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In January, IAPH sponsored a NYC Focalizing Weekend for folks who were interested in experiencing a personal, felt-sense of the focalizing process. The process evolved, in part, out of Michael Picucci’s last book, Ritual as Resource as well as our years of human consciousness studies and personal experiences. Forty people at the event had varied personal and cultural illuminations and, experimented with an entirely new way of perceiving their own human journey.

Much of the healing work we have been engaged in for the past decade is now taking on a more subtle approach. The well of Energy Psychology is where we will continue to draw from as this is the domain that unequivocally speaks to our organic evolution as a community. This gradual shift been inspired by what we acknowledge as Focalizing’s primary contributors (click for full list) which is profoundly informed by the work of A.H. Almas, Bert Hellinger, Peter A. Levine, Otto Scharmer, and the late Dayashakti (Sandra Scherer) founder of The Wave Work.

We are presently in transition regarding our public presentations and workshops, as we explore integrating Focalizing and other energy psychology techniques to best support healing specific to the “doorways” below.

In the meantime, Focalizing Sessions, a divergence from Dr. Michael Picucci’s psychotherapy and consulting practices, are designed for individuals, couples or organizations that for whatever reason are stuck (i.e., life crises, serious illness, etc.) creating high anxiety, immobility, and/or depression. A more detailed explanation is in the brochure at the above link. It is challenging to put something into words that can only be valued once it is experienced. We invite you to visit the www.focalizing.com for additional information and, while there check out “Michael’s Musings.” It gives you a sense of what he’s been up to and the healing resources we’ve found so valuable to our new integration process.

In addition to the resources you find on this web site and the many links and books listed herein, we are always available to recommend resources in the NYC area. Outside of the NY area, try the practitioner’s listings at the Foundation for Human Enrichment or The Wave Work Fellowship for referrals that are seasoned with helping people quickly find “regulation” for an out-of-whack organic system.

Peruse the nine doorways below as they call to you. Join our online community (below left) to receive updates, notice of events, retreats, research and resources on reducing suffering and creating possibility.

Ana Venezia,
Executive Director, Focalizer

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YOUR DOORWAYS TO AUTHENTIC PROCESS HEALING:
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Authentic Process Healing
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         What exactly is Authentic Process Healing?
Addiction Recovery
For those of us who have primary addiction, if we are to acheive wholeness and integration, we need to allow this reality to surface and heal the wound.
Community
A "community" is defined as two or more people who have shed their defensive "masks of composure" and agree to share wisdom, struggles, joys and sorrows with each other, making each other's condition their own.
Spirituality
However we define the Higher Power, to reach it we must come out from under a defense-driven isolation.
Relationships
Most of our models for relationships are from our families, which are more often than not dysfunctional, at least by present day standards.
Sacred Sexuality & Sex Concerns
The healing of the internalized schism between our sexual and spiritual energies is the most provocative topic and the most intimidating task we can address.
Trauma & Healing
Trauma is a global phenomenon. It means being wounded. It means enduring an emotional shock that creates substantial and lasting damage to one's psychological and emotional development.
Anxiety, Depression & Psychiatric Challenges
APH offers the promise that profoundly effective ways exist for reducing the suffering caused by severe anxiety, depression, grief and other psychological concerns.
Disease Transformation & Immune Restoration
  APH can lead you down new paths, to new experiences and understandings of Disease Transformation and Immune Restoration.
"All of us are living in an era of such profound and hopeful change that it is not an exaggeration to call it a renaissance. The word, of course, means "rebirth."

What's being reborn is our sense of ourselves as spiritual beings, deeply connected and open to one another and to something greater than ourselves.

These are exciting times, and whether that's a blessing or a curse is up to us. The first step in realizing our potential may lie in recognizing what's going on around us."

Robert Owens Scott, Editor
Spirituality & Health Magazine
Spring, 2001

 
 

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