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Anne G here. Someone mentioned Christopher Alexander, an architect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmlo0Lva5AU
nature life and self.
6min time
example of question
don't tell me which one you like, which one is better
tell me which one you would chose as a picture of your own true self if you had to do that.

and also
https://patterns.architexturez.net/pst/az-cf-218396-1612683754
connect most strongly to objects and environments that possess life
what it feels like to connect in a deep visceral manner.

Self like quality of such a world makes us feel more alive because we are connected,
feeling alive, whole depends on the surrounding.

We have created most of the portion of the world that is dead.

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Nature, life, and self: Christopher Alexander after a pattern language

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Anne G here, I would like to Share some of the resources Ram Mentioned at our monday morning live encounter.
Ian McGilchrist, The Master and his Emisary (dense book, but intro and conclusion are approachable).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp7o_W-7N-0
Kiryat Safer Park designed to provide children with a nature like encounter in the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6gSFBaz_GY&feature=emb_imp_woyt

Letters Hill park.
set CC to hebrew, and then set autotranslation to english to see CC in english

https://www.reed.co.il/projects
https://www.reed.co.il/childcentereddesign

and Laura's offering on the children focusing page https://focusingwithchildren.com/tools-and-techniques/articles-and-handouts/

Focusing Experiences for Children: Courtesy of Laura Bavalics:

1 – The quarrelsome buttons

2 – The star-eyed shepherd

3 – The stolen melody

4. Once upon a time

5. The owl who was afraid…

6 – Keys to your door

7 – Something from nothing

https://pikler.org/becoming-a-pikler-pedagogue/
See video presenting

Sandy's books
https://sandyjahmi.com/awkward-moments-bloom/?fbclid=IwAR0sGcagXBIwd5UqdXjSBpX542Dwts84BZUVYyQnTdrN31B8l7jNNt_hdDo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkI6s3rApXc
Bonnie Badenoch, the myth of self regulation: Our biology assumes someone will be walking by our sides. 38min

focusing and addiction
https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/addiction-from-the-bottom-up-a-felt-sense-polyvagal-model-of-addiction/

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REED - Ram Eisenberg Environmental Design

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Kiryat Sefer Park Tel-Aviv   גן קרית ספר תל-אביב

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Anne G here.
I just stumbled on this page somehow
https://focusing.org/resources/summit-resources-page-2021#2
in case someone is looking for the resource page as I was.

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PRESENTER BIOS AND HANDOUTS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Catherine Torpey
Video: A Basic Introduction to Focusing

Handout for this video:
https://focusing.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/Focusing_Highlight_2020-02-01_RESOURCES_FOR_BEGINNERS.pdf

Bio: Catherine Torpey learned Focusing in 1996 from her spiritual director and it immediately made a positive difference in her life. She was later certified by The International Focusing Institute and has taught Focusing to small groups on a number of occasions. She has been the Executive Director of TIFI since 2014, coming to us after a career in the non-profit world, in teaching and in ministry (in the Unitarian Universalist tradition).

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Donata Schoeller
Video: Felt Sense is Interaction
(lecture 2018 Felt Sense Conference NYC)

Handout for this video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15MmCxTVsPictFsJGGPHwafitTSI3R_SN/view?usp=sharing

Bio: Donata Schoeller is a philosopher who teaches at the University of Koblenz and Iceland. She is the academic director of the European Erasmus Program Training in Embodied Critical Thinking. Donata Schoeller has published extensively on Gendlin's philosophy. She has also translated A Process Model into German with Christiane Geiser, and has written a first introduction into this oeuvre in close collaboration with Eugene Gendlin and Neil Dunaetz. She is a Focusing trainer. As a TAE-teacher she is invited internationally to teach at Universities and Academies. She has three daughters and lives in Switzerland and Germany.

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Marcella Calabi
Video: Find Your Voice

Bio: Marcella Calabi helps people find their voice and live from it. She is an outside-the-box thinker with training in music, negotiation/mediation and teaching/guiding, and a Certified Focusing Professional. She is inspired by the several meanings of voice: physical voice and the self it expresses, voice of personhood manifested in word and action, and inner voices accessed with Focusing.

Contact and upcoming offerings: https://clarityworks.net/
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Lynn Preston
Video: Focusing on Ideas: A Creative Adventure

Handout for the video is here

Information about the book she reads here.

