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Focusing with Anxiety and Obsessiveness:
4 person 4 hour workshop
4 person 4 hour workshops place the emphasis on
1:1 sessions I do in the group with each person. Small discussions
of the process of each mini-session (not the content) helps each
person think more clearly about how to use focusing with anxiety
or obsessiveness. As always in focusing, a person is free to keep
content as private or as open as is right for them.
Practitioners, such as psychotherapists, will
find this workshop relevant and interesting. Any person who has
struggled with anxiety or obsessiveness and knows focusing, will
find this workshop valuable.
Specific adaptations of focusing to anxiety
and obsessiveness include:
1. Refining how, where, and when to enter the
felt sense of the anxiety or obsession so as to avoid accelerating
the anxiety or the obsessiveness.
2. Ways to distance when anxiety is too strong
and the productive experiential level of felt sensing threatens
to shut down.
3. How to work with self-empathy when the felt
sense is shut down.
4. How to begin from a positive place when you
know you want to explore something which is overwhelming
5. Repeatedly using the question: "is it ok to
be exploring this" as a way to comfort yourself on the deeper
levels.
6. Using the question: "Is there a way .. . ..
.to explore this without it being too ______ (depressing, scary,
anxious, dissociative, flattening, manic)?" as a creative way
to get into touchy problems.
7. "Naming the dilemma" as a step forward in complex
problems
8. Retracing the trail to when anxiety or obsessiveness
begins and going slower as you approach that beginning place as
a way to thaw or unpack the frozen meaning of anxiety or of obsessiveness.
robert@focusingnow.com, US # 707-237-5283
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