FROM THE HEART OF CONFLICT TO THE HEART OF RELATIONSHIP (April)

At some time or another, all of us have been in conflict with someone that we love or that is significant in our lives. Perhaps it was a parent, a child, a partner, a friend, a colleague…whoever it was, something happened, something got in the way of the relationship.

In Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) there is an understanding that the relationship is more important than the conflict, and from this perspective, we can use SOF tools to stop our automatic patterns of reacting and actually manage the conflict.

When we are in a conflict we do not really meet each other. Our hearts and all the gentle, vulnerable places in us do not meet. Instead my defense army meets your defense army. They take over when we lose our presence, lose ourselves. In order for our defense armies to remove their armor, we need to trust. 

In this workshop, we will learn to use some of SOF’s most valuable tools to meet from the heart and to believe in ourselves and in each other.

Yehudit First is a qualified Body Psychotherapist and Group Facilitator specializing in Somatic Experiencing. Yehudit is a Focusing Coordinator and an experienced Focusing therapist for individuals and couples, a dedicated teacher and practitioner. Several years ago, the desire to expand the Focusing space to include interpersonal interaction led Yehudit to develop Social Oriented Focusing (SOF). In a gentle Focusing environment, SOF opens a ‘playground’ where delicate issues of human relationships can be met while really meeting each other. Yehudit teaches SOF all over the globe, and uses it to facilitate individual, group and couple therapy processes in her clinic and via Zoom.