כנסים בנושא התמקדות - Focusing

על הכנס הבינלאומי הראשון בארץ שיזמנו בין התאריכים 7-11 למאי 2007

Coming Home to Peace Inside and Outside in the focusing conference in Israel.  

 ה"מרכז הישראלי להתמקדות" – שלוחת המרכז העולמי, ניו-יורק, אירח במאי 2007 את באי הכנס בארצנו. במסגרת הכנס ניתנה לנו הזדמנות נדירה לחוות להיחשף ולהתנסות בתהליכי התמקדות וסדנאות עם מורים מובילים בעולם, מוסמכים מטעם הארגון הבינלאומי ללמד ולהכשיר מורים בהתמקדות. 
לא היה צורך לנסוע ברחבי העולם כדי שזה יקרה! הם היו כאן אצלנו!

ביום האחרון לכנס (בין ה-11 ל-12) התקיים יום מיוחד לדיאלוג ישראלי-ערבי

אירועים מיוחדים בכנס-  Coming Home to Peace Inside & Outside

מכתבים ממשתתפי הכנס

עצמאות ובלהה היקרות,
תודה גדולה מאוד לשתיכן ולרותי גם, עבור העת הנפלאה שהיתה לנו בשבוע שעבר. אחרי כל האכזבות שהיו לנו עקב שיעור הנרשמים הנמוך לכנס, אני חושב, שהיה זה באמת כנס טוב עם התרחשויות רבות, אוירה נעימה מאודועם מסיבה נהדרת בסופו. התרשמתי מאוד מהדרך בה השקעתם את ליבכן ונשמתכן בכל זה. מאוד נגעתם לליבי.אני באמת שמח שהגעתי לכנס. זו היתה אחת מההתנסויות היותר טובות של התמקדות שחוויתי.
אני מקוה שאתן מרוצות ושמחות, עכשיו, כשהכל מאחוריכן - מגיע לכן!
באהבה,
פיטר
 

dear Atsmaout and Bilha,
a big big big thank you to you both, and to Ruthie too, for the  wonderful
time we had last week. After all the disappointment about  the low number
of bookings, I thought it was a really good conference  with lots
happening, a really good atmosphere, and a great party at  the end! I am
very touched. I´m really glad I came. It was one of the  great focusing
experiences!
I hope you feel satisfied and happy now it´s over - you deserve to.
love
Peter

Hi Everyone,
I have been home for nearly one week now and am still buzzing from the
 incredible experience the 19th International Focusing Conference offered.
My thanks to Atsmaout, Bilha and Ruthie for persevering with their vision,
their hopes and their love for making this happen in spite of all the
obstacles.
I have been telling my friends that words are lacking to communicate the
overwhelm of feelings and the surprises that were in store for me in
Israel. Someone asked me to give her the thorns and roses and I began to
think about that idea.There were too many "roses" to begin and cover them
all. I concluded that the thought of " thorns" were not possible for
me.Anything that falls in that category is a learning experience and
offers it´s own rewards.
However there were some challenges to shake my "welldeveloped" concepts
built up over of more than six decades. My sense of me as an idealist was
certainly called into question. That would be in the area of those mixed
emotions that came up for me when listening and watching a group of Arab
and Isreali children singing together. There was a good mix of hope for
what is possible and yet some hopelessness about the reality that in the
expression of next year´s hopes in Montreal, this group of children were
nowhere manifesting signs of coming to "Beyond Duality". I don´t even know
what it is that would have told me otherwise but whatever it is, it was
missing. I had tears  as I took in the innocence of these children so like
the ones I have taught for so many years, yet so different in their
circumstance of where they live. They were in fact visibly a very
homogeneous group of children I am no longer used to seeing in my own
environment. I  came away with a sadness about the "smallness" and the
fragile nature of this gesture at the conference which indeed is visible
in Toronto schools every day where children coming from conflicts all
around the globe are in classes together, to live out their futures in a
country that is blessed with peace. The attempts for this in Israel is
like planting seeds in rocky dry soil. That seemed to be the message of
the tears that came to me.
The biggest challenge of all to shake my  idealism was the privilege and
experience of being in a room to listen and hear in a bodily way, the
pain of both Isreali´s and Palestinians. I was eased to see the label
change from Israeli Palestian Peace Dialogue changed to Focusing Peace
Dialogue. It set an improved climate of inclusiveness for those of us who
were neither Isreali or Palestinian and in a less observan role but more
participatory role the polarization appeared to be lessened.These are my
very personal perceptions.  My felt sense of  confusion as I still
experience it in my body (as a tightness in the chest as I write this)
tells me about the complexity  that is Israel today and has been for over
4000 years!

