Dear All! Likely I will not be able to come in touch with you until midst of January thus as follows an update concerning the important events in 2014 and an outlook for 2015. A not so lucky incident paved the way for already prepared personal and professional activities at that time. After meeting my mother the last time end of January I have had a walk home late the other day and fell down with the result of a double broken shoulder. Nearly two months severely handicapped I reinvented a part of my life. To cut a long story short: In the summertime I visited New York - after my last stay in the States in 1978 the first time - and participated in a week-long seminar on mindfulness. As well I had the opportunity to meet the executive director of the New York Focusing Institute, Catherine Torpey and we discussed future oriented activities in Armenia, Germany and Switzerland. For the time being I am in the process of working out common undertakings with Marianne Gallen on Transpersonal Focusing in Munich. A long-lasting, periodically interrupted, friendship with Teresa Dawson in Zurich will lead to a cooperation after a break of 25 years. Eventually, after an extended sabbatical I moved into new premises in a wonderful location in Rolandseck/Germany - the land of the Nibelungs .... 2015 will be a meaningful year for the Armenian Diaspora and the Republic of Armenia: We are preparing the 100 anniversary of the Genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, Yezidis and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire. Especially April 24th is a crucial date for Armenians: First atrocities started in the state organized persecution in the former Byzantine capital Constantinople, nowadays Istanbul (Istanbul derived from the outcry of the besieged Greeks: They are in town: Einae stin poli , which might be heard and misled the Turks to think that this is the name of the town). In the second half of April I will be in Yerevan/Armenia and therefore be able to attend the concert of System of the dawn on April 23rd, 2015. https://youtube/watch?v=JKH8zO__XL8 In general I am planning to relocate to Armenia after Lillian Firestones book The Forgotten Language of Children is translated and published in Germany. The next year more concrete steps will be made to work again for a German governmental agency in Yerevan. amazon/Forgotten-Language-Children-Lillian-Firestone/dp/0963910043 Last but not least I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Haik Petrossian ______________________________________ Coaching, Psychotherapy & Consulting Bonner Strasse 10 D-53424 Rolandseck-Remagen email: haik.petrossian(at)mac(dot)com Mobile: +49-160-1674592 Office: +49-228-24001427 Twitter: Petrossiantz focusing.org Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves ... The common division of the world into subject and object, inner world and outer world, body and soul, is no longer adequate. Werner Heisenberg 1937 https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Governments_worldwide_UN_General_Assemb ly_Recognise_the_Armenian_Genocide/?dcYgKib&pv=1
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:00:44 +0000