2024 Events TBA
Mindful Life Focus Community is a co-creation, collaboration and elaboration of vision and design with my dear mentor, friend, colleague Dr. Erving Polster who developed the idea of Life Focus Communities.
Erv passed away at the phenomenal age of 101 in March of 2024, having just finished his last manuscript in the months prior. He is greatly missed, and I am deeply grateful for the friendship and collaborations with him. He will forever be in our hearts at Mndful Life Focus Community, and his work lives on in our continued emergent experiences and activities.
Mindful Life focus Community!
www.mindfullifefocuscommunity.com
Meetings are held on selected Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays monthly at the office of Dr. Paltin, in Orange and also meetings in San Diego Coastal Region.
The Mindful Life Focus Community endeavors to provide a consistent gathering of individuals focused on a communal experience of exploring life and living it well through lively conversation, through listening and relating about our lives through music, literature and the arts. It is an effort to amplify and sanctify the lived life.
What is a Life Focus Community?
Created by the pre-eminent Gestalt Psychotherapist, Dr. Erving Polster, the Life Focus Community is unique in it's design. Harmonizing elements of focused attention found in Gestalt psychotherapuetic method, together with the amplification, illustration and awareness of perspective brought to us in mindful exploration of the arts. It also draws upon the hallowing and sanctity of experience of a communal gathering generally found only in religious settings. In the same way as artists, writers, musicians, dancers and painters portray life, the Mindful Life Focus Community, illuminates and sanctifys the lived life. Through story telling and in listening to the stories others tell, through exploration of living via the arts, we enliven and enrich our attention and focus to the living of everyday life.
On occasion, Dr. Erving Polster will be a visiting member of our
community.
What it is Not
Mindful Life Focus Community is not a religious organization.
It does not seek to promote religious, political or personal agendas. It does
not discriminate in it's population diversity. It is open to individuals of all
back grounds beliefs and orientations.
Students are welcome to attend the life focus community. This is not psychotherapy, and does not constitute a dual relationship for current graduate students of Dr. Paltin.
Upcoming Life Focus Community demonstration:
"Will We Do the Fandango?"
IAAGT Biennial Conference, Vera Cruz Mexico
September 2024.
PAST EVENT
SPECIAL EVENT! ERVING POLSTER !
Virtual Event April 18, 2021 3 to 5 pm PST
Enchanting Conversation:
A Life Focus Gathering with Erving Polster!
HOSTED BY CAROLINE PALTIN PH.D. and MINDFUL LIFE FOCUS COMMUNITY
Sunday April 18th 3pm PST (Online)
Join Erv and I as we explore the opportunity for enchantment to be found in Life Focus. Discussing his most recent book Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy, we will explore the bounty of fascination to be found in good contact and conversation. Together with Erv, I founded Mindful Life Focus Community in 2012 and we will share how these groups enliven and enhance our exploration of the extraordinary lives through the arts, poetry, music film and more. Gather with us for this special day!
Registration: $30. Space is limited.
To reserve your space please
visit
http://www.mindfullifefocuscommunity.com/
contact Caroline Paltin at [email protected] or [email protected]
For more information, contact Caroline Paltin at [email protected]
For More information on the Mindful Life Focus Community Including saving a spot for the event, and to find out about fees
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