Thursday, November 24, 2018
An Online Class Facilitated by Annette Dubreuil
Part of The Focusing Highlights Series
This workshop crosses Focusing with parts (or ego states), using:
- Jan Winhall’s Felt Sense Experience Model, which helps us understand the neurobiology behind our parts,
- and Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS), which helps us understand the roles that these parts play: wounded, protectors, and grounded.
Richard has named the grounded part the Self. The Self is always there, underneath our other parts. It is calm, curious, clear, compassionate, confident, creative, courageous, and connected—the eight Cs.
Annette will be sharing some of her parts, illustrated on body cards—a tool to record our felt sense of a part or a Focusing session. She will then share how her parts fit into her story, illustrated on a timeline. Building a cohesive narrative of one’s life is essential to healing wounded parts, freeing them to return to their original purpose.
Workshop activities include discovering the felt sense of each of our eight Cs and one which needs more attention. A second experiential activity crosses our chosen C with a current problem in our life. We will identify the parts involved in the problem and then bring in our chosen C, to see how our felt sense changes when the C is present.
Resources:
Presentation Slides
A paper related to the slide on mapping our emotions:
A quote on "Integrating Traumatic Memories" on pp. 119-120 in this book
Bio:
Annette Dubreuil, MBA, BSc, Focusing Trainer - Annette’s career has focused on advancing and disseminating cutting edge sustainability research and practice, most recently with Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission that is working to price pollution, especially via carbon pricing. Annette is a Certified Focusing Professional and developed body cards to record the felt sense with her Toronto community, led by Jan Winhall. In the past year she has co-taught four women’s classes that facilitate growth of the Self using the eight Cs of self-leadership. She enjoys yoga, rock climbing, cycling, and cooking.
Annette can be reached at [email protected]
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