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Upcoming Courses, and Ongoing Groups and Services

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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- Eastern Time
Yehudit First
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) is an organic, authentic, somatic way to be fully present, connected to ourselves, while interacting with others. We seek to identify the felt sense created within the mutual interaction occurring in the here and now, enabling a transformative process to take place within the mutual interpersonal space.
SOF teaches us to untie The KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors.
For therapists, coaches, and anyone interested in feeling free to be their authentic selves in their relationships. SOF Foundation Course Level 1 meets 8 times weekly for 2.5 hours. This class meets Thursdays 11:00 am – 13:30 pm ET New York time or your equivalent.

Online via Zoom
- EST
Headshot of a woman with a business jacket and it's tinted gold Image with blue circles as a logo and the words Focusing With Laura
You are invited to continue learning and unpacking the depths of the Inner Relationship Focusing process. This live virtual nine-week course, gives you the necessary time and space to integrate and apply your skills and knowledge gained in Foundations Training Part 1 (Levels 1 & 2).
Save 10% if you successfully completed our Part 1 Course.

Online
Topic: Beginners
- New York time
TIFI Events logo Rob Parker
22 weekly meetings on Mondays
Audio recordings available after each live meeting

Rob Parker will lead the group in weekly meetings reading the book together and pausing for questions and discussion. This offering covers approximately one third of the book, and the next segment will continue in October 2024. We estimate completing the book in three segments finishing up in Fall 2025.

Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning takes us on a profound exploration to the edge of awareness where our symboled world (attention, meaning, and language) arises from experiencing, where we discover ourselves and the world as a single creative experiencing, without the mind-body, subject-object dualisms that have characterized Western thinking. This changes how we

Online (Class will also be audio recorded)
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Pacific
Ann Weiser Cornell
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.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced
- Pacific Time
Doorways 2 logo Paula Gamble-Grant headshot
Over 10 weeks, Doorways to the Soul 2 continues to build on the skills and concepts practiced in DW1. DW1 (or the equivalent of Focusing Levels 1&2 with another teacher) are a prerequisite to taking DW2.

In this course you’ll continue to grow in your Focusing and Companioning skills - dealing with the super power of empathy, inner critics, feelings about feelings, recognizing close and distant processes, sensing what a part is not wanting, and more!

Online on Zoom
- Eastern time
Naty Calviño. Certifying  Coordinator. Focusing Oriented Therapist.  Yogatherapist
This Program is designed specifically for therapists and counselors who want to enrich and take their work with clients a step further with Focusing and get their FOT Certification from TIFI. Other people who work with clients in different ways and want to enhance their work are also welcome to attend. (Even though they would not apply for the Certification)
It is an ongoing course of 1 1/2 hours every other week, on Tuesdays, that  can be taken independently or as part of the whole Certification Program.

Online
Topic: FOT
- Eastern Time
Annette Dubreuil Two butterflies, Focusing partnerships
In this four-week beginner Focusing course for advanced listeners, 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, 2:30-4:30 pm Eastern, April 2-23.

Zoom
Topic: Beginners
- Eastern Time (New York Time)
Annette Dubreuil circle of chairs picture
A Changes Group is a free-of-charge, peer-led group that meets so people can exchange Focusing and listening turns in an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect. It's a group for continuing your Focusing practice; no teaching will be done.

We meet on zoom twice per month. We have a centering/grounding practice to begin followed by a check in (usually in breakout rooms), followed by time for practice in groups of two or three. You can also chose to join an empathy circle if you'd like to observe or practice in a bigger group.

