Becoming self-empowered with mindful, body-centered Focusing.        

Today there is new generation of body-centered practices backed by nuero-science, that go beyond words and thoughts and reach the bodily experiencing beneath THINKING that affects human behavior and change. The discovery of this bodily felt awareness, which Eugene Gendlin named a felt sense, is at the foundation of the whole body mind therapy revolution.

Reactions to fear often happen without pausing to let a felt sense of the situation form. Focusing offers a mindful way to let a felt sense form, before ‘reacting’ with the limited set of usual options such as fight or flight. Paying attention to a felt sense can produce an opening to more meaning and new options for living forward.

Friday, April 21, 9:30 to 4:30. Heartwood Center, 1818 Dempster, Evanston  

An experiential training for therapists, healing and health practitioners, teachers, and all those interested to learn a powerful process for personal, spiritual and therapeutic growth.

Participants will experience powerful new ways to constructively work with fear and anxiety:

• Applying the concept of the bodily felt sense to the process of healing and change.
• Learning the step by step process of focusing to constructively work with fear and anxiety.
• Learning ways to help others “be with” the experience of fear that leads to steps of change.

Registration: $125. $100 before April 1st. 6 CEU’s available. Space is limited.  www.marshasmithcounseling.com  smithhuemer@gmail.com.

James Iberg, Ph.D. has worked as a Focusing-oriented therapist since 1973 in Evanston and Chicago. He is a Certifying Coordinator for  the Focusing Institute and was on the faculty of the Illinois School of   Professional Psychology. He has  worked closely with Eugene Gendlin, author of Focusing, on research and theory.

Marsha Smith, LCSW, has been a person-centered therapist for 25 years. In her practice she supports people to enhance their natural abilities and resilience to deal well with challenges and live more fully. She trains and supervises psychotherapists and healing professionals and facilitates Focusing/mindfulness classes. Marsha is a certified Focusing trainer.