Creating Space for Community

Each of us lives in community. Our family is our first one. In Focusing, we learn to create a space of radical acceptance for our inner community. During our time together, we will create a safe, playful environment to explore how we show up for the communities outside of us.

Our time together will be heavily experiential. We’ll utilize universal themes and prompts from adventures in Smartview Stories. Smartview Stories is a series of family books that explore living a Focusing way of life in community. The stories illustrate both what is going on outside of us as well as inside of us via three Inner Companions based on neuroscience concepts. We’ll become familiar here with how these Inner Companions function within our own lives.

There will be whole group invitations and discussions. Sometimes we’ll invite writing, art and movement. We’ll have pair and small group breakout spaces. You may be invited into role-play scenarios and groups can volunteer to share their skit. Expect to laugh here, humor seems to be an essential quality of being when we invite our fears around holding our own sense of self in the world.

An aspect we practice in this community is both presuming welcome (I belong) and extending welcome (you belong). From here, a We Space between naturally forms. I encourage self-empowerment and enjoy working alongside members of the Learning Community. This is a community for advanced Focusers and certification trainees that I facilitate. I have invited them to join in co-teaching these webinars. Together, we create a magical carpet ride we extend toward you.

Our July theme is Loneliness. 

Carrie Moy, a member of the Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change, will co-facilitate this webinar. Carrie lives in Baltimore, Maryland and has special interests in Dreams and Focusing and healing trauma. 

We welcome any threads you’d like to add during your time with us here!