Find out more about "Introduction to Focusing"

This is a session to find out more or "Taste and See" what the twelve sessions, exploring focusing with Dana Ganihar and Baruch Brenner from the Shakio Institute, will be about. THERE IS NO CHARGE. 

Dana is an experienced Focusing instructor and a teacher of the philosophy of Eugene Gendlin, and Baruch is a multidisciplinary artist, rabbi and certified Focusing instructor who investigates and teaches performance art and Jewish mysticism.

To book for the "Taste and See" session please go here.

For more information about the introductory course (which is twelve sessions), session dates and bookings for the course, please go to https://shakio.org/en/focusing-australia/.

About Focusing:

Focusing is a practice developed by the philosopher and psychologist Eugene Gendlin a professor at Chicago University. At its core, it acknowledges that every experience, situation, or problem is broader and much more intricate than what a person perceives. Directing attention to our “felt sense” of what is happening in a situation allows for the ‘more’ within it to open up. This is a ‘more’ that cannot be understood through regular thinking, but only through the “felt meaning” which is something that we sense in the body. The Focusing practice teaches precise steps through which a body sensation is transformed into a new understanding. These movements are what allow us to transition from closed, stuck, or ‘confused’ life situations towards new life movement.

In Focusing as developed at the Shakio Institute, we focus not only on changing life situations but also on learning how focusing can transform the self and our ways of perceiving life.

Focusing is not just aimed at alleviating and providing a “better solution” for life problems, or just at uncovering the complexity inherent in every situation; all these do, in fact, take place as part of the focusing process, but focusing also teaches the person to recognize themselves as a ‘being in creation(ing)’. A being who is continually being created and is a partner to the process of their creation.

As well as being relevant to all of life and many specific areas such as health and education, Focusing is also particularly helpful for our contemplative spiritual journey and very relevant to spiritual companioning – for both companions and those they journey with.