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.
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
Level 1 is a three-month long training course that includes 8 Group Meetings, partnerships, group and individual supervision, and more!
This training provides a solid foundation of Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) with an emphasis on deepening one’s embodied knowing of the main FOAT approaches– Focusing Attitude, Theme-Directed FOAT®, Clearing a Space with Arts, FOAT® Check-in, Working on an Issue, Self-Focusing, and Compassionate Listening. Trainees will also expand their understanding of FOAT theories and the philosophy of Focusing. The FOAT Partnership and small group practices open the doorway to learn about others’ processes and provide a foundation for facilitation skills that are continued in Level 2.
This workshop is a great way to get started on a daunting issue, situation, dilemma, or project. The issue can be in the area of professional development or personal development, in relation to physical or mental health. It can be a career or work issue. It can be an individual, couple or family situation which concerns you. A Macro is usually something you have tried to change or to realize… without success.
Villa Angaran San Giuseppe, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Gene Gendlin conducted research "On Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning" at the University of Chicago, this followed on a collaboration with Carl R. Rogers, one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and the humanistic approach to psychology. Relating to the world and people around, the aim of his "Philosophy of the Implicit" is to come in touch with one's bodily felt resonance.
The Experiencing workshops offer opportunities to taste moments of this approach as well as deliver a sound base for a wish to participate in a two (2) year training course, which will kick-off in early 2024.
This course is the equivalent of the first 9 weeks of the 18 week Inner Relationship Focusing core curriculum as developed by Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin.
Let us show you a compassionate, effective process to help you experience your feelings without shutting down or getting overwhelmed. What happens when you can embrace your whole self? You're kinder to yourself, you're more confident, relaxed, and available for connection, which makes life more meaningful and enjoyable. To put it simply: Life gets better.
Join us and take a powerful first step toward connecting with your true self and creating more unconditional self-acceptance in your life.
El arte puede ser autobiográfico o no, pero siempre ha de ser auto-referencial. Solamente a través de quien el artista es y de sus significados profundos, es que puede aportar a la sociedad un espacio donde todos puedan trascenderse. "En lo más personal está lo más universal" (Tomeu Barceló, La sabiduría interior). Focusing y TAE resultan excelentes herramientas para asegurar la conexión auténtica entre el creador y su universo interno.
Sobre Cafecitos
Esta serie brinda un espacio para conectar miembros hispanohablantes del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI). Es un espacio para aprender y expandir el conocimiento sobre Focusing y temas relacionados. El concepto de "Cafecitos" viene de la idea de estar en la casa de un amigo/a y conversar
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Doorways to the Soul 3 is a 10-month cohort designed to help you grow more comfortable with the Focusing process and with integrating it into your own context.
A comprehensive introduction and year-long group process to dive into Focusing on your own personal journey and inner enquiry in the context of weekly group meetings and weekly parterships.
This webinar introduces a way to support your interior process by working with a flexible visual template for self-guided Focusing. This practice is different from “regular” journaling — where composing sentences can sometimes feel fraught or keep you from touching the deeper core that wants movement or relief. Dana will provide a template that allows participants to adjust and re-invent as needed.
We will begin by clearing a space on the page in a benevolent container to hold your process. We will pause to witness what we are holding, select affirming words, and hone the potential to take the process deeper. There will be space for reflection and sharing how this practice works for you. Please bring blank paper, writing implements, and colors that you like to work with.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
If you want to deepen and consolidate the felt sensing method and learn to handle some situations when the process can get stuck, this is the workshop for you. You will advance your way of recognising and responding to inner conflicts and learn how to support the process of others.
This space is designed to encourage us to live Gendlin's concept of "crossing" within a supportive community setting.
Our first year emphasizes the process of GUIDING someone else in ways that bring life forward movement. We will be diving deep into the intricacies of one-to-one relationships. This community is for those who often find themselves in situations of facilitating change for others, individuals and groups. It’s a great option for those who are looking for a community-based path toward certification, for those who do not need certification, and also works well if you are already certified or possibly alongside another certification program.
This Learning Community begins as a year-long program meeting twenty times every other week for 1.5
Doorways to the Soul 1 is a 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 Sacred Journey.
We belong to the natural world just as much as a the crow or deer, yet somehow we have forgotten this. We have found ourselves disconnected from our home and from all that sustains us. We have forgotten our place in the more than human world. This immersive retreat will invite us to learn again how to listen and converse with the natural world, we will learn how to listen to it’s wisdom.