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The BioSpiritual Institute

Welcome to a Journey you can make inside yourself

 

 

 

Monthly Programs

BSF Connect (Monthly – Open to those with Level I experience) Online – Third Monday of each Month – 10AM – 12PM Central Time – This informal offering provides a time for deepening understanding of biospiritual focusing with others through embodied practice, sharing, questions, and discussion.

Zoom link available through the monthly newsletter/email.  Email bsfconnect20@gmail.com to be placed on the mailing list

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Online: A BioSpiritual Focusing Approach to Supervision for Spiritual Direction

Offered by: The Spiritual Life Center, 76 Sherman St. Hartford, CT  413-330-7878

Dates:  2nd Tuesday of each month, 6:30pm to 8:00pm,

Experienced BioSpiritual Focusing practitioners and teachers, Mike Smoolca and Nancy Benben are offering a comprehensive 6-session program focused on developing BioSpiritual Focusing companions. This is aimed at all those wishing to learn the dynamics of effective and confident companioning.

Registration: Spiritual Life Center

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Online: Monthly BSF Supervision at Genesis

An invitation from Genesis Spiritual Life Center to join us via Zoom for BioSpiritual Focusing Companioning Practice and Supervision during the next year.
The nature of the evening is such that we arrive, take a moment for grounding, and then offer it up to the group as to who would like to practice as companion and who might like to be companioned. We will have the ability to break out into smaller groups on given nights. After the focusing session, we all come back to the space for discussion and questions that allow for deeper learning of the practice.
For the year 2025, the remaining dates are as follows:
The third Monday of every month, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm EST
Feb. 17, March 17, April 21, May 19, June 16, July 21,
August 18, Sept. 15, Oct. 20, Nov. 17 and Dec. 15.
An email will be sent as a reminder just prior to the next scheduled meeting.
Please contact Mike Smoolca at msmoolca@hotmail.com to be added to the email list.
For any other questions, please contact Donna O’Connor at deejam@comcast.net.
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Partnering for Focusing — (ONLINE) Level II

Tuesdays – 1:00PM – 3:00PM Central Time (Oct 7, 2025, Jan 13, 2026, Apr 14, 2026. July 14, 2026)

Appreciation for the gift of biospiritual focusing comes with the experience of regular practice —- and that happens most surely with a regular partner.  If you are looking for a partner or have one but would like to learn more about how to companion one another, consider joining us for Partnering for Focusing.  This Level II program is for those who have had a basic introduction to focusing and seek to grow in this practice with a partner.

Those who already have a partner are most welcome as a way of deepening their companioning practice. Partners will be invited to arrange 6 focusing sessions between quarterly meetings.

 

 

 

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The BioSpiritual Institute

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