Applied Focusing Ten Month Course
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Domain Focusing: the 3 Logics of Growth
   2nd Workshop is Sunday, June 15, 2008, 4-8p

Taught by Robert L. Lee, Ph.D.

This is the second Tenmonth course in a focusing training program leading to certification.* This course is also ideal for advanced focusers and focusing trainers/FOT's who want more training in the use of focusing as a practitioner.

Kinds of Applying Focusing:

1. To a personal growth project
2. To your professional field or field of special interest.
3. Teaching Focusing
4. Developing a focusing oriented field

Project Development:
Each person in the course will design and carry out a project for applying focusing. These projects are for facilitating your entry into focusing not for satisfying an external requirement.

Practice Using Focusing Professionally:
Each workshop will present some basic ways for using focusing professionally. You need to plan some practice using these basic ways in some way related to your project. The two most common ways: work with a client; or find someone who volunteers to be your student for 4 sessions, but there are other ways as well. To prepare for these "real" applications you can use "undervisioning" with your weekly focusing partner from the course for the last third of your focusing partnership sessions. See description under Conference Call Groups below.

Applied Focusing via 3 person 3 hour (3p3h) Groups:
There are four 3p3h or 4p4h groups. Two of these are with Robert Lee. Two are with staff. These workshops give you direct experience of applied focusing both in receiving and in watching. They also give us a chance to work directly with your focusing process and to make suggestions and/or interventions. These sessions are in in-person.

Coaching - monthly coaching sessions (10 of these). 9 of these are with the assistants. These are 1:2 with your partner of the cycle for 1.5 hours, or 1:3 for 2 hours. The sessions can be in support of the teaching, the project, or something in the way of those going forward including personal or professional situations. One of these is with Robert Lee . These sessions may occur on the phone.

Workshops: There are five 5-hour workshops which happen every two months. The workshops prepare you for further professional application and will further the development of your project.
Workshop Themes:
1. Project Development and Undervisioning (egalitarian supervision) as a     supportive Process
2. Application in Phase 1:Getting Started and Phase 2:Domain Linking
3. Application in Phase 3: Entering and Phase 4: Shifting
4. Developing Colleagueal Community in the Focusing World via your Project.
5. Application with difficult situations --depression, trauma, anxiety,     disassociation, learning disability-ADD, negativity, low self-image, physical     illness, spiritual crisis

Conference Call Groups: There are 5 conference call groups typically occurring one month after each workshop. These are led by Robert Lee. On the calls, we will have "undervisioning" (egalitarian supervision) regarding application efforts or projects or something in the way of going forward with those. In "undervisioning", after 2/3 of the session the listener proposes one or more places for going further, and, if one of those is accepted, the listener has a more active role in the last third of the session.

Focusing Partnership: Each person will maintain at least weekly partnership. You can find a partner outside the group (possibly related to your project) and stay with that person as long as you want or you can partner with someone within the group and alternate at workshops. Having some experience of both during the course would be ideal.

Cost of course: $1500 (includes membership in TFI as a Trainer in Training)

Payment: is normally made in one or two portions.

Double Backup plan for recovering missed workshops! You can purchase a DVD of the workshop at cost ($27.50) and/or you can make-up the workshop at no additional fee in a subsequent course of this kind.

Refunds/Withdrawals: In the unexpected event where you have to withdraw, we calculate the proportion of the five 5 hour workshops and four 3p3h workshops which have been offered at the point of notification and we add a 15% penalty ($225) for withdrawal. Refund or additional payment by yourself is calculated in that way.

Robert L. Lee, Ph.D. is a focusing theoretician and innovator. The last 6 years he has organized 7 focusing training groups and a post-trainer group. Three of the training groups were for psychotherapists, four were for professionals of various kinds. A licensed psychologist, Lee has developed a new model for teaching focusing (Domain Focusing), he has developed a theory and practice for change on the macro level for stubborn problems (Changing the Unchangeable), he has developed a comprehensive practice for working with difficulties in felt sense formation (Elusive Felt Sensing). He has developed special methods for using focusing in couples' therapy and in group therapy; he has applied focusing to Quaker spirituality and to physical problems.

*For people pursuing certification, this course often follows a Tenmonth course in focusing partnership and is followed by the Weeklong for Advanced and Certification Training as the third piece for completing certification. Someone with 50 hours of focusing workshops and 50 hours of independent partnership exchange may be able to opt out of the first course with permission of the instructor. This program is under the direction of Robert L. Lee, Ph.D. Certifying Coordinator for the Focusing Institute.

robert@focusingnow.com, US # 707-237-5283