Upcoming Courses, and Ongoing Groups and Services
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Throughout 2024, join us each Wednesday for a contemplative meditation crossing the Philosophies of Jiddu Krishnamurti and Eugene Gendlin. We meet every Wednesday from 1pm to 2pm EST/NY where we pause to contemplate the truth.
We move slowly through these meditations leaving space for pauses, reflections and focusing partnership interactions - any language and any level of Focusing proficiency is welcome into this space, or none at all.
These events are open and free to the public - each meditation is taken from Krishnamurti's Book of Life.
We move slowly through these meditations leaving space for pauses, reflections and focusing partnership interactions - any language and any level of Focusing proficiency is welcome into this space, or none at all.
These events are open and free to the public - each meditation is taken from Krishnamurti's Book of Life.
Pre-register on zoom.
Topic: Introductory, Free, Spirituality, TAE/Philosophy
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Eastern Time
In this time of social conflict and identity politics, it is increasingly likely that the therapeutic relationship is impacted by global and polarizing events. How does the current zeitgeist of social polarization show up in our therapy rooms? What do we do when it does, and what do we need in order to be congruent within ourselves and for our clients? We hope this Roundtable will provide a welcome and safe space to share our experiences, thoughts and feelings about these challenging issues.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, FOT, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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CET
You may be familiar with a habitual background atmosphere of restlessness, anxiousness, agitation, or something like that. ...
We can invite and gradually build new patterns in our autonomic nervous system and brain. In doing so, we change our spontaneous physical, emotional and mental responses to life’s occurrences.
> Focusing exchanges
> Awareness Through Movement (ATM)
> Neuro Regulating Exercises
> Theoretical discourses
> Shared silence
Online Course:
Wednesdays, Nov 20, 2024 to April 9, 2025
We can invite and gradually build new patterns in our autonomic nervous system and brain. In doing so, we change our spontaneous physical, emotional and mental responses to life’s occurrences.
> Focusing exchanges
> Awareness Through Movement (ATM)
> Neuro Regulating Exercises
> Theoretical discourses
> Shared silence
Online Course:
Wednesdays, Nov 20, 2024 to April 9, 2025
Topic: Other
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CET
Las prácticas tutorizadas de focusing tienen por finalidad la práctica del focusing con asesoramiento para consolidar el conocimiento y el manejo del procedimiento e iniciar al alumnado a la facilitación de procesos de focusing como guía.
Nota: Para cursar el módulo de prácticas tutorizadas el alumno deberá haber superado los dos primeros niveles de focusing.
Nota: Para cursar el módulo de prácticas tutorizadas el alumno deberá haber superado los dos primeros niveles de focusing.
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Eastern Time Zone
The course is an opportunity to spend time with your wanting or project to integrate Focusing into your life—whether personally or professionally—in both an embodied and more than logical way. Like being in contact with a yet undiscovered treasure box. With FOCUSING, a practice laid out by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene T. Gendlin, you will get in touch with your Felt Sense and be able to develop surprisingly fresh understandings that make a difference, especially in how you are with your special project or issue. By adding certain moves of THINKING AT THE EDGE (TAE), another practice Gendlin created, with Mary Hendricks and Kye Nelson, we will show you how you can speak more and more precisely from your Felt Sense. In doing so, you will discover important details by redefining
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy
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New York time
Following a year-long group of "Reading Freshly" Gendlin’s book Focusing with fellow Focusers, Mary gives a personal account of the experience and how reflecting on it led her to unexpected places in considering what Focusing is or can be.
Some familiarity with Focusing is helpful, but no prior experience with Focusing or philosophy is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Some familiarity with Focusing is helpful, but no prior experience with Focusing or philosophy is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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CET
La Etapa de Formación Inicial tiene por finalidad la familiarización con el proceso y la técnica del enfoque corporal, el conocimiento de los seis pasos, y la adquisición de las capacidades necesarias para manejar el procedimiento de focusing.
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Central European Time = GMT+1 (Budapest)
In the November session of the Fókusz Klub, we’ll be focusing on changes—those happening within us and around us. How do we experience them? How do they affect us? How do we allow them into our lives? We’ll explore these questions over two 1.5-hour sessions, in our usual way: through movement, play, and focusing processes. Come and experience it for yourself!
Budapest, Hungary, Közép.Pont Mental Health Center
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Cd. de México time
A través de actividades y conversaciones promoveremos el desarrollo de actitudes y habilidades pertinentes para sentir las vivencias de otras personas desde nuestro experienciar. Y expresar desde de experienciar al otro nuestra comprensión empática.
Framboyanes 34, Jardines de San Mateo, Naucalpan, Edo. de México, MÉXICO
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time/New York/Canada
In the style of Gene Gendlin's FREE Changes Meetings in the earliest days of Focusing (continuing to this day!), LearnFocusing.org is delighted to offer a Monthly Exploring Interaction Changes Meeting -- Improving Relationships with Self and Others.
These monthly meetings will be held on third Sundays at both 11am ET and 7pm ET New York time, entirely online, using Zoom technology, for 90 minutes each meeting.
Facilitated by Barbara Dickinson, Certified teacher of Interactive Focusing and Certified Focusing Professional (TIFI), participants will have the opportunity to experience Demonstrations of Interactive Focusing (for beginners), as well as partner with more experienced Interactive Focusers (intermediate to advanced).
These monthly meetings will be held on third Sundays at both 11am ET and 7pm ET New York time, entirely online, using Zoom technology, for 90 minutes each meeting.