Our next Changes Groups are:

-Wednesday, April 3rd, 12:30-2 pm Eastern

-Thursday, April 18th, 7-8:30 pm Eastern
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners, Changes Groups, Intermediate/Advanced
- Pacific Time
Doorways to the Soul: Befriending your Whole Self Paula Gamble-Grant headshot
A 10 week introductory course of learning the Art of Inner Relationship Focusing which will help Soul Centered Practitioners learn to feel more empowered with sensing into the untapped God-given wisdom of body, emotion, and soul in your own Spiritual and Personal Transformation.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners
- Eastern Time
The Therapeutic US: Working with Groups and Communities

Online
- Eastern Time, New York time
Yehudit First
Moving from being against each other to being for us and for what is possible with SOF

Online via Zoom
- GMT -3
Florentina Sassoli Alejandro Juroczko
Con una modalidad de 1 sabado al mes, brindamos este espacio para entrenarte en Focusing, con opción a certificarte.

MODULO 1 de 9 el sábado 6 de Abril.

Online
Topic: Beginners, Certification, FOT, Intermediate/Advanced, Other
- Eastern Standard Time
tinted gold Headshot of a woman with brown hair wearing a business jacket logo of hand drawn circles and the text focusing with laura in blue beside it
You are invited to become a part of our group as we learn the Inner Relationship Focusing process. In this live virtual four Saturday course, you will acquire the skills necessary for cultivating radical lasting life change.

At our core, we are dedicated to cultivating close-knit classroom settings that prioritize immersive, experiential education. Say goodbye to silently staring at screens! We'll methodically practice the art of Focusing together. Our curriculum includes informative lectures, illustrative demonstrations, interactive Q&As, thought-provoking activities, and collaborative partner exercises.

Online
Topic: Beginners
- Eastern (New York) Time
Reading Freshly The International Focusing Institute Events
Reading Freshly
This 7th session starts at Chapter 6, What Focusing Is Not
Newcomers welcome each month!
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Tuesday - 7th session April 9, 2024
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- France
reves Alexandre
Les rêves fascinent depuis la nuit des temps, ils sont mystérieux, messagers, et parfois nous laissent une sensation étrange au réveil. Dans une vidéo en ligne intitulée Dream open doors to focusing (les rêves ouvrent les portes du focusing), Gendlin dit qu’une manière d’apprendre le focusing consiste de partir des rêves, car chaque rêve vous donne un ou plusieurs sentiment bizarres”.
- Hora de España
Módulo teórico
Conoce la filosofía de Eugene Gendlin,
la filosofía experiencial y de lo implícito,
las bases sobre las que se establece Focusing.

España
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
- 06:30-08:00(ニューヨーク)19:30-21:00(日本)
Focusing Roundtables The International Focusing Institute Events
国際フォーカシング協会主催、日本語での
インタラクティブ・フォーカシング・ラウンドテーブルへのお誘い
国際フォーカシング研究所(TIFI)から、「日本語によるラウンドテーブル」を開催する機会を 提供していただきました。テーマは 「インタラクティブ・フォーカシング」です。TIFI会員は無料で参加できます。
Topic: Beginners, FOT, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Eastern Time (New York Time)
Annette Dubreuil
Learn Gendlin's classic 6 steps of Focusing in this interactive 2-hour workshop. There will be a Focusing demonstration. And you will have the opportunity to experience Focusing for a 20-minute turn, as well as a listening turn in breakout groups.

Next sessions (pick one 2-hour session to attend):
-Monday, April 15, 10 am -12 pm Eastern
-Sunday, April 21, 6:30-8:30 pm Eastern
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners
- Eastern Time
Annette Dubreuil leadership
An embodied leader is self-aware, informed by their body’s wisdom, and able to show up in ways that reflect their values and commitments, even under pressure. They also create team spaces that foster safety and creativtiy.

During this 10 week course, you'll use Focusing to unpack where you get in the way of the psychological safety for your team and/or relationships. And where you can build it up.

Whether you're a team leader or a team member, you can learn to lead in an embodied way in your relationships. And this will unleash creativity in your interactions.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced
- Pacific
Ann Weiser Cornell
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.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced
- Eastern Time
PUPA process Annette Dubreuil
The next cohort of PUPA Focusing Trainees begins Thursdays, May 2nd. Courses will be Thursdays, from 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern time.

