Our Mission

(For the full plan, scroll down)

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Why Focusing?

Everyone has the potential to access and live from their unique bodily-felt knowing. Focusing, a process grounded in experiential listening, is a powerful way of interacting with this body-felt knowing that leads to mutual respect, authenticity and compassion. In this way, Focusing fosters peace and harmony in the world.

Who We Are

The International Focusing Institute, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, is an international, cross-cultural organization dedicated to supporting individuals and groups world-wide who are practicing, teaching and developing Focusing and its underlying philosophy.

What We Do

The International Focusing Institute is committed to the promotion of Focusing and encourages a wide variety of Focusing-based applications and educational methodologies. It also serves as a catalyst for Focusing research, an information hub and custodian of Focusing-related literature, and provides physical and virtual meeting spaces for education, dialogue and interaction. In these and other ways, the International Focusing Institute is committed to sharing and advancing the work of its founder, Eugene Gendlin, and those who have built on his legacy.

GOALS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FOCUSING INSTITUTE

REVISED NOVEMBER 2024, BASED ON THE GOALS DEFINED IN THE 2017 STRATEGIC PLAN

GOAL 1: Build and sustain an organization that has the capacity to keep Eugene T. Gendlin’s legacy alive and available to everyone.

GOAL 2: Preserve the integrity of Focusing, Thinking at the Edge (TAE) and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy (FOT), while fostering innovation and development in teaching and applications which are relevant to an ever-widening variety of crossings, communities, cultures and contexts.

GOAL 3: Make the philosophy of the implicit and the practices which arise from it better known, so as to effectively communicate the revolutionary changes that these can make in individual lives and in communal life.

GOAL 4: Catalyze high quality research which carries forward Eugene T. Gendlin’s philosophy and psychology; act as an information hub and a custodian of resources for thinking with the implicit.

GOAL 5: Provide physical and virtual meeting spaces for education, dialogue and interaction; nurture a community which is ever more inclusive of all people and based on the practices and ethos of felt sensing.