Upcoming Courses, and Ongoing Groups and Services
التبويبات الأساسية
Please note: Listings on this page are either events organized by The International Focusing Institute (TIFI), or are offered independently by Certified Focusing Professionals. Those organized by TIFI will have one of TIFI’s logos.
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Pacific Time
Do you want to find a way to accept your whole being
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
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Eastern Time
Trusting ourselves can be hard, especially when we've spent years learning not to. For many of us, overriding our feelings and inner knowing wasn't a mistake—it was a way of staying safe and connected.
In Coming Back to You a six-week online course, you'll learn how to value your feelings and trust yourself, so you can live more fully and authentically.
In Coming Back to You a six-week online course, you'll learn how to value your feelings and trust yourself, so you can live more fully and authentically.
Online (classes will be recorded)
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PST
Add this transformative tool to your practice! In this introductory workshop you'll begin to learn the basic steps of Focusing in order to incorporate it in your healing practice. Understanding and working with a Felt Sense (how the body holds living experience about a situation) is the key to moving beyond typical dead ends of talk therapy. Join us!
Online
Topic: FOT
This is a series of Saturday workshops, running once a month, with virtually open intake. Only the Introduction, "The Art of Focusing" (or equivalent) must be taken as a pre-req, the remaining modules are totally flexible. Students who complete 16 specific modules, along with additional practice and supervision criteria, may become certified as a Focusing Oriented Therapist or as a Certified Focusing Professional. Program completion takes about 17 -20 months.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Certification, FOT, Ongoing
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Pacific
Want to watch as Ann Weiser Cornell guides someone through their very first Focusing session?
Focusing can be puzzling to talk about. It can be hard to learn from a book or a video. But when someone is actually taken through the process, you get it! Be present to observe as Ann guides three first-time Focusers (one each week) - and then comment afterward. The guest Focusers are volunteers who understand that their session will be witnessed by a safe and respectful group of people.
Focusing can be puzzling to talk about. It can be hard to learn from a book or a video. But when someone is actually taken through the process, you get it! Be present to observe as Ann guides three first-time Focusers (one each week) - and then comment afterward. The guest Focusers are volunteers who understand that their session will be witnessed by a safe and respectful group of people.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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CET, Germany
Changes Groups sind Orte für Partnerschaftliches FOCUSING.
In regelmäßigen Treffen bieten Changes Groups einen Raum, um gemeinsam FOCUSING zu praktizieren.
Treffen in 2026:
26. Mai, 16. Juni, 14. Juli, 25. August, 15. September, 13. Oktober, 10. November, 8. Dezember
In regelmäßigen Treffen bieten Changes Groups einen Raum, um gemeinsam FOCUSING zu praktizieren.
Treffen in 2026:
26. Mai, 16. Juni, 14. Juli, 25. August, 15. September, 13. Oktober, 10. November, 8. Dezember
Leipzig, Germany
Topic: Changes Groups
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Eastern time
Invite yourself to come to an intensive 5 day Focusing training in July 2026 about “A unique possibility to experience ‘Dynamic Focusing”! It will be from 15th (18 pm) till the 20st (13 pm) in Friesland. Several topics are essential and will be covered: Listening in three directions; The Emerging Body language Unconditional authentic empathy, Creating space, Safety and boundaries, Contact/ Contract; Selfcare; Working with symbolisations/ expression and of course (pre-verbal) inner child work. More information: look at https://www.childrenfocusing.org/being-seriously-playful-symposium/
The venue is “De Bron” a retreat and conference centre ;There are plenty of opportunities in the local area for canoeing, walking, biking and sight seeing.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Pacific Time
Do you want to find a way to accept your whole being
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
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New York (US Eastern Time)
We will explore welcoming the complexities of the divergences of opinions and feelings around topics that are difficult to talk about, like politics in polarized countries, or conflicts like Israel and Gaza and Palestine.
Free Zoom group. Register at: https://luma.com/zj5yl8c9
Topic: Free
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AEST
Most people have experienced the struggle with self-criticism, at least for some very challenging periods in their lives. Some experience the consequences of it daily and feel anxiety, depression, shame, exhaustion, and low self-esteem. Self-criticism can be dominant, controlling our behaviour, sabotaging our close relationships, and inhibiting action and progress in life. Like a trickster, that side of us sometimes comes in some not easily recognisable forms.
Through examples and practice, this workshop will help you to:
- Understand the development and the role of inner criticism
- Identify when it gets activated
- Learn the most helpful ways of relating to it
- Get to know your and your clients' inner dynamics
- Befriend
Through examples and practice, this workshop will help you to:
- Understand the development and the role of inner criticism
- Identify when it gets activated
- Learn the most helpful ways of relating to it
- Get to know your and your clients' inner dynamics
- Befriend
Canterbury Community Precinct 2 Kendall Street Canterbury, VIC Australia
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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Pacific
As these uncertain times continue to challenge us in unprecedented ways, our need for connection and emotional support is greater than ever.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care no matter what you're going through. Each month is different as Ann responds to the present moment and whatever the group is bringing.
