The Dance within Whole Body Focusing

At the heart of Whole Body Focusing (WBF) there is a dance of two, seemingly opposing, inner movements which create a space inside your whole body in which Focusing can occur naturally.

In the Embrace (or Stepping Forward) you fully allow your inner experiences to be exactly as they are. In the Stepping Back you make room for an embodied sense of “Me” (Self in Presence) separate from your inner experiences.

The balance between both movements is an organic, fluid dance that prevents you from getting entangled with the places that need your Focusing attention. It also allows those places to safely open up within the aliveness of your whole body and within an awareness that can be kind and curious.

This webinar is an in-depth version of the International Focusing Institute’s Highlight taster class Addie hosted in March this year, entitled: “The Dance Within Focusing: Embrace and Step Back”.

Addie warmly invites you to explore with him these two movements: unconditionally accepting your inner world and connecting back to the aliveness and vastness of  “You” – which was once described by Eugene Gendlin as the “different self that can be discovered …under all the packages each of us carries”.

This Zoom webinar will be highly experiential with a variety of practices designed to deepen your experience of Unconditional Acceptance and to explore ways of Stepping Back into You in Presence. There will also be a special section on how to disentangle from negative, unhelpful thought streams, thus creating a protective space for what wants to grow and move forward inside you.

It is intended for those who are familiar with Focusing, though all are welcome to attend.

This webinar is a series of two sessions: October 18 and October 25 for 2 1/2 hours (10 am ET – 12:30 pm ET)

Addie van der Kooy is an International Focusing Institute Certifying Trainer and Coordinator in Wholebody Focusing (WBF). He has been working for almost 25 years with Kevin McEvenue, founder of WBF. Addie is a Dutch national who lives in the south-west of England where he has been offering 1:1 on-line WBF sessions and training for the last 12 years. He is the author of the WBF workbook “Focusing With Your Whole Body”.