Focusing Roundtable: How does the public discourse on The New Normal interact with your sense of Your New Normal?

Your experience/understanding of "normal" might be different and richer than what conventional definitions include. 

Our lives evolve in webs of patterns, rules, laws, values, and politics which are the result of former collective interactions. They 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 is it that we so easily accept what may seem wrong? What stops us from participating in what is right?

Experiential approaches can help us to reflect and create the world from our point of view. Focusing and TAE are your inner wisdom, a power to shape new meanings and forms. 

What follows is a preview of what you can expect we will discuss at the Roundtable:

• Do you often have a feeling that changes take place without having participated in them yourself?
• Are you also wondering how we can stay connected to our Felt Sense in order to create reliable facts?
• Do you have an instance of wanting a "new normal"?
• How do you experience the complexity in which you are living, when trying to create a "new normal" that works for you?
• What role can Focusing and TAE play in creating your "new normal"?

We invite you to consider which parts of what is defined as "normal" you are uncomfortable with, as well as which areas/domains you would like to influence or participate in, by creating new meaning around what is "normal" for you.

Who might be particularly interested in attending this Roundtable?

This Roundtable is intended for anyone who feels that current definitions of "normal" are uncomfortable, but also people who find it difficult or feel an inability to participate in creating the best conditions that work for them to fully live their lives. Finally, it is meant for those of you who are curious about how TAE might be helpful in developing your own thinking.

CONNECTION>CONVERSATION>COMMUNITY

What to expect from Focusing Rountables:  Each Focusing Roundtable is designed to promote informal peer-to-peer conversation. Rather than acting as expert presenters, the Hosts will serve as conversation moderators to encourage sharing and exploration of the topics from the participants’ own perspectives. All participants’ sharings are welcome and valuable, no matter what level of experience or knowledge you have on the topic. To preserve the nature of informal conversation, the program will be offered live only and no recordings will be available. Registration is limited and on a first-come, first served basis. Participants are encouraged to create follow up opportunities for connection among themselves after the Roundtable.

About your hosts:

Monika Catarina Lindner, Dipl-Pad. Univ.

Monika is an educationalist with a focus on intercultural learning and Second Language Acquisition. She is a certified Focusing Trainer and currently a Coordinator in Training(CiT). She is member of the Spanish Focusing Institute. As an Experiential Concept Coach/Trainer (ECC) she specializes in teaching "Thinking At the Edge" (TAE). Monika is a member of the international research group "Embodied Critical Thinking" (ect.hi.is).

[email protected] www.monicalindner.com

Kjell Ribert, Master in Mediation and Conflict Resolution (MMCR)

Kjell is a certifying coordinator and Focusing Trainer, member of the Spanish Focusing Institute. His field of expertise is conflictology, social anthropology and linguistics. He is a facilitator of foreign language acquisition, facilitator of groups based on PCA (Person Centered Approach), supervisor of leaders and other key persons in working life.

[email protected], +47 900 84 775, www. ribert.no