An experiential workshop for healing professionals, bodyworkers, social workers, and counselors.. 

Learn Powerful body centered and Mindfulness methods for working with clients, Oct 30^th, 8:30am to noon. 

The focus of this workshop will be: 

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• Learning concepts of the bodily felt sense and the level of implicit knowing that we experience with our bodies.
• Identifying a bodily felt sense of an issue, which is the implicit level of bodily experiencing that is felt but not yet clear.
• Practicing the step-by-step Focusing/Mindfulness process of bringing awareness to the bodily felt sense to explore issues.
• Observing when clients are at a felt “edge of an experience and offer prompts to help them stay there to let new feelings and meanings come from there.  

Heartwood Center, 1818 Dempster St. , Evanston, IL 60202. Fee:$65. $55 if registered before 10/10. 

Facilitator: Marsha Smith, LCSW, Certified Focusing Oriented Therapist, is an experiential psychotherapist and trainer in private practice, in Evanston and Chicago. She teaches somatic oriented, client centered methods for psychotherapy, bodywork, mindfulness, stress management, education. 847/323-1717. Smithhuemer@gmail.com

Here are comments from another practitioner who is using Focusing

“At the first Focusing/mindfulness session with Marsha Smith, it was a vague concept for me; I had no idea it would change my massage practice and my life for the better…. As I continued to practice Focusing with Marsha, I was able to engage with my body more deeply than I could on my own. Her supportive presence and verbal cues have led me to some very profound realizations about my physical, mental, and emotional aspects. I have also been able to embrace my present experiences more fully, rather than trying to force them into a narrative, or simply ignoring the parts which are difficult for me.  ” -MO