Join us on Thursday, April 18th for an Open House where the program will be discussed and you can get your questions answered.
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Zoom
Topic: Certification
- Wednesday - Sunday
TAE Academy The International Focusing Institute Events
The 2024 TAE Academy took place in January. YOU MAY REGISTER FOR THE RECORDINGS which remain available through April 30, 2024.

This online Academy will allow you to both take a deep dive into TAE, and also to get a broad experience of outstanding teachers from all over the world.

TAE is a practice developed by Gene Gendlin and Mary Hendricks-Gendlin. It is related to Focusing but has a different emphasis. Both are grounded in the “felt sense,” that murky sense of something you know which is not yet in words. With TAE, we intentionally and systematically build upon that not-yet-articulated place to allow for something new to be brought into the world.

The Main Classes are intended as live experiences, so please block out the time for those
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- PDT (Pacific Time)
FOAT Institute Freda Blob
Join us for the first 2024 presentation of our ongoing Roots, Branches, and Wings Series with Pioneers and Master Teachers in Focusing and Expressive Arts. Open to those new and experienced in Focusing, Expressive Arts, and FOAT.


Zoom Online
Topic: Beginners
- France
Alexandre Ecoute
Je propose un stage de 2 jours pour expérimenter comment votre ressenti corporel vous permet de sentir, de décider et d’avancer dans la vie de manière sûr.
Le Focusing Expérientiel vous (ré)apprend à détecter et écouter votre sens corporel. Par son intermédiaire vous retrouvez confiance, intuition, et créativité.

La Roche sur Foron 74
- New York time
highlights logo TIFI events logo Veronica S. Urioste
Veronica will be sharing her Focusing journey of learning to live life from a felt-sensing place of connecting deeply with oneself and others. She invites you to bring yourself fully to simply be with the art of experiencing and creating meaning moment by moment. An opportunity will be created to be a volunteer in a live demonstration.  

Some familiarity with Focusing may be helpful but no prior experience is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.

Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Eastern Time/New York/Canada
Barbara Dickinson Sandy Jahmi Burg
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).

Online with Zoom
Topic: Changes Groups
- Pacific
Jinevra Howard Ann Weiser Cornell
Discover powerful skills for life change based on self-acceptance and being present in the moment. Start to experience the process of Focusing and Focusing partnership. Learn how to cultivate an inner environment of calm, open, curious awareness which is the foundation from which lasting change emerges. Interactive beginning Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.

Taught by Jinevra Howard and Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).

Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners
- Australia Eastern Standard Time
Listen to your body Marie Connors
Focusing is a powerful method of self-discovery that places great significance on our own personal experiences. By tuning into our bodily sensations, we can gain valuable insights and guidance. Marie, will guide us through the process of Focusing and help us uncover the wisdom that our bodies already possess. Through this practice, we can better understand and navigate through situations that may leave us feeling confused or uncertain. By tapping into our inner resources, we can unlock a wealth of knowledge and clarity that resides within us.

Focusing is a process of allowing our bodies to show us the way to deeper self-knowledge and healing. It is a doorway to your true self. Our bodies have their own consciousness, aliveness, and intelligence. They carry wisdom and

Online- Zoom
Topic: Beginners
- Cd. de México time
Fotografía de Salvador Moreno López Fotografía de Helena Ortiz Cassaigne
Aprenderás experiencialmente cómo aprovechar el poder de la voz y los gestos tanto para comprender experiencialmente a tus consultantes, como para expresar tu empatía experiencial.

Transmitiendo desde Zapopan, Jalisco, México
Topic: FOT
- Eastern Time
Annette Dubreuil Woman sitting on a bench looking at the sunrise
In this 8-week group, you will use Focusing to transform a significant issue in your life, in part by deepening your access to Self through the 8Cs of Self-Leadership. The 8Cs are calmness, connectedness, curiosity, clarity, compassion, confidence, courage and creativity.