Bio: Lynn Preston, MA, MS, LP, is a Focusing-oriented relational psychotherapist, teacher and supervisor. She is the Director of the Experiential Psychotherapy Project in New York City. She has written and presented internationally on the integration of Focusing and relational psychoanalysis. She has an abiding interest in the exploration of the relationship between philosophy, theory and practice.

Contact and upcoming offerings:
Lynn is currently offering "Essentials of Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy" and also a series that my community empowerment group will be sponsoring called "BIG TALK: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT BIG ISSUES".
http://www.lynnprestonforp.com

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Donata Schoeller
Video: Now as a Window into More (workshop)
from 2018 Felt Sense Conference NYC

Handout for this video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q7FfXrN72P_X5-2H2sV9ldo1Hd0e4DOZ/view?usp=sharing

Bio: Donata Schoeller is a philosopher who teaches at the University of Koblenz and Iceland. She is the academic director of the European Erasmus Program Training in Embodied Critical Thinking. Donata Schoeller has published extensively on Gendlin's philosophy. She has also translated A Process Model into German with Christiane Geiser, and has written a first introduction into this oeuvre in close collaboration with Eugene Gendlin and Neil Dunaetz. She is a Focusing trainer. As a TAE-teacher she is invited internationally to teach at Universities and Academies. She has three daughters and lives in Switzerland and Germany.

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Peter Campbell
Video: BioSpiritual Focusing: Rediscovering the lost body-sense within spiritual growth

Bio: Rev. Peter Campbell, Ph.D. holds a doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa in Canada, with a specialization in the psychological study of religion. Together with a colleague, Rev. Edwin McMahon, Ph.D., the two Catholic priests dedicated their careers to develop and teach BioSpiritual Focusing (BSF), through which serious seekers can nurture an interiority where the inner sense and feelings are prized. The two men have authored seven books and were cofounders of the BioSpiritual Institute, which supports a network of grassroots communities learning and practicing the gifting experience of BSF.

Learn more about Father Pete and about Bio-spirituality at biospiritual.org.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2021
Irit Tessel
Video: Life Energy in a Healing Process

Bio: Irit Tessel has been working with her Focusing in Health program with patients in the Center of Integrative Medicine at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. For the last nine years, she has also been working with patients in healing processes at her private clinic. Irit teaches her approach, lectures, and gives workshops to various organizations including medical staff. Irit is a Certified Focusing Professional (Trainer) and has studied Somatic Experiencing.

Contact and upcoming offerings:
www.irittessel.co.il
[email protected]

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Jim Iberg
Video: Responding with Focusing Invitations: Ten Opportunities Clients Present

Bio: Jim Iberg, PhD, MBA learned Focusing at the original Chicago Changes Group in the early 1970s. Shortly after, he transferred from studying business to psychology to work with Eugene Gendlin. His doctoral dissertation looked at teaching Focusing to business students who were anxious about job interviews. Since becoming a licensed psychologist, he has taught Focusing in Europe, the US, and Japan. Jim recently ended his term as a board member of The International Focusing Institute and is a certifying coordinator. Most of his time is spent as a psychotherapist in the Chicago area, using Focusing and Empathic Listening as the central tools.

Contact and upcoming offerings:
You can find more information and contact details at
www.empathywork.com

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Ram Eisenberg
Video: Using the Felt Sense to Create Considerate Environmental Designs
from the first Felt Sense Conference 2018

Bio: Ram Eisenberg is a landscape architect specializing in creating urban-nature experience in what he calls considerate designs. His award winning projects "Kiryat-Sefer Park" and "Enlightenment boulevard" have gained significant acclaim in Israel. Ram's encounter with Focusing in 2012 had a profound influence on his practice and academic career, expressed in his masters thesis "The Nature of the Goodness Experience in Nature, a phenomenological inquiry grounded in E. Gendlins' ideas."

Contact and upcoming offerings:
http://www.reed.co.il/

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Ifat Eckstein
Video: Opening Up to Our Wider Self: Our Widefulness

Handouts for this video:
https://focusing.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/Widefulness-presentation-Ifat-Eckstein.pdf
https://focusing.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/The-Art-of-Feeling-Whole-Ifat-Eckstein.pdf

Bio: Ifat Eckstein is a clinical couple and family therapist (MSW) and a practicing Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist (FOT). She is a TIFI Certified Focusing Coordinator in Israel. Ifat is the Academic Coordinator of Focusing in the Bodymind Psychotherapy Program at the Shiluv Institute, affiliated with Haifa University, where she also teaches. In addition, she gives workshops in Israel and abroad interfacing spiritual dimensions and psychotherapy. Ifat has recently established Widefulness as a multidimensional approach to psychotherapy.

