With Ruth Hirsch, Creative Edge Associate, Inner Relationship Teacher, and Certified Focusing Professional and Certifying Coordinator:
FROM THE BODY COMES OUR NEXT MOVES
A quote from Eugene Gendlin, creator of Focusing:
“The body is not just a pipeline for incoming sensory data.
It’s not a safe deposit box where you put something in
and expect to get the same thing out. There’s something more. The body can imply something new-a right next step. It’s more like you put a worm into a cocoon and get a butterfly back.”
And another from former UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold:
“The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you,
the better you will hear what is happening outside of you.”
After participating in Levels 1-4, a person can enter supervision to become a Certified Focusing Professional (Focusing Trainer or Focusing-Oriented Therapist)
Level 1: Focusing Basics: Self Guiding, and Empathic Listening
This is a great opportunity to learn the basics of Focusing: How to Focus alone & with a partner, as well as how to facilitate focusing for another focuser- And to reap the benefits of enhanced relationships with yourself and others, stress reduction, ease of decision making, and much more! All this from the comfort and safety of your own home or office.
Contact Ruth ruth@ruthhirsch.com for dates and time.
Level 2: Advanced Listening & Beginning Guiding /Facilitation
The goals of this course are to enhance the Focuser’s competence in self-guiding, and to learn advanced listening techniques, and a few guiding techniques that can deepen the Focuser’s ability to stay with present awareness. The essence of the course is learning to be an increasingly facilitative companion to the Focusing process for yourself and for others. Prerequisite: Level One with a Certified Focusing Professional.
Contact Ruth ruth@ruthhirsch.com for dates and times.
Level 3: Advanced Guiding: Basics
Beginning to learn how to facilitate a Focusing session for someone new to Focusing.
Supportive suggestions for each stage of the Focusing process will be taught.
Level 4: Advanced Guiding & Troubleshooting
In Level 3 you’ve learned the basics of facilitating (guiding,) a Focusing session for someone new to Focusing.In Level 4, you’ll learn a variety of compassionate, clear approaches to handling various possible challenges and obstacles that may arise in the Focusing process.
Some of the topics to be addressed will include working with the Inner Critic, working with action blocks and addictions; how to assist a Focuser who feels “nothing”- or “too much,” or has one part attacking or victimizing another; and what to do when deriving “meaning” seems to be illusive.
Contact Ruth ruth@ruthhirsch.com for dates and times.
Level 5: Seminar/Practicum in working with first-time Focusers
This course is an experiential workshop in introducing someone new to Focusing to this wonderful process. we will discuss and role-play how to introduce Focusing, and then each participant will have the opportunity to introduce Focusing and to guide the new Focuser in an introductory session. After the new Focuser is debriefed and leaves, there will be an opportunity to receive constructive feedback from fellow participants in the course and from the instructor.
Contact Ruth ruth@ruthhirsch.com for dates and times.
About the Trainer: Ruth Hirsch is a Certified Focusing trainer, bodyworker, and consultant based in Jerusalem, Israel. For the past 18 years she has maintained a private practice in which she works with people individually, and in groups. She is in her 13th year of teaching Focusing. In her individual work, she specializes in balancing and bringing peace, comfort, and insight to body, mind, heart and spirit. In her teaching, she delights in sharing Focusing with others as an individual life-enhancing practice, and as an adjunct to enhance the work of other healing professions.
General Info: Courses are limited to a maximum of 6 participants each. The trainings are largely experiential, and are taught in a clear, compassionate, enjoyable manner. Registration fees include the course, unlimited questions between sessions (to be answered via email or at the next class session), and a manual specific to each level. (Space permitting, those who have already taken the course and would like to review the level may do so for half price.) The course will be taught via a Conference line to a US number which will be provided before the class.
VERY IMPORTANT: To register, or for any questions, comments, or to just say hello, ruth@ruthhirsch.com .
Ruth Hirsch MSW, MPH, CMT
Focusing Trainer & Certifying Coordinator
http://www.ruthhirsch.com
http://www.innerrelationship.com/teachers/hirsch.html
We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don’t make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace.
Dalai Lama
Posted for Ruth Hirsch by
Dr. Kathy McGuire
Creative Edge Focusing (TM)
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