Here are some links to a variety of booklets, articles, handouts and other reference literature….
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Resources available from the BioSpiritual Institute:
- How Adults Can Listen to Children in a Focusing Way
- Helping Children: Step by step companioning instructions
- Teaching Children to Focus – An Interview
- Children-Classroom
- Childhood Wonder
- Raising Children to be Real in an Unreal World
- Focusing with Children in the Home
Resources available from the International Focusing Institute: (Focusing.org)
- International Focusing Institute Children’s Webpage Children and Focusing
- Helping Children Find an Inner Home: Courtesy of Tine Swyngdouw
- Simon Kilmer: Helping Children with Focusing
- Stapert , M. (1997) Focusing in school
- Lucy Bowers: “Elevator Rides”
Elevator Rides Help Children Learn Focusing – Part 1 Lucy Bowers and then Elevator Rides Help Children Learn Focusing – Part 2 Lucy Bowers - Klein, J., Psy.D.
Chapter Two: I Have Ears inside My Stomach, Inside-Me Stories “Something is Happening Inside-Me!”
Clearing A Space Experiences: Courtesy of Joan Klagsbrun:
- Clearing a Space : Finding Sanctuary In A Stressful Environment: The Use of Clearing A Space To Enhance Learning For College and Graduate Students
- Clearing a Space 2: Clearing a Space: A Centering Method for Enhancing Receptivity and Presence in the Classroom
Focusing Experiences for Children: Courtesy of Laura Bavalics:
- 1 – The quarrelsome buttons
- 2 – The star-eyed shepherd
- 3 – The stolen melody
- 4. Once upon a time
- 5. The owl who was afraid…
- 6 – Keys to your door
- 7 – Something from nothing
Resources created by Lucy Bowers ( used with her generous permission )
Books for Enabling Children to Felt Sense
Using a Mandala in a Workshop for Children or Adults
Elevator Rides Help Children Learn Focusing
Children and Grief : created by Harriet Teeuw & René Veugelers ( used with permission)
Here are some ideas about using art with children in a religious setting: Courtesy of https://www.kutsucompanions.com:
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