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Introduction to Focusing
Focusing Workshops
This series of workshops is designed to build a strong foundation for your own focusing. After completing the four levels, you may apply for the Focusing Teacher Certification program, but the levels themselves are not about teaching, they are about your Focusing.
The level one workshop teaches the basics of focusing alone and with a partner. The next three levels will help you expand your skills, deepen your experience and ground your practice of Focusing. The goal of these workshops is to teach you how to focus and build confidence in being more present with yourself and others.
Focusing Level One: Encountering the Inner Relationship
Bring awareness into your body and sense the subtle ways your inner heart communicates with you. Build trust in this inner relationship and create a safe and nurturing environment within. Learn the first important skills of holding Presence in a Focusing partnership.
Focusing Level Two: Accompanying the Inner Relationship
Become a more facilitative companion to the Focusing process in yourself and others. Learn more advanced listening skills supporting the Focuser’s ability to stay with present awareness and a “leading in” process to help the Focuser start the session. The ability to Focus alone continues to develop.
Prerequisite: Level One with any teacher
Focusing Level Three: Supporting the Inner Relationship
Learn how to hold a session for the Focuser in a gentle and empowering way, while offering suggestions without intruding. Your understanding of the Focusing process deepens as you learn to make contact with a felt sense, keep it company and listen, while holding Presence.
Prerequisite: Level two with any teacher.
Focusing Level Four: Facilitating the Inner Relationship
Learn a compassionate approach to blocks, inner critics, thoughts and distractions, and “resistance.” You’ll learn what to do when your companion feels “nothing” or “too much.” Learn to sense when to let go of rules, recognize exceptions and go with the flow.
Prerequisite: Level three with any teacher.
With a little time and experience it will become clearer how to integrate Focusing into your life and work. For healing professionals who want to use Focusing in their work, ongoing support and learning are available individually and in small learning groups. Feel free to contact me with questions.
The best way to experience something is by doing it. I offer guided Focusing sessions by the hour. We can do a session in my office or over the phone. Yes, you can sit in your favorite chair and I can guide you deeply into your body’s inner knowing.
Focusing Workshops:
All levels are $225 for a two day workshop and include a manual. Most workshops will be held on Vashon Island in my serene studio. Some will be held by conference call over a five week period.
Guided Sessions: $90/hr (Sessions can be purchased as package of three for a 15% discount.)
Free Talks:
I offer free 90-minute introductory talks in person or by conference call. I would be delighted to come out and speak to your organization, agency, clinic or group.
Half-day Demonstration classes: $45/ three hours
Demonstrations classes build on the information given in a free talk and include demonstrating the process with two or more participants.
Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy: Presence and Facilitative language $125/ six hours.
This Full day class is designed for Healing professionals to learn about Focusing and how it is used in psychotherapy. This workshop is both didactic and experiential, giving participants an opportunity to learn about the research, applications and facilitative language of Focusing. Participants will gain an understanding of the unique nature of Focusing as well as practice skills you can begin to use with yourself and others to facilitate presence and inner knowing.
To learn more about how the guided sessions work and which one is best for you, give me a call and/or schedule a free consultation.
What: Northwest Focusing Retreat on Hood Canal
Are you interested in learning more about Focusing? Participants teach mini workshops from a Focusing oriented perspective. No experience necessary! There will be music, laughter, creative opportunities and time for learning, Focusing and meditation as well.
When: March 12th through the 14th
9:15 am to 4:30 pm
Where: Hood canal area
Cost: There is no fee for attending. There will be a cost for room and board.
What: Focusing Level Three: Supporting the Inner Relationship
When: April 10th and 11th
9:15 am to 4:30 pm
Where: Morrison Therapy Studio on Vashon Island
Cost: $225. Level two with any teacher and a commitment to a Focusing partnership. If you do not have a partner but would like one please let me know.
What: Free Introduction to Focusing
Focusing is a different way of knowing. One that gives direct access to your bodies’ inner knowing about any situation. Learn about the research that led to Focusing and the key role your body plays in the process of change. Discover how Focusing shifts your relationship to your emotions, problems and life situations so that you tap into your aliveness and unique creative self. Learn how this method can be applied to any emotional healing process.