By crossing these qualities with our issue, we move through it by pausing, understanding the issue, transforming it, and then preparing for action, and finally taking action.

Your issue can be working towards a personal or professional goal. However, the course is designed in such a way that you can also bring a different topic each week to your Focusing, and concentrate on building your 8Cs which help you live as your Self more often.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced
- Main classes Thursday - Sunday. Optional Welcome and Orientation Wednesday
Focusing Academy May 2 - 5 2024 The International Focusing Institute Events
This online Academy will allow you to immerse yourself in one introductory Focusing main class as well as experience other Focusing teachers through a variety of stand-alone workshops offered by teachers from around the world. This event is oriented toward beginners as well as experienced Focusers who would enjoy a chance to begin freshly. The Academy is also a great opportunity for new Focusing teachers or those returning to teaching looking for a fresh perspective.

Coming from the work of Eugene Gendlin, Focusing is an experiential, embodied and evidence-based practice of self-reflection. During Focusing, your attention will open up to multiple layers and aspects of living.

The Main Classes are intended as live experiences, so please block out the time
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Pacific
Jinevra Howard
Take the second half of the Inner Relationship Focusing Training Program developed by Ann Weiser Cornell. Go deeper into Focusing and Focusing partnership. Learn the skill of guiding with sensitivity and awareness. Interactive advanced Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.

Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. Partnership Proficiency Recognition awarded on completion.
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- CET
Amona Buechler, Coordinator in Training Focusing Academy TIFI
This course is part of a Focusing Academy hosted by the International Focusing Institute. The aim is to offer focusing courses for beginners all around the globe.

THURSDAY, MAY 2 to SUNDAY, MAY 5
3-hours each, 4-classes, 12-hours total

3:00am – 6:00am Eastern Time US
9:00am – 12:00pm Central Europe
3:00pm – 6:00pm China
5:00pm – 8:00pm Sydney

European Central Time (Zoom):
Topic: Beginners
- Eastern Time
Annette Dubreuil A pupa, a chrysalis stage in the butterfly and the metaphor used for the safe space for transformation that Focusing creates
A pupa is the safe place for transformation... in nature this is the cocoon or chrysalis. In Focusing, this is the safety of our Focusing attitude and listening partnerships. The use of felt sense body cards catalyze the process by capturing details and helping us notice our patterns and further explicate our process.

The base of the PUPA Focusing Certification Program consists of five courses that cover a journey using the PUPA process. They are designed to not only learn and teach Focusing, but also to get to know and transform yourself, while creating change in the world— by bringing more Focusing into the world.

The five core courses make a PUPA journey: learning Focusing (Pause), learning about who you are (Understanding), learning who you want to be

Zoom
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced
- Eastern Time
Annette Dubreuil Focusing for beginners - image of two butterflies
In this eight-week Focusing course, we learn the practice, include being a listener. We slowly learn each of the 6 steps of Focusing, adding a new one every week or two. We also gradually learn new listening skills. Each class consists of a centering, a small experiential exercise, a demonstration and breakout room practice in groups twos or threes.

Dates for the next groups:
-Thursdays, May 2nd-June 27th, 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern (break week May 23rd)
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Zoom
Topic: Beginners
- France Dordogne Payzac (24270)
Cercle de parole Alexandre Jacquelin - CFP & Focusing trainer
Qu'il s'agisse de vous écouter ou d'écouter les autres, dans un cadre privé ou professionnel, ce stage vous offre la possibilité de nourrir votre qualité de présence et d'interaction par la "Focusing attitude". Il se propose à toute personne qui aspire à nourrir une qualité de relation à soi-même et aux autres, qui soit source d’écoute, de compréhension empathique et respectivement d’émergence de soi. 
- UK time
Tom Larkin Mary Jennings Margaret Quinn
What if we had a way of opening more possibilities for ourselves in the world?
What if enriching our Focusing practice helped us open this ‘possibility space’ in a way that we may have not yet encountered?
This workshop is both an invitation and an opportunity for Focusers to explore anew your experience and understanding of Focusing

