Invite from Great Learning & Vacation Experience

I just returned from a week in the Catskill Mountains preceded by a week attending the Focusing Institute Summer School at the Garrison Institute. There were 130 participants, about a third from outside the U.S. Both weeks were great. I was so inspired at the latter that one night I danced like crazy (injuring my back some :) and even did a solo comedy/song act at the last night Follies. The learning and synthesizing I did prompts the invitation below:

You are invited to a new 10-week experiential group I am putting together this fall: Reinventing Ourselves Naturally.  Its approach will be very different from psychotherapy, or any other self-help groups I have done in the past.  We will employ Focalizing to help us work through cultural blind spots and access natural messages from within to guide graceful movement through our challenges. Confidentiality is respected and you will not be asked to reveal any private information that you’re not comfortable sharing.

I am very excited by the benefits participants can experience in creating a positive circle of energy in “felt community.” I am also happy to announce that the elegant, simple practice of Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing, a technique developed over 30 years ago, will be incorporated to make Focalizing even more accessible and meaningful to all in the groups.  Here is what one of the last group’s participants had to say:

 “I've been feeling an ease of flow in my own life since the spring course.  I feel a deeper sense of trust that things are working themselves out as they will - and that I am participating in the process, neither pushing it nor being pushed around by it.  There's more freedom, more ease, more humility, more humor and more acceptance...I'm different!  What a blessing!”

There will be two groups to choose from, both starting on September 24^th, to meet on subsequent Thursdays for ten weeks.  For scheduling convenience, one group will be held from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., the next at 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., with a maximum of 16 participants in each.

For workshop details and to register, click here.  FAX the registration form to 646-530-8703 or mail to the address below. Enrollment will close on September 18^th.

The published fee is $950 for the full course.  However, in acknowledgement of the tough times we all are braving, I’m offering it to you on a sliding scale, based on your circumstance.  There may also be a limited opportunity for a work-study arrangement to be made.

If you have questions about the groups, your time preference, or to discuss fee arrangements, please call 212-242-5052, ext. 3 (registration/special services) by Thursday September 17th. Confirmations will be emailed as enrollments are received.

Best always, Michael