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Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy

FOT


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Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: What is it?

A Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist (FOT) is a psychotherapist, counselor or psychologist, licensed in their jurisdiction, who, in addition to their therapy training, has completed a certification program specializing in integrating Focusing into therapy.  In FOT, the client is invited to notice how their body makes feelings about their life issues, and they are helped to gently access what the body says about what they are experiencing.

If you're looking for a Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist, please click here.

Check out the Focusing Oriented Therapists Association's website here. Please note that the FOTA is an independent organization.

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Training in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy

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Conference on Focusing-Oriented Therapy:

We run a regular Focusing-Oriented Therapy Conference.  
We held one online November 2-5, 2023.  See above for more information on that one.  The FOT conferences have generally taken place every 2 years.  Check out the 2023 Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy Conference at this link.

SEE Focusing and Dreams 

For more information about Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
please see the Website link: International Association of Focusing-Oriented Therapists (IAFOTs)

YouTube Channel: Focusing-Oriented Therapies

What FOT is - German, Chinese and Romanian

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Carl Rogers, Person Centered, Existential and Humanistic Psychology

Eugene Gendlin and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy has a deep connection to the work of Carl Rogers and the Person Centered (or Client Centered) tradition as well as to Existential Psychology and Humanistic Psychology.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: The World Association for Person Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counseling has a bibliography at https://pce-literature.org/en which contains information about a wide range of resources, including where to find articles by and about Focusing, Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy and Eugene Gendlin.  Just put “Gendlin” or “Focusing” into the search box.

VIDEO: Nada Lou has a video on her YouTube channel of Gene Gendlin discussing Carl Rogers.  You can find that at this link.

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Focusing Oriented Therapy Training and Certification
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Donna Steadman, MA, RCC, FOT
Become a Focusing Oriented Therapist (FOT) or Certified Focusing Professional (CFP)
This is a series of Saturday workshops, running once a month, with virtually open intake. Only the Introduction, "The Art of Focusing" (or equivalent) 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 or as a Certified Focusing Professional. Program completion takes about 17 -20 months.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Certification, FOT, Ongoing
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Focusing Oriented Therapy and its ground on Gendlin's Philosophy of the Implicit
- Eastern time
Naty Calviño. Certifying Coordinator. Focusing Oriented Therapist. ILC member
Naty Calviño. Certifying Coordinator, Focusing Oriented Therapist, ILC Member
The richness of felt sensing and of an interaction that allows carrying forward in therapy
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 FOT Certification)
It is an ongoing course of 1 1/2 hours every other week, on Wednesdays, that  can be taken independently or as part of the whole Certification Program.

Online
Topic: FOT
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Focusing-Oriented Therapy One
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Jeffrey Morrison, LMHC Seattle Focusing Institute Felt Sensing
Jeffrey Morrison, LMHC, through the Seattle Focusing Institute
Learning How the Body Speaks and Listening so it Heals
Add this transformative tool to your practice! In this introductory workshop you'll begin to learn the basic steps of Focusing in order to incorporate it in your healing practice. Understanding and working with a Felt Sense (how the body holds living experience about a situation) is the key to moving beyond typical dead ends of talk therapy. Join us!

Online
Topic: FOT
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Focusing and Focusing-Oriented Therapy: What are the similarities and differences between the two?
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The International Focusing Institute - Jeffrey Morrison
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.
Jeffrey will share his thoughts while inviting participants to sense into what comes for them as the presentation unfolds. Using Gendlin quotes and years of practicing both, he will offer an engaging exploration of the complexity of the question itself.

This presentation is open to anyone interested in learning more about Focusing and Focusing-Oriented Therapy.

Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, FOT, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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The embodied & relational edge of Focusing-oriented therapy
- Eastern Time
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Serge Prengel
A 6-month experiential course for therapists
The way we work with our clients reflects the relational and embodied nature of our mind process.
In this course, you study how the bodily felt sense emerges in the context of interaction and explore the physicality of our relational patterns.
You do this experientially as you practice creatively using embodied experience to harness the transformative power of Focusing at the edge of experience. 

Online (Zoom)
Topic: FOT
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Focusing-Oriented Therapy
- AEST
Biliana Dearly
Biliana Dearly
Philosiphy, Assessment, Practice and Process of Change
This workshop outlines the essence and main elements of Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) and its distinct approach to clients’ change process. FOT is a form of client-centred, process-oriented, experiential therapy with a humanistic spirit and a relational heart. It works with immediate experience by using the felt sensing method—directly felt bodily experience of one’s lived reality.

You will learn about:

- FOT view of personality, philosophy of change, psychotherapy process and interventions
- Assessment process from the FOT perspective
- Balancing the internal (deep inner work), relational (relational dynamic between the client and the therapist), and external (present-day life’s problem-focused) focus and work, with the awareness of the

Canterbury Community Precinct 2 Kendall Street Canterbury, VIC Australia
Topic: FOT
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