Creative Edge Focusing E-Newsletter

E-COURSE STARTS IN THE FALL AND BONUS! TANTRIC SEXUALITY ARTICLE! 

 Dr. Kathy McGuire, Director     June 6, 2008                             

E-NEWSLETTER GROWS INTO REPEATING E-COURSE
 
What started last Fall as an e-newsletter is now becoming a repeating e-course. Between September of one year and June of the next year (approximately 10 months), the entire e-course, which includes a walk through The Complete Focusing Instructions free download, the ten exercises in The Instant "Ahah!" Mini-Manual free download, the new Interpersonal Focusing Mini-Course and many areas of the Creative Edge Focusing(TM) website, will recycle.
 
Regardless of when people subscribe, if they stick with us for a year, they will walk through all the sections and exercises. And, anyone who wants to can cycle themselves through the exercises year after year, if they want ample opportunity to absorb all that is presented and continuing reminders to practice.
 
The e-newsletters have come to feature, not only many different authors and approaches within Focusing itself, but many interfaces with outside authors, books, and websites who work can be related to Focusing, or strengthened through the integration of Listening/Focusing skills. So the e-course introduces participants to the "history" of Focusing and also the many possibilities for doing "outreach" to bring Listening/Focusing skills to many audiences.
 
A course, also, including an e-course, involves a commitment to learning and practice, to doing exercises --- and so, the actual structure of three e-newsletters a week, each with an exercise to practice, and repetition of an area or exercise over a four week cycle, all fits into an e-course structure
 
OUR GOAL: INTEGRATING LISTENING/FOCUSING INTO EVERY DAY PRACTICE AND LIVING --- THE HABIT OF FELT SENSING
 
As with yoga or meditation or exercise or a sport or musical instrument that needs a time commitment for practice, practice, practice throughout each week, we recommend Listening/Focusing as an ongoing "practice," at least three times a week ---The Habit of Felt Sensing, The Way of Relationship, Positive Parenting, Bio-Spirituality, Interpersonal Focusing, all "practiced" continuously.
 
E-FOCUSING COMMUNITIES AS A NEW MODEL OF TEACHING, SUPPORT, AND OUTREACH  !!! SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE?
 
The Creative Edge Practice yahoo e-group (http://yahoogroups.com/group/creativeedgepractice ) has become a wonderful demonstration that Listening/Focusing, Interpersonal Focusing, and Collaborative Edge Decision Making can all happen in an e-group! We have discovered, more importantly, that love, empathy, compassion, support, tears, warm support, community building, creative collaborative thinking and problem solving  CAN ALL HAPPEN THROUGH CYBERSPACE, OVER GREAT DIFFERENCES IN TIME, SPACE, AND DISTANCE. Our exchanges, extremely international, inter-time zone, feel  "immediate," "face-to-face," but also intensified in a way by the uninterrupted time/space for one's own Focusing Turn or Listening Response. We are DOING this new model for e-Changes Groups or e-Focusing Communities, and we are actively exploring this model as we do it. Come join us! Usually, a small majority does actual Focusing/Listening turns as a "fishbowl" within a much larger group of "compassionate-though-silent" Listeners.
 
ALSO IN FALL! NEW "CREATIVE EDGE NEWS AND GOODS" MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER 
 
In the Fall, you will have the opportunity to subscribe to an actual, new e-newsletter. Coming out approximately once a month (or when there is something "new and good" to report!), this will feature Dr. McGuire's gleanings of the most interesting happenings within the Focusing world and also interesting interfaces with the larger world from business, health, self-help skills, everything that catches Dr. McGuire's attention, with a special emphasis on career and other possibilities for spreading Listening/Focusing.
 
WINDING DOWN FOR THE SUMMER
 
As you may have noticed, the e-newsletters are becoming less frequent (less than three times a week!) as we proceed into the summer months here in the USA. And from mid-July to mid-August, Dr. McGuire will go on vacation, so, unless she schedules emails for delivery while she is gone, there may be an actual break. Then, gearing up for the two new beginnings in the Fall, the repeating e-course and the new e-newsletter 
 
 

BONUS FOR READING THIS FAR: "TANTRIC SEXUALITY" ARTICLE
 
For those who have already walked through our e-newsletter series on Conscious Relationship, Increasing Intimacy, and Increasing Sexuality, here is the final chapter: a new blog on "Tantric Sexuality," with a link at the top to a new, very explicit article on "Sacred Spot Massage." 
 
