Directory of Inner Relationship Teachers

Mary Elaine Kiener, RN, PhD

My formal practice of Focusing (especially Inner Relationship Focusing with Ann Weiser Cornell) is of fairly recent origin. I became a Certified Focusing Professional in April 2010. However, I have come to believe that I had been a lifelong “closet” Focuser who blessedly found her way out of exile into a sun-filled room of amazing Focusing colleagues.

While attending FISS 2008, I quickly discerned that Focusing offered a language and a framework that would help me understand how I had somewhat miraculously managed to find my own way back to myself, following a series of major personal and professional challenges during the previous two decades. Knowing first-hand the implicit challenges within a journey through profound healing and change, I am continually filled with wonder and amazement as I witness the ever-increasing flow of life-forward energy made possible through regular Focusing practice. My evolving skills (and the relative ease with which I began to incorporate, articulate and share a Focusing-oriented approach to life) have fueled a deep, continuous longing to assist others to nurture and sustain the unfolding of their own life-forward energy.

As a nurse with nearly four decades of knowledge and experience within both allopathic and integrative health traditions, I have continually strived to follow Florence Nightingale’s guidance to provide “an environment which facilitates, rather than disturbs, the natural healing process.” And, as a scholar, I have maintained an ongoing fascination to better understand and facilitate individuals’ journeys through growth and change).

As the Creative Energy Officer at ASK ME House, LLC, [www.askmehouse.com] my goal is to facilitate clients’ efforts to care for themselves as well as they care for others. I specialize in offering an “inside-out” approach to holistic stress management and wellness [www.stresswell.com] that begins with helping individuals to adopt a personalized, strengths-based program of Focused Self-Care.

Phone sessions. Also in-person sessions in Lansing, Michigan.

Teaching Levels One and Two (both one-to-one tutorials and small group classes)

Workshop titles include:

• Sick of Stress? Strategies to Ransom a Kidnapped Life
• Sick of Caregiving Stress? Strategies to Heal Your Nurturing Spirit
• Resolved to Change - Aligning Your Head and Your Heart
• Surviving Difficult Times: How to “Be With” While Struggling to “Make Do”
• Restoring Hope in the Midst of Suffering: Awakening Your Inner Healing Environment

Phone: 517-484-3127

Email: me@askmehouse.com

Websites: www.askmehouse.com / www.stresswell.com