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APPROACHING EMOTIONAL OPENNESS |
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An
Emotional Education Workshop In this workshop, we will utilize a variety of process exercises and frequent discussions, to help each of us re-discover our infant's heritage of openness, to see if we can connect any new discoveries with our adult development, experience and learning. The
content of this workshop will include:
• Socially and environmentally shaped
emotions which plague us--- shame
• Biologically based need for bonding
and emotional closeness.
• The importance of emotional activation
in shaping the total experience |
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How are our personal paths to conscious awareness influenced by the quality of the maps we have created in our minds to define and describe this inner world that we meet each day? What practices enable us to feel openness for moments or minutes or longer? How do each of us describe our own experience with emotional openness? How to nurture the inner garden, to know its qualities and special characteristics, to know this uniqueness as well as the common features between your garden and mine? How to help this garden bloom in feeding it with new nutrients, with fresh wind and clear water, and with the sun and light? Are you developing more emotional awareness and conscious awareness as you pass along through your adult years? Are you always striving for more power and control, or do you sometimes seek to enliven your life and the lives of those people who you feel most closely connected with, or to discover more about the magnificence and mystery of life itself, which includes your conscious life and action? |
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APPROACHING EMOTIONAL OPENNESS is best suited for those who are currently in an on-going therapy or counseling situation, or those who have had exposure to personal growth through interactive individual and group participation. HEALTH PRACTITIONERS are welcome, and might find that the didactic presentation and the experiential participation can add to and deepen their understanding of the importance of emotional activation in shaping the total experience and in influencing the behavior of any person, including oneself.
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Michael Morrison and Ora Yemini-Morrison are licensed psychotherapists in private practice who have done collaborative work for over 20 years in conducting groups and in leading seminars & workshops on understanding the dynamics of human emotions and the intricacies of human experience. Ora received her B.S.W. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Michael from Williams College in Massachusetts. They both earned their Masters degree at Carleton School of Social Work in Ottawa, Ontario, the capital city of Canada, and received further training in gestalt and expressive therapies, as well as methods derived from Voice Dialogue, interpersonal, object relations, and analytic theorists. Their workshops have always placed value on experiential processes that allow participants to feel and name their deeper primary feelings and sense perceptions. Additionally, they design processes for dialogue since dialogue is a fundamental way that humans make contact. Dialogical process enables workshop participants to notice their reactions and responses in these interpersonal situations, and to experience the power of mirroring and validation. Michael and Ora work in group settings with the understanding that establishing safety within the group is a prime element that allows personal openness to emerge naturally.
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The
emotional-mental state of openness is a state that we are born with, and
need to reconnect with, just as we may need to discover and reclaim any
of our natural emotions and drives which at times seem difficult to find
in ourselves --- our pain, our anger, our love, our sensuality and sexuality,
our empathy. The state of openness is what we believe is sought through
the various practices of meditation dating back to ancient cultures. Openness
is an inner state with a high degree of mindful presence and awareness,
a doorway to discovering more of yourself, and to living with more aliveness
and depth of feeling, including a peaceful feeling. 
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