The Wordless Space: What Focusing and Meditating Have to Give Each Other

A new 5-week phone course with Jan Hodgman

Meditators:
Would you like to have a way to explore what's getting between you and the meditation cushion?
Are you unsure of what to do when strong emotions arise while meditating?
Are you wanting a greater sense of embodiment in your meditation?
Would you like to feel more connected and supported in your meditation practice?

Focusers:
Do you sometimes find yourself in a wordless place in the midst of a Focusing session – and wonder what to do then?
Do you wonder if there's a way to be with what is – without any need for things to change?
Would you like to bring more spaciousness and even stillness into your Focusing?

Now is your chance to learn how to integrate these two processes for inner knowing.

What We Will Be Doing:
Whether you are a meditator new to Focusing, or a Focuser wanting to experience meditation, or someone who is already integrating these two practices, you’ll find yourself enriched by this course. We’ll co-create the ground for us to broaden and deepen these two modalities. You'll come away appreciating how the synthesis of Focusing and meditation can bring clarity and a sense of completion with issues in your life and establish your capacity both to rest in effortless ease and engage wholeheartedly in your work at hand.

Each class session we will have both a guided contemplation, weaving natural meditation with Focusing principles, and an exercise grounded in Focusing to explore our meditation practice
We'll explore the distinction between working at what meditators call the “conditioned level” and working from the “result level,” and find out what it means to rest in unconditioned awareness
We’ll discover the symbiotic nature of Focusing and meditation and how each of these practices can help fill in and carry forward our wholeness

Pre-requisite: One individual session with an Inner Relationship Focusing Teacher and strong interest or experience in meditation.

Where: By phone seminar

How phone seminars work

Continuing Education Units

All our courses meet the qualifications for continuing education credits (CEUs) for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. PCE #1015. People with comparable licenses in other states and countries may be able to use our Record of Completion to get CEUs from your licensing boards. The Record of Completion is sent at the end of the course to any participant who requests it at no additional charge.

This workshop is not currently scheduled. Please contact us if you are interested in being informed when this workshop goes on the schedule.

About Jan Hodgman:

I come to Focusing from a strong Buddhist background as an ordained Zen priest with 8 years of monastic training in Japan. Focusing has given me an essential piece of the mind-body Oneness “puzzle.” After years of illuminating inner work in the Zen tradition, I was enlivened with the somatic approach of Focusing, and find this way of working with issues on the conditioned level to be creative and elegant. My Focusing training has been with Reva Bernstein and Ann Weiser Cornell, and I’ve sat in on Eugene Gendlin’s Theory Construction course, an early form of Thinking at the Edge. Most recently I've been studying and serving as a nondual coach with Peter Fenner, Ph.D., author of Radiant Mind. Fenner's approach brings Eastern wisdom traditions into everyday language and accessibility, and is greatly facilitated with the Focusing modality.

Recently my appreciation of group work and the value of community in creative and spiritual endeavors has expanded exponentially. I see one of my strengths as bringing people together to support each other being fully and uniquely who we are as humans, while honoring ourselves as the clear awareness in which all of This unfolds.

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	The Wordless Space: What Focusing and Meditating Have to Give Each Other A new 5-week phone course with Jan Hodgman Meditators: Would you like to have a way to explore what's getting between you and the meditation cushion? Are you unsure of what to do when strong emotions arise while meditating? Are you wanting a greater sense of embodiment in your meditation? Would you like to feel more connected and supported in your meditation practice? Focusers: Do you sometimes find yourself in a wordless place in the midst of a Focusing session – and wonder what to do then? Do you wonder if there's a way to be with what is – without any need for things to change? Would you like to bring more spaciousness and even stillness into your Focusing? Now is your chance to learn how to integrate these two processes for inner knowing. What We Will Be Doing: Whether you are a meditator new to Focusing, or a Focuser wanting to experience meditation, or someone who is already integrating these two practices, you’ll find yourself enriched by this course. We’ll co-create the ground for us to broaden and deepen these two modalities. You'll come away appreciating how the synthesis of Focusing and meditation can bring clarity and a sense of completion with issues in your life and establish your capacity both to rest in effortless ease and engage wholeheartedly in your work at hand. Each class session we will have both a guided contemplation, weaving natural meditation with Focusing principles, and an exercise grounded in Focusing to explore our meditation practice We'll explore the distinction between working at what meditators call the “conditioned level” and working from the “result level,” and find out what it means to rest in unconditioned awareness We’ll discover the symbiotic nature of Focusing and meditation and how each of these practices can help fill in and carry forward our wholeness Pre-requisite: One individual session with an Inner Relationship Focusing Teacher and strong interest or experience in meditation. Where: By phone seminar How phone seminars work All you need is a phone, no special equipment, though a hands-free headset is helpful. Yes, you can even call with a cell phone or Skype, as long as the line is reasonably clear. When you register, you'll receive a special number to call, and your own PIN code. You'll be on a conference call with the teacher and a group of friendly fellow participants. The teacher will be able to moderate the call from a master control panel. There will be lectures, question periods, and group exercises. We've been doing phone seminars since 2003 and we're old hands at it – and they work amazingly well. Continuing Education Units All our courses meet the qualifications for continuing education credits (CEUs) for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. PCE #1015. People with comparable licenses in other states and countries may be able to use our Record of Completion to get CEUs from your licensing boards. The Record of Completion is sent at the end of the course to any participant who requests it at no additional charge. This workshop is not currently scheduled. Please contact us if you are interested in being informed when this workshop goes on the schedule. About Jan Hodgman: I come to Focusing from a strong Buddhist background as an ordained Zen priest with 8 years of monastic training in Japan. Focusing has given me an essential piece of the mind-body Oneness “puzzle.” After years of illuminating inner work in the Zen tradition, I was enlivened with the somatic approach of Focusing, and find this way of working with issues on the conditioned level to be creative and elegant. My Focusing training has been with Reva Bernstein and Ann Weiser Cornell, and I’ve sat in on Eugene Gendlin’s Theory Construction course, an early form of Thinking at the Edge. Most recently I've been studying and serving as a nondual coach with Peter Fenner, Ph.D., author of Radiant Mind. Fenner's approach brings Eastern wisdom traditions into everyday language and accessibility, and is greatly facilitated with the Focusing modality. Recently my appreciation of group work and the value of community in creative and spiritual endeavors has expanded exponentially. I see one of my strengths as bringing people together to support each other being fully and uniquely who we are as humans, while honoring ourselves as the clear awareness in which all of This unfolds.
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