Contact and upcoming offerings:
www.widefulness.com/en/homepage/
[email protected]

Nada Lou
Video: Think Different: Focusing for Thinking, Communicating, and Expressing

Bio: Nada Lou is well known throughout the Focusing world for her double specialty in Thinking at the Edge (TAE) and Focusing. She has taught many courses around the world for over 30 years. She is the author of The Grassroots Introduction Manual to TAE and a videographer of over 45 DVDs featuring Focusing teachers. Immersing herself in Gendlin's thinking through her video productions has made Nada one of the world's experts in TAE. Since co-presenting TAE workshops with Dr. Gendlin, Nada has evolved a personal approach to teaching TAE, called THINK DIFFERENT - FOCUSING FOR THINKING. Currently, she teaches this study program around the world through live lectures, seminars and webinar courses. Nada is a Certifying Coordinator for The International Focusing Institute and has the ability to gently and patiently nurture each person's thinking edge, guiding them at every step.

Contact and upcoming offerings: www.nadalou.com

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Laura Bavalics
Video: Children Focusing: Tales From the Inside

Bio: Laura's first diploma is in kindergarten teaching, She has been working with kindergarten aged children and their parents since 1995. She believes that there is a different road for every child, which is why it was important to her from the beginning of her career to expand her methodological toolkit. That's how she became a Focusing Trainer and then a Special Education Assistant, then a game mentor and a drama teacher. In the past twenty years, she has worked in several different types of educational institutions, both in Hungary and overseas. She often participates in teacher training as an instructor and mentor.
She now manages setting up the kindergarten at Világszép Foundation as a Specialist Manager. Her dream is to create a kindergarten where every child and family can experience acceptance and find their own voice.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Beatrice Blake
Video: Why Focusing and Nonviolent Communication Belong Together

Bio: Beatrice encountered Focusing in 1989 through Robert Lee and was certified in 2000. She went on to study Thinking at the Edge with Eugene Gendlin, Kye Nelson, Nada Lou and Evelyn Fendler Lee. She has been teaching TAE since 2013. Beatrice is a Certifying Coordinator with TIFI. She gives online classes, in English and Spanish, in Focusing, TAE, Nonviolent Communication for Focusers, and Trainer Certification. Find out more at https://possibility-space.com. Beatrice knows that felt-sensing is an innate human capacity that doesn't have to be wielded by a "healer". Anyone can practice it by slowing down and listening in a friendly way to what is going on inside.

Contact and Upcoming:
Beatrice will be offering a yearlong course in Thinking At the Edge (TAE) called Deepening into TAE Steps 1-14.
Description: Deep transformational processes start to unfold as a result of Thinking at the Edge. This year-long class is designed to allow those processes to develop fully in a secure, supportive group. Dates and times have not been chosen yet. People who contact me soon will help me determine when to schedule the class. There will be 10 monthly meetings in 2022, with Focusing partnerships in between. Class costs $495 with a 15% discount for my former TAE students.
https://possibility-space.com/deepening-into-tae-steps-1-14/
She is also starting a new certification class in 2022.

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Glenn Fleisch
Video: Awakening Eros: Restoring the Body's Untrammeled Spirit with Wholebody Focusing

Bio: Glenn Fleisch , PhD Clinical Psychology, Licensed MFT, has been in private practice for 35 years. Glenn has been involved with Focusing since 1992, is a Certifying Coordinator and Focusing-Oriented Therapist. He has been specializing in the theoretical and experiential development of Wholebody Focusing, with particular interest in the body's capacity to reawaken and recover the natural energy and life-force of Spirit. WBF as a process of alchemical transmutation has been applied to transforming trauma-based patterns, dispiritedness, etc.

Contact and Upcoming:
Glenn will be offering a new program starting in early 2022- so anyone interested can send him a note to be placed on my email list for the announcement. He is also offering online body-energy Focusing therapy to work through long-term patterns and recover our inner spirit.

