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Sevenshift Macro Intensives

Break Through into a New Light
!
5 hours
.
available also in 3 hour "Baby 7" session

Sevenshift Focusing is a special intervention from the Macroshifting: Changing the Unchangeable theory/practice I have developed. Certain difficult-to-change things require special interventions. Sevenshift focusing is an intensive but soft long intervention where we go for seven different shifts to carry the change process beyond the usual barriers. It reminds me of the movie of Tom Hanks on the desert island trying to escape the barrier waves to get out to the open sea.

Any kind of issue is fair game for this workshop. That includes pain and serious illness. It includes family situations, which mostly involve someone else. It includes habits, addictions, career barriers, relationship barriers, integrity barriers, financial issues. It includes chronic battles with fatigue, depression, or anxiety. It includes life patterns, which keep repeating.

In this workshop, one person works with me for 5 hours. (or 3 hours in the shorter version.) There are breaks and there are pauses for elaboration on the model.

In the sessions, I use my model of Domain Focusing. Domain Focusing has an entire domain dedicated to identifying the situation and naming it carefully. No other focusing model I know of, gives such explicit attention to this mostly thinking aspect of focusing. In the Sevenshift workshops, it is precisely the naming of each subsequent “situation” which requires the most creativity. With each shift there has been an occurring into the implying and there is then a new implying . . . there is a new situation. When we can name that and can also find a way to enter that, we can go for the multiple shift.

Focusing brings shifts, which open new possibilities for action. Little shifts and small action steps are the building blocks for changes on the macro level. However, particularly with intransigent issues, little steps do not seem to always lead to larger change. “Macroshifting”, another name for Changing the Unchangeable, needs some of its own special methods. The Sevenshift intervention is one of these special methods.

Pricing for the 5 hour intensive.
0 witnesses (witnesses are recommended) central person $625
1 witness ($75 each); central person $585,
2 witness ($75 each): central person $545
3 witness ($75 each): central person $505
4 witness ($75 each): central person $465

Pricing for the 3 hour "baby 7" intensive.
0 witnesses (witnesses are recommended) central person $375
1 witness ($50 each); central person $350,
2 witness ($50 each): central person $325
3 witness ($50 each): central person $300
4 witness ($50 each): central person $275

Witnesses may be invited by the central person or I can look for them within the focusing community.

Follow up applied focusing sessions (more) for witnesses (1 person 1 hour (1p1h), 2p2h, 3p3h, 4p4h) for processing the impact are highly recommended!

The witnesses often have deep impacts in relation to their own issues toward the end of the 7shift.   Getting a shift at that point is often parallel to the depth of a 7shift session.
$125/person

Robert L. 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). He has developed a comprehensive practice for working with difficulties in felt sense formation (Elusive Felt Sensing). In psychotherapy, he has developed special methods for using focusing in couples therapy, in group therapy, and with anxiety. He hosted the 2004 International Focusing Conference in Costa Rica on the theme of the Fertility of Focusing: Applying Focusing to Specific Areas.

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

 
 
 
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