Detailed course outline
The Felt Sensing and With-Sensing (also called Focusing and Listening) Training is a 50 hour certificate that consitsts of five 10-hour courses. In this five part training, you will learn the wonderful processes of Focusing/Felt Sensing and sensing together with (With-Sensing) in reciprocal partnership. Embedded in the course there will be partnership with other participants of the group. When you’re finished with all of the 5 parts, you will be eligible for exchanging Focusing with an equal partner, and you will be able to start bringing Felt Sensing/Focusing into your own life.
The course is taught by Vera R. Fryd Lyngmo, MSc Counselling and Certified Focusing Trainer.
Each course costs NOK1500,- Convert to your currency
The course is online, on Zoom. You will recieve a link before the course starts
The five courses:
- Introduction to Felt Sensing
- The With-Senser (Listening)
- The body in Felt Sensing
- The Space of Not Knowing
- Critical voices and other obstacles in Felt Sensing. Felt Sensing in everyday life
There needs to be a minimum of 4 participants for the training to start.
1. Introduction to Felt Sensing
This is the first block out of the 5. (You can sign up for only this ocurse, to get a taster, and decide afterwards if you want to do the rest).
In this block you will get to know this wonderful process that gives you access to what you know, your inner voice, and to more compassion and self-compassion, openness and spaciousness, in encountering your own and others’ inner world.
You will also get your first, initial experience of having a Sensing Partnership: The supportive experience of having a listener who is non-intrusive, and who doesn’t give advice or opinions, as well as the challenging, but liberating experience of offering listening in this way.
The goal of this course is to start getting to know this process and its underlying theories and concepts, like Felt Sense, trying out Sensing Partnership, and experiencing this particular, welcoming and warmly curious way of listening to yourself and others
The course has no prerequisites, and fits for anyone with an interest Felt Sensing/Focusing and in listening to yourself and others.
Topics
- Getting to know the Felt Sensing process
- Developing the Felt Sensing Attitude; curiosity, openness and inner kindness and welcoming
- Discovering what happens “under” what we think of as the regular conciousness
- Trying out the Sensing Partnership
Teaching methods:
- Sharing of theory
- Demonstrations
- Group discussions
- Exercises and trying out in the group
- Partnership
- Reflections
- Partnership between classes
Booking and more informaton
The course consists of four 2,5 hour meetings, and is online, on Zoom.
The 5 courses lead to the certificate that gives you Focusing proficiency, which means you can use the method yourself or exchange with another person who knows the method (You can attend the first course alone, and see if you like it, then decide whether you want to do the next ones)
Course dates:
February 16 and 23, & March 2 and 9,
Time: 6.30 pm Oslo, CEST/CET. Convert to your time zone
Second option:
March 23, April 6, 13 & 20
Time: 6.30 pm Oslo, CEST/CET NB! Daylight Time Saving starts March 30 in Europe, so convert April times to your time zone here
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Price for this course: NOK1500,-
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2. The With-Senser (listener)
This is the second course of the 5, building on th first, where we go deeper into the With-Senser’s role.
You will get to know the interesting way of listening without being responsible, and the liberation of being of help without having to know details of the other person’s content.
We explore ways of responding and reflecting as ways of supporting the Felt Senser without being intrusive to, but rather trusting in, the process.
The goal of this course is to become safer in the role of listener, and to be able to ‘lean into’ and trusting the Felt Sensing process.
Prerequisute: Introduction to Felt Sensing
Topics
- With-Sensing skills
- Principles of the listening practice
- The Felt Sense
- Respect for the Felt Senser and the With-Senser
- “We space” and “togetherness” in Sensing Partnership
- How to make space and be present with someone when we don’t know any content
Teaching methods:
- Sharing of theory
- Demonstrations
- Group discussions
- Exercises and trying out in the group
- Partnership
- Reflections
- Partnership between classes
Booking and more informaton
The course consists of four 2,5 hour meetings, and is online, on Zoom.
The 5 courses lead to the certificate that gives you Focusing proficiency, which means you can use the method yourself or exchange with another person who knows the method (You can attend the first course alone, and see if you like it, then decide whether you want to do the next ones)
Course dates:
May 4, 11, 18 & 25
Time: 6.30 pm Oslo, CET. Convert to your time zone
Book this course, or any of the other courses in this series (NB! Each course builds on the previous one)
Price for this course: NOK1500,-
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3. The Body in Felt Sensing
This is the third of the five courses that together constitute the Felt Sensing-Training. In this course we learn what “body” and “surroundings” are in Telt Awnsing, and go deeper into “togetherness” and teh “We-space”.
We get to know more about why and how Gendlin claims that we can know “more” with our body than with our minds, and why it is useful to turn towards that which has not yet formed. We will discover that it is not necessary to be verbal or to always have to put into words what arises in Felt Sensing.
One goal is to get to feel more safe in your own body through Felt Sensing, and with your own expressions and feelings, as well as being in a “we”, both in Sensing Partnership and in life in general.
