In the depth of winter, come to Costa Rica for a retreat

Macroshifting
Changing the Unchangeable Through Focusing

March 3-7, 2010, $675 (includes tuition, room and board)

Deep change through elaborate focusing projects.

Changing something that has been around for a long time and has defied your attempts to change it.

With issues such as: difficult-to-change relationship or career patterns, stubborn depression and anxiety disorders, obsessions/addictions that persist, integrity issues, professional development, physical conditions, spiritual blocks, social change projects, difficult-to-achieve creativity goals.

In the workshop you will: ·

LAUNCH a Changing the Unchangeable project (a macro) making your change-campaign equal to the task. Macros go further into your internal structure and further out into the social structure than is visible. They require more of a campaign than you think.

GET HELP from your history for approaching your macro (your unchangeable issue) Macros are difficult to approach freshly.

LOOSEN ROPES. Think of a macro(your project) as a trampoline held in place by many ropes. There is an art to finding and loosening these ropes which keep your macro from changing. ·

DISMANTLE BEARING WALLS. Grasping the intricacy of your deeper world allows you to coordinate complex change steps similar to the project of dismantling a bearing wall in a house. ·

MAKE TIME YOUR FRIEND through Timestretching, Timesensing, Timeshifting, and In-Time. Special focusing methods for making time your friend rather than your enemy. ·

DO sophisticated JOURNALING so you can go further with the forward steps ·

LEARN ANTI-STRANDING which works in a different direction than classic focusing and has similarities with meditation. Instead of moving toward clarification and small sequential forward steps, it moves toward the vague and toward indirect cross-time changes in the whole project.

Schedule: Arrival on Wednesday evening, March 3 for dinner at 7pm. Informal gathering at 8:30pm. Workshop begins in earnest at 9am on Thursday, March 4. Most days we will have morning (9a-12) and late afternoon sessions (4-7p), so that you can have most of the afternoon off for enjoyment, integration, swimming, walking. The workshop closes at 3pm on Sunday, March 7.

Costa Rica in early March is Paradise

Cost: $675 includes workshop Tuition, Room and Board

Workshop will be held at an Albergue Palmichal which is considered one of the finest examples of community-based ecotourism. The author of New Key to Costa Rica, Beatrice Blake, (also a focusing trainer) is very high in her praise of this simple Inn by the side of a river in the mountains of Costa Rica.

Robert Lee, Ph.D. is a focusing theoretician and innovator. A licensed psychologist, he 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 through Focusing--Macroshifting), he has developed a comprehensive practice for working with difficulties in felt sense formation (Elusive Felt Sensing). In psychotherapy, he has outlined 4 Faces of Focusing in Psychotherapy and has developed special methods for using focusing with anxiety and depression and with couple and group psychotherapy.

robert@focusingnow.com, US # 707-237-5283 or (toll free) 888-275-5648