Dominican Retreat Centre, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- EST
Headshot of a woman with a business jacket and it's tinted gold Image with blue circles as a logo and the words Focusing With Laura
You are invited to continue learning and unpacking the depths of the Inner Relationship Focusing process. This live virtual nine-week course, gives you the necessary time and space to integrate and apply your skills and knowledge gained in Foundations Training Part 1 (Levels 1 & 2).

Online
Topic: Beginners
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Sandy Jahmi Burg 2019 Creating Space for Lasting Change, Part 2, Expand your relational skills
PART 2 is about deepening into the Focusing and Listening process by looking more at the role of the Companion. A companion to ourselves as well as others. I introduce neuroscience here. We develop further our personal concept of creating an inner space that welcomes it all and adapting that space as we follow our process. Requires some previous partnership experience.

Class meets six times on Tuesdays 7-9pm EST beginning May 14.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners
- CET
Bassano del Grappa
4 day workshop using Lee's theory/method on how to change something you have tried to change . . . without success. 3 focusing exchanges daily each with a lead in preparation. Dynamic Journaling. The Workshop is a strong beginning to a project to change your unchangeable. This workshop starts the journey and outlines major stages of the journey to come.

Villa Angaran San Giuseppe in Bassano del Grappa, Italy a charming center for Social Good at the foot of the southern Alps
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- GMT
Marta Fabregat, Focusing Coordinator Olimpus Olimpus Nature
The Path of the Sensing Being Retreat will be combining the process of Focusing and Contemplative Presence Practice in nature. This retreat invites a sense of living from an embodied sense of Presence. Coming back to remembering our true most natural and simple nature in community.

The retreat is open to all levels of Focusing practice. It might be specially interesting if you are considering moving forward into deepening your Focusing experience and if you are in the process of becoming a Focusing practitioner or Teacher or thinking about it.
Focusing shows us a radical and authentic way of listening to our bodies with gentle and generous compassion, without seeking results or solutions. This path also pursues what we cannot express in words. It supports

Olimpus, Antalya, Turkey
Topic: Other
- Pacific Time
An in-person, co-created weekend of exploring Focusing as we nurture community

located at Dumas Bay Center on Dash Point, Federal Way Washington. Surrounded by 12 acres of natural beauty, the center is situated on a bluff that overlooks the Puget Sound.
Topic: Beginners, Children, FOT, Intermediate/Advanced, Spirituality, TAE/Philosophy
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Sandy Jahmi Burg 2019 Guiding Skills to Go Deeper, Creating Space for Lasting Change Part 3
Join us for an online advanced Focusing class that helps you understand where you are within a process and then, to sense what is needed from you for this situation now. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing, Spatial Awareness and Neuroscience concepts, we learn to guide ourselves and others in ways that invite relational trust, lasting change and life forward flow. Valuable practices for healing professionals, teachers, etc. Discount for those repeating.
Meets for six times Sunday afternoons from 2 - 4 pm EDT.
Prerequisite: Level or Part 2 Focusing training

Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- Central European Time
TECTU Poster
This training program is supported by 6 European universities. It explores how theories of embodiment imply a leap into experiential and more embodied methods of research, teaching and learning. The course offers 12 webinars, and a summer school which will take place in Iceland this year. Gendlin's philosophy and practices are part of the theoretical and methodological cornerstones of this international program. Students can participate for free.
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.