Contact and upcoming offerings:
More information on Glenn's services and programs as well as many of his writings are available on his website:
www.glennfleisch.com
[email protected]

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Leonie Stewart
Video: More than Mindfulness: Getting Focusing Into Schools

Bio: Leonie Stewart, based in Sydney is a Certified Focusing-Oriented and Emotion-Focused therapist, a teacher of Focusing and mindfulness, a sports coach, and a mother. She created the MORE Than MINDFULNESS (MtM) program for schools. As Gene Gendlin wrote about "giving therapy away," Leonie knows her life's purpose is to give Focusing away to as many young people as she can via the MtM Program. She hopes to expand her program with more Focusing and mindfulness teachers. The wish is for Focusing, mindfulness and other life skills in MtM to be systematically taught in schools, so that young people may increase their inner resources, resilience, and wellbeing.

Contact and upcoming offerings:
www.morethanmindfulness.com.au

https://joinme.morethanmindfulness.com.au/practical-pausing-life-skills
[email protected]
+61 0438 412 667

Leonie has written an on-line, on demand course for children (12 to 18) and parents (actually anyone really) called MORE than MINDFULNESS and is busy trying to get it into schools and homes.

Although it is called MORE than MINDFULNESS, and it includes lots of good stuff, Focusing is what I want children and adults to be introduced to, as Focusing changed my life.

Video link to what is in the MtM course (It is 10 minutes).

Module 1 Lesson 2 - 10 minute video overview of the MtM course
https://www.wevideo.com/view/2103130033
Why did I write MORE than MINDFULNESS?

When I was a little girl, things happened in my house that were not OK. I didn't know how to soothe myself in those times. I have spent a lifetime collecting strategies and learning about myself and others. Why we do the things, we do, think the things we think, feel the things we feel, believe the things we believe. And how do we help ourselves and others when life throws us curveballs in big and small ways.

I wish I had known the "life skills" in MtM earlier. They would have helped me, and my life would have been easier. Not in what happened to me, but in how I could look after myself (and others) better. This is the reason why I wrote my MtM course and I believe every single person will benefit from knowing what is in MORE than MINDFULNESS

Why do I want people to do it?

I want to give young people (and their parents) a whole suite of strategies. This will enable them to build inner resources and become more resilient when their life gets stormy. Every one of us needs to learn to ride the waves of life and have ways to get back to our calm bay and put down our anchor.

What is in the MtM course?

· What is Stress?

You will learn the Power of Pausing plus quick mindfulness exercises you can do in the moment

· What is Wellbeing?

This includes exercises on Values, Gratitude and Compassion.

· Mindfulness exercises

Including those using breath, body scan, mantras, and loving kindness.

· Parts theory.

We all have a "Big Wise SELF" and we have parts (eg inner critics, sad or angry parts) I want to help you get know them using "Felt Sensing" and learn to settle them too.

· Focusing

I Will show you how to "Get Bigger than what is bothering you" - a very cool technique

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Hello from near Philly!  I was wondering if it is possible to get a copy of the handout Lynn Preston used in her presentation on Day 1.  There does not seem to be a link to it in the summit resource section.

Thanks
Jackie

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PatC@Wonderingi.org   I am in Thailand, and am limited only to conversations in English.  I am interested in what is happening in Focusing, and in finding Partnerships from IndoChinaTimezone (ICT), or SE Asia, region. 

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PatC@Wonderingi.org   I am in Thailand, and am limited only to conversations in English.  I am interested in what is happening in Focusing, and in finding Partnerships from IndoChinaTimezone (ICT), or SE Asia, region. 

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Hello all Summit participants. We hope you will enjoy the Summit videos and we welcome you to the open zoom chats each morning and evening when you would like to attend. From Elizabeth Cantor at TIFI

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Hello all Summit participants. We hope you will enjoy the Summit videos and we welcome you to the open zoom chats each morning and evening when you would like to attend. From Elizabeth Cantor at TIFI

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Be sure to write your name on your post, or we won't know who wrote it.

This "Padlet" is intended only for participants of the Facets of Focusing Online Summit, but as with anything online, it is impossible to guarantee anonymity, so keep that in mind.

You can use this as a conversation starter, or to just let us know what you think about anything having to do with the Summit videos.  It is intended for participants to use as you like.

If you have a question that you need answered by The International Focusing Institute (TIFI), don't leave it here, but either write to us at elizabeth@focusing.org or catherine@focusing.org, or come to one of the Zoom meetings.

ENJOY!

From Catherine Torpey