superb online course on psychotherapy and Zen focusing

[DENNIS TIRCH]

Hello Friends,

I just wanted to share this announcement for a wonderful online course that a good friend and true expert in Zen and psychotherapy is conducting.

I don’t have a professional interest or relationship with this training, and just want to share it because it is a rare experience, and should be a gem

of an experience. Details follow below:

Sending Good Wishes,  Dennis _____________________________________________ Dennis Tirch PhD Founding Director, The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy President, The Compassionate Mind Foundation, USA Fellow, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Fellow, Diplomate & Certified CBT Trainer/Consultant , Academy of Cognitive Therapy Past President and Founding Fellow,  NYC-CBT Association Founding Past President and Founding Fellow,  NYC-ACBS Associate Editor, The Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science LEARN ZEN FOCUSING ONLINE   ZEN FOCUSING is one of the 6 Core Practices in The Zen Garland Way and an essential skill for healing, awakening and liberation. 8 Saturday Mornings 9am to 11am EST January 21, 28, February 4, 25, March 4, 18, 25, April 1   Join on a conference call line.   With  Roshi Paul Genki Kahn & Roshi Monika Genmitsu Kahn Rev. Cathleen Kanno Dowd, Susan Eiori Bruce, Rev. Paul Kisho Stern & Trish Kojindo Johnson   Fee: $100 Scholarships available by request. Register before January 17at off...@zengarland.org or call 845-547-2004.   This class series is for those new to Zen Focusing and as a refresher for those who have fallen out of practice. Focusing is practiced in dyads, each partner having a turn as the Focuser or the Companion.    Zen Focusing is a process for helping you access and listen to the wisdom of your BodyMind, bringing into consciousness creative new feelings, images, thoughts and perspectives. In any situation, your BodyMind contains and offers you information if you know how to listen. Many of us don't know how to open to this information because it doesn't follow the linear, left-brain logic of our cognitive mind. We have deeper wells of knowledge within us than we consciously know. Zen Focusing helps to give us access to all of it.   First and foremost, Zen Focusing is used to bring meditative consciousness to problematic tangles in our selves, our relationships, our work and our ability to enjoy life. These tangles generally have four threads: memories with a similar theme; a characteristic feeling tone; a distorted belief about our self and life; and problematic anticipatory and reactive behavior patterns.    Zen Focusing gives us a way to “hold open” a whole “felt sense” of a difficult feeling, situation, or relationship. This “holding open” is done in a spirit of interest and curiosity, suspending judgment, criticism, analysis and interpretation. This holding open allows and welcomes new experiences and perspectives that arise and flow in a creative forward movement we had not imagined. This brings to Zen practice a safe, powerful and profound way of addressing, transforming and integrating thoughts, emotions, behaviors and memories.    CLASS FORMAT The classes will be held online only. Each class will have a 45-minute educational component with time for questions. We will then break into assigned pairs and have an individual dyad 45-minute Focusing session by phone, Skype, FaceTime or Google Hangouts.  Then the class will resume for a 30-minute follow up for comments and questions.  In between classes we will assign partners and ask that each pair schedule a 1 hour Focusing session that week, exchanging roles of Focuser and Companion.  Copyright © 2017 Zen Garland, All rights reserved.  You are a member of Zen Garland  Our mailing address is:  Zen Garland 83 Campbell Ave Airmont, NY  10901 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

Sending Good Wishes, 

Dennis

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Dennis Tirch PhD

Founding Director, The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy

President, The Compassionate Mind Foundation, USA

Fellow, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

Fellow, Diplomate & Certified CBT Trainer/Consultant , Academy of Cognitive Therapy

Past President and Founding Fellow, 

NYC-CBT Association

Founding Past President and Founding Fellow, 

NYC-ACBS

Associate Editor, The Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

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