Online via Zoom
- Eastern time
Full of lightness open up! Dynamic Expressive Focusing
Guiding the group and your experience is built from ou experiences in working with groups. 4 key elements are important;
1. Concrete experience (doing/ having an experience)
2. Reflective observation, (reviewing/ reflecting on the experience)
3. Active experimentation (planning, trying out what you have learned)
4. Abstract conceptualization (concluding, learning from the experience)


online
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- Central European Time
Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin
Treasure Maps is a 6-day residential retreat, an intensive workshop for people with Focusing experience who want to apply our Untangling® method to life’s most hard-to-change issues.

We’ve been teaching Treasure Maps in 15 countries over the past 25 years, helping thousands of people learn our method, getting responses like this one from Paul Fitzgerald: "The Treasure Maps experience was like a dissolving of an old way of seeing life and having new eyes to engage life with more freedom. I'd highly encourage anyone interested in deepening their Focusing to take this course."

We believe that transformation occurs most readily in an atmosphere of respect, acceptance, openness, warmth, playfulness, and support. Our mission is to enable you to live

Plön, Germany
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- Japan Time
iFocusing leaflet back iFocusing leaflet front
Online Focusing workshops by Dr. Ikemi’s students
- CET
Alex Maunder Jennie St Clair Umbrian Landscape Mt Subasio
A one week residential workshop in Assisi, the spiritual heart of Italy. (You can count the hours as part of your training with me, to be a Focusing Trainer with the TFI). This course is for couples, or singles.
In many relationships there may be a lot of compatibility and attraction but there are certain topics that just become taboo. They are simply too difficult to talk about because of the accumulated emotions and memories. Couples become emotionally reactive and cannot discuss reasonably, because they are fixing blame and inwardly nurturing resentment.
And yet, it is precisely by exploring these issues, using Focusing skills and having the courage to be authentic and vulnerable that fertile areas for love and intimacy are opened up. If couples can develop the courage

Residential in the Catholic retreat centre of Porziano, Assisi, Italy.
- Central European Time CET
Amona & Uta Buechler Retreat Space The Location
Zu diesem Retreat laden wir dich ein, wenn du nach sanften, aber tiefgreifend transformierenden Wegen suchst, in dir selbst anzukommen… wenn du dich danach sehnst, entspannter und lebendiger im gegenwärtigen Moment zu leben…
wenn du neugierig darauf bist, dich dem Abenteuer des Nichtwissens zu öffnen und dein Vertrauen ins Leben zu vertiefen.

5-Tages-Retreat, 18. bis 23. Juni 2024


Deutschland, Siebengebirge (nahe Bonn)
Topic: Other
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.

Online via Zoom
- Central European Standard Time
Christine Groscarret & Bernadette Lamboy ; coordinatrices FRANCE Les Jardins Intérieurs
Un lieu pour se ressourcer et pratiquer le focusing en profitant chaque jour de nouveaux ateliers animés par des thérapeutes certifiés.
Danse, groupes de paroles, conférences, intégration de pratiques avec le focusing...
Le séminaire d'été de focusing est ouvert à tous, débutants ou confirmés.

un parcours d'initiation structuré sur l'équivalent de 5 jours entiers, qui permet de découvrir les bases du focusing et de l'approche centrée sur la personne
des ateliers thématiques en résonance avec le sujet du séminaire pour les nouveaux comme pour les personnes ayant déjà eu une initiation, les étudiants de l'IFEF et les praticiens en exercice
des moments de rencontre et d'échanges, de partages de pratiques
Avec la

En résidentiel en Ardèche (France)
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.

Online via Zoom
- Eastern time
happy to meet you our space expressive inner child work
Invite yourself to come to an intensive 5 day Focusing training in July 2024 about “A unique possibility to experience ‘Dynamic Focusing”! It will be from wednesday 17th (18 pm) till the Monday the 22nd (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.
- France Dordogne Payzac (24270)
Alexandre lieu de stage Focusing
Je propose ce stage tout public comme un cheminement personnel vers soi et une formation à la pratique du Focusing. Même si vous l’avez déjà vécu, vous découvrez plus que ce que vous ne connaissez déjà à propos de vous-même et à propos de l’approche du Focusing. Le Focusing Expérientiel vous (ré)apprend à détecter et écouter votre sens corporel, votre 6ème sens. Par son intermédiaire vous retrouvez confiance, intuition, et créativité. Ce stage représente le premier volet d’une formation si votre intention est de vous former pleinement au Focusing.

