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2021 Time In Offerings
Our “Time In” series continues on the 2nd Sunday of every month.
What does it mean to live a more intimate life? How do we become more attuned to ourselves and others? Together, we create a supportive environment that encourages and inspires. In each meeting, we offer a new investigation and reflection, weaving meditation, group process, and experiential investigation. Our workshops practice mindfulness, which we defined as a non-judgmental, non-self-referential posture of caring attention that orients toward well-being and creativity.
Meet Us Online
- August 8th
- September 19th
- October 17th
- November 21st
- December 19th
All workshops are held on selected Sunday afternoons 1:30-3:00 PM via Zoom and are offered freely. Please check in – our later workshops may be Live in NYC!
HOW IT WORKS
Every month, we will send out a short video trailer. We will share a guided meditation, followed by experiential exploration and time for group reflection.
IntegralTherapy is expanding our CE training program for mental health practitioners and creative arts therapists. (CP PAT will be available for a fee.) CE credits available with separate registration and fee.)
More information about our meetings and trainings is available at www.JayeMoyer.com. If you are interested and would like to attend, please send Jaye an email at Jayemoyer@gmail.com.We’ll send you a Zoom invitation and a reminder half an hour before the workshop begins.
Upcoming Topics - August through December 2021
August 08 |
Intimacy with Our Internal EnvironmentIn order to be intimate with our internal life, we need to have an internal environment that is friendly and non-judgmental. When we feel safe, we can see with more clarity what needs attention. |
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October 17 |
“Kiss the Joy as it Flies.”What makes us suffer is that we want things to be permanent. But they are not. In this workshop, we will explore our relationship with appreciation. |
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November 11 |
Gratitude!With an intention to cultivate gratitude, we incline the heart, the mind, and the body towards a fuller appreciation of life – Life without conditions- Life as it is! |
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December 19 |
Reaching Out to the Parts of Us That Need to Feel HeldCultivating loving-kindness means that we are learning to befriend all parts of us. Even the parts that are difficult for us. Maybe even especially those parts. |
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Past Topics - January through June 2021
June 13 |
Contacting the Inner Creator — Revising Your Narrative What would it be like to live from another narrative? Imagine! |
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May 16 |
Working with Difficult Feelings Difficult feelings de-stabilize us. How do we find our stability and orient toward wellbeing? How might we view our difficulties as opportunities to grow? Our difficulties are the potential seeds of wisdom and freedom. “Peace is the moment without judgment. Everything is welcomed. “... Dorothy Hunt |
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April 11 |
The Power of Listening Listening can be the gateway to intimacy with our inner life and with each other. |
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March 14 |
What Interferes with Compassion for the Self? Self-compassion is a response to suffering. What interferes with this response is that we have not yet learned how to relate to and accept our vulnerability. How can we be kinder to ourselves? |
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February 14 |
Diminishing Reactivity First, we must notice! We become curious and more familiar with those things that trigger our reactivity. We bring deliberate intention to notice our reactivity and orient toward settling and grounding so that we don’t cause more trouble for ourselves and others. |
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January 10 |
Rebooting Intention When we live with intentionality. We become more conscious of our choices. We are more present to what matters.
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Wednesday morning "Drop In" meditation
Here's a nice way to start and support your day. Come in for a soft landing. Center and Ground. Consider a simple reflection.
Join Jaye at 9:30 - 10:15 AM (New York time ), via Zoom.
This sitting is offered freely. Anyone interested should contact Jaye and she'll send out an invitation.
| Date: | Ongoing | |
| Time: | 9:30am - 10:15am | |
| Location: | Zoom Meeting | |
| Contact: | Jaye Moyer at (845) 774-9364 | |
| Cost: | Free | |
| Reservation: |
Email Jaye Moyer at | Website: www.jayemoyer.com |
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Spring Offerings: “Forgiveness” (Closed)
Time In: April 14th, 2019
This spring, we invite you take "Time In". In these three-hour sessions we will give time for meditation, reflection, active investigation and discussion.
“Forgiveness”
Please join us this Sunday as we examine our relationship with forgiveness. Zen teacher, Joko Beck wrote: “Our failure to know joy is a direct reflection of our inability to forgive." Starting with this truth, we will explore the experience of forgiveness. We will use enactment, group discussion and a meditation practice to investigate what challenges us in forgiveness. It is our intention to soften and release the armor of resistance to forgiveness and to allow more space to grow freedom, spontaneity and joy.
