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Saturday, July 26, 2025 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm New York time
Class will be recorded for all registrants and available for viewing for one month.
We live with and absorb unprocessed and dissociated aspects of others experience. It is our nature to do so. It is a way of caring for each other. Through our families, culture, and media, the experiences of others can be taken in and held in our bodies. We can be a resource for each other’s healing but can also be wounded by their pain.
Trauma therapist and FOT trainer Jeffrey Morrison will give a brief overview of what vicarious and intergenerational trauma is, how it impacts us, and how we can heal and grow from it. He will incorporate aspects of an indigenous land-based understanding expressed from an “All My Relations” perspective. Jeffrey will guide participants to find an aspect of their own vicarious experience they may want to set down. Grief, gratitude, and ritual will be explored in this process.
This presentation is ideal for therapists and other healing professionals who work with and are affected by the trauma of others while also being open to anyone interested in healing. No prior experience with Focusing is necessary.
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
Jeffrey Morrison, MA, LMHC
Founder and Executive Director, Seattle Focusing Institute
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist and Focusing Coordinator, Jeffrey Morrison practices on Vashon Island, Washington. He specializes in working with complex trauma and teaching Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) to therapists, other healing professionals, and those on a healing journey. He has developed a Training Program, which blends Gendlin’s psychology and philosophy, mythology, spirituality, and other embodied practices for unwinding trauma and restoring wholeness.
Jeffrey's Advanced training in FOT and Complex Trauma begins in September for those who already have a solid foundation in Focusing. For more info visit Seattle Focusing Institute at https://seattlefocusing.org/ or contact Jeffrey at [email protected]
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
Jeffrey 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
Questions? [email protected]
Registration Information and Price
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.