DiaPraxis

Awakening the Spirit of

Practical
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Collaboration

Especially for Facilitators and Mediators:
The Practice of Life-Spirit Focusing

Cultivate the ground of Presence while offering compassionate listening
to your own inner process. As a gentle and powerful "inner listening" practice, Focusing develops the capacity to:

• listen deeply and offer Presence
• facilitate our own inner healing
• support and deepen creative expression
• connect with our organism's life-forward energy
• tap reliably into our intuition and body-based knowing

Focusing is a highly effective research-based method where we learn to attend to the unfolding edge of our embodied awareness. Originally developed by Dr. Eugene Gendlin, Focusing's applications include psychotherapy,  medicine, philosophy, and spiritual growth. 

Focusing can be particularly helpful for facilitators and mediators who want to deepen their ability to listen and their capacity to offer Presence to others, since it allows us practice with our own selves. We can experience directly the felt shifts that occur as we offer a deeper quality of Presence to our own inner stream of experiencing. As we learn to relate to our own organism as a living bio-feedback system, we are able to tap into a vast field of life and meaning that is always freshly available if we are willing to listen.

As a certified Focusing teacher, I offer training in Focusing to individuals and groups, both over the phone and in person. I enjoy making this work available to facilitators, mediators, and other change agents, as a tool for both personal renewal and professional growth.

Rosa Zubizarreta began Focusing practice in 1998. She brings her background in education, organizational consulting, and mindfulness practice to her work with individuals and groups, and is certified as a Focusing teacher by the Focusing Institute.

"Your physically felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people - in fact, the whole universe. This sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body as it is felt from the inside."
                                                                                                    Eugene Gendlin