Spring Offerings: “Growing Gratitude” (Closed)
Time In: March 10th, 2019
This spring, we invite you take "Time In". In these three-hour sessions we will give time for meditation, reflection, active investigation and discussion.
“Growing Gratitude”
Life is busy: full of tasks and responsibilities. Have you ever wondered, ‘where is the Joy?’ In this afternoon our attention will be focused on Gratitude – its wholesomeness, its loveliness and its rarity. When we have the intention to cultivate gratitude, it inclines the heart, the mind and the body towards Joy. In this afternoon we will be inviting happiness into our lives. Please join us!
When: Sunday, March 10th, 2019
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Sociometric Studios, 213 West 35th Street, Suite 806 (8th floor) New York, NY
Cost: There is no set fee for this program, however, offerings are always appreciated.
Reservation and Inquire: (212) 947-7111 ext. 201 or (845) 774-9364.
CP Training Credits are available for Psychodrama trainees and PATs.
Winter Offering: Receiving and Offering Compassion (Closed)
Please join us for our Winter 2019 "Time In" program!
In this 3-hour workshop, we will deepen our inner world through meditation and mindful awareness and we will expand our inter-personal world through experiential enactment and group process. We move in the direction of viewing our difficulties as opportunities to grow. Our difficulties are the potential seeds of wisdom and freedom. You don’t have to be a meditation practitioner. We welcome all levels of experience. The only expertise needed is an open mind and a desire to experience.
Receiving and Offering Compassion:
Compassion is perhaps the greatest gift that we can be offered and that we can offer to others. We are born with an innate capacity to experience deep compassion. However, we find ways to insulate and protect ourselves from the inevitable wounding that takes place in the interpersonal arena. Much of this shielding does not serve us well: it dulls our spontaneity, creativity and joy. We need to find a way to respond to wounding that opens rather than closes our hearts.
In this afternoon, through guided meditation, active investigation and discussion, we will learn two practices that will support us in receiving and offering compassion. We will also have the opportunity to explore some of the obstacles hindering our capacity to receive and offer compassion.
CP Training Credits are available for Psychodrama trainees and PATs.
Events & Workshops: Winter 2018 (Closed)
Winter 2018 Offering
We want to wish you a happy and healthy New Year! IntegralTherapy continues its “Time In” program with the following offering on January 14.
Restlessness, Anger, Desire, Laziness and last, but not least, Doubt. Recognize any of these?
These are commonly known as “Hindrances”. We all have them! They cover our vulnerability and cloud our vision. They interfere with our capacity to connect - with ourselves and with each other. Awareness of hindrances allows us to return to stable ground.
Join us as we name and investigate our relationship with these emotional dynamos. In this Sunday afternoon group we integrate mindfulness practice, meditation and action exploration. You don’t have to be a meditation practitioner to attend. We welcome all levels of experience. The only expertise we require is an open mind and a desire to experience.
Once again, we invite you take "Time In" from 1:30 to 4:30 on Sundays and join us. Conducted by Jacqueline Dubbs Siroka, ACSW, CGP, TEP and Jaye Moyer, TEP, LCSW-R
| Date: | January 14, 2018 |
| Time: | 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
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Sociometric Studios, 213 West 35th Street, Suite 806 (8th floor)New York, NY |
| Cost: | There is no fee for this programs. (Suggested donation $40.00 - $60.00) A snack to share is welcomed too! |
| Reservation and Inquire: | (212) 947-7111 ext. 201 or or (845) 774-9364. |
CP Training Credits are available for Psychodrama trainees and PATs.
Upcoming Dates & Subject Matters:
“Handshake” (Closed)
Dec 10
2017
“Handshaking”, as taught by Tsonkyi Rinpoche, is a meeting between mind and the feeling world. Handshaking begins with embodied and welcoming feelings towards anything that arises in experience, including emotions, resistance, sensations and thoughts - our “beautiful monsters”. We learn to be with the things that we normally want to push away or grasp tightly.
Exploring the “Handshake”, we will learn to create a more welcoming and accepting environment for all of our experiences. This is important because each of our experiences offers the opportunity to grow:30“Growing Edge” (Closed)
Nov 12
2017
All of us have parts of ourselves that we wish we could nurture and develop. This session orients us in the direction we want to grow. Each of us will identify one area as the focal point of investigation: whether to be kinder, more patient, restrained, or spontaneous. We will look at the conditions that encourage and support growth. This practice requires developing deeper intimacy with ourselves."Benefactor" (Closed)
Sept 24
2017
In our first Sunday session we will introduce a beautiful practice that helps us open to receiving compassion. The “Benefactor” practice, as taught by Lama John Makransky, is adapted from Tibetan Buddhist meditation traditions. It is particularly helpful in repairing broken receivers.
