The Community Wellness Focusing Interest Group was for me one of the highlights of the International Focusing Conference in Cambridge (uk) July 20th-27th 2016. It was an experience of co-creating a community through listening, translation, our previous communities and Focusing attitude.

Some months have passed, and I have been writing about my experiences at the Conference (all posts indexed in this post in Spanish), and a warm and tender feeling comes to me when I remember this Group. Every morning during the Conference all participants joined one of the 15 Interest Groups. These were groups intended to be an open space to share personal and professional perspectives about Focusing in specific domains. I was tempted by many of the titles (there was even a “No-interest Interest Group”!) and I am very happy about my choice, while I regret not being able to split myself in order to attend to many others…

Community Wellness Focusing Interest Group at the International Focusing Conference, Cambridge (RU), Lub Xya hli ntuj 2016.

The Community Wellness Focusing Group was hosted by Nina Joy Lawrence, Pat Omidian and Heidrun Essler, who created a holding space for all of us to participate and, as they advanced, “to bring Focusing skills and attitudes into our daily lives and into community groups” –including our own group. Ua tsaug!

The first element was listening. We were sixteen participants from six different countries (Afghanistan, China, Germany, Spain, UK and USA), and not everybody was fluent in English, so the first step to build our community was to ensure that everyone could express themselves and understand anything that was said: that meant that we ended using three different working languages (Aaskiv, Chinese and Spanish). What could have been a burden (translating, for example, what a Chinese participant said to English, and then to Spanish, and then replying in English, and then translating to Chinese and to Spanish, and so on) became a precious gift: the possibility to listen to each other from a deep Focusing attitude, even before the words were translated. So we cultivated a slow-paced way of being together, a space where everyone was listening to people speaking in foreign languages and, somehow, at the end, we were starting to understand each other’s experience before translation.

A second experience that was very moving for me was translation itself. I have been translating in different settings and from different languages for over two decades, and very usually in professional settings (for example, translating foreign Focusing trainers here in Spain). But for me translating a Focusing conversation always brings a special effort, how to translate both the words and the implicit experience in those words.

That took me to a different level: the fact that I was translating (English and Spanish, both ways) in a group that felt like a community reminded me of how I used to translate immigrant teenagers for group-building in an association that no longer exists. When I shared that experience of both satisfaction about being able to translate in a community setting and grief about the disappeared association, other fellow members shared about the communities they had lost too –and how our previous communities were present and had a space in what we were creating.

During those four sessions we talked, tried exercises, commented, discussed… As I shared in the final row, I had arrived to the group with the main goal of getting ideas, techniques and exercises to create a community that uses Focusing. tiam sis, I have taken away something very different: mus rau Focusing attitude that fosters presence, that allows the group and each of its members to attend to a different quality of feeling, a connection that is kept in the body.

Those are some learnings that will stay for me (in fact I have visited Focusing Initiatives International, the organization that helps spread Community Wellness Focusing, and I have joined the Community Wellness Focusing Discussion List), as well as a deep gratitude toward our hosts and every member of the group. Now is the time to carry all these experiences forward creating communities with this Focusing attitude.

I wish for those of you who read me deep experiences of community-building like this.

F. Javier Romeo-Biedma

Note: Picture posted with the permission of the members. No personal names are given in respect for their privacy, apart from the hosts that publicly offered the Interest Group.

Nyeem daim ntawv no nkag teb chaws no ua lus Askiv.

Ntxiv rau ntawm kab Ncej yav dhau los, thiab zoo txheeb ze rau nws, Yog kuv lub sij hawm teem tseg raws li ib tug nyob hauv International Relations nyob rau hauv lub Rooj Tswjhwm Saib cov Directors ntawm lub koom haum Spanish lub koom haum ntawm Focusing, Ib lub caij ntau ntawm tus hu kom tes hauj lwm uas muaj emerged ntawm Kuv kev koom tes hauv lub International Focusing sablaj hauv Cambridge (United Kingdom) Xya hli ntuj tas los no 2016.

Raws li kuv hais nkag teb chaws, hauv Spanish lub koom haum ntawm Focusing Peb to taub tias, As Well as tes hauj lwm ntawm kev qhia ntawv thiab accompaniment nrog Focusing yog feem ntau ib tug neeg, Txhua yam nrog nws style thiab rhiab, thiab ib txwm nyob rau hauv qhov kev pom zoo criteria thiab competences, Txawm li ntawd los, tag nrho cov koom haum thiab koom tes yuav tsum tuaj ntawm collegiate lug..

Yog li ntawd, vim, Thaum kuv caw kuv tuaj koom nrog Kev ua tswv cuab ntawm lub koom haum International Focusing lub koom haum raws li nyob New York (Rau lub koom haum thoob ntiaj teb Focusing), Kuv ua txoj hauj lwm no muaj rau lub koom haum Spanish lub koom haum ntawm Focusing, Yuav tsum nyob ntawm leej twg ua ib tug sawv cev ntawm Spain. Dab tsi yuav kuv surprise thaum kuv tau caw los xav tias kuv tus kheej ib vocal txuas rau International Relations nyob rau hauv cov Pawg Thawj Coj Saib Kev thiab txais tias tib txoj hauj lwm thoob ntiaj teb. Kuv txais lub tswv yim txog, Cov kauj ruam tsim nyog contemplated nyob rau hauv cov cai muaj tau noj thiab kuv nyuam qhuav tau koomhaum neeg.

