Exploring the Interactive Space of Focusing and Felt Sensing

Sydney: Friday, 5th November, 2021 from 11:00 am- 1:00 pm AEDT

New Zealand: Friday, 5th November, 2021 from 1:00 pm -3:00 pm NZDT

Perth, Western Australia: Friday, 5th November, 2021 from 08:00 am - 10:00 am AWST

New York: Thursday November 4, 2021 from 8:00pm -10:00 pm EDT

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We invite you to explore with us the interactive space of Focusing and felt sensing.  What we (David and Jane) bring to the Roundtable is an interest in this subject and a desire to exchange thoughts, feelings and felt senses about it with other interested Focusers.

We are wanting to investigate if and how the spirit of Focusing might be brought into a more open conversational form.  We may begin by asking how we might use our “Focusing attitude” to support us in attending to this.  We want our Roundtable sharing to be an instance of a Focusing conversation, the thing we are searching for.

In the Focusing community we have many practices created to help us address the interactive space of Focusing and felt sensing, Interactive Focusing and Heartfelt Conversation are two such practices and there are many more.  In this Roundtable, we will be paying attention to our experience of spending time together in an interactive enquiry.  We may find that the roles of Focuser and listener fall away or are changing from moment to moment according to the participants’ felt sense of what is unfolding.

We may possibly find new forms.  Fantastic!  And then, we may not.  We may catch a glimpse of a new direction.  Hooray!  Again, we may not.  In all possible scenarios, however, we will come away with our experience.  We think that is always a good place to begin.

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Who might be particularly interested in attending this Roundtable? Any Focusers who are curious and interested in this topic.

What to expect from Focusing Roundtables:  

We warmly encourage you to register and settle down with us to join other Oceania Focusers passionate to explore topics of interest and get to know each other better. If you have an area of interest, curiosity or passion you would like to see opened up in a future Roundtable, please let us know.

Each Focusing Roundtable is designed to promote informal peer-to-peer sharing. Rather than acting as expert presenters, the hosts will serve as sharing moderators to encourage exploration of the topics from the participants’ own perspectives. All participants’ sharing’s are welcome and valuable, no matter what level of experience or knowledge you have on the topic. The main emphasis is on connecting and listening to each other.

To preserve the nature of informal conversation, the program will be offered live only and no recordings will be available. Participants are encouraged to create follow up opportunities for connection among themselves after the Roundtable.

The TIFI Membership Committee is pleased to offer this series of Focusing Roundtables designed especially for members of the Institute. Roundtables afford members a valuable opportunity to engage in casual peer-to-peer conversation with other members who share Focusing-related interests. If you are not a member, please join at this link and then return to this page to register.

About your hosts:

Jane Quayle is a Certifying coordinator and former member of the TIFI Board of Trustees.  She is a Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist and has taught Focusing in her private practice for 20 years.  She has also taught in a variety of tertiary institutions including Western Sydney University, Macquarie University and developed a Focusing Oriented Therapy elective for the Jansen Newman Institute.  Her teaching experience includes counselling skills, supervision of student therapists and Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy.

David Shapiro del Sole lives and works as a Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist in Launceston, Tasmania.  He has been learning about and with Focusing for nearly seven years.  He likes the natural feel of the Focusing way of learning.  Sometimes he gets excited learning very small things.