Monday, August 23, 2010

Learning Focusing to help Free the Artist in You

Join us at the beautiful Vally Ridge Art Studio in Madison Wis. to learn Focusing in a peaceful healing setting. http://valleyridgeartstudio

Do you want to learn how to:

* Be a better listener to yourself?
* Make clear choices?
* Be calm and compassionate to yourself?
* Support yourself through change?
* Feel relaxed and less stressful?

Focusing helps you learn how to be Present and listen to yourself so that you can move ahead in your life in an empowered and safe way. Focusing brings you closer to wholeness and allows you to access your inner wisdom. This helps you move in the direction of your potential. It can help you move beyond blocks and get in touch with your goals. Focusing is a gentle and powerful way to develop a deep interpersonal healing relationship with yourself.

Awareness of sensations in the body can be blocked through habits of dissociation and repression. This is because the sensation maybe uncomfortable or painful, and we are not trained to focus on this inner knowing and awareness of the body. Transformation of energy involves the acknowledgment, and information of the inner movement of sensation. This energy and awareness is essential to reconnect what has been fragmented by life stress, injury or trauma.

In this workshop we will work with:

* artist’s blocks
* money issues that we may have around our art
* time issues that we may have for our art making
* why we can’t get into the studio

SPECIAL NOTE:
This program begins the evening of Friday, September 10 from 6:30 to 9:30 PM, , and continues on Saturday and Sunday between 9:30 AM and 4:30 PM

What is Focusing?
Focusing is “direct access to bodily knowing.” It is a practice that takes a person towards a state of conscious perception that goes far beyond knowing something on a mere conceptual level. As with Somatic Experiencing, Focusing refers to this bodily knowing as a felt sense. As the Focusing Institute’s website explains, “You can sense your living body directly under your thoughts and memories and under your familiar feelings." Focusing happens at a deeper level than your feelings. Under them you can discover a physically sensed murky zone which is concretely there. This is a source from which new steps emerge. This murky zone “opens” as you learn to stay with it longer. Being with it increases the ability to sense feelings behind words or images, even when those are not yet formed. Eventually, you can learn how to let a deeper bodily felt sense come in relation to any problem or situation. It is a subtle process, hard to define in words. Focusing was developed by the philosopher Eugene Gendlin in the late 1960s and early 70s, while he was working with the famed psychologist Carl Rogers.

You will learn the skills of and receive credit for Level One Focusing by taking this workshop. You can continue to take Level 2 to 4 with Karen or another Focusing Teacher after this workshop.

8 comments:

nacherluver said...

Oh my goodness! You are so close to me!!!! I had no idea. I am soooo going to try to make this happen!!! Have a friend who needs it too. Maybe we can make it an artist date!

Thank you for the offering!!!!

(okay, sorry about that. guess I'm a little excited)

Karen Wallace said...

That would be great. I am actually in Regina SK. Canada. I would love to meet you!!!! Hugs Karen

Jennifer White said...

I...CAN'T... WAIT!!! Just a few more weeks, Karen.. xo

Karen Wallace said...

A year goes by fast!!!! Hugs to you Jennifer

Zabrinah said...

This is so beautiful! Seems so relaxing!

:)

Best wishes as always,

~Zabrinah


P.S. To answer your question, my best friend I got tired of all our repetitive guy problems and messy relationships, so I started to write a blog dedicated to the advice I was giving her about a couple of guys in her life.

beth said...

i'm wishing now that i had kept this weekend open to take your workshop....
i've been to VR so many times, see kathy regularly and now jennifer, too.....
they rave about you....
but shoot....maybe next year.

Elena said...

Uggghhh this looks like a great class and of course I really want to meet you but I'm booked that weekend!

L'Adelaide said...

karen, thank you so much for your lovely comment on my blog... it is so appreciated...i do wish i could come to this workshop, it sounds very fruitful and especially meaningful just now.
xo

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