Facilitated by Barbara Dickinson, Certified teacher of Interactive Focusing and Certified Focusing Professional (TIFI), participants will have the opportunity to experience Demonstrations of Interactive Focusing (for beginners), as well as partner with more experienced Interactive Focusers (intermediate to advanced).
Online with Zoom
Topic: Changes Groups
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Eastern Time (New York time)
Focusing Journal is a gentle, creative process of exploration of your inner experience on the page – bypassing the analytical mind and traveling to the surface - as colors, words, shapes, or movement. Flexible visual templates serve as supportive prompts or anchors for your process to emerge with new meanings and possibilities.
These sessions invites alignment with the fall season - the qualities of letting go, unburdening, as well as tending to the inner light. There will be ample space for solo work, reflection, sharing resonance, and enriching our experience.
These sessions invites alignment with the fall season - the qualities of letting go, unburdening, as well as tending to the inner light. There will be ample space for solo work, reflection, sharing resonance, and enriching our experience.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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CET Time, Central European Time
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
Learn to:
> listen to yourself and others with every cell of your body, with your whole being, and a deep acceptance
> allow yourself to be seen while being authentically yourself
> express yourself honestly, yet skillfully and respectfully
> listen without judgment as you deeply tune into another person’s experience
Where you may have felt stuck, your life changes for the better as you experience a natural flow again.
Online course:
Mondays, Nov 25, 2024, to May 5, 2025
Learn to:
> listen to yourself and others with every cell of your body, with your whole being, and a deep acceptance
> allow yourself to be seen while being authentically yourself
> express yourself honestly, yet skillfully and respectfully
> listen without judgment as you deeply tune into another person’s experience
Where you may have felt stuck, your life changes for the better as you experience a natural flow again.
Online course:
Mondays, Nov 25, 2024, to May 5, 2025
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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CET Time, Central European Time
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
Learn to:
> listen to yourself and others with every cell of your body, with your whole being, and a deep acceptance
> allow yourself to be seen while being authentically yourself
> express yourself honestly, yet skillfully and respectfully
> listen without judgment as you deeply tune into another person’s experience
Where you may have felt stuck, your life changes for the better as you experience a natural flow again.
Online course:
Mondays, Nov 25, 2024, to May 5, 2025
Learn to:
> listen to yourself and others with every cell of your body, with your whole being, and a deep acceptance
> allow yourself to be seen while being authentically yourself
> express yourself honestly, yet skillfully and respectfully
> listen without judgment as you deeply tune into another person’s experience
Where you may have felt stuck, your life changes for the better as you experience a natural flow again.
Online course:
Mondays, Nov 25, 2024, to May 5, 2025
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time
In this four part beginner Focusing course for advanced listeners (people with previous experience listening to themselves or others), we delve into each of the 6 steps, with each class including a teaching of one or two steps. Each class also includes listening skills, a small experiential exercise, a demonstration and then small group practice (typically in twos or threes).
Dates for the next groups:
-Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm Eastern, November 26-December 17, 2024
Dates for the next groups:
-Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm Eastern, November 26-December 17, 2024
Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate
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CET
En este taller monográfico exploraremos una aplicación del mapa del ciclo de la experiencia gestáltico a la experiencia del enfoque corporal. Veremos las maneras en que solemos interrumpir el ciclo de la experiencia según la perspectiva gestáltica y formas experienciales de indagar en estos mecanismos de defensa. Y claves que nos ayuden a abrirnos al flujo de nuestra experiencia.
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EST (New York)
Thinking at the Edge (TAE) is a method for getting in touch with our felt meanings and articulating them with fresh and precise language.
You will learn TAE steps 1-12 while working on a project of your choice. The 3-person format accommodates different learning styles by placing participants in various roles and allows for adapting the teaching content and pace to individual needs during the exploration process.
Courses are starting in February.
You will learn TAE steps 1-12 while working on a project of your choice. The 3-person format accommodates different learning styles by placing participants in various roles and allows for adapting the teaching content and pace to individual needs during the exploration process.
Courses are starting in February.
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
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EST (New York)
This class invites participants to explore the resourcing possibilities of five movements encountered in everyday living -- push, withdraw, reach, offer, and receive. Beginning with an upright spine and supple stance at the center, we will familiarize ourselves with these five movements to develop a sense of possibility and flow. We will then work with a situation in a Focusing way: Exploring body position as an indicator of our state, ask our body what it needs to complete the action, and invite a posture or movement as a response-- e.g. to be still and observe, prepare for a request, retreat, etc. We will slow down and allow time for fully unfolding transitions between postures and movement.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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New York time
In this Highlight, Barbara and Ann will share the fundamentals of their Untangling method: the five Powers of Presence and the way that developing these Powers enables the transformation of what’s impossibly stuck.
Some familiarity with Focusing is helpful, but no prior experience is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Some familiarity with Focusing is helpful, but no prior experience is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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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 in these challenging times. 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 in these challenging times. 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, Intermediate/Advanced
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CET
Las prácticas tutorizadas de focusing tienen por finalidad la práctica del focusing con asesoramiento para consolidar el conocimiento y el manejo del procedimiento e iniciar al alumnado a la facilitación de procesos de focusing como guía.
Nota: Para cursar el módulo de prácticas tutorizadas el alumno deberá haber superado los dos primeros niveles de focusing.
Nota: Para cursar el módulo de prácticas tutorizadas el alumno deberá haber superado los dos primeros niveles de focusing.