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Breakthrough Moments in Therapies: Facilitating Felt Senses Workshop - Somatic Therapies SIG

  • 06/01/2014
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Westside Pavilion Community Room B - 10800 West Pico Blvd, Suite 312 Los Angeles, CA 90064 (between Pico and Westwood in West LA)
Los Angeles CAMFT Somatic Therapies Special Interest Group Presents:


Breakthrough Moments in Therapy:
Facilitating Felt Senses Workshop

With Ann Weiser Cornell

 Sunday, June 1st
1pm to 4pm

$35
3 CEUs Included

When: Sunday, June 1st, 1pm to 4pm

Where: Westside Pavilion Community Room B (map)
             10800 West Pico Blvd, Suite 312
             Los Angeles, CA 90064
             (Between Overland Ave and Westwood Blvd)

Price: $35 (includes 3 CEUs)

Breakthrough Moments in Therapy:
Facilitating Felt Senses Workshop

With Ann Weiser Cornell

Focusing, developed by Eugene Gendlin, is the process of listening to your body in a gentle, accepting way and hearing the messages your inner self is sending you. This process bypasses intellectualization and bringing awareness to "felt senses" that are your body’s way of telling you what’s needed in your life situations leaving you feeling calmer, smarter, and clearer. Focusing can help you manage the upsets of daily life and move beyond old traumas that can manifest addiction, procrastination, anxiety, depression, emotional overwhelm, and dysfunctional relationships. Felt senses are fresh; they look ahead; they are about what’s needed. When you learn Focusing, you learn how to find felt senses, be with them, and listen. From there, your whole life can change.

In this workshop you will learn:
  • The difference between the universal emotions, like anger, sadness, and joy, and the unique experience of a situation or moment represented in a felt sense
  • When and how to use specific techniques - such as the empathic prompt and facilitative language - to help clients stay with, rather than label and interpret, their moment-to-moment experience
  • How to facilitate felt senses with clients who are over-intellectualizing, low-affect, and self-critical

Ann Weiser Cornell PhD is an internationally known author and seminar leader who has been working with Eugene Gendlin since 1972. Ann has given presentations and trainings in Focusing for psychotherapists at the Psychotherapy Networker Conference, the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, and the Cape Cod Institute. Ann’s latest book is Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change.

To learn more, go to: www.focusingresources.com


Questions? Contact Cathy Graf at 310-613-3340 or cgrafmft@yahoo.com

Refund Policy: Registrants who do not attend or fail to request a refund one week prior to scheduled event will be charged full fee. A $20 charge will be applied to denied credit cards charges.

Provider PCE 2600. Course meets qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs, LCSWs and LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.



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