Roundtable On Listening
An Exploratory Conversation On Listening To Our Companions With More Care And Love In The Flow Of Life
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Roundtable On Listening: An Exploratory Conversation On Listening To Our Companions With More Care And Love In The Flow Of Life
A culture in which we listen to each other, to help more profound, more holistic insights emerge, is a culture with the potential for more creativity, compassion and wisdom. We invite you to join us sharing experiences, questions and your own emerging understandings in a Roundtable discussion, in which we can all learn from each other.
Presented by The International Focusing Institute
August 16, 2023
We warmly invite you to join us in a conversation about listening and felt sensing. Focusing involves a very unusual kind of listening - a simplification of a psychotherapist's listening: in a focusing partnership, we listen to each other to help each of us listen more deeply to ourselves. It is a rare thing to have a companion solely focused, for a time, on helping us bring to birth our own understandings.
What makes focusing unusual is this deliberate, sustained process of letting our implicit understandings grow, to help us reorient ourselves. Someone listening very carefully to us, and helping us track the movements of our own understanding, by reflecting back the gist of what we are saying, or our precise words, helps us pay very fine resolution attention to what precisely, holistically, is next for us.
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At the same time, felt understanding is in play nearly all the time in everybody's lives. However, many of the social processes we engage in don't support people listening to themselves in any depth. So there are opportunities to explore how to help our companions by listening to them with more care and love in the flow of everyday life.
And when we need to work together, we need ways to cross developing understandings, letting something fresh emerge from encountering. For this we need much more fluid, mutual processes than traditional focusing: conversations with different rhythms, with listening that is at once listening to ourselves and listening to the other person deeply, at the same time.
A culture in which we listen to each other, to help more profound, more holistic insights emerge, is a culture with the potential for more creativity, compassion and wisdom. We invite you to join us sharing experiences, questions and your own emerging understandings in a Roundtable discussion, in which we can all learn from each other.
Jane Quayle is a Certifying coordinator and former member of the TIFI board of Trustees. She is a Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist, and has taught focusing in her private practice for 20 years. She has also taught in a variety of tertiary institutions including Western Sydney University, Macquarie University and developed a Focusing Oriented Therapy elective for the Jansen Newman Institute. Her teaching experience includes counselling skills, supervision of student therapists and Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy.
Greg Walkerden PhD is a researcher who designs practices in felt sense centered reflective practice, and environmental management and planning. His academic roots are in philosophy and psychology. He has been a Focusing practitioner for over 35 years, is a Certified Focusing Professional and Teacher, and taught felt sense-based decision making at Macquarie University in Sydney for about 15 years. At Gendlin's invitation, he taught A Process Model at his 'Thinking at the Edge' retreats in New York in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
This program is brought to members of TIFI at no charge.
Contact The International Focusing Institute with any questions: Phone: (845) 480-5111
Email: elizabeth@focusing.org
