JOCELYN JACKS KAHN
Certified Focusing Trainer
Work With Me
What happens in a guided session?
Sessions are one full hour.
We take some time to gently bring our awareness to what's already here supporting us.
This includes our human selves, our physical bodies, supportive energies such as our breath and the sensations of aliveness in our bodies, our environment, and our mutual human relating.
We’ve opened up to this greater field that holds us.
So now we give an invitation to our bodily wisdom to show us something helpful about the problematic situation you’ve brought to the session.
Your body has been with you since birth.
It holds a tremendous amount of experiential knowledge around every aspect of your life. And so I will guide you throughout the session in noticing where your issues are showing up in your body as well as in your everyday life, and in being with those places with kindness, patience, and friendly curiosity.
The key is staying in touch with our actual bodily experiencing of our story. In a way, it’s very simple. But our habitual way of being with ourselves involves primal survival strategies that involve jumping away from actually experiencing our painful situations.
This is where I come in. Essentially, my job is to guide you into staying with your own felt experience long enough to allow it to unfold and open up into the larger flow of your life.
All you need to bring to the session is yourself.
I will be your guide through it all.
Classes & Groups
NJFT Monthly Changes Group:
Ongoing Focusing Partnership Practice
Group is Free | 2nd Sundays
2nd Sunday of Each Month (Unless Otherwise Noted)
9:00-10:30 am Eastern Time (check the time for your area here).
On the 2nd Sunday of each month (unless otherwise noted), North Jersey Focusing Trainers (NJFT) offers a Changes Group. This is an opportunity to be paired up with another Focuser to practice your Focusing partnership skills in a friendly and supportive space.
NJFT members take turns facilitating the sessions. I am one of the rotating NJFT facilitators. The facilitator for the morning’s session will choose an aspect of Focusing or a life theme, give a brief talk and attunement, and then send us into breakout rooms for our Focusing partnerships.
Who is this Group for?
This is a practice group for the benefit of beginning, intermediate and advanced Focusers. Beginning Focusers should have learned the basics of Focusing.
How did Changes Groups come to be?
Eugene Gendlin, the founder of Focusing, was a Professor at the University of Chicago when National Guard members killed four students and wounded nine at Kent State University protests against the Vietnam war in 1970. He had already begun developing Focusing - he began his Changes Groups to give students an opportunity to get together and process their feelings around what was happening at the time. The name is based on Bob Dylan’s song, "The Times They Are A-Changin' ".
Would you like more details on our Changes Groups?
Go to the Events page by following this link here.
Would you like to sign up to be notified of NJFT Changes Groups each month?
(1) Click the link below to go to the NJFT website Events page; (2) Scroll to the bottom; and (3) Fill in the simple form and click Submit to receive monthly notification of upcoming Changes groups (as well as occasional notice of other events).
"When a part of me is able to feel loved,
it awakens to its own healing."
– Kevin McEvenue
Founder of Wholebody Focusing
Being a Healing Presence
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