We are living situations in which a lot of unwanted and unexpected events take place. Our lives evolve in webs of patterns, rules, laws, values and politics which are a result of former collective interactions, and can easily make you feel trapped, helpless or not involved in creating them. At a gut level, you may feel that something is not normal. How come that we so easily accept this wrong? What stops us from participating in what is right? Experiential approaches can engage us to reflect and create the world from our point of view.
Focusing is an experiential way to connect with your Felt Sense, the doorway to the totality of a situation, as well as giving the precise meaning it has for you. It allows you to sense your established web of "normality" but also drop into "the more" and what needs to be changed. This is your inner wisdom, a power to shape new meanings and forms.
Our workshop is an opportunity to reconsider something you aren't happy with, something you disagree with in your life. We aim at a coherent new understanding. You will be guided to develop fresh meanings and forms from your felt sense. This way you create the kind of "normality" that make you feel healthier, happier and empowered.
To do so we offer you a creative journey using Focusing and some techniques and inner moves from "Thinking At the Edge" (TAE), philosophical practices developed by Mary Hendricks and Eugene T. Gendlin. With Focusing you will enhance your ability to listen to your inner wisdom. With TAE-moves you will be enabled to speak more precisely from within. The workshop is interactive and participants accompany each other with their experiential listening. They provide each other with a safe, non-judgmental space. Writing (on the computer) is part of the process. The workshop invites you to be in the present, and to release new concepts you need to adjust to integrate within yourself.
Date: May 13th, 5-8pm CET; May 14th, 3-9pm CET; May 21st, 3-9pm CET (15 hours)
Language: English (For non-native speakers we can include these languages: German, Spanish, French and Scandinavian languages)
Format: Zoom sessions
Note: Experience with Focusing and TAE is helpful but not expected
Participants: max. 14
Fee: 300€/330US$ + any transfer expenses (please contact us individually if the price is a problem)
Register: contact@monicalindner.com (please use "TAE normal" as a subject) till April 30th
Instructors:
Monika Catarina Lindner, Dipl. Päd. Univ.
Monica is an educationalist with a focus on intercultural learning and works as a project manager for German courses and lecturer at a university. She is a certified Focusing trainer and as an Experiential Concept Coach/Trainer (ECC) she specializes in teaching the philosophical practice "Thinking At the Edge" (TAE). She trains in Focusing and in ECC, a 5-part coaching training based on "Thinking At the Edge" that teaches the application of the 14 steps for individual processes, for use in groups, and for creating an innovative (corporate) culture. Her offering includes individual sessions, advanced training in Focusing and TAE, and facilitation of groups who want to develop a project in a creative and experiential way. The courses take place in German, English and Spanish, at different course locations and also online. As a member of the international research group "Embodied Critical Thinking" (ect.hi.is) at the University of Iceland. Her research is motivated to open up pedagogical questions with Gendlin's Philosophy of the Implicit. monicalindner.com
Kjell Ribert
Coordinator and Focusing Trainer
Conflictologist, social anthropologist, linguist, facilitator of foreign language acquisition, as well as facilitator of groups - based on PCA (the Person-Centred Approach), supervisor of leaders and other key people in working life. www.ribert.no
