationship with your feelings and different aspects of yourself.
Through noticing the wider sense of how we are, not just our thoughts or emotions but how our body holds our experience, we can develop the ability to slow down, be calmer, trust ourselves and our feelings. Our embodied sense can show us what we are needing as the right next step and a regular practice of Focusing can be supportive, connect you with others and enrich your life.
The evening will introduce you to the process of Focusing and tuning in for the ‘felt sense’ of something. The workshop will be experiential in nature and you will have opportunities to experience what a Focusing process may be like. We will explore the values underpinning Focusing as well as the conditions that we hope to create for ourselves (and potentially others) throughout the Focusing process.
This workshop is for anyone, and will be of interest for those interested in Focusing for personal use as well as counsellors and helping professionals.
Focusing is a radically gentle yet empowering approach
Used for many decades by people to support themselves and each other in peer partnerships as well as in therapeutic contexts
It is a process of learning to trust that your inner experience holds the key to knowing what you need
You can develop a relationship with your own experience which will stand you in good stead for life’s challenges
Focusing is a fascinating, supportive and enlivening process
As we recognise that our experience is always shifting we can see that there is always
the potential for fresh life and new hope