Our hope is that you’ll leave the webinar with a greater sense of resilience and some relief from the stressful feelings you might be having. And that you’ll know you are not alone.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care no matter what you're going through. Each month is different as Ann responds to the present moment and whatever the group is bringing.
Our hope is that you’ll leave the webinar with a greater sense of resilience and some relief from the stressful feelings you might be having. And that you’ll know you are not alone.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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New York time
In this experiential workshop for Focusers, Jocelyn will invite participants to explore the significance of the body as foundation to presence.
This workshop is intended for Focusers, whether just beginning this practice or deeply experienced, who are interested in exploring these questions.
This workshop is intended for Focusers, whether just beginning this practice or deeply experienced, who are interested in exploring these questions.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Interactive Focusing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Central European Time
Focusing lernen - Seminar I der Focusing Basis-Ausbildung
Schloss Buchenau (Bad Hersfeld) in der Mitte Deutschlands
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Pacific Time
Do you want to find a way to accept your whole being
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
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New York time
Jeffrey will share his thoughts while inviting participants to sense into what comes for them as the presentation unfolds. Using Gendlin quotes and years of practicing both, he will offer an engaging exploration of the complexity of the question itself.
This presentation is open to anyone interested in learning more about Focusing and Focusing-Oriented Therapy.
This presentation is open to anyone interested in learning more about Focusing and Focusing-Oriented Therapy.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, FOT, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore the application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions. Utilizing exercises from the Facilitator Guide for Smartview Stories, we will explore and build the resourcing qualities life is asking of us now.
We will model how to create a safe, playful environment that facilitates neural plasticity. These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
We meet on the 4th Tuesday, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30 - 8:30pm ET New York time.
We will model how to create a safe, playful environment that facilitates neural plasticity. These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
We meet on the 4th Tuesday, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30 - 8:30pm ET New York time.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing
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Eastern
This Focusing group is an opportunity to meet for six weeks to be with the various crises of the world. These might be of the realm of the polycrisis (ecological, political, technological) or the underlying metacrisis (foundational conditions). One of the causes of these crises is the view that humans are separate to nature, that “it” is simply an external resource, rather than that we all belong to the web of life, that includes humans, and that this web is interconnected. We will use Focusing to be with all of that.
Zoom
Topic: Spirituality
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This eight-week course creates a container to unpack a big issue in your life. Using Focusing, you’ll shift a bad habit or addiction that keeps you away from something you long to be or do. And in so doing, tell your untold story.
Process skipping is doing something to keep us from feeling something. The term process skipping has been taken up by the Focusing community to label what we do when we don’t welcome something with Focusing. For example, the BioSpiritual Focusing teachings of Fathers Peter Campbell and Ed McMahon.
Next Groups:
-Tuesdays, July 28-September 29, 2026, 7-9 pm Eastern // Wednesdays, July 29-September 30, 9-11 am AEST. This group will be led by Coordinator Annette Dubreuil and PUPA Trainer Marg Peck
-Tuesdays, January 19-
Process skipping is doing something to keep us from feeling something. The term process skipping has been taken up by the Focusing community to label what we do when we don’t welcome something with Focusing. For example, the BioSpiritual Focusing teachings of Fathers Peter Campbell and Ed McMahon.
Next Groups:
-Tuesdays, July 28-September 29, 2026, 7-9 pm Eastern // Wednesdays, July 29-September 30, 9-11 am AEST. This group will be led by Coordinator Annette Dubreuil and PUPA Trainer Marg Peck
-Tuesdays, January 19-
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Pacific Time
Do you want to find a way to accept your whole being
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
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CET
Is there an inside and an outside?
Where do words come from? And movements?
What do the words do to the movement? and the other way around?
What in me and in my life wants to move and how, in which form, what is the performativity of it?
Exploring the dwelling on the edge of awareness, the edge of what is already known
and not yet known.
We will: practice daydreaming , practice movement while speaking the moment, Integrate
Focusing, felt sensing, Authentic Movement, writing and diverse physical and performative
practices in which the relationship between the 'I' and the environment finds new ways of
interaction.
The workshop is open to artists, dancers, therapists, and other curious people who are ready to
Where do words come from? And movements?
What do the words do to the movement? and the other way around?
What in me and in my life wants to move and how, in which form, what is the performativity of it?
Exploring the dwelling on the edge of awareness, the edge of what is already known
and not yet known.
We will: practice daydreaming , practice movement while speaking the moment, Integrate
Focusing, felt sensing, Authentic Movement, writing and diverse physical and performative
practices in which the relationship between the 'I' and the environment finds new ways of
interaction.
The workshop is open to artists, dancers, therapists, and other curious people who are ready to
Austria (near Vienna)