The new normal - My new "normal"

"Normal" is an international word. But … what does it really mean, and what do we want it to mean? Your understanding of "normal" might be different and your experience of it richer than what conventional definitions include. 

We are living situations in which a lot of unwanted and unexpected events take place. Our lives evolve in webs of patterns, rules, laws, values and politics which are a result of former collective interactions, and can easily make you feel trapped, helpless or not involved in creating them. At a gut level, you may feel that something is not normal. How come that we so easily accept this wrong? What stops us from participating in what is right? Experiential approaches can engage us to reflect and create the world from our point of view. 

Focusing is an experiential way to connect with your Felt Sense, the doorway to the totality of a situation, as well as giving the precise meaning it has for you. It allows you to sense your established web of "normality" but also drop into "the more" and what needs to be changed. This is your inner wisdom, a power to shape new meanings and forms. 

Our workshop is an opportunity to reconsider something you aren't happy with, something you disagree with in your life. We aim at a coherent new understanding. You will be guided to develop fresh meanings and forms from your felt sense. This way you create the kind of "normality" that make you feel healthier, happier and empowered.

To do so we offer you a creative journey using Focusing and some techniques and inner moves from "Thinking At the Edge" (TAE), philosophical practices developed by Mary Hendricks and Eugene T. Gendlin. With Focusing you will enhance your ability to listen to your inner wisdom. With TAE-moves you will be enabled to speak more precisely from within. 

The workshop is interactive and participants accompany each other with their experiential listening. They provide each other with a safe, non-judgmental space. Writing (on the computer) is part of the process. The workshop invites you to be in the present, and to release new concepts you need to adjust to integrate within yourself.

Monika Catarina Lindner, Focusing Trainer and Experiential-Concept-Coach/Trainer

Educational scientist, project manager for German language classes and Focusing Trainer, teaching Focusing and Thinking-at-the-Edge (TAE). As a doctoral student she is a member of the international research group "Embodied Critical Thinking" (ect.hi.is) at the University of Iceland. monicalindner.com

Kjell Ribert, Coordinator and Focusing Trainer

Conflictologist, social anthropologist, linguist, facilitator of foreign language acquisition, as well as facilitator of groups - based on PCA (the Person-Centred Approach), supervisor of leaders and other key people in working life. ribert.no