Psychosocial Support @fa

  فو کسنگ  ( با خو د بو د ن ) چيست؟

Blogs @faPsychosocial Support @faUncategorized | Posted on November 13, 2014 | Author Martin Vremec

 * فوکسنگ  کلمه اینګلسی است که  معنی آن توجه عمیق میباشد. در عبارت فوکسینګ یک میتود است که انسان را کمک میکند تا به داخل وجود خو رفته و خود را حس می نماید. به عبارت دیګر این پروسه ما را کمک میکند تا در […]

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Coming Back to Life with Nonviolent Communication, Focusing, Mindfulness, Nature Reconnection and Circle Work

Psychosocial Support @fa | Posted on August 15, 2014 | Author Focusing Initiatives International

The paradigm we’re currently living in makes assumptions that most of us consciously and unconsciously live from. Some of these are beliefs in scarcity and lack, that someone needs to lose for us to win, that we have to use coercion, convincing, manipulation or people […]

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Experts – Part 2

Psychosocial Support @fa | Posted on June 23, 2014 | Author Pat Omidian

The Confidence Clinic was created to help women reclaim control over their own lives. And the staff intentionally stepped back from any presumption of professionalism, any sense that they were part of that group of “expert” people who exercise control over others.

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Experts – Part 1

Psychosocial Support @fa | Posted on June 16, 2014 | Author Pat Omidian

In a flyer advertising my book Creating Confidence: How to Do Social Work Without Destroying People’s Souls, I stated that my expertise consists of knowing that I’m not really an expert in anything other than myself. A friend responded by saying that, in her opinion, I was an expert in a great many more things than “myself”. But I didn’t make that statement to be modest. I wanted to make a point about experts and expertise.

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No one ever listened to me!

Psychosocial Support @fa | Posted on June 3, 2014 | Author Pat Omidian

In May, 2013, I was giving a brief workshop on Level 1 Focusing to a group of women in Islamabad, Pakistan. This group of women, all educated and most of them married, came to the workshop at the encouragement of their friend, who had a […]

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A Public Health Approach to Wellness

Psychosocial Support @fa | Posted on May 6, 2014 | Author Pat Omidian

Focusing International fosters social change by supporting community wellness and psychosocial wellness using a public health approach. One of the best description of the public health approach comes from The Public Health Agency of Canada, which describes this approach as follows: “Important values in public […]

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We promote social change by supporting people and communities as they move towards wellness, seek inner healing, and discover creative solutions to local problems. We base our work on a deep vision of how human beings thrive when physically and emotionally safe, and are free to secure their needs and shape their communities in ways that hold meaning and significance for them. Our approach is grounded in the philosophy and experience of Community Wellness Focusing.

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