14-15th January 2006 at 33 Croftdown road, Highgate, London NW5. Full fee £80 (£75 if booked more than three weeks in advance, deposit £20 - cheques payable to Susan Jordan at 181c Fordwych Road, London NW2 3NG - contact Susan via susan@jordan9333.freeserve.co.uk
What
is Focusing?
Focusing is a gentle way of contacting inner experience and enabling life
to flow more easily. It is something that many of us do naturally from
time to time, though we may not know we do it. Whenever you are aware
of a vague but insistent gut feeling that something is not OK, or recognise
inside you that something else ‘just feels right’, you are beginning
to listen to what your body is telling you. Focusing teaches us how to
tune in to these subtle and often elusive inner feelings, and to welcome
all the many different facets of ourselves. In this way we can live more
fully from our deep inner knowing. This can bring about a sense of aliveness
and transformation which can touch any aspect of our lives.
How can Focusing be used?
Focusing can be used in almost any area of life, not only personal development.
It can be part of the experience of psychotherapy but can also be practised
as something in its own right. Once you have learnt it, you can Focus
on your own or with any other Focuser.
Susan
Jordan
is a BFTA recognised Focusing Practitioner and Teacher. She is also a
UKCP registered Core Process psychotherapist, trained at the Karuna Institute.
Susan has worked in the voluntary sector for over twenty years, with older
people and with users of mental health services. She enjoys many forms
of creative expression and has a particular interest in writing.
A series of five
weekend workshops
with
Susan Jordan
in London
These
workshops are designed as a complete course leading to the British
Focusing Teachers’ Association Focusing Skills Certificate.
You are welcome to book for one or more, or for the whole series.
The Focusing Process
This workshop will introduce you to the basic skills needed for Focusing alone and becoming a Focusing companion.
Second weekend
Becoming Companions
As well as exploring the Focusing process in more depth, in this workshop you will begin to develop the listening skills you need as a Focusing companion.
Third weekend
More for the Companion
This workshop will help you to deepen your Focusing, Listening and Partnership skills, using the subtle art of ‘whole body’ listening.
Fourth weekend
Reminders and Suggestions
Sometimes it can be helpful in Focusing to have a reminder or suggestion about what to do next. We will learn how making these suggestions can deepen the process for both Focuser and Companion.
Fifth weekend
Discovering Further
In this last workshop we shall look at Presence and Partiality – our ability to be fully with whatever needs our attention and the biases and no-go areas that can interfere, and which also need attention.
