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私たちNJFTはThe International Focusing Instituteによって、フォーカシングトレーナー、フォーカシング指向セラピスト資格を与えられた者によって、北ニュージャージー州で活動しているグループです。我々は、フォーカシングを通して、心・からだ・精神の成長を地域の人々のために、トレーニング、ワークショップを提供し続けています。
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フォーカシングって何？
In the 1960s Eugene Gendlin, PhD, led a University of Chicago study whose intent was to figure out why some people change at the end of a course of therapy, and others don't. The resulting insights led Eugene Gendlin to develop Focusing, a practice that would allow anyone to learn how to create true change in their lives through connecting with their own bodily-felt wisdom.
Focusing shows how to pause within the on-going situation and open up space for new possibilities. It shows how to apply open attention to something which is directly experienced but is not yet in words - we call this the bodily felt sense of the situation.
Your body knows more about your situations than you are explicitly aware of, and the body is the source of this felt sense. For example, when you first meet someone, you may have a sense of that person that later proves to have been accurate even though you have no conscious reason for it. With a little training, you can get a body-feel - a felt sense - for the 'more' that is happening in any situation.
This felt sense "for the 'more' that is happening" is the key to fresh new possibilities for forward movement in our lives.
For more information about Focusing, please visit The International Focusing Institute.
フォーカシングって何がいいの？
Books
Focusing by Eugene Gendlin, Ph.D.
The Power Of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self Healing by Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD
Listening To Your Angel: The Science of Focusing on Your Intuitive Intelligence by Kevin Flanagan
Rediscoverinng the Lost Body-Connection within Christian Spirituality by Edwin M. Mc Mahon, Phd. and Peter Campbell, Phd.
Ariticles
Doorways to the Embodied Self -Eugene Gendlin and the Felt Sense by Marian Sandmaier
Audio
Guided Focusing #4- A lead-in before Focusing with Barbara Dickinson
Guided Focusing #6- Awaking to the body's spirit with Glenn Fleisch
Guided Focuing #8- Releasing a block to action with Ann Weiser Cornell
Guided Focusing #9- Dealing with Overwhelm by Clearing A Space with Barbara Dickinson
Videos
About
NJFTの活動
NJFT was founded by Eleanor Buscher. This is her account of how we began:
My friend Joanne Stickles and I started training together in 2000. We're not quite sure when we started teaching. I took my two-year Focusing training with Mary Hendricks Gendlin and was certified in 2003. I think we started teaching around that time, maybe a little before.
My motivation for starting a Focusing group in NJ was that most of the people I met in Jersey didn't want to drive to NYC to continue their training in Focusing. I myself didn't like driving there, but I had to for the two-year training for certification and then for another year of Robert Lee's training. It seemed logical to start a training group in NJ.
Since I used Focusing a lot with clients in my private practice, it was easy to get people interested in learning more and coming to the Focusing workshops that Joanne and I designed. And as our group grew we also designed Focusing retreats that we held at her lake house up in Montague, NJ.
I invited Robert Lee (a major trainer in the Focusing world) to come teach a few times in my office when he was in New York. One time we had 17 people crowded into my waiting room (which comfortably seats 9) and sitting in doorways to the office rooms. Can you imagine that? And once, we had a large group of about 30 people come to a gathering in the basement of my office building!
I encouraged people to get further training, and over the years more and more people became certified. Also, whenever I heard of a newly minted trainer in the area, I reached out to them. Eventually, we had enough certified trainers to start North Jersey Focusing Professionals Association (which eventually became the easier-to-say North Jersey Focusing Trainers).
