FOCUSING CLASS: LEVEL i

Learn to Listen to the Wisdom of Your Body

Thursdays | 7:00-9:00pm EDT / 4:00-6:00pm PT | Oct 13-Nov 17, 2022

Please note: Eastern Standard Time begins Nov 6, 2022

Join Marie Sheppard online for this weekly Focusing class.

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Marie Sheppard. Photo credit: Lauren Barkume Photography.

In this introduction to Focusing class, you will learn a practical, step-by-step process that helps you create more calm in your life and feel more confident moving towards the life you want.  Throughout most of our lives, our attention is directed outwards and we apply our minds — our critical thinking skills — to every problem. When emotions come, we react quickly, often identifying with the emotion, or burying it. We then often castigate ourselves for what we did or didn’t do. 

Focusing offers a revolutionary alternative: we can pause, turn inward and then hold our emotions (what comes) with compassion. This simple process enables us to access and embrace the wisdom from our whole body. This allows new insights to emerge and encourages healing to happen.

Focusing is a simple, everyday tool that can help you tap into the positive energy within you and free you from old narratives and emotional patterns.

Goals of class 

  • Develop concrete skills that you can use to Focus outside of class.

    • Build a relationship with your inner self.

    • Emphasis is on you as a focuser (not on '“companioning” skills; that comes later).

    • Provide you with the tools to integrate Focusing skills into your daily life.

    • 1st of four modules

  • Learn ways to support your practice (continued practice over time, between classes).

  • Whet your appetite to learn/practice more (lifelong practice).

What is included: Combination of teaching and practice, within a supportive community

  • Focusing is radical, even revolutionary, given our culture.

    • To learn how to do it, and to integrate it into our lives, we need a combination of theory and practice within a supportive community

    • Course designed to give you that.

    • 1st module of four

    • Class overview

  • Private Focusing Session with Marie

    • Easier to learn focusing after having experienced it

    • 50 min session with Marie Sheppard before class starts

    • Session via Zoom or phone

  • Six classes (once a week over a six week period starting Oct 17- Nov 21)

  • Two hour classes online every Thursday from 7-9

  • Class content: combination of theory, instruction and experience

    • Explanation

    • Demonstrations

    • Practice with a partner. It’s easier to learn when working with a partner.

      • You will be assigned a partner in class, and you will each take turns being the focuser and companion during class (and also during the week after class).

      • Q&A

  • Partnership outside of class.

  • During the week after class, you’ll have a virtual meeting with the same partner and have a chance to practice the same exercise you learned in class.

    • Make this EASY

      • Arrange a mutually agreeable time

      • Use computer, phone or app (your preference) Zoom, WhatsApp, FaceTme)

      • Will take 30-40 mins

  • Materials

    • Work Book (Includes levels 1 and 2)

    • Exercise sheets

3) Cost: sliding scale

4) Class limited to ____ participants