When: April 21st
7:00 pm
Where: Conference call
Cost: FREE
Register online at www.morrisontherapy.com or contact Jeffrey Morrison MA, LMHC and Certified Focusing Trainer at 206-935-7850 or Jeffrey@morrisontherapy.com
What: Focusing Level One: Encountering the Inner Relationship
When: May 22nd and 23rd
Where: Morrison Therapy Studio on Vashon Island
Cost: $225. A Focusing session with any teacher is required
What: Focusing Level Four: Facilitating the Inner Relationship
When: June 26th and 27th
9:15 to 4:30
Where: Morrison Therapy Studio on Vashon Island
Cost: $225. Level three with any teacher and ongoing Focusing partnership required. Half price if you are repeating.
What: Changes Group
When: Third Wednesday of each month
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Where: Via conference call
Cost: Free
What: Body Centered Stress Resolution
A three-hour class designed to help you listen and reconnect to your bodies natural way of expressing stress, and how to resolve it.
When: TBA
Cost: $45
What: Getting Unstuck: Body Centered Listening for Moving Forward
A Three hour class designed to help you identify what hold you back from moving forward.
When: TBA
Cost: $45.
What: Focusing Demonstration
Class: Introducing Focusing and watching a guided session. Discussion of the ways Focusing can be integrated into therapy and spirituality.
When: TBA
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Changes Group
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Level 1 Focusing Workshop
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Level 2 Focusing Workshop
Thank you for signing up for our
Body Centered Stress Resolution Class
Thank you for signing up for our
Getting Unstuck:
Body Centered Listening for Moving Forward Class
Thank you for signing up for our
Focusing Demonstration
Call 206-935-7850 to register for the January 17th
Vashon Focusing Retreat
Whether working with individuals or couples, my goal is to collaborate with you to develop a trusting relationship with yourself by facing your pain, anger and fears in a safe, comfortable way. My blend of formal studies in psychology, philosophy, religion, and Inner Relationship Focusing supports both short term practical problem solving and long-term personal growth.
I believe deep down, you already know what’s right for you and just need to learn how to recognize and interpret it. When you do, you’ll love and respect yourself for who you truly are. This heightened intuitive self-respect leads to better relationships, greater control of your emotions, enhanced abilities to be creative and solve problems…and most of all, a more joyful life.
Please feel free to give me a call to learn more about how individual and couple sessions work. There is no cookie cutter approach…everything is tailored to your individual needs.
Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Focusing Trainer. President of the Seattle Counselors Association.
My lifelong desire to understand the world around me led me to degrees in philosophy and religion. Although I studied psychology as an undergraduate, it was my exposure to Focusing, and gaining a deeper understanding of myself, that urged me to concentrate on psychology in depth.
At Seattle University I earned my master’s degree in Existential Phenomenological Psychology. I then worked in agency and school settings putting my newfound knowledge to work with adolescents, parents and teachers…while I concurrently studied postgraduate training in Family Systems Therapy from the Montlake Institute.
Through private practice in West Seattle and Vashon Island, I’ve developed a style of therapy blending psychology, philosophy, religion and Focusing, intent on helping people connect emotionally with themselves and others.
WEST SEATTLE
Sessions available Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m
VASHON
Sessions available Wednesday and Friday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m
$120.00 for a 50-minute therapy session.
First time clients should arrive 10 minutes early to fill out and read some paperwork.
Please call 206-935-7850 to schedule an appointment.
Insurance
I am a preferred provider for many major Insurance plans. Discounts available with cash payments.
Give me a call to learn more and schedule a free initial consultation.
In their own words…
How has focusing helped you?
“Focusing has helped me be with difficult feelings that before would overwhelm me and prevent me from connecting with myself and others. In the past these feelings of depression, rage and lonliness were like enemies wrestling me down to the ground and holding me in a headlock. At times I would be held there for weeks or months wanting an escape. Now I feel like I have a tool to use that provides a nice distance and opens up my field of vision to see and experience the feelings more fully and safely. I am able to comfortably listen to them, feel touched by them and work with them and be transformed in the process. I am much more aware of other feelings like gratitude, joy, and connection and my life feels richer. What I like about focusing is I can do it by myself since I learned how to do it and I can do it anytime.”
How would you describe my approach to therapy?
“What I like best about your approach to therapy is the attention you place on our relationship. It is a warm and caring partnership that is mutual. We work together in the here and now making the experience feel alive and changing. It's more than talk therapy.”
“Working with you helped me to tune in to my inner voice and learn to trust it. It’s a skill set I rely on heavily in my coaching work and also in my business and personal life. I feel more balanced in making decisions based on logic and intuition rather that using the , “What should I be doing,” method. Being able to tap into my inner self has taken me to a new level, leaving me with a strong sense of self and self trust…leading me down a new course in life…a more authentic, courageous course.”