Tantric Sexuality is basically the conscious study of sexuality as an ancient practice with a spiritual dimension."Sacred Spot Massage" article gives explicit instructions and resources for the kind of life-long, wave-like orgasms, for men and women, which allow infinite variety of sexual expression and satisfaction. So, if you are open to this information go to Dr. McGuire's blog Tantric Sexuality here and then, after reading the blog, download the "Sacred Spot Massage" article from the Word file link at top.WARNING FOR NEWCOMERS: THIS IS VERY EXPLICIT INFORMATION, AND, BEFORE GOING THERE , YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET INTRODUCED MORE GRADUALLY THROUGH THE MINI-COURSE BELOW, WHICH ENDS WITH THE "TANTRIC SEXUALITY" BLOG LINK.
 
"NEW AND GOOD," ESPECIALLY FOR NEWCOMERS BUT FOR ALL --- "CORE CONCEPT: INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP" WEBSITE SECTION FINALLY UP AND ACTIVE
 
If you have not been here long enough to work slowly through the exercises for increasing intimacy and then increasing sexuality, you will get a much more gentle and thorough introduction by working through the Mini-Course in the new website section at Creative Edge Focusing(TM), Core-Concept: Intimate Relationship , with links to the complete Mini-Course on intimacy and sexuality  at the bottom.
 
MORE "NEW AND GOOD" ---"CORE CONCEPT: CONFLICT RESOLUTION" WEBSITE SECTION FINALLY UP AND ACTIVE
 
New and long-time readers, please also check out the new Core-Concept: Conflict Resolution section of the Creative Edge Focusing(TM) website. Four areas of Conflict Resolution are explored:
 
Intrapsychic (Interal)
Interpersonal
Task-Oriented Decision Making Groups
Inter-Group Conflict: Community, Cultural, National, International
 
And past e-newsletters have been turned into two additional Mini-Courses, one on Interpersonal Focusing and one on Personality Tests/Differences. So, again, especially newcomers looking for a summer "catch up" project, try these (or just wait until these topics come up through the year-long e-course starting in the Fall. You'll see it all in small bites throughout that course). So, go to Core Concept: Conflict Resolution .

HAVE YOU STARTED YOUR LISTENING/FOCUSING PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP OR GROUP YET???????
 
CLICK HERE FOR A LINK AT CREATIVE EDGE FOCUSING WHERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE "INTRODUCTION," IN ENGLISH OR SPANISH, AS A FREE PDF FILE.
 
 
AND/OR CLICK HERE TO VIEW A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION AND TO CONSIDER PURCHASING THE ENTIRE SELF-HELP PACKAGE FOR $39 (OR MANUAL DOWNLOAD ALONE FOR $5), WITH MULTI-MEDIA SUPPORT.
 
It is my hope that, before the end of this four-week cycle, you will have found at least one other person to practice Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening with as the beginning of your own local practice group. The manual chapter gives many suggestions about how to find your first one or more people, how to present the idea, how to demonstrate the skills.
 
BUT ONLY YOU CAN TAKE THAT FIRST STEP OF FINDING SOMEONE, JUST THAT ONE, FIRST PERSON. From then on, you and your partner can support each other in enlarging the group, if you want.
 
You can get online support and answers to your questions as you try to proceed in the Creative Edge Practice e-group at http://yahoogroups.com/group/creativeedgepractice .
 QUICK LINKS TO E-SUPPORT, CLASSES, BLOG, ARTICLES, ETC.
 
Two Yahoo E-Groups, Creative Edge Practice and Creative Edge Collaboration, for Ongoing Support and Learning
 
 
Self-Help Package, CDs, DVD, manual English and espanol
 
Experiential Focusing Therapy manual
 
Certification Programs: Consultant/Helping Professional : Now with option of Structured Level 1-4 Listening/Focusing Training With Ruth Hirsch followed by 10 supervision sessions with Dr. McGuire. Contact Dr. McGuire for information on this NEW option
About Creative Edge Focusing (TM) 
 
Mission: bring Core Skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening, and The Creative Edge Pyramid of applications from individual to interpersonal to organizational, to all audiences throughout the world.
 
Dr. Kathy McGuire, Director
Location: Beaver Lake in Rogers, AR
These materials are offered purely as self-help skills. In providing them, Dr. McGuire is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.
Creative Edge Focusing (TM)
Dr. Kathy McGuire
Director