Online Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy in Action (FORPA)

Course starts on September 23rd but student can join class at any week but once joined need to commit to remainder of classes which finish in December

We have a few openings in our every other week online focusing oriented therapy study group. In this group we co-create the kind of learning experience that exemplifies and instances the focusing concepts and skills we are studying.

Focusing is known primarily as a transformative approach for helping our clients to access what they are experiencing beneath the level of their words and thoughts. Focusing  enables clinicians to enliven and deepen  counseling and psychotherapy by responding in  such a way that  can bring the conversation  into the feelingful, immediacy of the present moment. What is less known is the ways in which a Focusing approach brings the therapy relationship alive. It provides understandings and skills that open up new pathways to deepening and empowering the healing partnership.

In this zoom group we explore the “HOW TO” as well as the CONCEPTS  that can nurture our work. In an atmosphere of open exploration we discuss readings, look at videos, do demonstrations and explore clinical challenges.

This group is helpful, not only for psychotherapists, but  for counselors, coaches, body-oriented therapists, and spiritual advisers, 

Topics:

9/23 Forward Movement: Carrying the relationship forward – the new ‘us’.

10/7 Using resonance in sessions: The one interaction in action.

10/21 Focusing Conversations and encounters.

11/4 Asking into and pointing – making a something of the felt sense of the relationship.

11/25 Using the focusing conversation in therapy.

12/9 Focusing as the therapist – holding a few tracks at the same time in your awareness and helping to digest and carry forward for the client.

12/16 Case examples and summary.

STARTING DATE  Sept 23 2019 but it is possible to join after this date.

TIME.  9:45 - 11:15

First Semester Seven 1 hour and 15 min classes biweekly

FEE: $280 ($40 a class, a few scholarships available)

TO REGISTER send a one paragraph introduction of yourself and a picture to [email protected] and to [email protected]