HOLDING SPACE

Once a month we meet on zoom for a conversation with Gendlin, either through key paragraphs from the 'A Process Model' or through a video (of a workshop he taught). Later on we will go into breakout rooms for a focusing exercise related to what we read. Each session will last two hours.

The idea is to hold space for ourselves and for others, to facilitate a safe space, for the creation of a next step in our life process, at times when the future does not function as safe ground.

The sessions are free and are designed to generate space for focusers to meet and explore together Gendlin's philosophy.

Topics of upcoming meetings (Saturdays at 12:00 PM - 14:00 PM EST):

29/08/2020 Sensitivity in development - A Process Model as a source for a development of a new sensitivity to the environment in an unexpected constant change.

26/09/2020 First of all interaction and from the interaction We and the felt sense form. The movement between the language of the formation of the felt sense and the language of self-inquiry.

17/10/2020 Physiotherapy (pain) and Focusing. (With physiotherapist Lena Shkolnik).

21/11/2020 Self-criticism according to Gendlin.

05/12/2020 Focusing and eating on a daily basis, specific cases (instances) as a source for Novelty.

The facilitator, Matanel Weissman is a Certified focusing trainer of The International Focusing Institute. A Researcher in the philosophy of Gendlin. Also teaching assistant at the Technion academy in a TAE course, establishes focusing processes at Soroka Hospital and teaches focusing courses in Israel and on Zoom.