The theme of  the conference "Coming to Inner and Outer Peace" was
experienced by me on  many occasions during my time there.An example was
on a  day that was Shabbat. I went for a walk and relished and savoured
such a stillness during two hours, while taking in the beauty around me ,
the scents  of flowers and the sounds of birds, that I had forgotten was
possible on our  planet.( well I had just arrived from a frenzied  week in
Holland and I had not been out of Toronto for quite some time so...)
There were no vehicles?!? How precious that time was!  People walked by ,
rode their bicycles and one galloped by on horseback.The experience was so
calming and peaceful I almost felt I had accomplished the theme of the
conference and no longer needed to attend. I could have returned home then
but happily I did not.
Thanks to Dorothea for offering me one more experience  of such delicious
hours very near to Nof Ginosar. How peaceful and appropriate the
conference site was! Great consideration was taken for that location. I
appreciated that so very much.

The warmth, the generosity , the loving hospitality, the food, the history
of the land and it´s many ruins,  slowly revealing themselves  week by
week, month by month,  has come together for me like a huge magnet me
drawing me back. I am planning my next trip. In the meantime I am so
grateful for Chaim Perlstein´s generous spirit, he was everywhere at once
with his camera and his great big smile. For me, lacking in words to
express the depth of the experience, it was wonderful to sit back and
watch the slide show just sent out to us. Even if you were not there to
"fill in the blanks of context" the joy, the  exuberance, the dedication
and the seriousness of it all could not escape you as you look at these
photos.  Indeed "a picture is worth a thousand words" and I cherish having
them to hold me gently in the experience. Thank you Chaim. Thank you
everyone who came and believed in the Power of Focusing ( Who once said
that anyway?) as an important, perhaps vital, contribution to the mystery
of complexities that is Israel. I believe many seeds were planted in some
rich soil! I am nurturing the ones planted in me.
Lucy Bowers 

ב- 12-13 במאי התקיים כנס משותף לאגודת המפגש הבין דתי ולסניף "התמקדות" בישראל שהתקיים בגינוסר שעל שפת הכינרת על נושא "סליחה - סולחה". בכנס השתתפו ישראלים, פלסטינים ואורחים מהעולם, בעקר מאירופה, ארה"ב וקנדה.

קטונתי מלהסביר את עקרונות ההתמקדות ואינני רוצה להציגם באופן לא מדויק - הרוצה ללמוד על השיטה ועקרונותיה יוכל לקרוא זאת באתר של "התמקדות" באינטרנט. להלן אציג את הנכס מנקודת המבט הבין-דתית בלבד

 בערב שבת הצגתי את עקרונות העמותה שלנו. התברר כי הרבה מהעקרונות שלנו משותפים גם לארגון "התמקדות". כך למשל, ב"התמקדות" מדברים על הקשבה מתוך אמפתיה, מבלי האשמה ומבלי שפיטה. והרי זה מה שאנחנו עושים, אני יכול לפחות להעיד על קבוצת הצעירים שבשבילנו זה עיקרון בסיסי. אחד הדברים היפים בקבוצתנו הוא שאנשים יכולים להשמיע את דעתם, רגשותיהם, תקוותיהם וכו´ באופן חופשי מתוך ידיעה שהצד השני יקשיב ו"יספוג" גם כאשר זה מנוגד לעולם הערכים שלו. כמובן, מבלי פגיעה בכבוד של האחר. להמשך קריאה