With appreciation:
Lynn Preston’s youtube channel where recordings continue to be published: https://www.youtube.com/c/FocusingRelationalPsychotherapy
Help for Helper’s youtube channel with recordings of the meetings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRc14k8fFbFCdrbrPzjLwOg
October, November, December 2023
October 2023
2nd
9th Alastair Farrugia, Focusing On What Is Going Well
16th
23nd
30th
November 2023
7th
14th
21st
28th
November or December 2023 or even 2024
Gisela Uhl Charles Herr, PART THREE: Finding pathways from a competitive, exploitative society
toward creating a collaborative human society.
“Developing ALL our resources to transform an exploitative society, Focusing being but ONE—very important but not sufficient alone—resource. Staying as wide open as possible.” —Charles
“Beyond Focusing, beyond the individual; it cannot be felt into within the individual Focusing space; we need to expand this space into our societal space. We need the political and spiritual as well as individual.” — Gisela.
July, August, September 2023
August 2023
7th: Lynn Preston, Contemplative Writing
14th: Yaotunde Obiora Focusing and the Art of Haiku
21st: Ann Dowsett Johnston, The Healing Power of Memoir: Using the Felt Sense to Mine Our Memories https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com
28th: Sondra Perl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Perl# Sondra Perl is a Professor Emerita of English at Lehman College and director of the Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the founder and former director of the New York City Writing Project. She writes about the composing process as well as pedagogical approaches to implementing composition theories into writing practices in the classroom.
September 2023
4th: Liz Margoshes “Hiding In Plain Sight: The Shame, Terror, and (Sometimes) Joy of Writing a Graphic Memoir [And Talking About It In a Zoom Meeting Attended by a Group of People You Barely Know]”
11th: Dave Young Sept 11th. Freeing Ourselves from Social Programming, “We create conformity when we do not realize how deeply socially programmed our bodies are” — Gene Gendlin
18th: Alastair Farrugia, Focusing On What Is Going Well
25th: Mary Jennings, What is patience? A reflection on how I gained an understanding of what patience is or can be by observing a man with his child who had a disability. It does not fit the standard definition of what patience is, but when I felt-sensed what was going on, a deeper meaning emerged.
January, February, March 2024
“We took it out of the therapy context, and we are now calling it “listening”, but we found this has the importance of specificity” …
– Gene Gendlin: The Politics of Rogers Focusing and The Future of Listening (1986)
In a Nutshell – Help for Helpers & Studio Discussion
August 2023
** August 21st: Ann Dowsett Johnston, The Healing Power of Memoir: Using the Felt Sense to Mine Our Memories https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com
** August 28th: Sondra Perl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Perl# Sondra Perl is a Professor Emerita of English at Lehman College and director of the Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the founder and former director of the New York City Writing Project. She writes about the composing process as well as pedagogical approaches to implementing composition theories into writing practices in the classroom.
* Charles Herr and Gisela Uhl July 24 & July 31, 2023 with a Part 3 yet to follow
Help for Helpers Charles Herr and Gisela Uhl July 24 & July 31 & Nov or Dec 2023 or in 2024
Finding pathways from a competitive, exploitative society toward creating a collaborative human society.
Part 2 Monday, July 31, 2023
* Help for Helpers’ Playlist
* Lynn Preston’s youtube channel
* Help for Helpers Zoom Link
Monday at 8:15 New York time:
ZOOM LINK Help for Helpers: with Lynn Preston https://us02web.zoom.us/j/91630143362?pwd=OUNQaDQ0NnVCcG92dkp0TkwzUExldz09
* Gene Gendlin: The Politics of Rogers Focusing and The Future of Listening
* Studio Discussion Pages
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STUDIO PAGES:
Below are links to videos and discussion pages where we continue to update the references and writing~ we welcome your comments and questions!
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ura2IO33LWc
Gisela Uhl “The concept of Life — with comments about Aristotle, Gendlin’s Process Model, and Human Life as inherently political”J
Discussion page https://thinkinginmovement.ca/gisela-uhl-life-aristotle-gendlin-2022/
* July 11, 2022, Liberation Focusing with Dave Young
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBo6D4r7qN0
Discussion page https://thinkinginmovement.ca/dave-young-liberation-focusing-2022/
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnp3p8-YqN4
Discussion page https://thinkinginmovement.ca/mike-mccullough-self-organizing-of-growing-and-perceiving-2022/
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ZOOM LINK Help for Helpers: with Lynn Preston https://us02web.zoom.us/j/91630143362?pwd=OUNQaDQ0NnVCcG92dkp0TkwzUExldz09
Meeting ID: 916 3014 3362 Passcode: FOCUS
* The Concept of Life with Gisela Uhl, July 4, 2022
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Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ura2IO33LWc
Gisela Uhl “The concept of Life — with comments about Aristotle, Gendlin’s Process Model, and Human Life as inherently political”J
Discussion page https://thinkinginmovement.ca/gisela-uhl-life-aristotle-gendlin-2022/
* Liberation Focusing with Dave Young July 11, 2022,
* July 11, 2022, Liberation Focusing with Dave Young
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBo6D4r7qN0
Discussion page https://thinkinginmovement.ca/dave-young-liberation-focusing-2022/
* Mike McCullough “Self Organizing of Growing and Perceiving” Gendlin-Aristotle /A Complexity Theory of Power August 1, 2022
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnp3p8-YqN4
Discussion page https://thinkinginmovement.ca/mike-mccullough-self-organizing-of-growing-and-perceiving-2022/
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* Line by Line Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D
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