In order to feel and express compassion we must first be able to receive it. Unfortunately, many of us have broken receivers. We protect ourselves with hard hearts and ruminations on what is wrong and bad. Ironically, this perpetuates suffering and causes additional suffering in ourselves and in the world. Fortunately we can learn to receive. When we feel loved, held, safe and secure, we begin to relax and loosen our armor.There is no fee for this program. (Suggested donation $40 - $60). A snack to share is also welcomed!
Time In - Spring 2018 (Closed)
Spring Offerings, 2018
IntegralTherapy continues its “Time In” program with the following offerings: Loving Kindness, Loving Kindness-Extended and Tonglen. These practices help us soften and open the heart. In these groups we integrate mindfulness practice, meditation and action exploration. You don’t have to be a meditation practitioner to attend. We welcome all levels of experience. The only expertise we require is an open mind and a desire to experience. Join us!
March 4th | Loving Kindness
We often do not take time to check in with the condition of our heart. In this afternoon we will turn our attention to our heart. We will teach and practice together Loving Kindness.
April 8th | Loving Kindness: Extended
We expand Loving Kindness to others, including those with whom we struggle. This practice supports us in letting go of resentment, which is a source of suffering and blocks our ability to experience joy.
May 20th | Tonglen
This is a practice of "sending and taking" which involves a combination of breathing and visualization. It is a practice of opening our heart to our own pain and to the pain of others. This meditation guides us in invoking loving presence in the face of difficulty.
Time: 1:30 to 4:30
Location: Sociometric Studios, 213 West 35th Street, Suite 806, NYC
Suggested Donation: $40-60
Reservation: Reserve a space by contacting (212) 947-7111 ext. 201 or (845) 774-9364.
CP Training Credits are available for Psychodrama Trainees and PATs.
Dana
There is a long tradition of offering meditation instruction with no expectation of payment. Our “Time In” group and Jaye’s “Drop-In” sits are offered in this tradition: we expect no fee. “Dana” is a part of this tradition. The recipient of our offering might consider offering some amount based on a combination of perceived value and personal means. In the freedom of this exchange, we open to the heart aspects of appreciation, kindness, and gratitude. In this spirit, we are privileged and honored to receive dana towards our work.
Testimonials
“I have deep gratitude for all the learning experiences I have had with Jacquie and Jaye. They have an inspiring gentle presence that they bring to all of their workshops… Jacquie and Jaye have perfectly merged the here & now philosophy of psychodrama with the practice of mindfulness allowing people to develop and rehearse the behaviors of compassion… I encourage every clinician to learn from Jacquie and Jaye as it will grow your own compassion, bring the practice...
I attended your session, "Releasing Personal And Interpersonal Wounds Through Forgiveness," was quite please and inspired by your presentation and process. I appreciated your series of warm ups, allowing us to choose mantras, and warming us up to how each of us may have harmed others, been harmed by them, or by ourselves. I was struck by how this process would be welcomed and easily could be adapted and applied to some church groups with which I am associated. Because of...
The value I receive from attendance in the workshops transcends both personal and professional space. Learning the techniques of deep reflection requires the time to pause, reflect—and discover. Moving from internal reflection to integration and then external action, requires a different set of tools—and practice, practice, practice! The ability to learn these techniques in a mutually-supportive environment with talented and knowledgeable guides and mentors is a...
I had the pleasure of participating in the mindfulness group presented by Jacqueline Siroka and Jaye Moyer. As a meditator with experience in several mindfulness-based programs, I found this format especially enriching and meaningful. Each session provided a new framework for applying mindfulness and compassion to one's life while offering a safe, supportive environment to question how these skills support our personal well-being. The opportunity to connect with other...
The psychodrama master class was excellent. The teacher was wonderful; the class size was perfect." "The most valuable session I attended was Jaye Moyer's "Active Compassion: Mindfulness in Psychodrama & Group Process." The session was very small (8 participants) and was tremendous as a self-care and re-centering exercise. I have no training in psychodrama, but the experience was very powerful." "Very therapeutic!...excited to roll out with clients &...