Payzac 24270
- Mountain Time
Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin
Treasure Maps is a 6-day residential retreat, an intensive workshop for people with Focusing experience who want to apply our Untangling® method to life’s most hard-to-change issues.

We’ve been teaching Treasure Maps in 15 countries over the past 25 years, helping thousands of people learn our method, getting responses like this one from Paul Fitzgerald: "The Treasure Maps experience was like a dissolving of an old way of seeing life and having new eyes to engage life with more freedom. I'd highly encourage anyone interested in deepening their Focusing to take this course."

We believe that transformation occurs most readily in an atmosphere of respect, acceptance, openness, warmth, playfulness, and support. Our mission is to enable you to live

Loveland, Colorado
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- Australia Eastern Standard Time
Marie Connors Focusing Foundations Training Level 3 &4
Focusing offers a rich potential for change. It opens a doorway to a space where it is possible to transform your life in a way that feels right for you. Focusing is a practice everyone can learn without undertaking years of professional development or going to see a therapist. With a little training, you can learn to access the space beyond your thoughts to find the "more" that is happening in any situation. When we are in contact with our direct experience of the “more”, small steps of change begin to emerge, and this can lead us on to fresh life-giving directions. The wonderful thing is that when you learn focusing you can use it whenever you need it for the rest of your life.

Foundations in Focusing Level 1 & 2 is a prerequisite to this course.

Online- Zoom
Topic: Beginners
- CET
Focusing Netzwerk Humnboldthaus auf dem Achberg
Die Focusing Wochen auf dem Achberg sind seit über drei Jahrzehnten ein alljährlicher Treffpunkt für Focusing-Interessierte aus Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich. Die Wochen beginnen mit einem Auftaktseminar, das in diesem Jahr von Teresa Dawson zu "Umweltzentriertes Erleben" gestaltet wird. Es schließen sich Tage mit mehreren parallel laufenden Focusing-Kursen und Themenseminaren an.

Humboldthaus auf dem Achberg
- France La Roche sur Foron (74)
Alexandre jacquelin Relation d'aide
Qu'il s'agisse de vous écouter ou d'écouter les autres, dans un cadre privé ou professionnel, ce stage vous offre la possibilité de nourrir votre qualité de présence et d'interaction par la "Focusing attitude". Il se propose à toute personne qui aspire à nourrir une qualité de relation à soi-même et aux autres, qui soit source d’écoute, de compréhension empathique et respectivement d’émergence de soi. 
- US Eastern
Beatrice Blake, TAE Mentor TAE Prociency Award eligible
Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? TAE helps you sense into the “more” behind your ideas so that you can write and act from what you know.

Do you long to contribute to the world from the richness of the insights life has given you? With TAE, you delve into your own experience so that your new direction follows from of all you have lived.

Maybe you need clarity and next steps about a persistent problem or a complex issue. Thinking at the Edge helps you find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Sandy Jahmi Burg 2019 Empowered to Trust, Creating Space for Lasting Change, Part 4
Our goal here is to return to the essence of Focusing and ourselves as living process. I ask that participants are Focusing weekly with a partner at least one month before class begins and throughout our time together. There is a lot of reading, often more than you might choose to do. We touch on a variety of approaches to learn and practice Focusing. We begin and end remembering that always that which has learned Focusing is Partiality, not Presence. My Part 4 is a great place to return to whenever you would like to go deeper with your process from wherever it is. Requires Part 3 or equivalent experience.
Meets eight times on Sundays, 2 – 4 pm New York time.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- US Eastern Time (New York)
DNA of change Serge Prengel
This course trains you to deepen and integrate your conceptual and experiential understanding of the process of change at several levels. One level is to integrate what happens clinically with clients and what it brings up for you personally. Our exploration straddles personal process and supervision, based on the idea that what we encounter with our clients is a rich source of personal and professional growth. Another level is integrating this deeply personal process with conceptual learning about Focusing as the DNA of Change.
Topic: FOT
- Pacific
Ann Weiser Cornell
You've discovered you love Focusing...and you also know there's so much more to learn about applying it to your life. Living a Focusing Life is an 18-meeting, live, online advanced Focusing course to help you gain more confidence as a Focusing partner and work with key issues like action blocks, decisions, longing, and more.

Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, author of The Power of Focusing

Includes live meetings on Zoom, readings, discussions, group exercises, and partnership practices.
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Sandy Jahmi Burg 2019 Guiding Skills to Go Deeper, Creating Space for Lasting Change Part 3
Join us for an online advanced Focusing class that helps you understand where you are within a process and then, to sense what is needed from you for this situation now. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing, Spatial Awareness and Neuroscience concepts, we learn to guide ourselves and others in ways that invite relational trust, lasting change and life forward flow. Valuable practices for healing professionals, teachers, etc. Discount for those repeating.
Meets for six times Tuesday evenings from 7 - 9 pm EDT.
Prerequisite: Level or Part 2 Focusing training

Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.

Online via Zoom
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Sandy Jahmi Burg 2019 Navigate the World Within, Creating Space for Lasting Change Part 1
This online entry level Focusing skills class prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing, Spatial Awareness and Neuroscience based exercises spread out over a few months, this is a great opportunity to ground yourself in the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change. You are encouraged to practice both in partnerships and with brief pauses during your day.

For coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in improving their inner and outer relational skills. Part 1 meets six times for two hours, usually every other week. This class can be your first step toward professional certification by completing Parts 1-4, then entering the ongoing Learning Community for Mastery in

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners
- Start time to be announced
Weeklong - The International Focusing Institute
SAVE THE DATE - Weeklong for Advanced Focusers 2024

Hybrid - Online or Online with in-person at Mercy by the Sea in Connecticut, US
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Pacific
Ann Weiser Cornell Barbara McGavin
Has Focusing changed your life in a profound way? Do you feel called to help facilitate that kind of powerful change for other people? Our two-year live, online program will give you the skills you need to become a Certified Focusing Professional.

Build a profession teaching Focusing, add Focusing to your current profession, or bring Focusing to your family and community.

Our next program starts in October.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, Barbara McGavin, and Additional Program Faculty.
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- HKT
FOT
*********Online real-time classes + 4 days face-to-face workshops, conducted in English. Limited to 12 participants (for maximum personal attention)*********

Training is over a two year period and will include instructional time, supervision, required reading and videos, Focusing partnerships, experiential exercises and practice sessions


Taught by Professor Akira Ikemi (conducted entirely in English).

Training location : 40 sessions (2.5 hours each) via Zoom; 4 days In-person meetings to meet Prof. Akira in Hong Kong on

2025 January 11th and 12th (Saturday & Sunday): Two Full-day workshops
2026 January 10th and 11th (Saturday & Sunday): Two Full-day workshops

Hybrid (Zoom, Twice a month and In-person, Yearly in Hong Kong)
Topic: Certification
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.

Online via Zoom
- CET
Facilitated by Haik Petrossian
Introductory weekend seminar as prerequisite to join a two- year training in 2025 with certification afterwards as Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional or Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy due to the professional background and regulations.

Hamburg-Blankenese, Germany
Topic: Certification
- Start time to be announced
The International Focusing Institute
SAVE THE DATE - "Less is More" - Children & Focusing Online Conference 2024
Topic: Beginners, Children, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.

Online via Zoom
- EST (New York)
Evelyn Fendler-Lee TAE Proficiency Award eligible
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.
Topic: TAE/Philosophy