Smartview Conversations

Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions. We will model how to create a safe, playful environment that facilitates neural plasticity. This space is all about RELATIONSHIPS. We lean heavily on Inner Relationship Focusing, Interactive Focusing and Relational Neuroscience, plus a variety of other modalities like Non-Violent Communication. These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome. We encourage Smartview Stories fans and educators using our Facilitator Guide to attend. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.

No Experience Necessary!

Come Create with Us!

Bring all of yourself to this gathering, not just the "shiny parts"!

Let's presume welcome and extend welcome.

Pause a bit here. By creating a space between judgments and reactions, we can listen to others and ourselves more fully.

May 21, June 25 (11:30am only), July 16, Sept 24, Oct 22, Nov 19

Life's next treasure lies in HOW we tell our story.

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Skills you can grow during our time together.

* become aware of and modify unconscious reactions and patterns that are not serving you.

* learn to utilize the three Inner Companions from Smartview Stories to make valuable aspects of Gendlin's philosophy and our body/brain neuroscience easy to understand.

* learn to discern when you are living from a partial view and when you are holding space for the whole of your body's wisdom in this situation.

* our mind is 'sticky', it likes to hold on to patterns it knows from the past. We will become more efficient at recognizing these sticky strategies and gain insight into moving beyond them in this playful community environment.

* the ability to pause and move into your body, into the present moment, or over to your right hemisphere to access a bigger picture and potentially do something new here. Each time we do this rewires our brain toward a sense of working together around future similar situations.

* via improvisational role play during our time together, practice resilience in rolling with what is here now.

* improve your ability to interact with others with kindness and clarity that everyone and everything is safe and with a sense of we're in this together.

* develop more ways to support yourself and those around you in processing challenging interactions.

* become aware of embodiment techniques that you can incorporate into your daily life to encourage holding on to new patterns that are emerging for you.

* receive neuroscience related handouts to support you in practicing these concepts in your daily life.

Event Details

Each of us lives in community. Our family is our first one. In Focusing, we learn to create a space of radical acceptance for our inner community. In our time together here, we will create a safe, playful environment to explore how we show up for the communities outside of us.

Our time together will be heavily experiential. Inspired by a short excerpt from Smartview Stories, we’ll utilize universal themes and prompts from our recent life experiences. There will be one or two skills apparent in the excerpt we read that we will explore further with our own recent experience. We will often use role-play scenarios utilizing the three inner companions in the stories. Sometimes we’ll invite writing, art and movement. We’ll usually go into one pair or small group breakout space. Expect to laugh here, humor seems to be an essential quality of being when we invite our fears around holding our own sense of self in the world.

Smartview Stories is a series of family books written by Sandy that explore living a Focusing way of life in community. The stories illustrate both what is going on outside of us as well as inside of us via three Inner Companions based on neuroscience concepts. We’ll become familiar here with how the neuroscience of these Inner Companions function within our own lives.

An aspect we practice in this community is both presuming welcome (I belong) and extending welcome (you belong). From here, a We Space between naturally forms. I encourage self-empowerment and enjoy working alongside members of the Learning Community. I have invited them to join in co-teaching these webinars. Together, we create a magical carpet ride we extend toward you.