'How to Bring Focusing Seamlessly into Therapeutic Conversations' starting in Jan.

1 -Year Online Course Including International Guest Teachers - Q & A session.

For therapists, coaches, body workers, and anyone who wants to bring focusing more seamlessly into their conversations and who want to learn how to work with their felt sense of the client/focuser and of the relationship. This course is for those who are already certified, or who have trained in the fundamentals of focusing.

Gene was a psychotherapist and most of his focusing work was within the faster more improvisational style of therapeutic conversations. 

This 1- year course teaches you how to:

- Bring the skills you have already learnt on other courses, such as resonant reflection of ‘somethings’, finding the right distance, Clearing a Space, the focusing attitude, reminders/invitation, the Critic and parts work seamlessly into a the faster more improvisational style of a therapeutic conversation. 

- Several classes will focus on how to tap into, and work with, your felt sense of both the relationship, and of the client/focuser, so that you can, “Be the interaction that makes it better” (Gene Gendlin). 

- As part of learning how to work with the felt sense of the relationship Lynn Preston will be a guest teacher and her topic will be how to develop the therapeutic relationship, whether that be in a dyad of group.

- We will also study and practice how each of us is trying to make a deeper point, one that we are often initially not even aware of.  We will learn how to listen for the signs of this deeper point and how to facilitate its emergence as we work with focusing’s organic forward movement.

- Students will study and practice how to notice and work with a client's, or focuser’s, forward growing edge, as well as the undertow, or trailing edge that comes with it.

- In most stuck places there can be several threads and one of these is often a younger place, or flash back. Students will learn how to identify and unpack these places allowing their forward edge to flow and grow.

- We will have a class with Isabel Adon on working with focusing and grief and trauma.

- Students to become certified Focusing Oriented Therapists, or Focusing Professionals.

- Students also have the option of also being certified as focusing teachers and trainers.

Mary Hendricks, Eugene Gendlin’s wife and former teacher of TFI’s certification course, and director of TFI, handed the role of teaching and responsibility for certifying focusing professionals for the Institute to Charlotte several years ago. Charlotte led the Institute’s certification program for over 12 years and has a wealth of experience as a focusing teacher and has worked as a focusing oriented therapist and coach herself for 27 years.

Online

Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 10:00 am - Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 2:00 pm