As I sat looking at a blank document on my laptop preparing to write my thoughts on the 2023 Focusing Weeklong, I took a few moments to let the whole experience flow through me. An image of a small mountain stream came, effervescent and unbounded. The image unfolded, joining and merging with other streams, flowing together, expanding and becoming a river until it flowed into an ocean – the water that connects all our lands.

Our weekly In Focus News Feed replaces the bi-monthly In Focus Newsletters. The first Wednesday of each month will be the Board Update. This month, Nelle shares about the meeting held with Coordinators to discuss solutions to the challenges of automated translation, plus some notes about the Board's July meeting.
 

(See Japanese translation 理事会最新情報 2023 年 7 月: PDF)

Milestones July 2023: Check out our new Coordinators, Trainers and more! 

Welcome to the July Milestones!  We send out Milestones on the fourth Wednesday of each month.  We're delighted to begin with this wonderful group of new Coordinators, Coordinators-in-Training, newly certified people and those receiving the PFP award as of June 30, 2023. 

by Karen Carmeli; edited by Akira Ikemi

Focusing is a method that helps us focus on “this thing” that keeps us occupied and bothers us on a daily basis. We would like to find a way out of the tangle and relieve the tension that has accumulated due to "this thing."

In Focusing, you focus on "this thing" which is called felt sense: a feeling that is often difficult to describe in words. It is mainly an experience - a general or specific feeling in the body or in the atmosphere. It is a feeling that is alive and dynamic and full of layers and meanings that, only if we pay attention to it and really agree to experience it and attempt to say it, can it become a resource, a driving force and a change maker. <READ MORE>

by Barbara Dickinson

First, thank you to TIFI for the privilege of attempting to pay tribute to Lucy Rietveld Bowers. Lucy contributed so much to our global Focusing community, and to each and every one she met. How can anyone possibly do justice to her? 

Lucy and I met in the Focusing Institute Summer School (FISS) of 2010. We only spent a little time together, but had several conversations thereafter, which I remember as always deep and meaningful. Lucy is known to so many people through her teaching, her writing, her innovations, her love of all things Focusing, and most of all her joyful spirit. <READ MORE>