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• <H2> UPCOMING EVENTS:SPRING 2016:  Erv & Caroline will be presenting again in La Jolla in Spring of 2016! Date and Announcement coming soon!!PAST EVENTS​AUGUST 2015 - Terrific Life Focus Event at National University Costa Mesa!Erv Polster visited us at National University Costa Mesa for a wonderful day, sharing his talents insights and perspectives on psychotherapy and the uses of Life Focus Communities to enhance our daily lives.  We are very thankful to him for a terrific day.  We will be co-presenting again in La Jolla in Spring of 2016.  Details to be announced.
• <H2> Dr. Polster's newest book BEYOND THERAPY: IGNITING LIFE FOCUS COMMUNITY MOVEMENTS NOW AVAILABLE  To Pre-Order, visit Transaction Press at http://www.transactionpub.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?http://www.transactionpub.com/title/Beyond-Therapy-978-1-4128-5689-8.html
• <H2> Caroline Paltin and Erving Polster co-presented  on Life Focus in all-day workshop in Washington DC, March 2013
• <H2> Mindful Life Focus Community   Opportunity to intensify the  mundane is readily available to us if we take the time to notice. Transforming ordinary into extraordinary is often a matter of simple  awareness.   
• <H2>  Polster has observed that traditional psychotherapy has focused primarily on cure and personal growth, leaving life focus to the work of artists musicians, story-tellers, and religious groups.                  "Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward."  - Erving PolsterThe Mindful Life Focus Community seeks to create a context in which the pursuit of life focus is an end in itself.   This distinguishes it fundamentally from traditional psychotherapy in the office, which has so often pursued "cause" and the cure.  The Life Focus Community is unique in it's design. Harmonizing elements of   focused attention found in Gestalt psychotherapeutic 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 sanctification 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 andfocus to the living of everyday life.         "through the experiences of participating in these communities, every experience of connectedness will lead to more connectedness."  - Polster (2006)                        Through the application of methods grounded in Gestalt psychotherapy, this community will explore our lives in conversation and telling of our stories through music, literature, painting and the arts, and in other interactional activities designed to  create amplification and increased awareness of our life experiences. The group will provide guidance in being able to relate to each other, to know and be known,  and to recognize and appreciate the lives we are living.  It is an opportunity  to experience a deepening of our sense of being alive and our feeling of communal belonging by engaging with others in ways many may not ordinarily have opportunities to be engaged in.  It is my belief that this harmonizing of person to person conversation, arts and experience will enliven and enrich the lives of its members in a deeply meaningful and lasting way.A blended experience of individuality and interconnectedness through our life stories is at the heart of the Mindful Life Focus Community. As Polster asserts, these communities "would be filled with opportunities to tell each other stories.  In the atmosphere of focused attention, these stories would be high points of engagement.  They would not only organize the events of a lifetime, they would also serve to reveal individual identity and be a major lubricant of engagement with each other."What  Happens at a Mindful Life Focus Meeting? It is designed to provide a regular meeting place of individuals to create a sense of belonging and communal  connection based on Life Focus. Meetings would consist of introductory  discussion or presentations, often involving music, film, literature and other art forms to emphasize a specific life theme. This would be followed by a discussion of how to explore this theme. Members would then break  into smaller groups and explore via arts and discussion the stories of their lives as they relate to and respond to these themes.  Sharing stories of our lives with others serves to amplify both our sense of contact with self and others, and our ability to experience deepening awareness of our the living of our lives.  The group would then connect together as a whole and discuss what was explored in smaller groups, with concluding of process and integration of ideas at the end of the meeting. What might be  specific to the Mindful Life Focus Community? Each leader of a Life Focus  Community will bring his or her own individual personality to the creation of the group. Dr. Paltin's experience with music, Madonari painting, and theatre no doubt influence her approach, and she is intending to incorporate these elements in to various monthly meetings in one form or another. Our first included  the gift of a visit from Gestalt's own Life Focus Community creator, Erving Polster, who 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. It is not psychotherapy, but it can be an adjunct to therapy, with therapeutic benefits. While psychotherapy is often driven by the agenda for change, the Life Focus Community does not direct its attention to this agenda, but rather to the amplification of ordinary life experience.Meetings are held weekends, generally Saturday or Sunday, announced a month prior, at the office of Dr. Paltin at 173 B North Glassell, Orange California.Dr. Paltin is pleased to announce that Dr. Polster is a visiting member of our community from time to time.The Regular fee of $30.00 per meeting is due no later than one week prior to meetings, and registration forms can be found on the Fees and Registration page of this site.   If you are interested in receiving information about the Mindful Life Focus Community and would like to be placed on the mailing list, please feel free to contact Dr. Paltin or submit a request on the Contact Page of this site.   This is a unique opportunity to experience and explore life on a meaningful level, in a unique and most innovative encounter.   All Good Things,Caroline  PaltinLicensed Psychologist, #PSY14274173 B North Glassell Orange California 92866(949) 203-1595carolinepaltinphd@yahoo.comvisit Dr. Paltin's practice website at http://www.carolinepaltinphd.comVisit us on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=292483264138353?sk=wall

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