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Thursday, May 15, 2025 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm New York time
Class will be recorded for all registrants and available for viewing for one month.
Listening to and understanding another person empathically and experientially means feeling their experiences as if we were that person. Capturing their sensations, emotions and feelings is a basic ingredient for that understanding.
We are beings-in-the-world in relationship with others. How we feel colors our experiences of the social contexts, moments, and places in each situation.
This is where voices, gestures and silences become valuable means both to be aware of how the other person feels, and to express our understanding as companions who listen in an empathic way.
In this webinar, we will explore some ways to connect with our bodily felt senses which guide us to an experiential empathic listening and understanding.
Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful, though all are welcome to attend.
Some feelings are expressed along with intellectual content,
others by silence or gesture or voice quality.
~Eugene Gendlin (1962), Experiencing and Creation of Meaning, p.81
Format
We use Zoom videoconferencing for our online classes. In this webinar format, you will see the presenter and host, but you will not be seen. You will be able to ask questions during the webinar by typing them. Highlights presenters may at times invite a small number of participants to unmute or join them onscreen during the webinar (optional).
You will need to have a computer/mobile device. Calling in by phone is also possible but not preferred. All registered participants will be sent a link to the video recording approximately two weeks following the class. So if you are unable to attend the live webinar, you will still be able to view it for one month.
Bio
Salvador Moreno-López
Psychotherapist, psychotherapists’ trainer, and writer.
Salvador has published several book chapters and articles on Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Supervision, and the Place of the Lived World in Psychotherapy.
His training as a psychotherapist comes from the Person-Centered Approach and from the Philosophy of the Implicit and Focusing. However, he carries out his activity from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The aspects of greatest interest in his work are:
a) the interaction with an accompanying empathic presence,
b) ways of following the direction and rhythm of the clients and at the same time helping them to attend to their experiencing,
c) how to allow himself to be guided by his experiencing to understand clients, and
d) to understand the place of the Lived World in psychotherapy.
Salvador plans to also offer a TIFI workshop on how to develop experiential empathic listening, inspired by Carl Rogers, Eugene Gendlin, and neuroscience. More details will be shared after the Highlight.
Focusing Highlights
The Focusing Highlights series highlights the work of those teaching, practicing and carrying forward Focusing all over the world. Presenters generously donate their time and participants pay what they can. If you are certified through The International Focusing Institute and would like to offer one, please check out this page.
Registration Information and Price
Salvador is offering this class to support The International Focusing Institute. This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30.
If you need to give less, that's fine, but we do require each participant to give something. Please give extra if you can! Thank you for supporting the Institute.
Refunds: A full refund minus a $15 administrative fee (regardless of the registration fee paid) for cancellations 14 days before the start date. Cancellations less than 14 days before the start date are nonrefundable.
Registration Policies: TIFI reserves the right to cancel, change and alter the program if necessary. The opinions offered by presenters and participants are their own and do not necessarily represent the opinions of TIFI. Participants authorize TIFI to use their name, statements and likeness without charge, for promotional purposes in publications, advertising, video, web, new media, or other formats. Please note that the class will be recorded and may be distributed to a wider audience. By registering for this course with the Institute, and in consideration of the right and opportunity to participate in and contribute to the Institute’s classes, for the purposes of its control of all video and/or audio recordings thereof pertaining to uses serving our purposes and goals, in enrolling in this session you acknowledge and agree to the Institute’s ownership of all rights in such classes, including all rights under copyright therein. In no circumstance shall any portion or clip posted or displayed exceed 3 minutes in duration. If you plan to use, post or display any portion or clips of these recordings, including posting these to a website or to a social media platform or portal, you agree that you will seek and obtain the prior approval of the Institute.
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Contact
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Registration Information and Price
Focusing Highlights are pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30. If you need to give less, that's fine, but we do require each participant to give something.