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 is a series of Saturday workshops, running once a month, with virtually open intake. Only the Introduction, "The Art of Focusing" (or equivilant) must be taken as a pre-req, the remaining modules are totally flexible. Students who complete 16 specific modules, along with additional practice and supervision criteria, may become certified as a Focusing Oriented Therapist. Program completion takes about 17 -20 months.
Creating Space for Community is a bi-monthly gathering to explore concepts around inner/outer community building, belonging and thriving. Our March theme is procrastination. We all procrastinate about something and often as a reaction to 'this' in our environment.
Il webinar, tratto dal libro di Patrizia Bonaca “Il Focusing e la teoria ponte”, permette di riconoscere il brivido dell’autenticità. È rivolto a tutti coloro che hanno il coraggio di osare e desiderare.
“E’ possibile lanciare un ponte tra noi e i nostri sogni”.
Utilizziamo la videoconferenza Zoom per le nostre lezioni online. In questo formato di webinar, vedrai il relatore e l'ospite, ma non sarai visto. Potrai porre domande durante il webinar digitandole. I relatori dei momenti salienti possono a volte invitare un piccolo numero di partecipanti a riattivare l'audio o a unirsi a loro sullo schermo durante il webinar (facoltativo).
Dovrai disporre di un computer/dispositivo mobile. È anche possibile, ma non preferito, chiamare per
Online (anche la lezione sarà registrata)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) is a mindfulness and body-based approach to the expressive arts that cultivates resilience enhances self-compassion and provides tools to help clients access their innate wisdom toward growth and healing. This 3-hour virtual workshop will present an overview of Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) including its foundational principles, main approaches, and applications to individuals and groups within treatment. Participants will be introduced to a 3-phase FOAT® model that illustrates how it can be applied as a trauma-informed approach. FOAT® can be applied to all clinical contexts, as well as applications in nonclinical contexts (e.g education, coaching, art centers, etc). Didactic material, experiential exercises, and case examples will be
A Process Model can turn into an experience. This amazing text allows for creative exercises that make it come alive. Experientially you will understand more easily what the concepts convey. You will be able to think-with Eugene Gendlin.
Resilience is what we need if life is not going the way we would like it to go. When we encounter setbacks, resilience helps us to cope with and to prevent stress.
Resilience is not a quality of your character but a skill you can develop. Resilience is also not one-dimensional but exists out of different exponents.
There is a relation between resilience and an inner feeling of safety. The extent of your resilience is not a fixed given, you can help it grow and expand.
In this webinar you will explore your resilience. You will find your inner sources that can help you to develop and feed your own resilience and the resilience in your clients. Aaffien will be sharing from her experience in Focusing, Positive Psychology and Trauma-work to
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
An ongoing class of beginner and intermediate students, that balances the personal and clinical dimensions of Focusing and explores the philosophical context developed by Eugene Gendlin.
It starts on tuesday 14th of March 2023 at 19:00 pm (Amsterdam time). Total of 10 online 2.5 hour group zoom-sessions (10 min break mid session). 2 individual focusing supervision sessions with one of the trainers. The course will comprise of teaching session, demonstrations, paired and solo practice
In this Roundtable, we will explore the boundaries that may be useful to safely explore Focusing/BioSpiritual Focusing in group/school settings with children of different ages.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Children, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
If you have done the level 1 and 2 Focusing course with me or another Focusing teacher, you can join my course.
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
... the way in which your life unfolds is experienced as deeply meaningful; sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s difficult, but there is always an undercurrent sense of rightness, of following a natural flow.
Two One-on-one sessions are part of levels three to five
Focusing Session (Level 3 & 4)
The student is the teacher’s Companion (Level 5)
Mondays: March 13 to July 10, 2023
United States-PDT West Coast: 7:00 am to 10:00 am
United States-EST East Coast: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
England–GMT
Changes-Groups sind Begegnungsorte, um Focusing und partnerschaftliches, erlebensbezogenes Zuhören kennenzulernen, zu üben und als individuelle Achtsamkeitspraxis zu etablieren.
The 60-hour course comprises 5 Levels, or modules, and leads to the Proficiency in Focusing Partnership Award. This is the foundation for professional training, and gives you a good grounding in the practice of Focusing and Companioning.
This course is for anyone interested in learning more about FOAT, and also provides a solid entry into our foundational, intermediate, and advanced levels of training that lead to certification. Successful completion satisfies the prerequisite to taking Level 1 of our FOAT® Training Program, starting this September!
This workshop will enhance your understanding of different attachment styles, coping mechanisms and relational tendencies and give you the specific skills to engage a variety of clients to practice FOT in client-specific ways.
Are you a person, a therapist, a coach, an accompanier, a Focusing facilitator with varied background/different certifications/diverse work experiences? a polymath?
Do you ask yourself what it is that differentiates you from your colleagues?
Do you want to merge Focusing with your whole knowledge?
Do you look for a way to communicate what is it that you offer on your website and business card? so it will reflect the whole of you?
This class is intended for anyone interested in merging Focusing with their other bodies of knowledge, for those who are looking for a way to communicate their way of being with clients and clarify the "unique product" they offer, creating your "niche" as an accompanier.
Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? Thinking at the Edge 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 Thinking at the Edge, 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. With Thinking at the Edge you can find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.