Losing Altitude?
Keep your spirits up during your job search!
It is hard to imagine anyone who isn’t feeling the effects of the economic crisis. Job loss and shrinking work opportunities are serious business. This can go beyond money problems to threaten even the most optimistic person’s confidence.
For most of us, work plays a central role in our sense of identity. No one outgrows the need to be productive and to be appreciated for a job well done. The stress of being unemployed or underemployed can make you withdraw from friends and family. This ends up isolating you just when you need the most support.
Why join my Work Support Group?
• To keep you in touch with your accomplishments.
• To keep your spirits up and your mind sharp.
• To find your natural way of networking.
• To set and meet your own goals.
• To stay true to yourself.
Details: An 8-week group with skilled leader. This is not group therapy. It is a place to contribute the skills, humor, and wisdom that made you an effective professional in the first place!
Members: Recently unemployed or underemployed. Willing and able to contribute to an intelligent, lively, respectful discussion with like-minded others.
Location: 250 West 90th Street, Apt. 6I.
Date/Time: Thursdays, starting June 18-August 20. 6:30-7:45.
Cost: Payment in advance for 8 sessions. Fee: Minimum of $10 minimum per session. You decide what you can afford. Pre-group interview required, no charge.
Joan Lavender PsyD is a psychologist with over 30 years experience working with people to create satisfying balanced lives. Her work includes Experiential Focusing, a psychotherapy process shown to correlate with positive life changes, enhanced self-esteem and a sense of wholeness.
Telephone 212-866-0461
www.joanlavender.com joan@joanlavender.com www.healyourenvy.com
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THE FOCUSING INSTITUTE TWO YEAR COURSE
The Focusing Institute will be running a 2 year course in Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy. This will consist of one day every month of either workshops or coaching/integration days. Charlotte Howorth, LCSW, will be overseeing the course and will be teaching half of the workshops. The other workshops will be taught by nationally and internationally respected Focusing teachers. Participants will also receive individual coaching in Focusing partnership skills, as well as supervision into how to bring Focusing into their psychotherapy practice. At the end of the course The Focusing Institute will certify participants as Focusing Oriented Psychotherapists and Focusing Teachers and Trainers. The course starts on May 9th but people may join as late as September as long as they participate in make-up training days before hand. For more details go to www.focusing.org and go to “Store” and then “Training.”
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Out There on your Own?
Women’s Group
Summer Season 2009
New York City is a wonderful place with lots of opportunities for women of all ages to challenges themselves. Yet, even in the midst of all this energy, it is easy to feel lonely! This group is for any aspiring woman who feels like she is out there on her own.
It doesn’t matter if you are busy, successful, studying hard or just vacationing in New York for the summer, you can still feel alone. And it doesn’t matter if you married, raising children, choosing to be single or dating, you can still feel like you are out there on your own. It’s your definition that matters.
Since each of us is unique, my purpose is to create a support group where each woman will find what she needs to create the next step in her life. Speaking from the heart will be part of our process. I will teach you skills that you can use for the rest of your life. Our group will become a safe place that will deepen as you grow.
What you need to know:
Purpose: Support Group – Summer Season 2009
Members: Ten women willing and able to contribute to a friendly, inspiring group experience. Not group therapy. Age 21 on.
Time/Date: June 24-August 19. Eight Weds. Evenings. 7:30pm-8:45pm.
Place: 250 West 90th Street (between Broadway and West End Ave.)
Fee: $30 per session. PreGroup Interview: No Charge.
Joan Lavender, PsyD is a relational psychotherapist/psychologist with over 30 years experience working with people to create successful balanced lives in New York City. Her work integrates Experiential Focusing, a psychotherapy process shown to correlate with positive life changes, enhanced self-esteem and the experience of wholeness. Joan is a lifelong New Yorker who writes about psychotherapy change process, body image, eating issues, loneliness, competition and envy and other challenges of contemporary life.
Telephone 212-866-0461
www.joanlavender.com joan@joanlavender.com www.healyourenvy.com
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Past Events
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Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy
Two Year Training Program
OPEN HOUSE
Monday, May 18th 2009
8:00 – 10:00pm
100 West Houston Street (between La Guardia and Thompson)
For Information Contact Lynn Preston at (212) 995 – 8116
or lynpres@aol.com
Meet our faculty and students and hear about our new focusing oriented psychotherapy training program starting this fall
What is helpful about Therapeutic Help?
Presentation by Lynn Preston and faculty
The new program will meet on Monday evenings starting in September 2009
See description on our website www.forp.ws
FORP is a New York City based learning and teaching association committed to the development of an in-depth and versatile model of psychotherapy. It springs from a cross-fertilization of Eugene Gendlin’s philosophy of the implicit and contemporary relational psychoanalysis. This enlivening and deepening approach provides a generative home base into which a wide variety of modalities can be integrated.