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Initial Geodesic Focusing Tenmonth Course
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Launching Focusing as a Practice
using
Domain Focusing: the 3 Logics of Growth

Possible beginning on Monday, June 15, 2-6pm

Taught by: Robert L. Lee, Ph.D. and staff

This course can be the first of 3 steps in a program for professionals leading to a certificate as a Focusing Trainer or Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist*.

"Give a person a fish, and they are not hungry for a day.
Teach a person to fish and they are not hungry for a lifetime."
Mastering Focusing Partnership feeds your hunger for personal and professional growth... FOR A LIFETIME

Launching Focusing as a Practice requires a combination of:

  * Regular Workshops for refining concepts and putting them into practice
  * Weekly Partnership Exchange
  * 1:2 Coaching for individual attention
  * Community Focusing Workshops
  * 3 person 3 hour (3p3h) applied focusing (3 included, more recommended)

Workshops are 4 hours of "hands on" work in a small group of 4-6 persons and happen every 2 months. They are taught by Robert Lee. They include:
1. 12 Avenues into Felt Sensing (Domain of Felt Sensing)
2. Thinking in Focusing (Domain of Issue/Situation)
3. Getting help from Self-Empathy (Domain of Self-Empathy)
4. Advanced Listening. Listening differently to the domains
5. Phases of focusing-starting, linking, entering, shifting, acting

Weekly partnership exchange. New partners at each workshop. About 1 hour/week. Exchange can be on the phone or in person.

Coaching - Seven 1:2, 1.5 hour sessions with Suzanne Noel, Focusing Trainer.    The first four are monthly; the last three are bimonthly.

Community Focusing Groups - Five of these - two hours each.  The first four are one month after each workshop and are on conference calls on the phone. The last one is attendance at one of the 6 NYC area Changes Groups.

3p3h Applied Focusing Sessions. In these workshops each person works for a half hour in an applied Domain Focusing session. These sessions give you an experience of going through all the steps of a focusing session and they are most relevant to adapting focusing to a particularly challenging situation or to applying focusing professionally. Three of these with Robert Lee are included in the course fee. Additional ones are recommended.

Cost of Course: $1500 (Cost Breakout: more)

Back-up System for Recovering missed Workshops. You can take a missed workshop in a subsequent course, for $100.

Traveling from a Distance: Sometimes, people are able to do more than 1 workshop in a trip so that they can reduce the number of trips to NYC.

Requirements to join course:

Entry Requirements:
A 3 person 3 hour session with Robert Lee + four 1:1 sessions with a FOT/Trainer,
                preferably experienced in Domain Focusing. These can usually be                 scheduled quickly and easily.
OR a Level 1 Focusing Workshop

Robert L. Lee, Ph.D. is a focusing theoretician and innovator. The last 7 years he has organized 9 certification 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. He has applied focusing to bodywork, health and to physical problems.

Refunds: from the point of notification of withdrawal we prorate and add a 15% withdrawal fee.

*This course is the first of 3 steps leading to certification as a Focusing Trainer or Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist. The second step is a 10 month course on Applied Focusing and the third step is a Changing the Unchangeable through Focusing Retreat (4 days).

Contact Robert L. Lee, Ph.D.: robert@focusingnow.com; (toll free) 888-275-5648