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"As a listener you need to know that being with a person in their terms is already a great thing to be doing. Otherwise
you will be looking for something more to do instead of putting your heart into just that." Robert Lee, PhD (www.focusingnow.com)
If you know and love Focusing, but don't have a Focusing Partner, I offer inexpensive reflective listening as part of
my services. For only $30, I will keep you company with careful, full-body Focusing listening for 50 minutes. You can purchase
eight listening sessions for the price of seven and pay only $210 for this package.
I have recently indulged myself in this way (purchasing listening) and find it to be very powerful and satisfying. Having
this amount of time for my Focusing with an experienced listener is really quite a full and moving experience. I highly recommend
it.
"To follow the way of the listener, you must be empty.
Set down, beside you, your feelings, knowledge and know-how. When you are already full, how can there be room for the
other person?
In emptiness, the listener responds freely to the fullness of the other, sensing the movement of life, the subtle ebb
and flow of relational depth.
The empty space is a sacred space, if only we can keep it empty." (www.robfoxcroft.com)
My preferred style of listening is to offer only clear, gentle reflections of what seems most important to you about
what you are saying. Hearing one's own words and taking them back inside is a way to feel them freshly and tends to fill them
out with deeper meaning, enhancing your focusing experience with a greater sense of value and richness.
If you want to also receive active focusing guidance, then I am quite pleased to offer this as well. I can welcome and
invite you into your felt experience so you may easily dwell in that space and receive its gifts and wisdom. Allowing ourselves
to be guided by an experienced focusing facilitator often helps us break out of patterns and takes us into new directions.
You choose what works best for you as you honor your inner being with your focusing attention and my calm companionship
and supportive presence.
"Excellent Listening is one of the greatest gifts [we] can give to anyone, and it is healing, just being a human
listening to another human... Most trauma victims naturally start telling their stories. Excellent listening is a way we can
let inner healing process start to heal them. We practice just listening with no suggestions, no fixing, no judging. The quality
of our listening is like holding the story-teller in kind, calm caring, in which they can begin to find their own calmness."
Nina Joy Lawrence
Allowing yourself to purchase Embodied Felt Listening will bring you a deep sense of aliveness and joy. At least, that
is what it has been like for me.
I am here. For you.
I would be honored to keep you company as you venture inside to your multi-faceted beingness!
Suzanne
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