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I'm a practicing psychologist, and a Boston area certifying coordinator for the Focusing Institute. I'm also a member of the Institute's Board of Directors and co-director of the Institute's Focusing and Medicine Project. I have 34 years experience integrating Focusing into psychotherapy practice with individuals and couples. Since 1976, I've introduced over a thousand people to Focusing through local, national, and international workshops and classes. I teach to the general public, psychotherapists, Clergy and healthcare professionals.
I am an Adjunct Professor in Psychology at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and formerly at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, Massachusetts.
Saturday April 3, 2010, 2-5 PM
Focusing on What You Love:
Positive Psychology in Everyday Life
At the Arlington Center, 369 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington, MA
Contact Susan Lennox at slennox1@juno.com for information
To Register, go to ArlingtonCenter.org or download and mail a registration form.
Most of us reflexively dwell on our problems and concerns. However, there is convincing recent research that by placing attention on positive experiences and positive feelings (such as gratitude and enjoyment), we can think more effectively and expansively. In addition, attending to the positive in one’s life has been shown to cultivate psychological resilience. People who have a higher ratio of "positivity" to “negativity” have more energy and better health. In this workshop, we will explore how Focusing can be used to enhance and deepen “positivity.” We will reflect on the three types of experiences that constitute happiness. We will conclude by evoking our personal signature strengths and exploring ways to apply those strengths to the challenges we face.
2010-2011 Monthly Focusing Events
at The
Arlington Center,
369 Massachusetts Avenue,
Arlington, MA
Facilitated by Joan Klagsbrun, PhD., Susan Lennox, PhD., and Others
Starting Fall 2010, Changes meetings alternate with Focusing-oriented presentations. Changes provides an opportunity for both those new to Focusing, and experienced Focusers, to practice within a supportive community. Newcomers will have an opportunity to learn the Focusing process. A voluntary donation of $8 helps cover the rent.
Focusing, developed by Eugene Gendlin, is a mind/body/spirit process for accessing the body’s innate wisdom and cultivating compassion towards oneself and others. Focusing is useful for decision-making, clarifying life issues, moving past blocks, enhancing creativity, deepening spirituality, and knowing oneself more deeply in each moment.
All events are at The Arlington Center. No events in July and August.
Sun. 9/12/10 |
Changes |
Sat. 10/9/10 |
Leading the Examined Life: Focusing as a Tool for Self-Inquiry Plato tells us that Socrates said that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” This workshop highlights the practice of Focusing for self-inquiry, based on the work of Eugene Gendlin, another philosopher, later turned psychologist. The underlying premise is that knowing, learning, and behavior change involve more than just conscious intention. They involve an intuitive “felt sense” of what is true now and what needs to happen. The ability to employ this way of knowing can be cultivated and has the potential to be transformative. In this three-hour workshop you will have an opportunity to learn about or deepen your understanding of the practice of Focusing. You will use it to conduct an inquiry into what you know—but don’t yet know you know—about something of importance to you. |
Sun. 11/7/10 |
Changes |
Sun. 12/5/10 |
Changes |
Sat. 1/29/11 |
Opening Creativity through Focusing Each of us holds within ourselves a wellspring of creativity -- messages and intuitions held in our deeper selves-- but many of us lack the knowledge of how to tap into this creative source or to hear these messages and intuitions. This workshop is designed to enhance creativity and to get stuck projects moving again by opening paths to this wellspring. Through a combination of discussion and play, participants will examine obstacles to creativity such as writers block and experiment with creative play in writing, drawing and movement. Focusing allows us to set aside the expectations and assumptions that block the creative flow. Free of these blocks, we can begin to discover and to enjoy our authentic creative voices. |
Sun. 2/6/11 |
Changes |
Sat 3/5/11 2-5 PM |
Focusing to Overcome Procrastination & Action Blocks Have you ever wondered why you just can’t seem to “make yourself” do those important things you “say” you want to accomplish? Do you find yourself getting distracted or delaying each time you set out to accomplish your mission? Do you keep hitting the wall of you own inner resistance? Focusing is useful for decision-making, clarifying life issues, and moving past blocks. In this workshop we will use Focusing to uncover the hidden sources of resistance and develop the inner alignment that will enable you to move forward in your life. |
Sun 4/10/11 |
Changes |
Sat. 5/8/11 |
Changes |
Sun 6/19/11 |
Changes |
January through May 2010
Focusing-Oriented Therapy supervision group for advanced Focusing Oriented Therapists, meeting one Saturday morning per month.
March 25-28, 2010
Two presentations at the Psychotherapy Networker Conference in Washington D.C.:
A daylong workshop in Focusing: Contacting Your Creative Flow
A morning workshop in Dealing with Life-Changing Illness
April 10th and 11th, 2010
A presentation for FORP (Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy) in NYC on Learning Focusing and How to teach Focusing to professional colleagues.
April 17, 2010
A daylong seminar on Opening Doorways to the spiritual in psychotherapy through Focusing.
Phone: 617-924-8515
Email: joanklag@aol.com
TRANSFORMING FEAR: What We Can Learn from Some People with Cancer
Featured in Discovering the Power of Focusing: An Introduction to Focusing, a video produced by NadaLou Productions.
Featured practitioner on Healthjourneys Guided Imagery Resource Center.
Listening and Focusing: Holistic Health Care Tools for Nurses Published in Nursing Clinics of North America, Volume 36, No. 1, 2001
Focusing, Illness and Healthcare The Folio, Volume 18, No.1,1999, issue on Focusing and Medicine
How to Teach a Workshop in Focusing A two-hour script that can be amended for workshops, classes, or presentations of any length. Available from the Focusing Institute online book store.
A Focusing Approach to Life-Changing Illness A videotape produced by Nada Lou. You can order from Nada Lou Productions.
What is Focusing? a chapter in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines ed. Nancy Allison, The Rosen Publishing Group, 1999.
Focusing: a Tool
for Insight and Stress Reduction a chapter in Medicine and the
Mind
ed. Ian Gawler, 1999 Available from The
Gawler Foundation.
Focusing - Listening to the Deeper Self CD which you can order through the Focusing Institute online book store or from joanklag@aol.com.