Kuv pog yuav tau pab txhawb rau lub zej zog Focusing hauv Spain, los ntawm qhov uas kuv tau txais heev npaum li cas. Txij thaum pib ntawm kuv txoj kev kawm nyob rau hauv 2009, Lub teb chaws hnub, Caij ntuj sov, saib xyuas, Lub Diploma thiab lub npe ntawm Certified trainer thiab Certified Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist thiab tag nrho cov kev sib cuag thiab kev loj hlob ntsiab lus teb, Kuv twb mas nws yeej tau teeb raws li ib tug Focusing Pro (thiab ua ib tug neeg).

Thiab hauv no koob caw ua tes hauj lwm (Thaum nws hais tias Isabel Gascon, Kuv tus Coordinator Xa Mus Cuag Kuv Tus Neeg Ua, tus “Kauj Ruam Xya” Focusing: “Thiab dab tsi yog tag nrho cov caw koj tuaj??”), No mas, rau kuv tias nws yog lub sij hawm los pab txhawb kuj los ntawm txoj hauj lwm no, Tsuav kuv ua hauj lwm yog pab tau thiab constructive. Nws yog ib tug sib tw ua hauj lwm nrog thiab kev pab kom muaj coob tus neeg kuv paub., Cov uas muaj nplua nuj nyob rau hauv qhov chaw uas kuv nyob rau hauv ib lub caijnyoog twg humility thiab kev kawm.

Li ntawd, kuj los ntawm txoj hauj lwm tshiab kuv nyob ntawm koj qhov kev pab cuam, Hoping contribute rau tus tseev tsim ntiaj teb awareness ntawm tus richness ntawm lub Focusing uas peb ua nyob ib ncig ntawm no, Thiab kuj pab txhawb tswv yim thiab tswv yim los ntawm lwm qhov chaw uas tuaj ntawm no mob thoob ntiaj teb relations..

F. Javier Romeo

Raws li kuv hais lwm ncej, koom tes nrog Tseev tsim ntiaj teb Focusing sablaj hauv Cambridge (United Kingdom) Xya hli ntuj tas los no 2016 Nws muaj meant ntau qhib, paths tshiab, Txoj kev tshiab los incorporate Focusing rau hauv kuv lub neej thiab muab nws. consciousness, thiab kuj hu mus ua tes hauj lwm.

Rau kuv nws twb tau kuj ceeb tias yuav tsum tau caw kom tau ib feem ntawm pawg neeg koom tes (Pawg Neeg Koom Tes) ntawm qhov Tseev tsim ntiaj teb Focusing lub koom haum raws li nyob New York (Rau lub koom haum thoob ntiaj teb Focusing). Pawg neeg no yog ib tug purely advisory lub cev (tsis txiav txim siab) thiab yeej ua los ntawm tuaj pab dawb, Uas tswv yim lub cev governing lub cev rau tag nrho cov teeb meem uas yuav tsum tau ua nrog ib tug nyob hauv lub koom haum: Txhawb Kev Ua Tswv Cuab, Yuav ua li cas kom nws tus nqi pom, Yuav ua li cas thiaj txhawb tau cov tswv cuab. Lawv txoj hauj lwm yog saib cov tswv cuab thiab nrhiav tau emerging xav tau thiab tej qhov chaw rau tswv yim.. Nws yog ib pawg neeg thoob ntiaj teb heev., Nrog videoconference rooj sib tham thiab kev ua hauj lwm ua ke. Nws yog zoo li no ib pawg tshiab uas nws tseem tsis muaj nws seem nyob rau hauv cov lub website ntawm lub koom haum. Thiab kuv, Uas kuv muaj enjoyed cov kev pab cuam uas yog ib tug nyob hauv ib tug neeg txij thaum 2010, Ua ntej ua ib tus kws qhia nyob rau hauv txoj kev kawm, thiab ces ua ib tug kws qhia Certified Trainer (2012) thiab ua ib certified Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist (2014), Kuv tau txais raws li ib tug yawm saub yuav tau pab txhawb lwm tus neeg thiab rau cov qauv ntawm lub koom haum.

Rau kuv nws tseem ceeb heev ua raws li cov kab ntawm qhov chaw ua hauj lwm ntawm qhov chaw ua hauj lwm Spanish lub koom haum ntawm Focusing, Uas peb ua hauj lwm hauv txoj kev kawm, accompaniment los yog lwm teb ntawm Focusing ntawm tus neeg theem, Tab sis, txoj kev uas relations nrog lwm pawg thiab cov chaw yog txiav txim siab collegially. Yog li ntawd, vim, Kuv xa cov caw rau lub Rooj Tswjhwm Saib cov Directors ntawm lub koom haum Spanish lub koom haum ntawm Focusing thiab kuv nyuam qhuav tau koomhaum thiab Neeg rau International Relations, Yuav tau xav tias txoj hauj lwm rau pawg neeg koom tes.

tshwj xeeb tshaj yog, Kuv twb pib nyeem cov ntaub ntawv (Ntau lawm generated nyob rau hauv ib lub xyoos xwb) thiab kuv mus koom kev sib txoos. Kuv vam tias yuav contributing rau lub ntiaj teb ntawm Focusing hauv txoj kev no. Thiab yog hais tias koj muaj kev pom zoo los yog suggestions txog txoj kev ua tswv cuab ntawm lub koom haum International Focusing lub koom haum, Kuv yuav zoo siab hnov lawv.

Thaum koj muab koj qhov kev pab tshiab tso ua ntej hauv ib lub neej tshiab,

F. Javier Romeo