Prerequisite: The two first courses of this training.
Topics
- What is “the body” in Felt Sensing?
- The connection to the world in Felt Sensing
- How to be with that which comes without words
- Gestures, movements and positions in Felt-Sensing
- Comfortability with the body
- The We-space
Teaching methods
- Sharing of theory
- Demonstrations
- Group discussions
- Exercises and trying out in the group
- Partnership
- Reflections
- Partnership between classes
Booking and more information
The course consists of four 2,5 hour meetings, and is online, on Zoom.
The 5 courses lead to the certificate that gives you Focusing proficiency, which means you can use the method yourself or exchange with another person who knows the method (You can attend the first course alone, and see if you like it, then decide whether you want to do the next ones)
Course dates:
January 11, 18 & 25, February 1., 2021
Time: 6.30 pm Oslo, CET. Convert to your time zone
Book this course, or any of the other courses in this series (NB! Each course builds on the previous one)
Price for this course: NOK1500,-
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4. Following and giving space to your own and other’s process
This is the fourth course of the 5, where we will deepen our understanding of the complexity of listening with openness to that which is unclear. We will look at Gendlin’s concepts of Felt Sense and Felt sense in more detail, to know what it is that we are listening for, and how we can take inn and enjoy when change happens in the body.
The goal is to feel even safer in the contact within, seeing the healing effect of acceptance, and discover that there is much “life” also in that which seems stuck, dark and scary, and even that which seems dead
Prerequisite: three first courses of the training
Topics
- What is clear in what’s unclear
- Being on an “edge” together
- Life forward movemnet
- Radical acceptance
- Felt Sense and Felt Shift
- Sensing for places where there is “life”
Teaching methods
- Sharing of theory
- Demonstrations
- Group discussions
- Exercises and trying out in the group
- Partnership
- Reflections
- Partnership between classes
Booking and more information
The course consists of four 2,5 hour meetings, and is online, on Zoom.
The 5 courses lead to the certificate that gives you Focusing proficiency, which means you can use the method yourself or exchange with another person who knows the method (You can attend the first course alone, and see if you like it, then decide whether you want to do the next ones)
Course dates:
February 15 & 22, March 1 & 8., 2021
Time: 6.30 pm Oslo, CET. Convert to your time zone
Book this course, or any of the other courses in this series (NB! Each course builds on the previous one)
Price for this course: NOK1500,-
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5. Critical voices and other obstacles. Felt Sensing and the world.
This is the last of the 5 courses, and we will learn about trouble and obstacles that can arise in the Felt Sensing process, like inner criticism and resistance. We will also look at how to bring Felt Sensing into everyday life, and get a taste of a few other approches to Felt Sensing.
The goal is to feel even safer in the contact within, seeing the healing effect of acceptance, and discover that there is much “life” also in that which seems stuck, dark and scary, and even that which seems dead
Prerequisite: having completed the four first courses of a similar training.
Topics
- Critical “voices”
- How “resistance” also is wisdom
- How to integrate Felt Sensing into everyday life
- Felt Sensing and the world
- Other approaches to Felt Sensing/Focusing
Teaching methods
- Sharing of theory
- Demonstrations
- Group discussions
- Exercises and trying out in the group
- Partnership
- Reflections
- Partnership between classes
Booking and more information
The course consists of four 2,5 hour meetings, and is online, on Zoom.
The 5 courses lead to the certificate that gives you Focusing proficiency, which means you can use the method yourself or exchange with another person who knows the method (You can attend the first course alone, and see if you like it, then decide whether you want to do the next ones)
Course dates:
March 22 & 29, April 5 & 12, 2021
Time: 6.30 pm Oslo, CET. Convert to your time zone
Book this course, or any of the other courses in this series (NB! Each course builds on the previous one)
Price for this course: NOK1500,-
Convert to your currency
Further learnings:
If you want to learn more about Focusing, Felt Sense, other approaches to Focusing, or Focusing combined with other methods, you can:
- Read about the book “Focusing” by Eugene Gendlin
- Read scientific and other articles, papers and book chapters by Eugene Gendlin and other authors in the Gendlin online library
- Find research articles about Focusing on The International Focusing Institute website
- Buy the book “Focusing-Oriented Pychotherapy” by Gendlin
- Read more about Focusing with Children, with René Veugelers on his website, or watch some of his videos
- Search for “Gendlin Focusing”, or “Focusing-Oriented Therapy”, or “Gendlin Felt Sense” etc. online
- Read about Focusing and Art Therapy
- Read about Wholebody Focusing with Kevin McEvenue, who combined Focusing with Alexander Technique
- Read more about Focusing and trauma on The International Focusing Institute website
- Find people who have combined Focusing with Addiction work on The International Focusing Institute website
- Read about Mindful Focusing, a method that combines Focusing and Mindfulness, with David Rome, Buddhist
- Find Certified Focusing Proferssionals around the world
