Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness

Focusing and Art Club Changed My Life

Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness | Posted on 13 August 2022 | Author Pat Omidian

Focusing showed me how to process my emotions and my experience in the world in a way that I had not done before. I wanted to share Focusing with my friends so that we could grow alongside each other and support each other. At the […]

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Being with your Felt Sense of Fear

Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness | Posted on 10 March 2020 | Author Pat Omidian

My fear kept me safe from Ebola. I worked in Liberia when Ebola was on the rise, then again when it was almost gone. As I sit here today thinking about these experiences and about the current warnings about a global pandemic from the coronavirus, […]

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Taking Focusing With You on a Bus

Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness | Posted on 8 June 2019 | Author Daniel Osako

I am working with Pat Omidian to train refugee workers and administrators in Uganda to improve their psychosocial work and incorporate aspects of Focusing into daily life.  We are teaching this course online. One session was about reflecting on what we are experiencing in a […]

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Practical Listening

Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness | Posted on 26 February 2019 | Author Pat Omidian

Communication can be a problem at the best of times, with us all living in different time zones and some of us traveling for long periods of time and checking in from ever more distant and shifting time zone addresses in a multitude of countries.

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Short Sessions Make a Difference

Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness | Posted on 21 January 2019 | Author Pat Omidian

This is one of nine articles from our recent Journal: Resilience Initiatives.  A donation of any amount will give you the complete e-Journal.  Please click here. I have volunteered to work with Afghan refugees for three years now. One of my clients came to me, […]

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Carrying Relationships Forward

Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness | Posted on 10 June 2018 | Author Pat Omidian

Join Lynn and Charlotte on November 15, 2016. In this video they explain their upcoming workshop and how they will explore how we can sense into our relationships as well as ourselves, and the other. We will show how giving voice to all three dimensions (the […]

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