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Less Is More - Children & Focusing Conference Schedule 2024

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CHILDREN & FOCUSING CONFERENCE
November 15 – 17, 2024


FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15
 

WELCOME & ORIENTATION
6:00am – 6:30am New York time
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WORKSHOP – Joke Van Hoeck - Do Less, Be more
7:00am – 9:00am New York time
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one hour break

PRESENTATION 1 - Laura Bavalics
10:00am – 11:00am New York time
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one hour break

PRESENTATION 2 - Dinette Kooiman - Connecting Playfully: Towards More Alignment and Refinement in Parenting and Raising Children
12:00pm - 1:00pm New York time
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one hour break

PRESENTATION 3 - Heather Jensen - Just One Feeling at a Time:  How understanding the early adolescent brain can help Focusing-minded parents 
2:00pm - 3:00pm New York time
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one hour break

PRESENTATION 4 - Berta Poey-Canella - Focusing Oriented Art Therapy (FOAT) in Hogar (Hospice) AYUVI - Children and adolescents with cancer in palliative care
4:00pm - 5:00pm New York time
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16
 

Past, Present & Future of Children & Focusing - led by René Veugelers, Harriët Teeuw and Laura Bavalics
5:00am – 6:00am New York time
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one hour break

PRESENTATION 5 - Harriët Teeuw - The Art of Doing (Almost) "Nothing"
7:00am – 8:00am New York time
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one hour break

PRESENTATION 6 - Luiza Stefan - The Sandtray - A Safe Space for Children toTell the Inner Story
9:00am – 10:00am New York time
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one hour break

PRESENTATION 7 - René Veugelers - The Magic Touch! - Integrating Hands and Feet into the Focusing Process
11:00am – 12:00pm New York time
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one hour break

PRESENTATION 8 - Jimena Camón - Providing Space for the Child's Experience
1:00pm - 2:00pm New York time
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one hour break

WORKSHOP  Leonie Stewart - Using Felt Sensing (Focusing) Neuroscience & Parts theory to enable young people to unfold their ‘Big SELF’ and be beside whatever else is there. (And it works for you too.)
3:00pm  – 5:00pm New York time
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 17
 

LIVING ROOM - led by René Veugelers, Harriët Teeuw and Laura Bavalics
5:00am – 6:00am New York time
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one hour break

PRESENTATION 9 - Lilach Benjaminy-Coorsch - A Representation-based Focusing Practice for Crystallizing Carrying-Forward Steps, Working with Parents and/or Children
7:00am – 8:00am New York time
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one hour break

PRESENTATION 10 - Bettina Markones  - Less is More - How I Teach Children to Listen to Each Other in a Helpful Way  
9:00am – 10:00am New York time

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one hour break

WORKSHOP – Tom Larkin - A World in a grain of sand - Resourcing children’s resilience in these troubled times  through Focusing with nature
11:00am – 1:00pm New York time
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no break

CLOSING
1:00pm - 2:00pm
New York time
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