Find a Focusing Professional - GHADA RADWAN
I have always admired facilitators like those who help people to gain more resilience toward their difficulties, through introducing to them meditation and other successfully diverse skills. I feel proud to have this ability to work with focusing method to help people gaining the resilience through Focusing sessions. I having worked within this field in training focusing for over ten years. in this period of time I worked with my colleagues in Gaza to help 10000 participants to gain focusing skills, which related to the International Focusing Institute in America, depended on Person–Centered Therapy. For more information about focusing therapy, please visit the link for focusing therapy: www.focusing.org.
I have developed a wide range of skills that would meet, and exceed the expectations for the role. In my previous role as a Project Coordinator & Focusing Trainer for Palestine Trauma Centre_ Gaza & UK in Gaza, I have shown an excellent performance in all the tasks delivered by me.
My biggest contribution as focusing trainer in PTC_UK in Gaza is achieving my certificate as a registered focusing trainer as a first focusing trainer in Palestine in 2021, that appears in the site of focusing institute
https://focusing.org/civicrm/profile/view?reset=1&id=5757&gid=14
Also leading focusing team in Gaza from 2014 to 2021 & and being responsible on the Focusing program & its stages which containing (planning activities, implementing focusing sessions, responsible for the focusing training, and supervision monitoring and evaluation, & prepared a manual of focusing session depending on focusing theory as a part of my thesis in master degree, with supervision of my supervisor & trainer of focusing.
I joined many international focusing conferences via zoom to present the focusing experience in Gaza strip, Finally training many individuals from a various age groups including men and women & youth (Universities students(male and female), employees from many Ministries, cancer patients, medical staff, journalists, elderly people, children from many grades) with using focusing group theory, which has, assists in identifying their inner problems and how they can solve their problems by themselves in order to maximize their potential and make them happier.
In addition, I published article in Resilience Focusing Imitative Journal 2019 about my work in focusing program with Cancer patients. that showed the efficiency of focusing program in supporting resiliency of Cancer patient and appears in this link of Journal Resilience
Resilience Initiatives Journal Volume 1, Issue 2 (focusinginternational.org)
In addition, record video of our success to support resilience of cancer patients with focusing skills appears in this video
https://www.facebook.com/ghada.radwan.311/videos/1049130889261600
In 2019 I developed my experience in focusing therapy with children and succeed in representing Palestine in Netherland in July 2019, in children focusing training, which contained 19 trainees all over the world, which appears in this video:
https://www.facebook.com/ghada.radwan.311/videos/2199627153502945
An article published in focusing newsletter titled as A Seriously Playful Journey from Gaza to the Netherlands and Back
An Interview of Ghada Radwan by Mary Jennings which appears in this link
January 2020 Newsletter | International Focusing Institute
In addition, I record the journey of focusing program in Gaza strip with many sectors of stakeholders which appears in these videos
https://www.facebook.com/100003670454009/videos/pcb.1541749069290760/451156256590252
I recently achieved a certificate as a master student TECT 2021- program (Training in Embodied Critical Thinking) with Erasmus scholarship which is run by the University of Iceland in partnership with other universities. And success to join new TECT 2023- master program with Erasmus scholarship on (Mindfulness) which is run by the University of Groningen in partnership with other universities for 2023.
In addition, I was awarded an MA from Al Azhar University in 2017 with a thesis in focusing therapy titled as Focusing Program & its role in Providing Life Skills among students of Al Azhar University, which was the first thesis in focusing therapy in Gaza. Belongs to Gene Gendline program and focusing therapy.
In addition, I have been chosen in 2023 Encyclopedia of Arabic Leading Women as a first focusing trainer in Palestine. Achieved Award of “creative woman” from Creative Women Association in Palestine for 2023.
I recently joined the master program for international students in the university of Iceland with Erasmus scholarship.